SpaceCurve Forms Commercial Advisory Board to Advance Growth in Big Data Geospatial Market

SpaceCurve, the creator of a Big Data geospatial-temporal database that addresses the growing demand for intelligent location-based services, today announced it has formed a commercial advisory board. The advisory board members have deep technology industry expertise and diverse knowledge in developing and bringing early stage products to market. The members of the advisory board are: Alan (Al) Nugent, CEO of Mzinga, who will chair the group; Kendall Larsen, CEO, president and chairman of VirnetX; Kristopher Nybakken, chairman of Defensoft and managing director of Newton Second Advisors; and Richard Soley Ph.D., chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group.

“The nascent geospatial and sensor network Big Data markets have enormous potential for growth, and will improve and enable many new business processes and applications,” said Nugent. “The advisory board members look forward to helping SpaceCurve develop its go-to-market strategy, form strong industry partnerships and identify initial customer sites for its breakthrough technologies.”

SpaceCurve advisory board members have more than 120 years of combined experience.

• Al Nugent joined Mzinga, a Saas/Cloud social media startup company, in 2011. Before Mzinga, he was executive vice president and chief technology officer at CA Technologies, and also served as senior vice president and general manager of CA’s Enterprise Systems Management business unit. Prior to CA, Nugent was SVP and CTO of Novell; EVP, CTO, and chief product officer at Vectant; SVP, CTO, and chief information officer at American Re-Insurance Company; and SVP and CTO at Xerox. In the 1980s Nugent participated in the early rounds of three startup companies. He began his 30-year career at Hewlett-Packard. Nugent studied graduate and undergraduate electrical engineering, computer science and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Kendall Larsen has been with VirnetX, an Internet security software and technology company, since its inception in 2005. From 2003 to 2005, he focused on pre-incorporation activities related to VirnetX. Prior to VirnetX, Larsen was a limited partner at Osprey Ventures and SVP and GM of the Security Products Division at Phoenix Technologies. Before joining Phoenix Technologies, Larsen spent more than 20 years in senior executive positions at leading technology companies, including RSA Security, Xerox, Rolm/IBM, Novell, General Magic, and Ramp Networks. He has a B.S. in Economics from the University of Utah.
• Kristopher Nybakken advises clients on strategic, financial, and operational issues and provides interim executive services at Newton Second Advisors, an asset development consulting firm. Previously he was managing director at Petkevich & Partners, a merchant bank in San Francisco. Nybakken spent more than 25 years in the information technology industry where he was an executive at several successful start-up companies, including CTO at WebMD and cofounder of Sapient Health Network, acquired by WebMD in 1999. He has a B.F.A. in Art Media Studies from Syracuse University.
• Richard Soley joined the OMG in 1989 as technical director and led the development of the CORBA®, Unified Modeling Language ^TM and Model Driven Architecture® specifications. Soley also serves as executive director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council. Prior to the OMG, Soley was a cofounder, chairman and CEO at A. I. Architects, makers of PC and workstation hardware and software, and consulted with various technology companies and venture firms. He began his career at Honeywell Computer Systems. Soley has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.

“The industry knowledge and experience of each advisory board member will lend invaluable support to SpaceCurve’s product development and launch,” said John Slitz, CEO of SpaceCurve. “We are thrilled to have these new advisors join our team and help us achieve our growth goals.”

About SpaceCurve

SpaceCurve is developing a Big Data geospatial-temporal database and graph analysis tools that create real-time models of reality. By continuously capturing, processing and analyzing geospatial, temporal, sensor network, social graph and other large data streams, and providing real-time actionable intelligence, SpaceCurve will enable innovations in location-based services, social applications, commodities, defense, emergency services and other markets. Unlike other relational, NoSQL and traditional databases that either handle scale or complexity, but not both, SpaceCurve’s new database and immersive analytics technologies address the growing demand for new geospatial applications and intelligent location-based services that current database technologies cannot handle.