Andre Doumitt Named Geosemble President and COO.Former BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. Executive To Lead Map Conflation (database) conflation - Combining or blending of two or more versions of a text; confusion or mixing up. Conflation algorithms are used in databases. Company EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif. -- Robert Landes, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of geospatial data integration company Geosemble, today announces the appointment of Andre Doumitt as company President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , effective October 8, 2007. Geosemble provides technology to automatically and accurately fuse satellite, aerial and road network maps with virtually any online data repository See repository. to create decision-ready knowledge. Doumitt previously served in a variety of executive management positions at BAE Systems, the $25 billion defense and electronics company that, among other capabilities, provides integrated digital and terrain profile map products and integrated GPS/inertial navigation for military aircraft. At BAE Systems, Doumitt was credited with a number of strategic and growth initiatives that expanded the company's business and span of influence, including rebranding BAE's navigation product line and channeling R&D funding into new MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. technology for its navigation systems. Mr. Doumitt also identified new integrated product opportunities from among BAE's various business units to expand its work with US Navy, US Army and key international customers in Europe, Asia and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . "Andre's multi-disciplinary experience in technology management and new business development makes him ideally qualified to bring our map conflation technologies to market," says Geosemble CEO Robert Landes. "I am confident in Andre's leadership in both identifying new markets and guiding our technology teams to address the needs of those markets." Prior to his work for BAE systems, Doumitt held management positions with the Italian/US Joint Venture Bell Agusta Aerospace, where he managed the introduction a new class of civil tilt rotor aircraft into the commercial marketplace, and The Boeing Company, where he developed industrial relationships with international suppliers for the company's helicopter programs. "Geosemble's ability to automatically align map imagery with virtually any data repository has far reaching applications in the private as well as government sector," says Geosemble's new President and COO, Andre Doumitt. "From highly targeted sales leads to up to the minute, multi-layered market intelligence, I look forward to working with our talented technical team in expanding our market opportunities and technology partnerships in the months and years ahead." About Geosemble Technologies Based in El Segundo, CA, Geosemble Technologies provides technology for automatically and accurately extracting intelligence from a range of map and satellite image sources. By combining fusion technologies for image feature extraction In pattern recognition and in image processing, Feature extraction is a special form of dimensionality reduction. When the input data to an algorithm is too large to be processed and it is suspected to be notoriously redundant (much data, but not much information) then the , image to map alignment and online data extraction, Geosemble Technologies brings a unique capability for quickly delivering intelligence to business and government customers. For further information please visit www.geosemble.com or contact Geosemble Technologies Inc., 2041 Rosecrans Ave. Suite 245, El Segundo, CA 90245; 310-414-9849 x243; info@geosemble.com. |
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