John Corbett Mentor 2010

Describe yourself briefly.

Dr. John Corbett, trained in agricultural climatology, is an expert in geo-spatial tool applications. Working closely with national and international organizations in the US, Kenya, Switzerland, and Mexico, John built and managed systems to utilize location-based analytics to deliver innovative decision-driving impacts. A co-founder of aWhere in 2007, John’s career began in a CGIAR center (CIMMYT Mexico) in 1990 as a Rockefeller funded post-doctoral staff. Three years later, he returned to Kenya to join ICRAF’s (now World Agroforestry Center) staff as the Head of the GIS laboratory. Leveraging his expertise with GIS, John identified a major need in the marketplace (the gap between specialized GIS and location based information needs) that became the framework for aWhere’s location based information products. Prior to aWhere, John’s commercial experience includes a position in Switzerland with Syngenta AG as Head of Global GIS where he managed the business operations of the GIS division of a global corporation.