About FortiusOne

Sean Gorman, PhD.

Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring advanced geospatial technologies to market. Dr. Gorman is a recognized expert in geospatial analysis and visualization. He has been featured around the world in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0 and CNN, and his expertise is sought after by organizations such as, the Critical Infrastructure Task Force and the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Dr. Gorman brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur to FortiusOne. Prior to FortiusOne, Dr. Gorman served as VP of R&D for GeoTel, a telecommunications mapping company, and Director of Strategy for iXOL, a Washington D.C. based incubator. Dr. Gorman received his PhD from George Mason University as the Provost's High Potential Research Candidate and Fisher Prize recipient.

Mark F. Bryant

Vice President of Sales and Business Development

Mark F. Bryant comes to FortiusOne with twenty years of senior management experience with leading edge technology companies. At online direct marketing platform startup LifeMinders, Bryant was charged with all revenue generation assuming duties ranging from organizational leadership and strategic planning, to fundraising, sales and business development management, mergers and acquisitions, and marketing communications. LifeMinders generated $14 million in revenue in Bryant's first full year with the company and $54 million in his second. Bryant was instrumental in taking the company public, achieving a peak market capitalization of over $2 billion with more than 200 employees.

Prior to joining LifeMinders, Bryant spent ten years as COO and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales at System Dynamics Incorporated (SDI). The company was the provider of the first ever database management and targeted direct communications ASP serving Fortune 100 corporations and national trade and professional associations. Before joining SDI, Bryant was actively involved in campaign politics.

Esther H. Larson

Vice President of Government Sales and Business Development

Esther Larson has successfully grown and managed federal sales organizations in various geospatial and data solutions companies for over 25 years. Larson brings extensive experience selling into the federal government as well as in-depth knowledge of the geospatial market.

Prior to joining FortiusOne, Esther served in various sales and management roles with MetaCarta, iMapData, Giga Information Group and National Computer Systems, as well as several start-up technology vendors. Esther has consistently been a top sales performer with a proven record in surpassing sales objectives. Within the past 10 years, Esther has been recognized as a Top Sales Producer each year and has achieved accomplishments such as increasing federal sales revenue by 838%.

Matt Madigan

Director, Operations

Matt Madigan is FortiusOne's Director of Operations. Matt graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in accounting and started his career in accounting and as a financial analyst with HP. Subsequently he has worked with a non-profit as a project manager and business manager for both the Finance and Operations area. Immediately prior to joining FortiusOne, he built out of a start-up, e-commerce/government website and administrative system.

Dr. Laurie Anne Schintler

Co-Founder of FortiusOne

Dr. Laurie Anne Schintler is Director of Research and Development. She received her PhD. in 1995 in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Her area of expertise is in network modeling and simulation, spatial analysis, critical infrastructure protection and transportation planning and policy.

Dr. Schintler has over twenty peer-reviewed articles and a co-edited book “New Methods in Transportation and Telecommunications Modelling: Cross-Atlantic Perspectives.” She has served on several invited panels and committees related to homeland security and critical infrastructure protection.

Dr. Schintler is also a tenured faculty member in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. She teaches courses on quantitative methods and transportation policy and is active in the academic research community.

Rajendra Kulkarni

Co-Founder of FortiusOne

With a combined experience of over 20 years as an engineer both in the private and public sectors and as a research faculty in academia, Raj has been deeply involved in research and developmental work throughout his career. He has a M.S. in Computer Science from George Mason University and a B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Karnataka Regional Engineering College, India. His research interests include nonlinear dynamical systems, complexity theory, A.I., neural networks and applications of these to critical infrastructure issues such as vulnerability analysis, disaster planning and mitigation strategies, and spatial modeling of interdependencies between various infrastructures.

Raj has been a member of the Research Faculty in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University for the last 12 years. He is widely published and has authored a number of cutting edge research articles in major research journals. He has worked on a number of large grant projects in the areas of Regional Economics and Transportation and Intelligent Transportation Systems, in particular. As a member of the FortiusOne research team he is participating in research and development efforts to create a suite of spatio-temporal analytical and mapping tools for FortiusOne’s next-generation GeoCommons platform.