Robert Cheetham was the founder and CEO of Azavea, a B Corporation that creates civic geospatial software and data analytics for the web. Azavea's open source projects include GeoTrellis for high performance geoprocessing (an Eclipse project). Prior to founding Azavea, he served as a software developer and GIS analyst for the University of Pennsylvania, the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Police Department and as a civil servant in Japan.