Tucker thinks and works at the intersection of technology, strategy, geography, and national
security. Tucker serves as Chairman and CEO of GeoRobotix, Inc which provides an open SaaS
and OnPrem/Self Hosted solution for connecting all systems (sensors, things, robots, drones,
satellites, control systems, devices and platforms across space, air, land, sea, cyber and
electromagnetic domains) on and around the planet Earth, as spatiotemporally-enabled, web
accessible services that help augment and automate humans’ ability to tackle critical mission and
business challenges, whether hyper-local, regional, or global in scale. Tucker helped bring
OpenSensorHub to life as the open source implementation of the OGC API – Connected
Systems Standard, and the core to the GeoRobotix open core SaaS platform.

Tucker is Chairman of the American Geographical Society (www.AmericanGeo.org), where he
launched Geography2050 a multi-year strategic dialog about the vital trends shaping the
geography of our planet. At AGS, Tucker has also helped launch its EthicalGEO Initiative
(www.EthicalGEO.org), and the Locus Charter as an international charter for the responsible use
of location technologies.

Tucker serves, or has served on a variety of other private sector, government, and non-profit
boards including the Open Geospatial Consortium, the United States Geospatial Intelligence
Foundation, National Geospatial Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board Intelligence
Task Force, the DNI’s Intelligence Community Strategic Studies Group (ICSSG), the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Technical Advisory Group, served as an NGA Independent
Advisor, and served on the National Academy of Science’s Committee on NGA’s GEOINT
Research Priorities.

Previously, Tucker was the President and CEO of a high-technology firm in the area of geospatial
intelligence that he took from startup to acquisition. Prior to his time in industry, Chris was the
founding Chief Strategic Officer of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture fund. And prior to that, Chris
served as the Special Advisor to the Executive Vice Provost of Columbia University.

Tucker is the author of A Planet of 3 Billion (www.Planet3Billion.com), and spends his abundant
spare time working to bend the global population curve, to save our planet and our species from
climate catastrophe and ecological annihilation, through empowering strategies focused on
women and girls.