Howard Butler is the president of Hobu, Inc., an open source software consultancy located in Iowa City, Iowa that focuses on point cloud data management solutions. He is an author of the Cloud Optimized Point Cloud specification, a Project Steering Committee member of the GDAL, PROJ, and GEOS projects, a contributing author to the GeoJSON specification, an active participant in the ASPRS LAS Committee, and a past member of the OSGeo Board of Directors. With his firm, Howard leads the development of the PDAL software library.