Board of Directors
Robert Fenwick-Smith
Chairman of the Board, Founder & Manager of Aravaipa Ventures, a Colorado-centric GreenTech Fund
In addition to aWhere, Inc., Fenwick-Smith is also the Chairman of two other CPG companies: SonicScrubbers LLC that has launched a new Power Cleaning System, already available in 20,000 retail outlets, and Seth Ellis Chocolatier LLC, a premium chocolate manufacturer that is introducing a nut-free and organic candy. He is also Chairman of AXIT AG, Frankenthal, Germany, a leading European SaaS Supply Chain Management Software company. He was a Managing Director of Tattle srl, Brescia, Italy, a leader in Imaging Technology in the Industrial Security Sectors. As the President and Chief Executive of Romaco, he was instrumental in leading the growth of the business from its inception to 170 million Euro in sales. Mr. Fenwick-Smith received his BA in Economics from Ecole Des Houtes Etudes Commerciales in Lausanne Switzerland and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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John Corbett
President & CEO, aWhere, Inc.
After graduating with honors at Dartmouth, then earning a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Corbett spent the next 20 years becoming an expert in geo-spatial tool applications. Working closely with the national and international organizations in the US, Kenya, Africa, Switzerland, and Mexico, Dr. Corbett built and managed systems to utilize geo-analytics to increase positive outcomes. Leveraging his expertise with GIS, he identified a major need in the marketplace that became the framework for AWhere’s products. Prior to aWhere, Dr. Corbett worked with Syngenta as Head of Global GIS where he managed the business operations of the GIS division.
Frederic D. Fox
President, CEO Planalytics, Inc.
Frederic is the architect and inventor of the Weathernomics patented technology, and has developed and expanded the potential of long-range weather forecasting both in terms of technological accuracy and commercial utilization by creating bridges between meteorologists, retail systems developers, and end-users. He received a B.S. degree in Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
John Oechsle
International Operations and Technology C-Level Executive
Mr. Oechsle has had a prominent career twice holding leadership roles growing sub $300MM companies to over $1B and taking them public. He has had assignments in the USA, Europe, Latin America and Asia holding the positions of CEO/President, CIO/CTO, and COO and was responsible for returning businesses to profitability, establishing strategic market penetration plans, introducing new products and growth through acquisitions. Mr. Oechsle is the former CIO/SVP of IHS, VP/CIO at Johnson & Johnson, and Director Global Information management at Kellogg’s. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in Computer Science and is a graduate of the Tuck Executive Program from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Stewart Collis
Co-Founder, Vice President Research & Development, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Collis graduated from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia earning a Bachelor of Geomatic Engineering (with Honors) and a Master of Engineering Science with specific focus on Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. Prior to co-founding aWhere, Inc. in 1999, he worked at the International Center for Research in Agro-Forestry (ICRAF) in Kenya then Texas A&M University System as a software developer focusing on climate and agriculture modeling and easy to use GIS.