Number of Founded Organizations 1
CB Rank (Person) 275,416
  • Primary Job Title Founder and Organiser
  • Primary Organization 
    WhereCamp EU

As a neogeographer and geotechnologist, Gale has over 25 year's commercial experience in the mapping, geospatial and location based services industries. He is the CTO of what3words, helping everyone and everything have a human friendly global address

Previously Gale has been Head of APIs for the Ordnance Survey, the United Kingdom's

national mapping agency, the Geotechnologist-in-residence for Lokku, was Director of Places and Director of Global Community Programs for Nokia Maps and HERE Maps. Before joining Nokia he led Yahoo’s UK Geo Technologies group, launching GeoPlanet, Placemaker, helping Flickr and Fire Eagle do location based services and has even worked at the European Space Agency, a job which really was rocket science.

A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, I am a co-founder of the WhereCamp EU series of conferences, am co-founder and director of Placeholder Labs and of Malstow Geospatial, the chair of the W3G conference and have sat on the AGI's Executive, UK Location Group and the W3C's POI Working Group, I , a small geospatial, maps and location based consultancy.

Number of Current Jobs 3
Number of Past Jobs 13
Gary Gale has 3 current jobs including CTO at Kamma, Fellow at Royal Geographical Society, and Founder and Organiser at WhereCamp EU. Additionally, Gary Gale has had 13 past jobs including CTO at what3words.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
what3words
CTOJul 2015Jun 2017
Ordnance Survey
Head of APIsJul 2014Jul 2015
Association For Geographic Information
Member, AGI Executive2011Jul 2014
Lokku
Geotechnologist in ResidenceDec 2013Jun 2014
Nokia
Director, Global Community ProgramsFeb 20, 2013Dec 2013
Nokia
Director, Places, Nokia Location & CommerceAug 2011Feb 2013
Yahoo
Director of Engineering, GeoMay 2010
Geovation
Judge20102010
Yahoo
Head of UK Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies20062009
McAfee
Senior Software Engineer20022003