Joe is the Acting CEO at Development Seed. He leads the team and strategy, focused on building data and technology products that help organizations make better decisions about a rapidly changing planet.

Most recently, Joe was a leader in the Amazon Web Services Social Responsibility and Impact organization, where he helped organizations achieve impact through the cloud and worked to democratize access to petabytes of environmentally critical data, including satellite imagery, climate, and weather data.

Joe has served on the Digital Earth Africa Technical Advisory Committee, the GEOGloWS Steering Committee, and the Landsat Advisory Group. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the Penn State University and the University of Colorado, respectively.