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Cadcorp makes two new board appointments

Cadcorp, the developer of the popular Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System – digital mapping/GIS software suite, today announced two new appointments to the company’s board of directors. Martin McGarry has been appointed director, sales and marketing while Trevor Armstrong has been appointed financial director.

Announcing the appointments, Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp, said, “The existing board has been impressed with the contributions that both Martin and Trevor have made to Cadcorp’s progress since they joined the company last year as departmental managers. We are looking forward with confidence to that progress continuing now that they are part of an extended board of directors.”

Martin McGarry joined Cadcorp in 2002 as sales and marketing manager, prior to which he had spent five years as managing director at Informatix Software International Ltd. in Cambridge . With a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Leeds, he began his career in computing, initially as a programmer and then as team leader, at Applied Research of Cambridge where he worked on the GDS system. Following a period as an applications engineer for the Medusa CAD system he moved into sales, initially with Amazon Computers and later with McDonnell Douglas, EDS and the Convergent Group – the new owners of GDS – where he was European sales manager. After a spell with Hewlett Packard as European account manager, where he was responsible for relationships with Smallworld and ESRI, he rejoined Convergent Group – and the GDS system – as European sales manager before joining Informatix as managing director in 1997.

Trevor Armstrong is a chartered accountant and joined Cadcorp in 2002. He began his career in finance and accounting as audit manager at chartered accountants Beavis Walker in London, where he qualified in 1984. He then joined Secureop UK Ltd., the UK subsidiary of Group 4 Falck – the world’s second largest safety and security services provider – as financial controller, later becoming finance director and in 1994, managing director and finance director. In 2000 he joined Brooks Hammond as director of this private company, identifying and researching opportunities for business development and launches, with a focus on the retail, technology and software sectors.

More about Cadcorp SIS

Cadcorp SIS - Spatial Information System - is a suite of Windows-based and Web-enabled end user and developer digital mapping and geographic information system (GIS) software products. The desktop suite comprises: Map Viewer, which provides support for over 100 graphic and data formats, thematic and hard copy; Map Manager, which provides the mainstream user the ability to view, explore, query, symbolise and print digital map and associated tabular data; Map Editor, which in addition to the facilities provided by Map Manager, provides the GIS data custodian with tools to view, manage and edit map and tabular data; and Map Modeller, which adds 3D modelling, terrain analysis and several thematic and analytic mapping tools.

ActiveX based developer toolkits and Viewer, Manager and Modeller based runtime licences are popular products for the development and implementation of bespoke applications by third parties that take advantage of Cadcorp’s GIS know-how.

Cadcorp ASC (Active Server Component) extends the functionality of Cadcorp SIS for use over the Internet or a company-wide intranet. It is a dynamic, server-side Web-based GIS, not merely a map-publishing tool for pre-authored images. Cadcorp ASC provides a true, interactive Web-based solution for real time map creation and analysis.

Cadcorp SIS OS MasterMap Loader is supplied with Cadcorp SIS Map Modeller for the loading and management of Ordnance Survey MasterMap data in relational databases.

Cadcorp apSIS is programmable component software for the development of geospatial applications for the desktop and Pocket PC platforms.

Cadcorp mSIS is a data collection package that incorporates a desktop data capture management application and a Pocket PC based data collection tool.

More about Cadcorp

Established in 1991, Cadcorp is a leading developer of digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software. With offices in the UK , USA and Australia , Cadcorp’s distribution and VAR network stretches worldwide. The company also plays a pivotal technical role in the OpenGIS Consortium. Cadcorp SIS is currently the only complete GIS product family to attain OpenGIS conformance certification. Cadcorp is an Ordnance Survey Licenced Partner and also has an S-CAT agreement for category 15, GIS Software.

Cadcorp SIS applications exist in local government, central government, emergency services, insurance, oil & natural gas, mapping and surveying, Hydrospatial, commerce and many other markets.

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For further information, contact: Chris Holcroft, Tel: (44) 1438 747996, e-mail: chrish@cadcorp.com

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