Our mission is to transform information into knowledge through map-making and data visualization. Our immersive, interactive mapping engine creates maps in four dimensions (the fourth being time) and has generated many sales right from our website, and garnered major support across different industries, including international development, defense intelligence, agribusiness and political data publication.
We're currently undertaking to expand our data portal to an enterprise-level dashboarding system which will provide organizations and individuals a new way to explore and comprehend trends across space and time. Our recommendation engine will give insight not just into the trends within statistics, but will enhance the analytical experience itself so that users will find themselves navigating connections with the added insight of previous users.
UUorld collaborates with organizations, corporations, and individuals to provide visualizations of custom data.
History
UUorld began with a series of conversations about the 21st century geopolitical landscape, based on a shared desire to understand more easily changing demographics and economies. From these initial conversations, the first prototypes of UUorld's visualization engine were produced.
In June of 2007, the core team moved from Washington, DC to San Francisco and UUorld was incorporated shortly thereafter.
Our Leadership Team
Zach Wilson, CEO – Zach developed the product specifications for UUorld's original software; since that time, he has led the ongoing effort to commercialize the larger platform. Zach drives our strategic sales campaign and manages our client relations. He has experience modeling global systems at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and in small business management, with a focus on developing products and services in clean technology. His undergraduate degree is from Georgetown University where he studied Cognitive Science and Economics.
George Maasry, COO – George is our product design lead. He has also been the backbone of data operations and manages delivery of custom professional services to clients. George is the creator of UUorld’s marketing materials and manages the company blog as well as some part-time web development. He leverages close analytical and project planning work with clients to ensure that UUorld’s product design is synchronized with market needs. George’s academic strengths are in mathematics and logic, where he has taught and written state-level standardized tests. He is also the author of a work in progress on puzzles and the reasoning process. Prior to UUorld, he designed and maintained vast data archives for major Washington-DC law firms.
Matt Polak, Senior Advisor - Corporate Development – Matt draws on deep experience identifying and profiling market opportunities. He is a successful entrepreneur, having founded a competitive strategy and financial advisory firm, CM2 Limited, at which he is currently a Managing Partner. With a broad set of C-level contacts across industries, Matt provides strategic oversight of the broader business development campaign and sales & marketing strategy. In addition, he provides targeted competitive intelligence to perpetually improve sales strategies.
John Hedden, Senior Advisor – John has a solid foundation of 25 years of business leadership experience with four Fortune 500 organizations. In addition to his role at UUorld, he currently serves as a Managing Partner in the strategy consulting firm CM2 Limited. He has driven the development and implementation of successful business strategies, overseen numerous acquisitions and forged critical partnerships. John has also developed leading-edge enterprise risk management practices to help companies identify and appropriately mitigate risk. John has extensive experience building successful strategies and managing teams to execute those strategies while assuring financial accountability. At UUorld he provides strategic guidance and operational and financial oversight. John holds a BA in Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA from the Booth School Of Business at the University of Chicago with a specialization in finance.