Andy Gosney joined Sigma Seven last summer as a Sales Consultant after previously working with the Ordnance Survey, 1-Spatial and GGP. Along with Sales and Marketing Director Mark Ketteman, Andy’s role is to expand the business into new areas.

‘The business started out by servicing utility and quickly grew its presence in that market,’ says Andy. ‘My focus now is to show what GeoField can do for businesses in other sectors including data providers, local and central government.

‘It’s a very varied role in that the GeoField software can be applied to a wide range of work undertaken by government or private sector companies where those tasks have an element of location to them. For example, a local council could take a device with GeoField on it and, from the one licence, apply it to dozens of different uses such as waste management one day and monitoring children at risk the next.

‘A challenge at the moment is that public sector spending is under a lot of pressure. My job is about working with our customers to demonstrate how purchasing our software will quickly save them money. We know from our ROI studies that it delivers instant efficiencies, not ones you have to wait two or three years for. The data and operational managers within organisations can see the value of it but the difficulty is in getting that information in front of the management holding the purse strings’

Having completed a degree in local government politics, Andy started his GI career with Ordnance Survey where he rapidly rose through the ranks to become a Data Production Manager. His particular areas of interest are large scale data capture; addressing data capture, land use data and change intelligence.

When he is not travelling the UK explaining to different companies how GeoField can help them, Andy lives in his hometown of Southampton and is a keen follower of the town’s football club. As well as being a Saints fan, he enjoys watching American football. A New York Jets supporter, he used to play the game while at university in Leicester. He also lists darts, pool and poker among his hobbies.