Director of Product
Factual
Tyler Bell is a geotechnologist with broad interests in open source and place-based information systems. He is currently director of product at Factual, a Series A start-up that imposes order on the Internet where none otherwise exists. He previously managed platform technologies at LikeList, and led the geo-technologies product team at Yahoo, where he launched the Placemaker and GeoPlanet geo-enrichment platform. A former archaeologist specializing in landscape analysis and the semantic integration of heterogeneous data, Tyler received his doctorate from the University of Oxford before founding a technology spin-out company from the university in 2001.