Dr. Herbert Freeman - Founder and President

Dr. Freeman has been active in the area of computer cartography since the early 1960's. In 1979 he initiated a research project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to solve the map text placement problem, a problem that had been largely given up as unsolvable. That work, as well as subsequent activities while on the faculty at Rutgers University, helped lay the foundation for forming MapText. Dr. Freeman is a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, NY and holds MS and Dr.Eng.Sc. degrees from Columbia University. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University.

Michael Sleppin - Vice President

Mr. Sleppin is a vice president of MapText and also serves as a senior partner in a sales consulting and training firm. Previously he was chief operating officer for a semi-conductor equipment manufacturing firm. He holds an MBA in Management and Finance.

Rishi Mehra - Manager of Software Development

Mr. Mehra is a co-founder of MapText and joined the Company in 1998. He has managed all software development activities, including the TPS software product delivered to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the Label-EZ software, MapText's commercial cartographic text placement system. Mr. Mehra received an MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University in 1998.

Dr. John D. Bossler - Director and Technical Advisor

Dr. Bossler is a Director of MapText and also serves as Technical Advisor since 1998. He was Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Athmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce, where he held the rank of Rear Admiral in the NOAA Commissioned Corps.

Dr. Bathsheba Malsheen - Director

Dr. Malsheen is the Chairman, CEO, & President of Chaoticom
(www.chaoticom.com), a leading provider of mobile music services. Prior to that, Dr. Malsheen was President and CEO of Voxware, a leading global provider of wireless voice-based enterprise solutions for distribution and warehouse operations. Earlier, Dr. Malsheen was with Centigram Communications Corporation where she served as General Manager of a technology division, which became a leading provider of text-to-speech applications. Dr. Malsheen holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University in Linguistics, and a B.A. from Hofstra University in Spanish and English. She was also a Research Affiliate at MIT's Research Lab for Electronics. 

Dr. John Ahn - Member, Board of Advisors

Dr. Ahn is Principal Technical Staff Member, Global Networking & Technology Planning at AT&T. He has been active in architecting and implementing software systems for business case analysis of network modeling and planning. During 1980-84 as part of his doctoral thesis research at RPI he worked with Dr. Freeman on developing the first automated cartographic text placement system.