Remote Sensing Metrics
Proprietary data and analysis based on remote sensing technology
Tom Diamond, President
tdiamond@rsmetrics.com
Tom Diamond is President and co-founder of Remote Sensing Metrics, with day-to-day management and operational control over all aspects of RS Metrics’ business, including driving product direction and development, strategic alliances, and scaling the sales, marketing and support organizations.
Tom’s extensive experience as a strategic advisor to corporate managers and institutional investors, operational experience, and background in engineering and product development, provide a deep understanding of how technology and data-driven analysis can benefit business decision making.
Prior to RS Metrics, Tom was a Director with Stax, Inc., a corporate and investor strategy consulting firm, where he led and managed relationships for eight years with major corporations, leveraged buyout firms and their portfolio companies, and hedge fund clients. His work often revolved around quantifying and forecasting behaviors of customers and markets to support major decisions for growth strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and public equities trading. Previously, Tom was co-founder of Fulcrum Systems, an enterprise software company using massive data sets for design and ongoing optimization of complex corporate telecommunication networks, where he served as Vice President of Marketing. Fulcrum was acquired in 2003 by a telecom carrier-focused channel partner looking to expand its offering to enterprise clients. Tom began his career as a design engineer for mobile communications devices, and holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Alex Diamond, Vice President
adiamond@rsmetrics.com
Alex Diamond brings extensive geospatial experience to the Remote Sensing Metrics team as Vice President of Marketing and Products, with responsibility for product technical feasibility studies, product specifications, client technical inquiries and services, and sourcing data and managing relationships with all of RS Metrics’ data acquisition partners.
Prior to co-founding RS Metrics, Alex was a Senior Product Manager at satellite imagery owner and operator DigitalGlobe, Inc. where he developed products and services for global commercial distribution partners, including Google Earth, and focused on end-market solutions for the oil & gas exploration and mining industries and municipal clients. Alex holds a Bachelors Degree in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
About Remote Sensing Metrics, LLC
RS Metrics provides corporate, investor, and government clients with proprietary data based on quantitative analysis of high resolution satellite imagery, demographic data, and open-source research.
Products include:
- Retail Chain Parking Lot Traffic Analysis: Monthly and quarterly analysis of retail parking lots to determine year-over-year traffic growth, market share, and comps forecasts. Results can be broken out by region/zip code, store format, local demographics, etc.
- Industrials and Construction Monitoring: Tracking change and progress on inventory, production, employment growth (cars in parking lot), distribution (semi trucks), and construction schedules at one or more locations 1-10 times per month.
- Other Industry Sectors: Companies in distribution, transportation, shipping, mining, energy, as well as macroeconomic indicators such as GDP and employment.
We partner with leading satellite imagery companies for global coverage and technical capabilities, and have access to several years of historical imagery in our archives.
RS Metrics was founded in 2008 by executives from corporate and investor strategy consulting, satellite imagery, and geographic information systems companies. We are headquartered in Chicago, IL.
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