Mrs. Nooka Ratnam Kinthada has 10 years of experience in the technology domain of Geoinformatics. Ratnam is at present working as Associate Place Analyst in the department of Geoinformatics at Roulac India Investment Advisory Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India. She is responsible for leading a GIS Team on the aspects of City level Geodatabase creation and management, retail site selection, growth risk modeling of places, cluster and trend analysis, market potentiality estimation etc. She did her B.Tech. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and M.Tech. in Remote sensing & GIS.
Gil Castle of Castle Consulting is author of several books on GIS in Business and specifically in Real Estate. He holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard and is a past president of URISA.