ALK Appoints LBS Veteran Barry Glick as CEO

Mobile navigation and truck mileage solution provider ALK Technologies, announced this week that Barry J. Glick has joined the company as its Chief Executive Officer.

Barry J. Glick has more than 25 years experience in the mapping, location technology and navigation industry.

In 1994, he was the founding CEO of GeoSystems Global Corporation which gave birth to MapQuest.com. As a result of the company’s early success in Internet mapping, GeoSystems went public in 1999 and was acquired by AOL/Time Warner in 2000.

Glick later became Chairman and CEO of Webraska Mobile Technologies (2001-2004) headquartered in France, and a pioneer in off-board navigation and location-based services. Webraska was later sold to Sanef, part of the abertis Group, the number one transport and telecom infrastructure management operator in Europe.

Glick then served as Vice President of Internet, Mobile and Media Products for digital maps supplier NAVTEQ (2006-2008).

In addition to his role at ALK, Glick serves as Chairman of smartRealm LLC, and as a Partner or Board Member at GeoCodex, LLC; Location, Inc.; Carillon Ventures, LLC; and Spatial Justice Resources, Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master’s degree from Cornell University.