The people behind the promise.
At CARTASITE, we are committed to delivering the superlative service, breakthrough technology, and practical results.

And we’ve all staked our futures on keeping that promise.

David Armitage Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Thirty years ago, David was an exploration geoscientist. His experience in the field led him to start his own firm, GeoGraphix, which became the world’s leading provider of desktop mapping and enterprise data interpretation systems to the upstream oil and gas industry. He directed the firm for twelve years, helping to create a global operation with installations in 44 countries. Landmark Graphics Inc., now a subsidiary of Halliburton Corporation, bought the firm in 1995.

Mr. Armitage has founded and led other high-tech ventures such as Qubit Technology, iPremise, OnSite Technology Partners and A2D Technologies. His leadership roles have included responsibility for managing engineering, manufacturing, software development and marketing groups as well as corporate quality, reliability and ethics.

In 2002, he founded CARTASITE to change the way industry manages assets, risk, and security. In addition to his leadership and vision, Mr. Armitage brings a wealth of technology experience to the company, including database skills, programming languages and network and systems administration.

George Chedsey SVP Sales and Marketing

George is a 25 year veteran of high tech and consulting firms working within the oil and gas and environmental industries.  He has served as vice president of a transportation training firm for the energy industry; technology based training company as well as Fortune 500 environmental service and engineering firms.  Mr. Chedsey’s experience has spanned technology start-ups to large multi-national organizations.

Mr. Chedsey brings Cartasite a pragmatic, solution-based sales approach to help our clients maximize Cartasite’s technology and strengths within their firm to deliver the best ROI.  Over the last several years George has provided cost savings for most all major energy producers and oil service firms travelling the oil producing regions of the US and Canada.

Gregory Kushnir Ph.D. Senior Vice President of Technology

Dr. Kushnir is a resourceful and highly accomplished IT Executive with over 30 years of diversified management, software product development and R&D experience within corporate and start-up technology-related environments. He is an innovator in both geological interpretation systems and geo-business information systems and has published multiple articles in his field. Prior to joining CARTASITE, Gregory held Executive Team positions with A2D Technologies and Tobin International, the leading data, software and services providers for Exploration and Production Sector of the Oil & Gas Industry. He served as President, Director and Co-founder of Shared Earth Technologies Inc., a 3D mapping software solutions company. Dr. Kushnir was Manager of Advanced Technology and Architecture Group at GeoGraphix and pioneered the development of the sophisticated subsurface modeling technologies.

Dr. Kushnir initiated his professional career in 1976 as a geoscientist with All-Russia Scientific Research Geological Oil Institute (VNIGNI) in Moscow, Russia – the leading scientific research institute for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Academy of Science of the Russian Federation. He was Senior Research Associate when he left VNIGNI after twelve years of service.

Dr. Kushnir graduated Moscow University with a Masters of Science in Geophysics and attained his Ph.D. from VNIGNI for his research in the computer-based geometrization of the oil and gas fields.