Geoff Crawshaw is Chief Technology Officer of OpenAir.com, a venture capital backed, application service provider. Prior to co-founding OpenAir.com, he was CEO of his own custom software development company, OpenAir Software. OpenAir was founded in 1992 to develop leading-edge software for high-tech clients. Crawshaw is a highly skilled developer with over 15 years of experience in a wide variety of platforms and computer languages including UNIX, Windows, NT, C, C++, Perl, Java, Delphi, Oracle, etc. He has designed major applications including Lightstream data engine, DataDriller decision support tool, a Java interface for Wildfire, and a data e-commerce system for CareerSearch.

Before co-founding OpenAir Software, Crawshaw also co-founded and managed Pelican Environmental Corporation for five years. At Pelican he developed a number of technical breakthroughs in the environmental remediation industry and holds a U.S. patent on a soil vapor recovery technology used extensively in the U.S. and Europe.

Crawshaw learned to program on a MIT timeshared PDP-11 while attending Milton Academy in Massachusetts. He graduated Cum Laude from Milton and continued his development activities on the Apple II and the TRS-80 while attending Rice University in Houston.