Meet the Team

Mike is Managing Director and co-founder of Storm Geomatics.  With a long and uninterrupted career in the management of river surveyors and data, Mike has a deep understanding of geospatial information capture, processing and presentation.  Mike is driving the company to supply a higher level of information to its customers so their project outcomes can stand more confidently in the context that they lie.  Mike sees the company's sustainability correlating to its growth.  Growth allows higher investment in new technology which offers efficiencies and therefore value to Storm's customers.  Mike focuses equally on investment in software development in order to convert new, higher value survey data into workable files for professional water engineers.  Storms mission has come from Mike's vision to reduce flooding across the globe through measurement, understanding and innovation, a mission that is well under way now and already meeting its objectives on varying scales. Storm isn't a company that keeps its innovations secret, it likes to share them so that its mission can be realised sooner, this is a challenging thought process in business but one Mike believes strongly in.  With Mike at the helm you know that your project is going to arrive safely at the right destination and probably carrying cargo which enriches the journey!

Anthony is the Operations Director and co-founder of Storm Geomatics.  With over 20 years of experience conducting and managing surveys in and around water he is well placed to ensure you get everything and more from your survey procurement.  Anthony's focus is on the quality of all data delivered by Storm Geomatics, this is not only about accuracy and precision but whether the data is fit for its intended purpose and has the client received the best use of their budget.  Anthony prides himself on the performance and knowledge of the survey teams regarding data capture, presentation and most importantly health and safety. Anthony believes the Storm Geomatics survey teams have unrivalled knowledge within the riverine and still water environment which allows the engineers to create solutions of the highest integrity.  Anthony also leads the technical development of the company's river channel processing software GeoRiver which is leading the way in this field.

Ross graduated from Exeter University with a BSc in Applied Geology in 2015 and moved into surveying shortly afterwards. After six years experience in a variety of survey disciplines including topographical and measured building surveys Ross worked his way up through the ranks and began to gravitate towards the management and organisation side of surveying. Whilst ensuring colleagues are listened to, respected and made to feel equal, Ross is ready to develop the survey manager role and strengthen the already high standards to ensure new and existing clients continue to receive the best service that Storm can provide. Ross gained AssocRICS accreditation in 2019 and is looking forward to attaining membership to the Chartered institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors in the near future.

Matt Maddalena, our Survey Manager of the South West Office, started with Storm in 2018 as a surveyor.

Matt graduated with a BSc in Physical Geography from University of Sheffield. Matt then combed his academic studies with his love of the outdoors into a surveying career.

Starting out as an Aerial Surveyor, he spent four years flying around, conducting LiDAR surveys for the Environment Agency Aerial Survey Team, before becoming more ground-based with Storm Geomatics. Matt now handles the management of Storm Geomatics South West office ensuring the surveyors and kit are all finely tuned to carry out a variety of projects for clients.

When moving into a managerial role Matt was keen to ensure his surveying skills were kept up to date by conducting & delivering a limited number of technical surveys. He is extremely proficient in many survey techniques experienced throughout his career & takes pride in delivering a fully comprehensive survey.

Matt is a Graduate Member of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors and is on course to his Technical Member accreditation.