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The people behind Data Universa’s technology, research, data operations, field programs and global infrastructure.
Founder
John F. Groom
USA
John has been involved in digital technology since 1998 with the launch of the Positive Press website, which garnered quite a bit of publicity. In 1998 he became the 4th full-time employee of AnyNet, the first company in the world to sell variable annuities online.
In addition to developing a wide range of products as an entrepreneur, he has extensive experience dealing with complex and regulatory issues in technology and other industries.
John has 11 software patents, generally focused on data interoperability.
- System and Method for Searching, Organizing, Exploring and Rating Online Content – issued in 2018
- Alternative Search Methodology – issued in 2021
- Multi-dimensional interaction with data stores related to tangible property – issued in 2022
- John Groom, Prudhi Nag, and Ryan Matott – Digital Tag to Facilitate Production, Collaboration, Transparency, Privacy, Authentication, History, Synchronization, Ownership, Fraud Discovery, Compliance During the Creation and Use of a Product – issued in 2023
- Dynamically Generated Object-Responsive Interactive Action Display – issued in 2016
- Multi-Domain Ground-Truth Data Structuration with Automated Contextual Enrichment and Valuation – filed in 2025
- Statistical data efficiency evaluation and computational gating system – filed in 2026
- Execution-Validated Data Connectivity Index for Data Interoperability – filed in 2026