A serial entrepreneur whose passions have spanned several industries and led him to many countries, Sean is most widely known to the RPI community as a founding member of MapInfo, one of the first companies to commercialize an easy to use mapping software for desktop computers. Following MapInfo’s success, Sean helped start the following organizations: Sonic Recording Studios based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Net Centric, a worldwide leader in Internet fax technology in the 90's based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; JumpStart International, an engineering humanitarian organization based in Atlanta, Georgia; SOS Ventures, a venture capital and investment management firm; and Avego Ltd., a world leading technology firm specializing in transport technology featuring a groundbreaking "Shared Transport" real-time ridesharing i-phone app, both of Kinsale, Ireland. The Entrepreneur of the Year award recognizes O’Sullivan’s work over the last 26 years of his career.