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Musselburgh, Scotland, GB

Thrilled to be working at NCTech, the world’s leading independent provider of street-level geospatial data. Mapping with a purpose, innovating and disrupting at a global scale.

Significant Industry and international expertise across broad markets and territories in mapping, location based services and sustainable construction. Supported both public and private sector clients to innovate through technology adaptation and market disruption. Focussed on large scale data acquisition projects at international, national and city scale.

Southampton, Hampshire, GB

Led Ordnance Survey in developing its value propositions developing new digital services for Land Administration (Managed Land Service ), Automated Feature Extraction and Geospatial production. Statutory Director on the OS Main Board.

Southampton, Hampshire, GB

Proud to have taken the role again to assist Ordnance Survey through another transition. Pleased to deliver yet again increasing revenues and assist in its ambition to deliver the world’s best geospatial information. Led the development and implementation of a new strategic plan to increase commercial income and deepen government relationships.During this.

Southampton, Hampshire, GB

Responsible for developing Ordnance Survey’s commercial business strategy with group level accountability for our commercial offers in GB and Internationally, focusing on geospatial production, land administration and machine learning platforms for automated mapping production.

Southampton, Hampshire, GB

Director of Ordnance Survey Limited, a 100% Government owned company, with the public task of delivering Great Britain's geospatial infrastructure. Ordnance Survey is recognised as a world leader in the collection, maintenance and supply of high quality geospatial information and mapping. Throughout this period we invested significantly on AI and Machine.

Southampton, Hampshire, GB

I took over the leadership role as Acting Director General and CEO in April 2014 through an active period of change within the business and led the succesful vesting of Ordnance Survey into a 100% government owned limited company on 31st March 2015. This was alongside delivering increased growth in EBITDA (34%) on an increasing £140 million revenue line..

Southampton, Hampshire, GB

Main board director responsible for all surveying and engineering operations at Ordnance Survey alongside the roles as Deputy CEO from 2012. I managed over 800 staff including nearly 400 surveyors/photogrammetrists and cartographers and over from 2012, 200 software engineers and IT support staff working in agile development and devops.The operations role.

An R&D joint venture developing a unique High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite for Earth Observation. https://astigan.uk. Astigan achieved all its key development milestones including ground and balloon launches in Australia and Wales.

Leading Ordnance Survey's support for International base-mapping and Land Administration Services

Supporting Dennis Maps, the UK's premier Large Format Litho and Digital Printers, Map Printers extraordinaire.

London, GB

Led the acquisition and due diligence team to create Geoplace in partnership with the LGA. Appointed as Ordnance Survey Senior Director on the Geoplace LLP main board. Geoplace is a joint venture between Ordnance Survey and Local Government (LGA) to create and maintain the definitive national address register for England & Wales and the National Street.

Westminster, CO, US

Responsible for helping Trimble springboard out of the US setting up the technical team that introduced GPS into Europe, Middle East, Africa & India from a small office in Tonbridge, Kent.The role included both technical and new market development in the satnav, vehicle tracking, marine, survey, precision farming, GIS and construction application areas..

Between 1982 to 1989 responsible for all things data and for evaluating and commercially implementing a range of positioning technologies - including the first ever commercial differential GPS system for the offshore surveying industry. First generation experience of developing GPS for surveying and navigation since 1983.Project lead on the world’s first.