Professional Experience

Technical Director

Boleyn Media Group

May 2025 – Present, Campbell River

Working with the leadership team to drive strategy on web-based projects. A focus on user experience through technical integrations, accessibility, and intuitive user interfaces, together with efficient and high-quality web development processes.


Councillor

Village of Cumberland

Oct 2024 – Present, Cumberland

Elected to the Municipal Council in a 2024 by-election.


Owner

The Update Company · Self-employed

Jan 2012 – Present, Cumberland

Digital development and advice for select, values-based clients.


Technical Director

Map Insight Limited

Mar 2014 – Mar 2019 · 5 yrs 1 mo

London Area, United Kingdom

Defining the product and service vision, the product roadmap and leading the technical team for development of our internet mapping software.


Owner

Executive Intelligence

Oct 2009 – Jan 2016 · 6 yrs 4 mos

Cumberland, BC

Consulting and technology for information management, business performance reporting and carbon inventory and climate action strategy.


Director – Finance and Administration

iMarket Marine

Jan 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Cumberland, BC

Supply and installation of marine electronics systems for navigation, communication and scientific research.


Captain

Sailing Yacht Ty Dewi

Sep 2007 – Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Atlantic Ocean · Remote

A two-year sailing trip with my family to the Caribbean, the East Coast of the USA and eventually Western Canada.


Owner

BroadReach Consulting Ltd

Sep 2001 – Sep 2007 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Working with a range of companies and academic institutions, both large and small, to develop approaches, processes and systems for decision support and analysis, particularly for the management of innovation and growth.


Consultant

Integral Europe Limited

Mar 1998 – Aug 2000 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Integral Europe was the Cambridge-based arm of Integral Inc, a consultancy focussed on Innovation Management, with strong academic links to MIT, Harvard, Stanford and other major schools.

At Integral, I was a consultant working as part of small teams of 2-6 people at blue-chip clients in Europe and the US, including banking, healthcare and microprocessor manufacture. I also devised and led the development of software to improve the capture and analysis of development project information for portfolio management decision-making.


Director

Yeoman Navigation

Aug 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 2 mos

Yeoman were developing navigation technology for motorists to be able to dial into a service and gain directions which took into account real-time traffic and disruption data, and used text-to-speech tools to deliver directions to the driver via their mobile phone.
I led the software development team that built the software to drive the system, including telephony, mapping and direction finding, account management and text-to-speech.


Education

University of Cambridge

MA MEng, Chemical Engineering

1990 – 1994


Henley Business School

DipBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations

1995 – 1996