Ian Bourne

Ian has a wide and varied background, from eight years with Cunard as a navigator, 10 years with the Ministry of Defence as a captain of various ships and research vessels, a ship’s pilot for the navy, head of marine services and Chief Pilot in Gibraltar, time in MOD HQ including setting in place ISO9000 for the department and finally moving into more commercial experience.

Following a short period as a Project Manager for Vosper Thornycroft, he ran the bids for Hampshire, Isle of Wight and West Sussex careers services when they were privatised and having one them set up two joint ventures to run them. He then ran the careers service company for Hampshire and Isle of Wight for three years before becoming CEO of the Careers Services National Association for 2 years before taking over the MDs role at Capital Careers based in London for two years, turning the business around and making it saleable.

Ian then moved into the tech field and set up a company to support charities, education institutions and students with purchasing discounted software and then with the advent of software as a service set up my current company, Cloud2020, to deliver Microsoft Business Applications – Dynamics sales, marketing, customer services, finance, HR, operations, field service etc – with a focus on the SMB sector.

Ian lives on a small holding with horses, goats, ducks, chickens, and bees and in his ‘spare’ time he is Captain of the historic steam ship, “Shieldhall” and plays saxophone in a band.