John McMillan

Current

Director at Survey Software
President at Sudbury & District Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Owner at McMillan Technology

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Past

Director at Kio Cities Ltd
Head of Software Products at Shaw & Sons
Director at McMillan Greenly Ltd

Managing Partner at McMillan Cordell Associates
Consultant at ICL
Consultant Programmer at ICL

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Education

University of Liverpool

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

John McMillan’s Summary

John McMillan develops and implements marketing strategies and plans, mainly for the ICT industry. He has developed and marketed software and other high tech solutions for three decades, working for and with organisations from the largest to the smallest. He has worked with software houses and computer companies at director level for over 20 years.

John's speciality is bringing software products to market. He has maintained his thorough technical background which, combined with his business skills and experience, makes him invaluable for this function. He often forms alliances with companies outside the IT industry. They provide the industry knowledge, and John provides the experience of running a software house.

In his career, he has managed and launched numerous software products for ICL, at the time Europe's largest computer maker and the dominant supplier of IT to the UK government. He went on to launch their PCs, Unix and office systems to Central Government. He worked with the sales force, designed and gave demonstrations to key customers and set up a marketing team to continue the function permanently.

He also worked with Shaw & Sons, a publisher whose business was under threat from technology. John worked with the directors to create a software based project. He carried out the feasibility study and set up administration, production, marketing and quality systems. He ran the product launch and set up the team, building up sales to around £800,000 a year.

He offers consultancy services, especially for creating business plans and marketing as well as full interim management. He presents business workshops and seminars in universities and business events. There is a selection of articles on the McMillan Technology web site.

John McMillan’s Specialties:

Start-ups, new ventures, project management, bringing software to market, marketing plans, marketing strategy, software, software industry, strategy setting, business plans, project delivery.

John McMillan’s Experience

Director

Survey Software

(Construction industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

A start up company formed with the director of a firm of chartered surveyors who have developed softare to record building surveys.

Responsible for setting up the company, launching the software and overseeing technical matters.
President

Sudbury & District Chamber of Commerce & Industry

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2001 — Present (8 years )

Responsible for managing the chamber of commerce. Sudbury is a small market town in East Anglia, with a thriving retail centre and very active manufacturing sector. One study found Sudbury to be the best performing town centre in the UK.

The President's duties include managing the culture of the Chamber, being its public face and designing and lobbying for the best infrastructure.
Owner

McMillan Technology

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1980 — Present (29 years 9 months)

Bringing software products to market and software development.
Technical, management and marketing consutancy, and directorships of hi-tech companies.
Currently advising and directing several start ups, providing technical expertise and marketing strategy.
Director

Kio Cities Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 4 months)

I joined this company to develop the business plan and assist in raising finance.
Head of Software Products

Shaw & Sons

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

January 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 8 months)

Shaws are a publisher who produce just about every form a solicitor or local council needs to use. John set up a software division to produce computer generated forms and built up turnover to around £750K per annum.
Director

McMillan Greenly Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1996 — March 1999 (3 years 3 months)

Created a software house to market town planning and building control packages to local government. Much of the business was taken over by Shaw & Sons in 1999.
Managing Partner

McMillan Cordell Associates

(Partnership; Consumer Electronics industry)

January 1987 — February 1989 (2 years 2 months)

Set up an organisation to provide marketing services to the ICT community. Then partnered with a local council to develop and market a town planning enforcement package called cCOPE (Computer Control of Planning Enforcement). This was successfully launched. The rights to cCOPE were transferred to McMillan Technology and sold to 25 councils. It is still in use.
Consultant

ICL

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1982 — 1984 (2 years )

Launched ICL's office automation product range into the central government market.
Guided the ICL sales force through the culture change from proprietory solutions to open solutions.
Worked with software companies to port their products to ICL computers.
Consultant Programmer

ICL

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1974 — 1980 (6 years )

John McMillan’s Education

University of Liverpool

B.Eng , Electronics , October 1965 — July 1968

Additional Information

John McMillan’s Interests:

new ventures, software development, interim manager, non executive director, speaking, entrepreneur, playing guitar, the blues

John McMillan’s Groups:

Sudbury Chamber of Commerce (President),
Collaborate2Innovate (Chairman),
East of England Multimedia Alliance,
IP-City,
Ecademy,
Anglia IT Managers Forum