Julian Bourne

Current

• CEO & Founder at Proxpro Inc.

Past

• Global President at Morgan Crucible Co. plc

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Industry

Wireless

Julian Bourne’s Summary

An inventor of mobile social networking and award-winning GPS software. Skills include 14 years global general management success with accountability spanning $35-150m, and multiple highly profitable turnarounds.

Companies I know well: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, NAVTEQ, Teleatlas, mBlox, Singlepoint, Garmin, TomTom, Magellan, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Motorola, Telenav, Autodesk, Starbucks, Nokia, Reed Elsvier, RIM, NIM, Motorola, Inrix, Apple, Ulocate, Loopt, LinkedIn, Akamai, ZoomInfo, Opentable, IDG, Admobs, Microsoft, Ballard, PlugPower, Hydrogenics, MTI Fuel Cell, Johnson Matthey, Applied Materials, Varian, Accelis, DeBeers, Bain, Morgan Crucible, SGL Carbon, Ucar, Poco, Le Carbone, 3m, Dupont

Julian Bourne’s Specialties:

Mobile Social Networking; GPS; Location based servcies (LBS); Wireless value chain; GPS navigation, traffic; BlackBerry OS; Privacy; J2ME; people search; premium SMS; user interface design; mobile direct marketing; social media; union negotiations; Global P/L experience; Requisite organizations; Management control systems; 6 sigma; Lean manufacturing; Union contract negotiation; R&D management; Acquisition integration; Raising funding; Site closures and building new facilities

Julian Bourne’s Experience

• CEO & Founder

  Proxpro Inc.

  (Wireless industry)

  December 2003 — Present (4 years 10 months)

  NEVER BE LATE. Proxpro's new product Prompt fuses GPS to the BlackBerry® calendar (patent pending). Described as "a service more intelligent and resourceful than anything we've seen before." (Mobile Messaging 2.0 July 2008)
  
  - get “when to leave alerts” aware of real-time traffic
  - see the optimum (fastest) route avoiding congestion
  - confirm on-route you will arrive on-schedule
  - store customized locations
  - check daily commute for accidents and construction
  
  Award-winning Proxpro helps people predict the future. The company won the coveted NAVTEQ LBS Global Challenge in 2006 with its patented and patent pending mobile social networking technology (Patent No.: US 7,310,676).

• Global President

  Morgan Crucible Co. plc

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Chemicals industry)

  October 1998 — November 2003 (5 years 2 months)

  Aggressively turned around and rapidly grew the Specialty Graphite division. Manufacturing locations including USA, Canada, S. Korea, Turkey, South Africa, Australia, India, Hungary, UK and Luxembourg. High tech markets served include: semiconductor, aero-propulsion, super-abrasive, non-ferrous, vacuum furnace, fuel cell, and lithium ion battery

Additional Information

Julian Bourne’s Honors:

Winner of NAVTEQ Global Location based Services Challenge, April 2006, (4 winners / 140 entrants)
Included in Boston Business Journal's "40-under-40" rising stars honored for their contribution to business and the community, August 2006