Team

Co-founder Ian leads on company strategy, product ownership and data management.

Having begun his career as a chartered civil engineer, Ian forged a career as a well-respected design manager before co-founding one of the UK’s earliest Building Information Modelling (BIM) consultancies and writing the best-selling book ‘BIM for Estates’.

With a keen interest in building and property data, Ian learned and practised data science in order to find ways of better utilising everyday information and utilising BIM data. Ian also leads on the development of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions.

As CEO, Ian leads on company strategy and executive board communications, growing the team and scaling our business.

Co-founder Scott oversees product management, sales and marketing.

Having started his career as an advanced craftsman, he gained essential practical building skills before moving to project planning and management before focusing on business development.

Fusing his practical construction and property experience with his passion for creativity, innovation and design; Scott provides a unique customer insight into user experience (UX) and user interface (UI). He believes in ‘humanising’ complicated construction data so that anyone can use it for good.

Scott uses his ‘on-the-ground’ experience to not only design user-focussed products but also in how we market our business to help with customer, business and revenue growth.

Tim oversees product development, technical infrastructure and security.

A brilliant computer scientist, Tim has experience in developing innovative mobile applications for huge global banks, managing large software teams for large enterprise manufacturers and in creating an innovative AR greeting card product.

With a masters in computer science and experience in leading the development of both software teams and mobile products, Tim is perfectly placed to lead the continuous development of the Operance platform and tech support team.