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Meet the expert

James Cutler is a highly respected advocate for the role and value of data, a problem solver and a subject matter expert in and with location (or geospatial) data, in the digital economy.

He spent two decades as founder and CEO of one of the UK’s leading location data SMEs. His insights, expertise, perspective, impartiality, and citizen-centric views on location data are well-regarded and valued from C-suite to end user.

James now offers his expertise to organisations. With over three decades of wisdom, he has a track record as a high-level influencer and plenty of experience representing organisations in the public sphere. 

  • Association of Geographic Information (AGI)

    • Director 2016-

    • Vice Chair 2020-

  • Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)

  • 2016-2020, member Ordnance Survey’s Partner Advisory Council (PAC)

  • Champion in first year of OS’s Geovation programme

  • Founder, GISL Limited (UK, Ghana, Namibia)

More about James

James has global experience, knowledge and understanding across geospatial.

He has managed projects in some of the most challenging environments including through the dot com boom and bust and the financial crash of 2008-9 in the UK and through civil disturbances in Somalia and Nepal. James was also responsible for building location capability for multi-disciplinary teams in both Mongolia and Ethiopia.

James operates to protect your interest and reputation by delivering high performance outcomes that have meaningful economic and social value.

James provides you with the in-depth, cross-cutting strategic knowledge needed to shape and deliver strategy, policy and operations at pace.

Through Locatum, James works as a strategic geospatial advisor, as a non-executive director and mentor and on interim and retained engagements, where location and data economy expertise, experience and insight resonates and can deliver new value.

If you’re looking for strategic insights, product development, service and program delivery, public sector tender reviews, government policy creation and the list goes on, we should be talking.

To learn a little about James’ interests and passions do read the blog and follow on twitter @LocatumJames and LinkedIn where #planning, #mobility, #EV, #netzero, #EO and #geospatial tags are common themes.