Two decades on - a new day, a new dawn

After 20 years at the helm of emapsite, taking the company from start-up in the dying days of the dot com era to successful and respected multi-million pound business with a team full of talents and a portfolio of loyal blue chip customers for our unique array of products and services, I am stepping aside as CEO.

Two years after leading the relocation to Farnborough and setting in train the next phase of emapsite’s evolution with a doubling down on the company’s strategic ambitions including succession planning, the company is set fair for the next steps in that journey.

The company has been blessed and is made by its people, past and present – emapsite’s customers, suppliers and partners will know that from day one the company sought to delight and to exceed expectations in making location content accessible and insightful. This team will continue to thrive at emapsite and enrich those experiences.

Always one for looking forward, in the immediate short-term I will be looking to see what I can do for the immediate community as we confront the challenges of C-19 while at the same time continuing to be excited about the fact that everything really does happen somewhere. And that #geospatial potential still pulses strongly in my veins and doubtless will inform the path ahead.

In short, this is a new beginning and I intend to enjoy this chapter, this new dawn, as much as I have the last!

(C)RGS Wahiba Sands, Oman, 1985, surveying a new dawn (well sand dunes in the dawn and at the dawn of digital geo, replete with Epson "laptop" for post processing and mobile computing in a hazchem warfare ATV - "those WERE the days"), where it pretty much all started

And while the "two decades on" of the title is self explanatory it also bookends my first post on here almost exactly a decade ago.