Science and technology
A PhD in Chemistry, five years in medical research and early work bringing personal computing to the mass market.
About Jim
Experience should create more options.
I help people over 55 turn what they know into a business on their terms, with AI as leverage.
Build on your terms
I have built through more than one wave of change.
New technology changes the tools. It does not replace judgement, customer understanding or the discipline to finish what matters.
Forty years ago, I worked on personal computing when many people still regarded it as a toy.
Since then, my work has crossed science, technology, international business and organisational leadership. I learned to look past the demonstration and ask what changes, who benefits, what can fail and who remains responsible.
Today I apply that same discipline to AI. I use it, test it and build with it, while keeping human judgement in charge.
Experience earned in the real world.
The point of this history is not the résumé. It is that I have had to make decisions when the answer was uncertain, the stakes were real and the result had to work.
Business and leadership
Worldwide marketing, international board experience and Asia Pacific leadership with responsibility for more than 10,000 people.
Building and selling
Businesses built and sold through seven-figure exits, followed by current work using AI to create practical systems and products.
Why this work exists now.
Too much advice treats people over 55 as if they are late to the future. I think that gets the relationship backwards.
When AI makes execution cheaper, knowing what to build becomes more valuable. So do context, standards, trust and the ability to recognise a problem worth solving. Those are products of experience.
The opportunity is not to imitate a younger internet entrepreneur or master every new tool. It is to find the useful part of what you already know, test where it can create value and turn it into a business that suits your life.
A practical system, backed by work that goes deep.
I will help you test and validate ideas, choose one with potential, create demand and keep building after the novelty wears off.
Personal trust on camera, backed by research that stands on its own.