Ian Bush

Ian Bush is a self-motivated, service-oriented and highly experienced Technical Director and Senior Consultant, with an ability to shape strategic vision, whilst maintaining a shrewd commercial perspective.

He has extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of a broad range of Ordnance Survey products and services applied to the asset management, engineering and environmental sectors.

Ian was the Technical Director responsible for the £15M Mapping Access Land in England Project, but more recently he has been heavily involved in applying his geospatial engineering skills to building information modelling (BIM) activities and providing consultancy services on how Ordnance Survey and Land Registry data could be used to create a public sector asset register.

He is also the technical lead for BSI PAS 128 – Specification for underground utility detection, verification and location. More information on Ian can be found here.

Nick Chapallaz

Nick Chapallaz is a widely published and highly respected location based systems and services expert having advised both local authorities, central government agencies and private sector businesses in the UK and internationally in a wide range of matters including communication strategies, product and proposition development, business growth and adoption of key standards.

During the e-Government era he was a lead advisor on high-profile government programmes including the e-GIF, Planning Portal and Transport Direct.

Nick is formerly Director of Business Strategy and Marketing for Esri UK and Senior Consultant for the Ordnance Survey helping revolutionise their business model and undertaking external advisory services for UK government and the EU.

Nick is currently providing strategic consulting services to public and private sector organisations with a focus on business process improvement, change management and proposition development.

He is Managing Director of Directions Consulting Ltd, Non-Executive Director of Geosho Cyf, a qualified Director with the Institute of Directors and former Chair of the Association of Geographic Information annual conference. 

Arnulf Christl

Arnulf Christl is a systems architect and has worked in the geospatial industry since the nineties.

His core competency focuses on distributed spatial data infrastructures and metadata management implemented on open standards and open source software.

He is a chartered member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) which was co-founded in 2006 and led as president from 2008 to 2012.

He is a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Architecture Board coordinating international standard development. Arnulf has a thorough background with enterprise scale systems especially in the European public administration where he also contributes to the European INSPIRE process through his company Metaspatial.

He developed the architecture of the eContent+ project ESDIN, a consortium of 12 European National Mapping and Cadastre Agencies.

He has a thorough background in Agile management and has guided a diverse selection of teams through the changes that are required for successful implementation.

Andrew Coote

Andrew Coote specialises in the field of location-enabled applications.  

He has held senior management positions in both the public sector (including Ordnance Survey) and private sector and has completed successful consulting assignments in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Russia, Australia and New Zealand.  

He has delivered many GIS strategy studies for county, unitary and district local authorities in the United Kingdom including recently for Powys, Cambridgeshire, Medway and North East Lincolnshire.

In 2010, he led ground-breaking studies assessing the economic value of geospatial technology to local government in both England and Wales.  

Andrew is a practical consultant, with a good understanding of “state of the art” information technology and a keen eye for detail. 

He is equally comfortable working with C-level executives and technical experts. He excels at building trust and consensus across multi-disciplinary teams and apparently conflicting interests.

For more details email andrew.coote@consultingwhere.com or visit ConsultingWhere.

Phil Francis

Phil Francis is Director and Consultant at So Spatial, an independent consultancy offering professional advice, guidance and technical services for its clients. With over 15 years’ experience in the geospatial industry, Phil’s expertise lies in the design and implementation of architectures for organisations looking to maximise the value of their spatial information, and embed and integrate geographic information across the enterprise.

Phil has cross-domain experience in Utilities, Telecoms, Oil and Gas and Central Government. Phil’s knowledge of spatial technologies and data are extensive, and combined with his passion and ability to deliver; make Phil a key addition to any project or team.

In addition to being an Ordnance Survey Accredited Consultant, Phil is a Chartered Geographer (GIS) with the Royal Geographical Society and Deputy Chair on the UK Oracle Spatial Special Interest Group.

Phil holds an MSc in GIS (Distinction) from Edinburgh University and holds certifications in PRINCE2 Project Management and ITIL Service Management. 

More information on Phil Francis can be found here.

Dr Andrew Harrison

Dr Andrew Harrison is an information management consultant and GIS specialist with over 25 years research and consultancy experience specialising in the assembly, integration, management and delivery of geographical information for government and private sector clients. 

Entirely independent in approach he brings a strong research background to his work following previous academic appointments.

Andrew is well known for his work on national databases of land use, planning, environmental and property data and address-based information. 

Working for central government he advised on national projects for land use and brownfield land (1998-2006) and conducted independent reviews of address data and standards in 2002 and 2006. 

Since 2003 he has provided information management services to the Scottish Assessors to deliver an Internet Portal for national land and property data. 

More recently he worked on development of the 2011 Census address register and National Energy Efficiency Data Framework. 

His company website is www.landinform.com.

Alun Jones

Alun Jones is a senior level consultant with expertise in delivering support to stakeholders, senior executives and project leaders in geospatial data projects and strategies.

He has over 25 years’ experience within the geospatial sector, successfully delivering a variety of projects with leading commercial and public sector organisations, including Vodafone, Google, BBC, RBS, Capita, London Borough of Harrow and MOD amongst others.

Alun has a doctorate from Lancaster University in satellite imaging and previously lectured in GIS at Kingston University. 

He has held a number of posts including Chair of the Association of Geographic Information and is currently the Managing Director of The GeoInformation Group, one of the UK’s leading geographic information companies.

He is a strong advocate of the value of geographic information and is an accredited Ordnance Survey Consultant.

Andrew Murdock

Andrew Murdock is an award winning Project Manager with 15 years of GIS and remote sensing experience covering a wide range of themes in both the public and private sectors.

He manages a team of GIS developers and analysts at the GeoData Institute (University of Southampton) and has been responsible for the creation of national datasets and major GIS software tools for desktop, mobile and web.  Andrew has reviewed and advised on GIS strategy and implementation for several major UK companies.

He also has extensive overseas experience working on exploration and renewable energy projects (USA, Canada, France, Poland) and conducting GIS training and capacity building programmes for World Bank and UN agencies in Tajikistan, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia. 

He is a Chartered Geographer and also an assessor for Chartered Geographer applications for the Royal Geographical Society RGS).

Professor Hugh Neffendorf

Hugh Neffendorf is known for work in geographic information, demographics, official statistics, social surveys, IT and mathematical modelling. His range of experience is unusually broad, allowing an appreciation of the needs of complex projects. With a sound technical and business grasp, he usually leads projects, involving expert teams.

He is founder and Managing Director of Katalysis Limited. Prior to 1997, Hugh was MD of MVA Systematica, a prominent consultancy in software and information management. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton (Geography) and a member of the government’s Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information – a Ministerial appointment.

Hugh has led many fundamental initiatives on geographic data and had involvement with most key sources of data He has close links with many and varied senior professionals and companies that can add value to his work, as required. He is entirely independent of any organisation, data product, method or software.

Chris Nelson

Chris Nelson is an experienced and independent GIS consultant and registered PRINCE2 practitioner.  He began his career in local government, firstly as a civil engineer and then as an IT business manager for land and property-based services. A growing involvement with geographic information led him into a role as GIS Consultant with ICL Fujitsu. He is now a Director of Salford GIS Limited – a company that he helped form 14 years ago. 

Working with Ordnance Survey data has been an integral part of Chris’s projects from his early days in engineering and surveying through to his current role as a GIS professional. Now with over 25 years experience in justifying, specifying, procuring, implementing and managing GIS and property-based systems, Chris has an extensive working knowledge of processes and data flows across a wide range of public and private sector business functions.  He has carried out numerous strategic reviews related to the use and management of geographic information to ensure that benefits are maximised. 

Chris has a particular interest in GIS data quality and data management. Through all his projects, he endeavours to apply a practical, no-nonsense approach. He is keen to educate and engage senior managers and to encourage user involvement at all times. Chris can be contacted at chris@salford-gis.co.uk.

Liz Scott

Liz Scott is a Geospatial professional with 9 years of commercial experience in the geodata industry, having previously worked in IT management and systems administration.

An expert in geospatial data products including the Ordnance Survey product family, Liz advises professional clients on matters concerning data supply, acquisition, usage, licensing and management.

With clients including consulting engineers, environmental consultants, landscape architects, utilities and local government, Liz also assists regularly with data acquisition issues for overseas projects and the additional challenges that can arise with hard-to-find data and different coordinate systems.

Liz has the position of Data Engineering Manager at emapsite.com and can be contacted at liz.scott@emapsite.com.

Jonathan Stokes

Jonathan Stokes is an experienced consultant, project manager and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) specialist. His experience of GIS covers a range of technologies and he has worked across the Environmental, Engineering and Government and Financial sectors. With 12 years of experience Jonathan is used to working with clients to help them to understand the benefits of geographic technology and help them implement solutions that deliver real benefits to their business.   

He has been being responsible for the assurance of the GI and data architecture of multimillion pound project for the UK emergency services, carried out a benefits analysis for a postcode system for a European Government and delivered a strategy review for a GI programme for a UK government department. He also worked as a senior technical consultant on the project that delivered the “Right to Roam” legislation in England and recently designed the architecture for a federated Spatial Data Infrastructure for a UK government client. 

Jonathan Is a Senior Manager in the Enterprise Data Management practice at Cognizant and can be contacted at here. More information on Jonathan can be found here.

Andrew Terry

Andrew Terry is Technical Director at Laser Surveys Limited, delivering the mapping platform which includes the award winning online mapping portal www.centremapslive.co.uk and derived white label sites and web services.

Andrew works with datasets from numerous agencies (including Ordnance Survey, British Geological Survey and the Environment Agency), open source data and client datasets. Capabilities range from product/solution creation through interface design to the storage and maintenance of data, its application and the formats in which it may be consumed. Detailed licensing knowledge ensures that solutions deliver on intended usage within the financial constraints of a project.

Andrew is software agnostic, working with a range of CAD, GIS, database and non-spatial solutions; both commercial and open source.

A background in land survey, BSc in geography and geology and MSc in Hydrology for Environmental Management all support his understanding of the origins and capture of spatial data and its application