James started Venda following the demise of boo.com Group where he held the position of Vice President and Global Director of Operations and Technology. In this position, he managed all back end technology development and operations, building boo.com’s award winning technology, very large scale hosting platform, global infrastructure and skilled technical team from scratch. He was subsequently appointed CTO of boo.com.
Prior to this James was Director of Operations & Technology at Virgin Net, a leading UK Internet Service Provider, with responsibility for continued running of technical services and defining new technology strategy. James also worked at a group level with Virgin Management Ltd acting as a consultant to many Virgin Group companies on their eCommerce, Internet and technology strategies as well as conceiving a number of new Virgin ebusinesses. James has won numerous awards over the years for his work including recently New Media Age’s “Best Use of the Web†and the BT/New Statesman “Overall Merit†in their 2001 New Media Awards.
