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Empowering organisations by the provision of effective business networking events, and project, programme and supplier management services
Ian James is the founder and managing director of SourceOut Limited. After a successful
career in IT development, management and marketing with major corporates, he setup an independent consultancy business and
spent nearly 30 years in management consultancy and interim management.
As a partner and marketing director of an SME consulting business, Ian took it from a turnover of £500K to a highly-profitable,
£7M group. Over a period of 20 years, he operated as a Principal Consultant to the Office of
Government
Commerce, where he provided commercial, procurement, project and programme management support to almost every UK civil government department, the MOD, numerous Agencies and various other public
sector bodies.
He then took on interim senior management roles, managing large government programmes and outsourcing contracts with major global suppliers
and integrators, firstly as Commercial Manager with the Immigration Directorate, subsequently as Deputy
Controller of Programmes at Identity & Passports Service, then as Deputy Commercial Director for the Department of Communities.
Ian now brings this unique combination
of management,
marketing, technical
and commercial experience and
expertise to the provision of business
networking and project, programme
and commercial management services
for SMEs through SourceOut Limited.