About us

Julian Bourne is CEO and Founder of Proxpro Inc., a location-based services company focused on predictive technologies relevant to consumers' future location. He is the inventor of several award winning mobile solutions including a product called "Prompt" a "push" technology that, when there's unexpected traffic, tells you to leave early so that you are always on time (patent pending). Prompt won best mobile app at Andrew Seybold's Innovation Rally (March 2009) and the People's Choice Award, Enterprise Category, at SiRF's Location 2.0 Summit (September, 2008), and was chosen by top LBS Industry Leaders, for its level of innovation and mass appeal. Another product, CrossPathz.com, is a future location social network that predicts when friends paths will cross in the future. CrossPathz was nominated for Most Innovative Location App at the Location and Beyond Summit (Oct 2010). He is also an inventor of mobile social networking and won the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge (April 2006), best social networking application. He launched the world's first location-based mobile social networking application in the UK provisioned at events attended by 500,000 people (Oct 2004). He has been granted several mobile social networking patents including US #7,310,676, US #7,424,541 and patent pending 12/205,990. Prior to Proxpro, Julian was Global President of the Specialty Division of Morgan Crucible Company plc, manufacturing carbon, graphite and ceramic materials for high tech markets including semiconductor, solar, aero-space, industrial diamond, clean energy and lithium ion battery. While traveling frequently for business, he recognized the need for mobile location-based technologies that help executives "connect-the-dots" in their busy lives. In 2010 Proxpro was a finalist in the IBM SmartCamp. In August 2006, Julian received the 40-under-40 "Rising Stars" award in Boston Business Journal's list honoring 40 Boston professionals under the age of forty.