Julian Bourne

Julian Bourne is CEO and Founder of Proxpro Inc., a company that provides advanced software solutions for the mobile workforce management and location-based services industries. He is the inventor of several award winning mobile solutions including a product called “Prompt” a “push” technology that optimizes navigation and traffic information based on a personal calendar and makes sure people are never late (patent pending). Prompt won the People's Choice Award, Enterprise Category, at SiRFecosystem’s Location 2.0 Summit (September, 2008), and was chosen by top LBS Industry Leaders, for its level of innovation and mass appeal. 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 (AGPS) 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 battery. He was accountable for plants in USA, Canada, S. Korea, Turkey, South Africa, Australia, India, Hungary, UK and Luxembourg. 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 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.