Ian has joint responsibility for all stock investment decisions and joint responsibility for client relations. He is Executive Chairman of ISW after 29 years of the being the Managing Director and has 39 years of experience in the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) industry.

Having commenced his career at IBM in 1986, he became State Manager in Tasmania before leaving to form ISW in 1996. Through ISW he has established strong partnerships with IBM and more recently with Amazon Web Services, Informatica,  Microsoft and HCL.

He has also led ISW to become a five-time winner of the Tasmanian Export Awards for ICT with offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and Europe with many thousands users of the ISW Huddo platform in multiple countries. Ian has been a board member on various advisory councils for government and industry, creating new ICT jobs, and supporting education and employment pathways for ICT graduates.

Ian has also supported the ICT profession by representing Tasmanian ICT businesses, serving on the TASICT Board (Eighteen years as treasurer, two as president) and, as a Fellow member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), has been a judge for the ACS Digital Disruptors Awards.

He was made a Fellow of the ACS in recognition of his distinguished contribution to ICT in the field/s of software engineering, process engineering and as an ICT entrepreneur.

Ian has an Batchelor of Engineering Mech/Elec from the University of Tasmania. He is also a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company Directors and Fellow of the Institute of Engineers.