James is the founder and Managing Director of Experience Matters.   

• He is the lead author of “Information Asset Management”, a book based on ethics approved, peer reviewed research and written to explain why it is important for an organization to govern and manage its data, information and knowledge the way it manages its money;
• He is the designer, developer and presenter of a lecture series on the topic of Data Privacy, Governance and Quality to postgraduate students of the Business School of the University of South Australia;
• He is the Chair of the Data Leaders, a world wide volunteer group of some of the greatest minds in this space including Danette McGilvray, Daragh OBrien, Doug Laney, John Ladley, Laura Sebastian-Coleman and Tom Redman;
• He is the leader of a multi-national research project into the “barriers to and the benefits of managing data, information and knowledge as a business asset” that has been described by Gartner, the world’s most influential IT industry advisory firm as “ground breaking”;
• He is internationally recognised as a peer reviewed author of, and a keynote presenter to, business and academic journals and conferences; and
• He is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, DAMA Australia and RIMPA.