Business Titan

Jim Maxmin founded and is Chairman of a private investment company, Global Brand Development. He is Advisory Director of MAST Global Ltd., the investment-banking arm of the Monitor Group. He is the former CEO of Volvo UK, Thorn EMI Home Electronics, and Laura Ashley PLC and has been a non-executive director of British Airports Authority PLC, Guest PLC, Progressive Insurance, Scottish Provident Insurance, Dawson International PLC, and many private venture companies. He advises Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies around the world.

Jim is the co-author of The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and The Next Episode of Capitalism (Viking Penguin, 2002), written with Shoshana Zuboff, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business  School.

Jim has been featured in The Financial Times, Newsweek, Business Week, CIO Magazine, Fast Company and The Economist and has been the subject of four Harvard Business School case studies.  He speaks at major conferences throughout the world drawing on his experiences as a CEO and turnaround specialist. His talks focus on implications for leadership, strategy, investment, governance and technology. Dr Maxmin and Professor Zuboff often do joint seminars and have held "conversations" about the support economy and the future of business with the boards and senior management of companies around the globe, which they tailor to the unique requirements of the audience.