James Naylor

Global Director, Technology

With over 25 years working in the tech field, James is an expert in Agile Project Management and has driven hundreds of successful projects spanning software development, mergers and acquisitions, FDA remediation, medical appliance quality management, marketing, startups, systems implementation, DevOps, and more.

Before his time at VisionSpring, James was the Chief Operating Officer at a California-based software startup.

He was responsible for co-authoring a high-level programming language, inventing various technologies, establishing customer support and training & consulting services departments, and managing the development and release of 10 major upgrades, including an award-winning engineering document and workflow management system.

James continues to work as an advisor on business modeling, lean startup methodology, and application performance management.

James earned his Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Industrial Engineering from the Nottingham Trent University in England, where he also received high praise for his thesis in robotics research.