Tom Higgs, Investor / Managing Director.
Tom has been sailing since the age of 10 in the waters of South East Asia. After growing up in Singapore and schooling at UWCSEA, he attended Central St. Martins and then Chelsea School of Art & Design in London. But sailing was in his blood and in 2010 he returned to Asia and attained his RYA Yachtmaster Offshore. He then established and built "PinkShrimp Luxury Yacht Charters" operating out of Phuket in Thailand. Seeing an opening for an efficient way of sourcing and placing crew in a cost effective and timely manner he established JobsOnBoats.com. Tom is an Obsessive Compulsive and will not settle for anything but the best, which can be infuriating to live with!
Tom is now focused on making JoBs the World's leading Yacht Recruitment Website.
John Higgs, Investor / Director
John has spent the last 30 years in the IT Industry and was fortunate professionally and financially by joining successful companies such as Cisco Systems and Riverbed Technologies in their very early stages. Thus, when John decided he wanted to learn to sail at the age of 40 the entry level boat he chose was naturally a Swan 68! No surprise that John soon realised the importance of being able to hire good crew and found out how frustrating a process it is, until now! John is an enthusiastic Investor and active Director of JobsOnBoats.com. He is still a rotten sailor though and always needs a good crew!
Gary Kinsley, Investor / Director
Gary is also an IT veteran with names such as IBM and Juniper Networks under his belt. Also a keen sailor around Asian waters. As an enthusiastic participant in many regattas Gary knows exactly how to keep everyone supplied with beers and G&Ts. Gary is also the clever bloke behind the concept of the Hydra Platform which is the engine that JobsOnBoats.com runs on. Hydrajobs.net is the popular IT Recruitment Website whose success fuelled the JoBs concept.
Alan Knowles, Investor / IT Director
Alan is the software guru that took Gary's concept and built the programme that makes it all work. He is probably interested in sailing but is far to busy with his developers getting on with the next versions of code. Some one has to be in the engine room after all; one cannot always rely on the wind for success.