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Everything you need to cover Executive Nomad.
Facts, bios, photos, logos and the book, ready to use. If you need something that isn’t here, or want to interview founder Jamie Sylvian, ask Monicah.
Quick facts
- Company
- Executive Nomad
- What it does
- Helps experienced professionals turn their career experience into a flexible, independent business built around the life they want.
- Founder
- Jamie Sylvian
- Method
- Rewire, Repackage, Repurpose
- Founder background
- Independent since 1991; has lived and worked in 13 countries
- Book
- The Executive Nomad Operating System
- Podcast
- The Executive Nomad (executivenomad.fm)
- Free AI tools
- DecodedAi Lite and RewiredAi Lite
Getting the facts right
- Jamie co-founded SIRA Utilities, the company that became uSwitch.com. uSwitch was sold for £210 million in 2006. Jamie did not found uSwitch alone and did not personally receive £210 million.
- Executive Nomad is two words, both capitalised.
- DecodedAi and RewiredAi: one word each, capital D or R, capital A, small i. The free versions are DecodedAi Lite and RewiredAi Lite.
- Jamie is a founder, author and podcaster. He is not a tax, legal or financial adviser.
Boilerplate and bios
About Executive Nomad, short
Executive Nomad helps experienced professionals, usually aged 40 to 65, turn decades of career experience into a flexible, independent business: consulting, advisory work, coaching, board roles or workshops. Founded by Jamie Sylvian, it uses a three-step method, Rewire, Repackage, Repurpose, and starts with free AI tools.
About Executive Nomad, long
Executive Nomad helps experienced professionals turn what they know into a flexible, independent business built around the life they want. Its clients are typically executives leaving corporate life, public service leaders and business owners after a sale. The method has three steps: Rewire (decide the life first), Repackage (turn experience into an offer someone will pay for) and Repurpose (choose how it earns, from consulting and advisory work to coaching, board roles and workshops). People start with free AI tools, DecodedAi Lite and RewiredAi Lite, then work with the team one to one and in live workshops. Travel is optional. The aim is that income stops dictating where you live.
Jamie Sylvian, one line
Jamie Sylvian is the founder of Executive Nomad, author of The Executive Nomad Operating System and host of The Executive Nomad podcast.
Jamie Sylvian, about 120 words
Jamie Sylvian is the founder of Executive Nomad, which helps experienced professionals turn career experience into independent, location-flexible businesses. He has worked independently since 1991 and has lived and worked in 13 countries. A strategist and communications adviser, he co-founded SIRA Utilities, the company that became uSwitch.com, which sold for £210 million in 2006. From 2000 he also built a 250-person door-to-door sales team for British Gas. He has worked at board level with British Gas, London Electricity, BetVictor and 13 UK government departments. His work has spanned utilities, digital business, corporate advisory and government. He is the author of The Executive Nomad Operating System and host of The Executive Nomad podcast, and still consults, coaches executives and runs workshops.
Host introduction, about 30 seconds read aloud
My guest today has been working for himself since 1991, long before anyone called it being a digital nomad. Jamie Sylvian co-founded SIRA Utilities, the company that became uSwitch.com, has lived and worked in thirteen countries, and now runs Executive Nomad, helping experienced professionals turn what they know into a business built around the life they want. He’s the author of The Executive Nomad Operating System. Jamie, welcome.
Photos and logos
The media folder has high-resolution headshots of Jamie in several sizes and looks, and the Executive Nomad logo for light and dark backgrounds. Photos are free to use for editorial coverage of Jamie and Executive Nomad. Please credit as named in the file.
Brand orange #FFA730. Headlines in Montserrat, body text in Roboto. Please don’t recolour, stretch or redraw the logo.
The book
The Executive Nomad Operating System, by Jamie Sylvian
A field guide for senior leaders who want to turn a career’s worth of experience into consulting, coaching and board work, and build a location-independent business around it.
Jamie wrote it after meeting Peter, 54, in Neos Marmaras, a harbour town in Greece. Peter had been made redundant when his company was bought and the new CEO brought in his own team. He had a good payoff, felt untethered, and believed he was too old to get another job.
Paperback, $19.95. Buy at BookSpace
A PDF review copy with an overview and notes is in the media folder, along with every file version of the book. Prefer a paperback? Email Monicah.
Topics Jamie speaks on
Workplace ageism
Why experienced people get sidelined, and how they can put a career’s worth of judgment to work on their own terms.
“We’re a family”, until the restructure
The gap between how companies talk about employees and how they treat them when the numbers change.
The Monday morning problem
Why business sales stall when the owner can’t picture life after the deal, from Jamie’s time at a private equity firm building sector roll-ups, talking to hundreds of business owners about selling their companies.
Location independence, with travel optional
Making income stop dictating where you live, including staying in the home you love.
Before digital nomads
More than 30 years of working from anywhere, starting with a postbox on Regent Street, a fax machine and a book called Perpetual Traveller.
AI and the experienced professional
How AI tools change what a career’s worth of experience is worth, and how to use them to find it.
Quotes you can use
All quotes: Jamie Sylvian, founder, Executive Nomad.
“Fabric doesn’t confer judgment.”
“A decent biography ought to survive someone checking it.”
“Your home, your company and your clients don’t have to be in the same place.”
“I find it absurd that years spent developing judgment can become a disadvantage precisely when that judgment has become most useful.”
“Enjoying something doesn’t establish demand, and an impressive history doesn’t automatically produce an offer.”
Timeline
- 1991Starts working independently.
- Early 1990sLeaves Brent Council and launches The Information Marketing Bureau from a postbox address on Regent Street.
- 1997Co-founds SIRA Utilities, in partnership with Lord George Mountbatten.
- 1998–1999Works at board level with British Gas and London Electricity.
- 2000Contracted to build a 250-person door-to-door sales team for British Gas.
- 2006uSwitch.com, the company Jamie co-founded as SIRA Utilities, is sold for £210 million.
- 2017Works at board level with BetVictor in Gibraltar, advising, running workshops and mentoring.
- TodayExecutive Nomad, The Executive Nomad Operating System and The Executive Nomad podcast.
As seen in
For podcast hosts
Jamie records on a professional microphone, works on UK time and is happy to use your platform. His guest page has episode ideas, his one-sheet and how to book him.
For bloggers and creators
- Interview Jamie: in writing, on video or on audio.
- Review the book: PDF in the media folder, paperback on request.
- Try the tools: DecodedAi Lite is free and takes about three minutes. Try it →
- Something else in mind? Email Monicah.
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