Gordon is a Chartered Land Surveyor with over 30 year’s professional experience of Hydrographic and Land surveying and associated spatial data management. He is director of Venture Geomatics Limited a technical consultancy based in the United Kingdom providing support to the energy, engineering and telecoms sectors.

After graduating from the University of Glasgow he worked on projects worldwide becoming the global group Chief Surveyor of a large international survey company, before, in 2006, setting up an independent consultancy which continues today. His work involves many elements of spatial data across land, coastal and marine areas and Gordon is active in promoting and expanding the awareness and importance of marine natural capital and the blue economy.

Gordon is a vice chair of FIG Commission 4 – Hydrography; is an FIG member of the FIG/IHO/ICA International Board on Standards of Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors and Nautical Cartographers (IBSC) which oversees the Standards at an international level, an external examiner and industry advisor to several UK tertiary educational institutions and he is a board member and Fellow of the Hydrographic Society of UK & Ireland and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Navigation.