Jim Rowan

Jim Rowan is the Chief Executive Officer of Ember's Consumer Division.

Jim Rowan joined Ember after serving as Dyson's COO and later CEO for a combined 8 years, where he helped scale the business from $1.6 billion to $7.3 billion* annually. During his tenure, he expanded Dyson's product categories into beauty care and in-home air purification, as well as extended the range of commercial hand dryers and Dyson's cordless vacuums. Rowan was also instrumental in the launch of Dyson's retail store division, opening hundreds of Dyson stores globally and accelerating the expansion into China and other Asian markets.

Prior to Dyson, Rowan was the COO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry) from 2007 to 2012 where he scaled the BlackBerry business operations and supply chain to $20 billion in annual revenues.