Jay Cadman

Chief Revenue Officer IQGeo

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Jay Cadman is Chief Revenue Officer of IQGeo, the UK-founded company that makes geospatial network software for telecoms and utility operators, used to plan, build and run fibre and electricity networks. He has worked in geospatial software since about 1990, when he joined Smallworld in the UK, and he has been with IQGeo and its predecessor Ubisense since leaving Smallworld after its sale to GE. Before becoming CRO he was IQGeo’s SVP Americas. IQGeo was listed on London’s AIM market until September 2024, when KKR completed a £333 million acquisition and took it private. IQGeo describes itself as owned by KKR and Kestrel Partners.

Career Highlights

• Chief Revenue Officer of IQGeo, named on the company’s current management team.
• Previously SVP Americas at IQGeo, and described elsewhere as SVP Enterprise.
• Began in geospatial software at Smallworld in the UK in about 1990, and in 1993 was one of a small group who moved to the United States to open Smallworld’s US office.
• Stayed with Smallworld through its 1997 flotation and its sale to GE in 2000.
• Joined the group that built Ubisense, the company that later became IQGeo.

Professional Journey

Cadman’s career has stayed within one specialist field: software for mapping and managing physical networks. In his own account, he started in about 1990 at Smallworld in the UK, “when we very first started building geospatial systems”. In 1993 he moved to the United States with a couple of colleagues to open Smallworld’s US office. He remained through the company’s public listing in 1997 and its sale to GE in 2000.

He then left and joined a group of people building Ubisense, which, as he puts it, “morphed into” IQGeo. IQGeo’s own materials refer to the company as “IQGeo (then Ubisense)”. Over that time IQGeo narrowed its focus to network operators in telecoms and utilities. In his words, “We specialize. We don’t try and do everything for everyone. We work with complex networks.” His company biography says he has led market entry and expansion in telecommunications, utilities, manufacturing, aerospace and military markets, and has built sales organisations in North America, Europe and Asia.

At IQGeo he held the title SVP Americas, and an industry-press contributor bio also describes him as SVP Enterprise. He is now Chief Revenue Officer. No announcement dates the promotion. He holds the role under the company’s new ownership: KKR completed its acquisition of IQGeo on 24 September 2024 for £333 million, ending its AIM listing, and IQGeo says KKR and Kestrel Partners are “making significant investments to further accelerate” its growth.

Education

No education record was found in a first-party source.