Intrepid Group CEO James Thornton Was Looking For Meaning In His Career – And Found It In The Travel Industry.
”When James Thornton speaks with The CEO Magazine, he is (somewhat unsurprisingly) jetlagged; not unusual for a jetsetting CEO of one of the world’s largest adventure travel companies. As he shares his story early in the morning, the experienced globetrotter – who spends half the year away from home – assures us he will survive the workday with lots of coffee. James first caught a hint of wanderlust when he took a year offafter university “to travel the world”. There was a relatively short period after the long working holiday when he took an internship working in private client asset management. It was then that he recognised traditional corporate life wasn’t for him. “I quickly realised that asset management wasn’t something that interested me particularly.”
He was searching for a career with meaning that he was passionate enough about to commit to for the decades of work ahead. “I’ve been told that if you can find something you’re passionate about and if you’re prepared to work hard, then you can be successful,” James says. “That’s what worked for me.”
His journey to Intrepid started off in sales in the UK. James admits he didn’t know much about the company at the time but saw it as an opportunity to “see the world”, although he intended to eventually go back to the “traditional professional world”. “That was 14 years ago now,” he muses.
Quickly progressing to Sales Manager of the UK and Europe, then General Manager of Global Sales, James became the first non-Co-Founding Managing Director of the Intrepid Travel brand at the end of 2012. He was then made Intrepid Group CEO in 2017 – at age 35.
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