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Ian Drury

Venture Partner at OCA Ventures

Chicago, Illinois

Overview 

Ian Drury is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Ocient in Chicago, Illinois. With a background in executive roles at companies like TransUnion and United Auto Insurance Group, he has expertise in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, and business intelligence, and has made investments in companies like Impossible Objects. Ian Drury's career highlights include serving as the Chief Information Officer at Falcon Insurance Group LLC and holding executive positions at TransUnion, where he oversaw architecture and strategic planning, IT management, and business intelligence. Additionally, as a Venture Partner at OCA Ventures, he has invested in companies across various sectors, including retail, insurance, and FinTech.

Work Experience 

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Ocient

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2022 - Current

Ocient is a hyper-scale data analytics company that allows organizations to unlock value by analyzing petabyte to exabyte scale data sets.

Raised $114,400,000.00 from Buoyant Ventures, OCA Ventures, Riverwalk Holdings, Alumni Ventures, Levy Family Partners, Wolf Capital Ventures, Greycroft, Gaingels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and PSP Capital Partners.

ocient.com
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OCA Ventures

  • Venture Partner

    2021

    Provide deal flow from network and investment committee decision support, while working with OCA Ventures portfolio companies to maximize shareholder return

  • General Partner

    2014 - 2021

    Evaluate companies for potential investment, select investments for OCA and work with portfolio companies to maximize shareholder return

  • Strategic Advisor

    2012 - 2014

Hands-on, collaborative, and entrepreneur friendly early stage VC.

ocaventures.com
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Falcon Insurance Group LLC

  • Chief Information Officer

    2013 - 2014

    Responsible for IT department, architecture, applications and infrastructure enabling the company to begin writing premium in March 2013. Refined company strategy and resulting business and IT priorities and leading the organization to execute on those priorities. Supporting CEO and founder in discussions to raise capital and establish distribution partnerships with independent agents, comparative rating and data services companies.

Falcon Insurance Group is an insurance company that offers personal car insurance regardless of an insured’s driving history.

Raised $14,462,500.00.

falconinsgroup.com
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TransUnion

  • EVP - Architecture & Strategic Planning, Global IT

    2011 - 2012

  • Chief Information Officer - USIS, EVP

    2007 - 2011

TransUnion provides total credit protection all in one place from credit alerts, credit reports and credit scores.

Raised $1,407,250,806.00 from Mangrove Capital Partners and QED Investors.

transunion.com

D&B TransUnion ADC

  • Director & Board Member

    2009 - 2012

United Auto Insurance Group

  • Chief Information Officer

    2004 - 2007

Diamond Management and Technology Consultants

  • Partner

    2003 - 2004

Big Edge / MVP.com / Styleclick

  • President

    1999 - 2003

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Accenture

  • Associate Partner

    1988 - 1999

Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.

accenture.com

Education 

Investments 

Impossible Objects

Seed

Total funding: $13M

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