The Board of Directors

Chair: Vihing Lee
 

• Over 15yrs in the voluntary sector, in different capacities, but always with an ICT element.
• Previously the Business Development Manager and Accessibility Champion for Electroville, having joined from the very beginning.
• Previously an Assessor / Consultant with AbilityNet, a national UK charity supporting people with disabilities with assistive technology. Worked throughout North UK and Northern Ireland, raising awareness and delivering training, assessing people to determine their access needs when using a computer to increase their independence, learning potential and communication.
• Launched own company - Liberated AT in October 2010, specialising in freelance consultancy and training in assistive technology. Assessor for Disabled Students Allowance to ensure disabled students are not disadvantaged with their learning due to their disability. Provision of 1:1 training for individuals on assistive technology and computers. Previous projects include the Home Access programme - assessment of disabled children and recommendation of AT hardware and software for their needs at home.

Chief Executive & Managing Director: Colin Harrison

• Colin worked for 20 years in Further Education going from General Studies Teacher to Head of the IT Support Unit. He has a Masters degree in Education and a Higher National in Computing.
• He then ran his own business for 8 years doing ICT research and consultancy work for large public sector clients.
• He came into the third sector in 2000 and is passionate that third sector organisations need to become sustainable for the long term. He believes that good use of ICT is a key element of that.
• He is also a non-exec Director of Social Enterprise Yorkshire & Humber (SEYH) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Non-Executive Director: David Banes

Deputy Director at Mada - Qatar Assistive Technology Center.
Director of Operations and Director of Development at AbilityNet.

“David is one of the bastions of the international web accessibility movement. It is hard to imagine the issue would have come to such prominence without David's input. His expertise if of world class quality and I'm very pleased to recommend him.” Julie Howell, Digital Policy Development Manager, RNIB,October 19, 2010

Non-Executive Director Denise Downs.

Denise Downs is responsible for Implementation and Education Engagement within Data Standards and Products, Technology Office in Department of Health Informatics. Electronic Healthcare systems need to exchange clinical information in relation to patients for a whole variety of reasons; to ensure this is in an unambiguous way, a clinical terminology called SNOMED CT is used. Supporting the implementation and education/training of SNOMED CT is one of the tasks of the Implementation and Education team. Prior to July 2009, Denise was Director of Research & Enterprise at the University of Huddersfield; having developed her career as an academic within Informatics since 1976. Graduate start-up and business incubation support via the Huddersfield Business Generator was a key part of Research & Enterprise at Huddersfield.

Non-Executive Director: Wayne Fiddler ACMA MA ILTM
 

Senior lecturer, University of Huddersfield. Research interests - Charity reporting and outsourcing.
Personal profile. I entered education in 1997 after working in several nationally recognised companies as a management accountant. My subject specialism revolve around information systems and management accounting on both undergraduate, professional and masters courses at the University.
My other interests include photography and outdoor activities.

Non-Executive Director: Ismail Hanif

Director of Strategic Alliances at Creative Group.

A Leeds based senior executive specialising across the whole of the IT and Telecommunications sector. With 12 years experience, having worked in many telecommunications and mobility companies such as 02, BT Cellnet and Telefonica Europe.  

In 2001 was part of the original team that brought the Blackberry product successfully into Europe.

Non-Executive Director: Serena Malone

Serena Malone, National Project Manager, Sporting Equals. 
A graduate of the University of Warwick's European studies BA, with a post graduate course in European Integration from the University of Limerick, she is also a qualified Prince2 practitioner.

Serena has worked in a wide range of project implementations for over ten years. Beginning with BT Business, she worked on the pilot roll-out of broadband across England, before changing sectors to work on a European-funded project encouraging small businesses to realise the commercial value of staff training. Most recently she was Project Manager for Ruralnet|uk, implementing an innovative social franchise delivery model for ICT strategic management.