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.
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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 has also been a non-exec Director of Social Enterprise Yorkshire & Humber (SEYH) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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