The CHATBACK Trust - staff.

We are a Charitable Trust run by a handful of part-time and volunteer workers, with an advisory group of teachers, academics and educational psychologists.

Tom Holloway is founder and presently Director of CHATBACK. He worked for IBM for 25 years, during which he set up several early (1973) email links for the Insurance and Oil industries and was also on the development team of IBM's first email product (Text Routing System, 1975).

After some years in Marketing and IBM's internal Education departments (during which he was responsible for developing and teaching wide-area-network technology) in 1986 he was assigned for two years to the UK National Council for Educational Technology, looking at access technology for children with special needs and also started the 'Chatback Project' for communications-impaired children. He later set up the IBM-UK Support Centre for People with Disabilities.

His enthusiasms are cycle-touring, country dancing, and being friends with his six children. He retired in 1990 in order to develop CHATBACK full-time. To write to him click here.

Nick Middleton is Senior Lecturer in Information Design University of Coventry. Nick has been involved with the use of ICT in the educational setting for a decade and has helped and worked with Chatback's Director Tom Holloway on a number of projects. His current research interests are focused on the new technologies for streaming digital media over the internet and was a recent Guest at the Yahoo Online Film Festival in Los Angeles. You can write to Nick by clicking here.

Bill Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Multimedia/Film at Warwickshire College has offered his support to Chatback and its projects and has fifteen years experience in the area of multimedia film and video. He will be working with us on new developments and extensions to our projects.

Vincent Thomas from Ecole de Paris is our new technician/webmaster. He and his friend Geraldine have been translating most of our stories into French. If you would like more information about our work please write to Vincent.

Pat Davidson is our Projects Director (from her home over-looking the Solent on the Isle of Wight). You can write to her by clicking here. She is also currently running the schools project 'the View from My Window'.

Anne Holloway was Head of Business Studies and Information Technology at City and Islington College in North London. She took early retirement in April 1996 and is Chatback's 'Money Manager' and fund-raiser. You can write to her by clicking here.