The development of the archive is made possible by our team of specialists (click a name to find out more):
Tom Abram - Executive Director
Tom studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester, gaining a PhD for work on the design of a Digital Signal Processor. After working on technology for airborne systems at the Ministry of Defence he ran the consultancy arm of a leading software house and established the Management Consulting business in Europe for US outsourcer EDS.
At, Mantix, he developed the company into advisors to Government and City on major programmes of IT and business change. Tom has been active in industry bodies, including EURIM (The Digital Policy Alliance); Intellect (Tech UK); BCS and WCIT, Tom’s commitment to AIT stems from a belief that the UK industry is a compelling story of people, achievement and change to society that should be accessible to everyone. Away from AIT, Tom is most interested in food; growing it, cooking it, and entertaining the family with it, including three granddaughters, when COVID-19 permits.
Katie Anderson - Education Outreach
Katie is enthusiastic about helping AIT in develop their education programme and working with other education professionals and organisations in order to increase awareness and the child audience to the IT industry.
Jane Bird - Interviewer
Jane is an award-winning freelance business and technology journalist. She is a long-standing contributor to the Financial Times, and previously was technology editor of The Sunday Times and editor of Personal Computer World. She has also presented, and contributed to, numerous TV and radio programmes about technology.
Lynda Feeley - Abstract Writer
Lynda is an experienced PR having worked in many sectors including education, publishing, professional bodies, and retail. For the last twelve years, she has worked in technology PR and is passionate about helping to raise awareness of the need for greater diversity and inclusion in science, tech, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Laura Davidson - Archivist
Laura is an experienced arts and cultural heritage professional with a focus on the use and development of physical and digital collections to increase public engagement. Laura has an undergraduate degree in Classical Literature/English from the University of Leeds and an MA in Classical Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. Having worked with museum collections of all sizes from Local Authority to National, Laura is keen to build links between Archives of IT and other collections to widen our audience and increase opportunities for use of the archive.
Susan Hutton - Transcriber
Email: susan@susan-hutton.com
Mark Jones - Adviser
Elisabetta Mori - Interviewer
Elisabetta is a PhD candidate at Middlesex University, London in the field of History and Philosophy of Computing. She attended courses on Architecture in Eindhoven and in Florence, where she graduated with honors with a dissertation about the history and the design of the first Italian commercial computer. In her early academic research she focused on computers and design, with papers and lectures about Olivetti and the design of Italian early computing machines, as well as programmed arts in Italy in the 1960s. The focus of her academic research is the European history of computing of the 1950s and 1960s.
Richard Sharpe - Interviewer