Team

The Usability Company was founded in January 2001 and has quickly become one of the leading usability specialists in the UK and Europe.

Many employees of The Usability Company are registered associates of The Usability Professionals Association, The Market Research Society, accredited members of the Association of Qualitative Research and members of The Ergonomics Society.

Catriona Campbell
Chairman

Catriona was voted one of the Top 50 most influential people in the Internet Industry by Internet Magazine (2002) and Top 100 individuals to be recognised for contribution to the development of the internet over the last 10 years by NopWorld & E-Consultancy (2004).

Catriona has a background in Psychology and Human Computer Interaction, and has worked at BP, General Electric and Barclays Plc.

She was a founding board member of the Usability Professionals Association in the UK, and is Vice President of the British Computer Society's HCI Executive Committee. She was one of two Usability Experts assisting the E-Envoy's office produce the "Web Quality Framework". And has just assisted the BBC produce their internal Usability & Accessibility Guidelines for children's interactive programming.

She is on a variety of judging panels for new media awards e.g. New Media Age Effectiveness Awards and Netimperative Awards.

She is on the Interacting with Computers Special Editorial board, and conducts reviews in this specialist field for a number of educational publishers. She lectures on the subject of new media usability at a number of conferences and educational institutions including the Institute of Direct Marketing. She is a Prince of Wales Trust mentor assisting young people set up businesses, and she mentors HCI students still in education.

If you would like Catriona to speak at your conference, please contact her using the details below.

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Paul Blunden
CEO

Paul became CEO of The Usability Company in 2003 having joined two years' previously as Sales and Marketing Director. His career in Sales & Marketing spanned over 15 years having taken up his first sales role in 1990 straight out of an engineering apprenticeship. Quickly moving into management across both Sales & Marketing disciplines he draws on a wealth of experience most recently in the area of IT Outsourcing and complex Managed Services with US Global Corporation, Unisys. Paul holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, a Diploma in Marketing from CIM and is a Graduate of the CIPD. Paul is a regular commentator on usability issues at conferences and in the media.

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Marty Carroll
Director of Usability Practice

Marty Carroll is the Director of Usability Practice. In this capacity he heads up the team of Usability and Accessibility Specialists and Information Architects. He is the author of a number of papers on usability and is regularly sought to provide comment for many newspapers and magazines including the FT and the Guardian. He is the founder of the UK Chapter of the Usability Professionals Association and has degrees in psychology and HCI.

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