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WISE KIDS Team and Non-Executive Directors
 

Dr Sangeet Bhullar, Executive Director, WISE KIDS.

Sangeet is the Founder and Executive Director of WISE KIDS, a non-profit organisation providing innovative training programmes and consultancy in New Media, Internet and Mobile Technologies, Internet Proficiency, Literacy and Safety. An older Digital Native, trained as an Electrical Engineer, she believes strongly in the potential of Internet and Mobile technologies to transform learning, youth, community and business development. She also believes in the need for Internet opportunity and literacy programmes to help people better understand the Internet, assess risk and take advantage of opportunities online whilst maintaining their personal safety.

Sangeet has extensive experience developing content and delivering training programmes in these areas. Sangeet is also on a number of government and non-government groups where she promotes Digital Inclusion and New Media Literacy. These include the Welsh Assembly Government Communities @One Advisory group, WISP – Wales Internet Safety Partnership (where she is Chair), the newly formed UK Council for Child Internet Safety, the BBC’s Broadcasting (now Audience) Council for Wales and Ofcom Wales Media Literacy Network (where she is a committee member). She has spoken at international conferences, been an external examiner, written guidance, and provided training across Britain, Singapore and Malaysia.

She is married to a Welshman, and has three children. Prior to June 2002, Sangeet and her family lived and worked for nearly ten years in Singapore. She enjoys family life, haiku poetry, photography, reading and trekking.

Dr Alex Woolley, Interactive Content Specialist.

Alex has a keen interest in new technologies of all forms, with a particular focus on how people relate to them and use them in everyday life. Initially training as a product designer, Alex has a keen interest in how new technologies enable creativity and is committed to ensuring everyone can make the best use of new technology. In addition to his web development skills, Alex has also developed skills in ethnographic research through a work placement with Light Minds ethnographic research consultancy in the summer of 2005.

Alex graduated from University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) with a BSc in Computer Aided Product Design in 2005, and in 2009, received his PHD in contextual user testing of mobile device prototypes at UWIC.

Ms Kim Anderson, Trainer and Programme Developer.

Kim helps WISE KIDS to develop programmes that are creative and which help organisations to be empowered and develop their people potential.





Mr. Doug Hampson, Spinout Manager, University of Glamorgan. Non-Executive Director.

Doug Hampson is a highly energetic and committed manager with well developed skills in business development and management, strategic change and financial planning, and facilitation of innovation in business and personal development. He has strong commercial skills and the tenacity to negotiate successful deals. He has extensive innovation support experience, having worked with more than 700 clients, and run many workshops.  He  also teaches MBA and undergraduate students, and supervises enterprise projects. He has assisted micro-business clients to obtain both grants and commercial funding amounting to at least £5 million over the last five years. He actively mentors a number of small businesses in the South Wales area.

Dr Gareth Loudon, Director of Light Minds and Innovation Forum. Non-Executive Director.

Gareth runs a consultancy company called Innovation Forum, and is also a part-time lecturer at UWIC . Innovation Forum helps companies with their product innovation strategies. Previously Gareth was a Programme Manager at Ericsson Research where he developed new and innovative mobile devices and services for 3G networks based on in-depth customer research. Before joining Ericsson, he worked at the Apple-ISS Research Centre in Singapore and was the principal designer of Asian language handwriting recognition technology. He also drove efforts to integrate advanced language technologies to create the world's first speech-pen interface solution for Chinese text input on a PC. This award winning solution was launched by Apple Computer as a product for the Chinese market in 1996. He has several patents and over thirty publications to his name and has won many awards for his technical achievements and concept design work. He is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Mr. Shonu Das, Lawyer, Musician. Non-Executive Director.

Shonu Das studied law at the universities of London and Cambridge before working as a corporate lawyer for both New York and London law firms in London, New York and Singapore specialising in Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Finance and US Capital Markets. Shonu is currently embarking on his second career as a singer/songwriter and is 41 years old.

Alan Davies. Non-Executive Director.

Born in London in 1955, Alan is a Welsh-speaking Welshman with deep family roots in West Wales. He now lives in Cardiff and is the proud husband of Mari, and father to 2 sons, Tomos and Tecwyn both of whom are at Aberystwyth University (2008).

Alan spent 18 years in the British Army before embarking on a successful business career in Wales which saw him involved in leading various business start-ups and in creating several hundred jobs in high tech companies. During one of these roles he was NTL and Virgin Net’s representative on the Internet Watch Foundation and has a great personal interest in the use of technology in business and personal life. Alan regularly comments on TV and radio on a number of issues, predominately related to his military experience and understanding of technonlogy.

Nayana Karia. Non-Executive Director.

Nayana is an Instructional Designer at Tinopolis, involved in the design of e-learning and digital educational resources from concept to completion. This includes carrying out needs analysis exercises to work out detailed requirements specifications and designing resources to meet these specifications.

She has cross-disciplinary qualifications and over 15 years experience across several domains (legal consulting (M&A, joint ventures), web technologies, IT training and education). This broad, multi-domain expertise, kaleidoscopic perspective and a passion for learning bring colour and originality and shape her approach to the creation of learning resources. Her key interests are in education, educational technologies and the development of human potential.