Keith Hughes is Development Director of Merlinco Ltd. He has been involved in the development of survey software on all kinds of system platforms for over 30 years.

He can be contacted at: Merlinco Ltd., Tower Bridge Business Centre, 46-48 East Smithfield, London E1W 1AW England

Tel: +44 (0)870 264 6329

keith@merlinco.co.uk

Dr Stephen Jenkins is Managing Director of Snap Surveys. He has over 30 years experience in designing and writing software for survey work. He designs and manages development of the snap research analysis software.

He can be contacted at: Snap Surveys, 5 Mead Court, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 3UW, England

Tel: +44 (0)1454 280800

sjenkins@snapsurveys.com

Geoff Wright  is a Director of Computable Functions Ltd, an independent survey research IT consultancy. He has been using, designing and advising on survey software for over 30 years.

He can be contacted at Computable Functions Ltd, Enigma House, 30 Alan Turing Road, Guildford GU2 5AA, England;

Tel: +44(0)1483 251302

geoff_42@hotmail.com

Laurance Gerrard  is an independent IT and business consultant. Having spent over 25 years in the Market Research industry he has seen at first hand the problems associated with moving data between analysis applications and therefore has a strong operational interest in the continued success of the Triple-S standard

Tel: +44 (0)7979 856 332. 

laurance@lgerrard.net

Ed Ross started Quantime Ltd in 1978, which subsequently grew to become probably the largest supplier of survey software and was sold to SPSS in 1997. He co-founded the OpenSurvey organization, which is seeking to evolve commonly agreed standards for survey software , where he has been particularly involved in projects for XML based file representations He joined the Triple-S committee in 2000.

esr@Edross.net