Tom Davy

Spark Learning Ltd. makes electronic content happen. Its particular passion is educational materials in the widest sense of education, from curriculum-based animated activities for five year olds, to video-led, open-ended learning tools for adults. In industry jargon, it creates, develops and maintains 'public service new media' projects. It develops websites and DVD/CD-ROMs, make films, help start and build businesses and services, and get involved in strategic and operational consultancy. It thrives on the complex and the challenging. The company has worked with and for a wide range of the biggest names in content, including the BBC, Channel 4, Collins Education, Edexcel, Learning and Teaching Scotland, Macmillan, the National Assessment Agency, Rising Stars, Tinopolis/Mentorn, the Youth Sport Trust and more. The company closely works with Rising Stars UK to develop much of their electronic publishing, including the Achieve Assessment, Download, Achieve Whiteboard and Mind's Eye series. It also advises them on company-wide electronic publishing strategy. Nick is currently Executive Producer on a major adult learning project for the BBC, in collaboration with Tinopolis. For BBC jam, the BBC's ill-fated online learning service, it worked with joint venture partners Tinopolis Interactive to imagine, plan and deliver an online sound-world designed to help completely blind learners read and write in Braille, hosted and co-created by Benjamin Zephaniah and containing a wide range of specially-commissioned work from contemporary poets such as Lemn Sissay and Ian Macmillan. The company has developed its BAFTA-nominated online service for primary schools, Spark Island. Spark Island has recently been licensed to Learning and Teaching Scotland's Glow Intranet, through which it is being made available to every school and pupil in Scotland. Its characters and worlds have been used in products it worked on with BBC Worldwide and Collins Education.

Panopto, Inc. develops video capture and management software to corporate and academic institutions. It creates software that enables businesses and academic institutions to import, record, share, and view searchable video presentations in minutes from any device. The company was founded in 2007 by Eric Burns, William L. Guttman and William L. Scherlis and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Pearson Education, Inc. publishes educational and professional books. Its brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press, PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Cengage Learning, Inc. provides educational technology solutions. It offers personalized services and course driven digital solutions for the higher education and K-12, professional, and library markets. The firm's brands include Brooks, Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Gale, Heinle, South Western, and Wadsworth. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Panopto, Inc., Panopto Emea Ltd. is a British company that provides business and domestic software development services. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2011.

Emerge Venture Lab Ltd. (Emerge Education) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Jan Lynn-Matern. The firm is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Learnosity Ltd. develops SaaS assessment tools for education companies. It builds and delivers e-learning or assessment solution with online assessment and exam delivery platform for K-12, Higher and Corporate Education. The firm?s technology enable clients and development teams to engage digital assessment products with minimal time and resources. The company was founded by Gavin Francis Cooney and Mark Lynch in 2007 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.