Hugh has lived and breathed IT for almost 40 years in technical, management and board level roles. In 2002 Hugh decided to focus OCG’s activities entirely on identity and access. Hugh has been described as “a guy that everyone just wants to be around.” The loyalty of his staff and colleagues over three decades bears this out. Hugh still loves to teach and can regularly be found in the classroom.

Hugh also bakes some of the world’s most delicious chocolate cakes, enjoys making and fixing things, and likes to listen to progressive rock.

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Paul often works on consulting projects alone and enjoys using his skills to get stuck in to solving a whole variety of customers’ problems. When he’s teaching, he shares all this detailed knowledge and experience with his students, who – almost without exception – rave about his presentation skills in conveying some very tricky technical concepts.

Paul loves cycling and when he’s teaching in far-flung corners of the world, he usually takes his bike with him. Paul is fuelled by tea and chocolate biscuits (cookies).

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James is a co-founder of Oxford Computer Group, and co-wrote the training courses for MIIS, ILM, FIM and MIM. He has been the primary architect of many complex customer solutions involving the integration of these and other products.

In 2018, he co-wrote our new Azure AD Connect Masterclass and has since taught it in the UK and Germany. He lives in Germany with his wife, three sons, and an office full of hardware that he can’t bring himself to part with.

As our technical architect, Andi ensures our corporate infrastructure is working smoothly, efficiently and securely. She has long experience as a trainer, course writer, and as a consultant. She knows about enterprise architecture, system deployment, identity management, AD, MIM/FIM, cloud, Azure, and how everything connects.

In her so-called spare time, Andi’s currently building herself a new house.

Julie has arranged, organized and co-ordinated the work of OCG and Oxford Computer Training since she was just 18 years old! When she’s not making sure everything is running like clockwork, you’ll find her out and about with her family: sailing, fishing and sheltering from the British weather from the comfort of her camper van.

Steve has worked in IT since his early teens in the 1970s when he helped University of Oxford professors develop biology tracking applications. For the last 45 years he has worked with a wide range of technology; developing encryption and network devices, getting patents for clients, and more recently developing most of the tools used by Oxford Computer Group, and providing identity consulting. Steve is one of the founders of Oxford Computer Group.

Mark works closely with our customers in North America. He’s one of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet – which we think is a vital characteristic for a sales person.

Mark is a Coventry City Football Club supporter. (For US readers, that’s soccer). To overcome this source of perpetual disappointment, Mark delights in his wonderful family which has recently grown again with the acquisition of a cute but bonkers dog called Dylan, and his first grandson.

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Jane co-ordinates the marketing for Oxford Computer Training as well as helping Oxford Computer Group in the US with theirs. She writes blogs and emails, manages the social media channels, and is our webmistress – so any typos or errors you spot here are entirely her responsibility.

When not co-ordinating our marketing, or pampering her beloved cats, Jane is an award-winning artist, painter and illustrator, with a passion for quirky cartography, bio-geography, birds, the weather, Shakespeare and van Gogh. Check out her paintings.

Moth is our ‘Man Friday’ tackling a range of tasks from general marketing and communications, to proofing, editing and testing course materials, and whatever else needs attention. He stands up our students’ virtual machines, supports online students and ensures all our students have everything they need to successfully complete their courses. He spent 27 years as a civil servant, including many years on the front line of customer service – so nothing can test his patience. He is, he says, a ‘professional pedant’ – valuable skills, we think.

When not chained to his desk, Moth escapes to the woods (or the fields, mountains, hills, moors or beaches) to seek out and photograph the natural world, especially birds. His exceptional photos can be seen on Twitter.  His name, by the way, is short for Timothy.

After 20+ years specialising in sales and marketing for academic, professional and digital publishers, Susanna was attracted to the bright lights of technical training, and she has been our Marketing Consultant since 2015.

Her energy and myriad ideas guide and feed our multi-channel approach to marketing strategy and campaigns. And her “eagle-eyed pedantry” is, we think, a tremendous boon for content marketing.

Susanna loves to spend time in France, and especially enjoys walking and kayaking in the spectacularly beautiful Haut-Languedoc. She is currently trying (and failing) to master French. “If only learning French was as easy as learning tech-talk,” elle dit.

Kathryn looks after our accounts and all our financial matters. She has been doing this for longer than she would care to admit.

Gail assists the sales and marketing teams with day-to-day tasks and keeps our customer data spick and span. Gail worked in the careers service for many years, and has dealt with a wide range of educational institutions and employers to advise and guide schoolchildren. Her organizational aptitude is legendary.

Gail loves the great outdoors and enjoys exploring the countryside with her husband and their dog. She’s creative too – she enjoys making special occasion cakes for friends and family.