Company : People

The Development Team

Our development team are all degree-qualified and have 10 years IT experience on average. Over 70% have Microsoft certifications like MCSD, MCAD and MCP.

The Executive Team

Stuart Harper is managing director of Electrum and one of the founders along with Gary McGill.

Stuart first came to prominence as a founder of a Scottish IT success story, Panasonic OWL. Office Workstations Limited (OWL) established itself as a leading software developer with Guide, the first successful hypertext product for the PC and Mac. The company grew from a five-man start-up to a group with sales and marketing subsidiaries in the UK and USA, a staff of 90 and a turnover of £3.5M.

As MD of OWL after its sale to Panasonic, Stuart established the company as the European Multimedia R&D Centre for Panasonic. During this time OWL's reputation for innovative R&D was achieved by developing authoring and delivery systems for DVD, electronic magazines and catalogues, and digital TV.

Stuart has 30 years experience of software development and company management, most recently in the area of the Internet and multimedia. He was instrumental in the formation, and is past Chairman, of the Interactive Media Alliance Scotland (now merged with ScotlandIS).

Gary McGill has over 20 years experience of designing and implementing various tools and applications for document publishing. He too is a co-founder, director and software engineer at Electrum.