Steve is a Chartered Engineer and a Charted Marketer and has more than 25 years product development experience. He started his career with the Civil Aviation Authority, where he designed Air Traffic Control systems. He subsequently joined Reuters, where he designed dealing room systems and specialist interfaces. He then established his own company, SITRA, which developed and installed products related to bank trading and position-keeping systems.  He then setup and ran a successful Ski Chalet, but kept an interest in technology through studying for a Masters in Mobile Communications because he believed that the mobile was going to affect society more than that of the internet.  His frustration with the inefficiencies of the Yellow Pages and Internet search limitations led him to patent and then develop the Responsa Mobile Search concept.

Adrian Asher: Technology
Adrian has had a meteoric career within IT. He is 29 and currently global head of security for Betfair. However he has also been an extremely active consultant to many bluechip organisations and still keeps a very hands on approach to development.  Adrian joined responsa 5 years ago as a contractor, and within a very short time became indispensable to the development team. The reliability, speed and flexibility of responsa is largely down to his involvement.  He has always seen the power of the service and although for financial reasons works for other companies, he is a shareholder in Responsa and has made a long term commitment to support and further develop the service.

Dr Jon Alcantara: Operations
Jon brings more than ten years experience in voice services to Responsa. He started his career with Entropic Cambridge Research, a pioneering speech recognition firm later acquired by Microsoft. From there he went on to SRI Consulting and Nuance Communications, where he was in 1998 the first employee based in Europe and he helped to build Nuance’s European organization. Within two years it turned over more than $12M. In 2000 he co-founded Voxpilot Ltd, an Irish developer of VoiceXML software and platforms. In October 2001 he personally raised $1M in venture capital and became its CEO and CTO. Jon guided Voxpilot through the turbulent years of the telecom bust and was able to arrange a trade sale in 2004 to EurekaSoft SA of France. Jon has worked for the past seven years in the area of VoiceXML hosting, where he identified responsa as the most promising European project in this area. Jon received his PhD in Linguistics in 1997 from Cornell University. 

Sir Michael Bett: Advisor to the Management, Board Member
Sir Michael is a former Deputy Chairman of BT, former Chairman of Pace Micro Technology, a past President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, a former First Commissioner of the Civil Service and currently Chancellor of Aston University. Sir Michael been part of responsa from the very beginning and is an enthusistic supporter of this revolutionary service providing useful management experience to the board.

Michael Taylor:  Legal Advisor
Following his call to the English Bar in 1986, Michael served as In-House Counsel at Kyle Stewart Limited. In 1988 he was appointed sole In-House Counsel to the MK Electric Group (part of the RTZ Group). Between 1990 and 1993 he held a number of high level positions at Mercury Communications, the UK’s first licensed operator authorized to provide public telecommunications services in competition with BT (“the duopoly era”). In 1993 Michael was appointed Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at ACC Long Distance Limited, the first operator to be granted an International Simple Resale License in the UK (“the post duopoly era”). Between 1996 and 1999 Michael served as Deputy General Counsel to the global mobile personal communications satellite operator, ICO Global Communications. 

From 1999 to 2001 Michael served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel to FirstMark Communications Europe, a pan European operator providing broadband wireless services and backbone fibre connectivity. Michael was responsible for managing a team of lawyers across Europe and was closely involved in the company’s fixed wireless frequency auctions and competitive tender license processes. In 2001 Michael joined the ONSLOW Group, offering legal, regulatory, tax, business development and strategic services principally to clients in the telecoms, media and technology sectors. Because of his interest and expertise in this space, Michael has been an enthusiastic supporter of responsa since it’s inception and is a shareholder.