Software to Educate, Entertain and Inform

People

Russell Willis
Managing Director
Involved in publishing for over 25 years, Russell specializes in digital media. He has produced and programmed customized learning software for universities with Canon and published a large number of successful learning software products for the retail market. Russell has produced CD-ROMs and magazines for the British Government and websites, podcasts, audio books and iOS apps with clients ranging from Tokyo University and the Nikkei Weekly to TIME and Oxford University Press.

Chloë Martin
Production Manager
Chloe graduated from Oxford University where she worked on ISIS before joining John Brown Publishing. At John Brown she worked as an editor, writer and project manager for a wide variety of publications featuring characters such as Dora the Explorer, Thomas the Tank Engine and Donald Duck. Since coming to Japan she has worked on a range of software development projects as editor/production manager.

Hayden Hughes
Senior Software Developer
Before joining the iEnglish group, Hayden was a games developer in Japan for many years working on newly-developed games for Sega, Konami, and Hudson as well as managing the localization of popular games from the US and the UK. He specializes in Objective C, PHP and HTML.

John Grattan
Software Developer
John worked for many years as a software engineer for the Australian Bureau of Statistics and was a Project Leader there before coming to Japan. He has a wide range of experience dealing with Java, C#, Oracle SQL, MySQL and PHP.

Matthias Reich
Operations Manager / Senior Software Developer
Matthias has led or co-led a wide range of IT projects, from podcasts, to e-commerce websites to iOS development. Clients include Oxford University Press, TIME magazine and the British Council. Matthias is expert in a range of technologies, including PHP, CSS, Javascript, MySQL and HTML. He runs ELT Services, overseeing our products for teachers and our range of consulting services.

Naohito Takahashi
Sales and Marketing Manager (Japan)
Nao worked at eigoTown.com for many years dealing with a wide range of clients from FOX to the Nikkei Weekly. After a two-year stint with Regus, he returned to the iEnglish Group and now oversees our sales and marketing effort in Japan.

Shigemi Takanashi
Editorial Manager
Shigemi is fluent in English and Japanese and handles editorial duties, translation, interpretation and article writing at iEnglish. She has worked on projects for the Daily Yomiuri, Asahi Weekly, the British Council and many others.

Our Part-Time and Freelance Staff
Over the years we have built up a team of superb freelancers and part-timers who work around the world. Hats off to: Terry Wiley, Dave Hornsby, Yuki Narushima, Dave Cragg, Yumi Paul, Reika Ito, James Hodgkins and Jason Fong.