Our Team

We have a core team of four directors who are responsible for ensuring that all PSA courses meet the highest standards of quality. The directors keep abreast of educational technology and liaise with the major hardware and software manufacturers and publishers. We use a number of associate trainers, specialised in integrating technology into language courses. Our activities are supported by many associate organisations including The Pyramid Group.

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    Paul East

    Paul East is the founder and managing director of The Pyramid Group which offers a range of specialist English training (ESP) as well as providing translations and interpreting in 58 languages. He is also the owner of eBooks World, an online publishing venture. He is BESIG Joint Coordinator (world´s largest Business English teachers association), IATET President (International Association of Technical English Trainers), EULETA board member (European Legal English Teachers Association) and ELTAU president (English Language Teachers Association of Ulm/Neu-Ulm). Paul is also involved in numerous EU-funded projects as the commercial partner to the Technical University, Dresden.

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    Byron Russell

    Byron Russell has over 25 years’ experience in the world of ELT, as teacher, teacher trainer and publisher, having worked in senior management positions with OUP, Berlitz and Pearson. He is managing director of Woodstock Publishing Partnership Ltd, which offers editorial project management and consulting services to educational publishers working in the fields of MFL and EFL. Current and past clients include Macmillan Education, Huber, Macmillan Mexico, OUP and Pearson. Byron has personally contributed to the successful business development of Macmillan’s innovative English Campus programme, and is currently working with Cleve Miller on the new Cambridge-English360 project. Within PSA, Byron is responsible for business development and commercial issues.

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    Pete Sharma

    Pete Sharma is an EAP Lecturer, and has recently taught on the pre-sessional EAP (English for Academic Purposes) course at Warwick University, UK. He holds a Masters in Education in using educational technology in language teaching. He is a freelance author and teacher trainer, and worked for many years in business English. He has written books on technology in language teaching, and is co-author of Blended Learning: using technology in and beyond the language classroom (Macmillan 2007) and 400 Ideas for Interactive Whiteboards (Macmillan 2011). He writes an e-lesson blog for Macmillan’s In Company series. Pete is on the committee of the Learning Technologies SIG of IATEFL. Read more about Pete.

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    Kevin Westbrook

    Kevin Westbrook has been involved in EFL since 1997 on a full-time basis and has experience in a wide range of English-teaching environments, from one-to-one to school children and executives, to small-group in-company, large classes in universities, EFL, TESOL, ESP, technical English and EAP. Over the last five years his interest in the practical use of technology in EFL in general, and blended learning in particular, has become more focussed. He wrote a regular column on blended learning in English Teaching Matters magazine and writes articles for Business Spotlight.

    He moderates a Yahoo! Group linked to his column, open to all, at
    http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/ELT_Blended_Learning/
    He completed a Masters in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching in 2007. Kevin is responsible for day-to-day technological matters in the company, such as the web site, wikis, etc.