Jean-Luc Barbanneau has had wide experience of educational, general, children's, reference and electronic publishing at senior management level. Until 1992 he was Publisher and Deputy Managing Director of the UK's Harrap Publishing Group where he was instrumental in the development of their dictionary and reference list, including one of the first international dictionary projects on CD-ROM. He then worked as a consultant for major international Publishers, including Reed Illustrated Books in the UK, National Textbook Company in the US and Groupe Hatier in France. From January 1994 to August 1995, he was also Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, specializing in management, marketing and electronic publishing.

As well as being President of Websters Multimedia Inc., he is Managing Director of Websters International Publishers, with particular responsibility for the development of the Websters Multimedia division which he helped to set up in 1994. In recent years he has overseen the international expansion of the company's activities, including the setting up of a French subsidiary (Websters France) in Paris, as well as editorial offices in Milan, Madrid and Munich in partnerships with local companies.

jeanluc-barbanneau@webstersmultimedia.com