From UKIPBWC

The original authors of this document were Robert McWhirter and Alex McKee.

Alex has now taken a back seat, and recent updates are by Robert alone, bearing in mind comments from the websites area of the UKIP members only forum, and Damian Wilson, the national webmaster.

Robert McWhirter

A founder member of UKIP, he has stood in national, regional, local, and Scottish elections and has also worked in HQ. He ran the national website for a year. He has a B.Sc (Hons) in Business Studies and Computing, and an Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB) qualification in software testing.

During his varied career, he has carried out web-related work for clients including Reuters, Tesco, NTL, Raytheon and UBS.

In summer 2007 Nigel Farage appointed Rob as chair of the Branch Website Coordination Committee, reporting to David Sinclair, with a view to advising on improving our web presence generally, suggesting policy for election candidacy websites, and looking out for all party websites other than the national one.

Rob's title is now UKIP internet assistant, reporting to David's successor, Damian Wilson.

Alex McKee

A member of UKIP from early 2004 to late 2008, he has been designing websites for UKIP for 6 years. He is a self-employed web developer, computer programmer and entrepreneur based in Gloucester.

Damian Wilson

Damian is the National Website Coordinator, responsible for everything on UKIP.ORG, and also edits Independence News.