Our History

Prism Training and Consultancy Limited was founded in 2000 by Ian Macpherson and Paul Nelson, formerly of GlaxoSmithKline. In the quarter of a century since then, we've grown steadily as a business and have built up a network of exceptional statistical consultants, trainers and programmers, who we're extremely proud to have representing our company.

Our Managing Director, Andrew Macpherson, has been with the company since 2005 and has been our MD since 2015. Chris Challis joined us in 2016, and has been our Business Director since 2021. Paul (Technical Director), Andrew and Chris form our core team, ably assisted by Lesley Nelson (Accounts Manager).

Our early years saw us mainly supporting the Life Sciences sector, but as our client base has grown so has the range of industries that we support: biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemistry, formulation, engineering, academia, aerospace, social sciences, consumer & sensory research, and many more besides! We're based in the UK but support clients from across the globe, ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations.

The launch of our new website and brand, back in September 2016, provided us with an ideal platform to continue offering our excellent statistical training and consultancy services, as well as making our own free statistical analysis tools available for everyone to access online!

Like many others, we were forced to adopt a new way of working by the global pandemic in 2020. During this time, and in the years since, we've invested a significant amount of effort to improve our online capabilities, to ensure that we can offer our customers the same exceptional level of service remotely as well as in person. For example, we developed a suite of interactive web-based tools for our training courses, allowing online delegates to have as much hands-on engagement as those attending a face-to-face workshop.