Our company

Net Languages was set up at the beginning of 1998 by a team of people who had previously been working together at IH Barcelona including Jonathan Dykes - Chief Executive, Scott Thornbury - Contents Director and Gavin Dudeney - Technical Director.

Jonathan managed to persuade a number of other people from the International House World Organisation to invest in the new company and that's how it all started.

The first year was spent recruiting the teams of materials writers and computer programmers, designing the courses and developing the materials. Our first courses were launched in May 1999.

The next major milestone in Net Languages' history was the acquisition of a majority shareholding in the company by Spanish publishers 'Grupo Santillana de Ediciones'.

As part of Grupo Prisa, Spain's largest media group, Santillana had the resources to help Net Languages continue to develop new courses and compete on a global scale.

In May 2003, Jonathan organised a management buyout of Santillana's shareholding which meant that Net Languages became an independent company once again.