This Message Pad takes notes so its customers won't have to. The UK contact center operator provides inbound contact management services and creates contact center software. The Message Pad runs contact centers for financial services, recruitment and human resources, support services, customer service, retail and mail order, and helpdesk support. The company has about half a dozen contact centers in the UK. Major investors include MTI Partners and Enterprise Venture Capital Trust. Chief executive Chris James started The Message Pad in 1994 from an office in his attic.