Colin Hughes joins the Board of Directors of Mysore based Excelsoft

Mysore based Excelsoft Technologies, a total solutions provider in the domain of e-Learning, has announced that Colin Hughes has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Currently, Colin Hughes is Director, Business and Professional, of the UK-based Guardian News & Media. He is also an Associate Editor of The Guardian.

Excelsoft has been working closely with The Guardian for the past 10 years as a development partner. Apart from creating content management and syndication systems for various products of The Guardian, Excelsoft has worked on many other projects including front-end portals and back-end management systems.

Announcing the appointment, D. Sudhanva, Managing Director of Excelsoft said, “We are delighted to have Colin on the Board of Directors of Excelsoft. As a member of the board, Colin will advise Excelsoft on corporate strategy matters and enable the company to establish key relationships with individuals and organizations in the education and training space.”

Having started his career as a journalist at the Sheffield Star in 1979, Colin worked at the Press Association and The Times before joining the Independent in 1986 as a Political Correspondent.  He went on to become Policy Editor, Education Editor, and US Correspondent, and spent his final six years at the Independent as Managing Editor of the Independent and Independent on Sunday.  He joined The Guardian in 1998, and founded Learnthings Ltd, The Guardian’s digital learning business, in February 2000.  He was appointed MD of Guardian Professional in March 2006, and Director, Business and Professional GNM in November 2009.  He has also been serving Middlesex University as the Deputy Chairman since last September.

Excelsoft architects, designs and develops innovative technology solutions and digital content solutions for some of the best known organizations, worldwide. Excelsoft’s technology and engineering capabilities, combined with excellent domain knowledge enables it to provide top notch e-learning applications. Having acquired significant international experience, Excelsoft aspires to be a global leader in the technology-enabled education solutions space.  Excelsoft has also drawn out a strategy focusing the K-12 and Higher Education segments in India.

For more details on Excelsoft visit www.excelindia.com.