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Colin
Hughes - Managing Director.
Colin Hughes was first introduced to the IT industry
in 1980 when he was given a Sinclair ZX81, and after
a short period of time launched the first business software,
Accounting and Stock Control on a Sinclair computer.
During the 1980’s Colin worked with Sinclair and Psion
to developed software on a number of computers including
the Psion Organiser. He quickly developed an interest
in database programming and developed a number of applications
that synchronized data between the Psion organizer and
the PC.
Many of these applications were taken up by companies
like Colman’s Mustard, Sharp Manufacturing and major
fork-lift truck companies. The Sharp Manufacturing project
used a database application written by Colin’s company
to manage their multi-million pound warehouse inventory.
During the late 90’s Colin was introduced to LapLink
and was invited to work with them to build their corporate
sales. Having worked with corporate sales customers
such as Sharp and Colman’s this was a perfect match
and Colin was responsible for the largest ever corporate
licenses for LapLink products. As LapLink wound down
their operation in Europe they invited Colin’s company
to manage the European operations, including customer
services and support. When they eventually closed their
European office Colin’s company was contracted to be
LapLink’s European office.
During this time Colin’s company become the European
support centre for Virtual PC a program that allows
you to run windows on a Mac computer. This company was
subsequently bought by Microsoft; they continued to
employ Colin and his team as one of their support centres
for another two years until they moved their technical
support to Asia.
At the same time that Microsoft moved their support centre
Colin resigned from the LapLink project as he felt the
new owners were focusing on centralizing their operations.
In 2001 Colin launched his first product on QVC UK TV
shopping channel having discovered the power of TV shopping.
You can see many of Colin’s presentations at www.transformeurope.com/tv_presentations.htm
Colin has been working with the buyers and consults
regularly with them to source new products. As a result
of his radio show www.strawberryjazz.com
he is regularly
consulted on music products and has recently set up
a major re-publishing deal with a Swedish and UK company
and is now employed on a consultancy basis to source
products for this company.
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