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.