Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO of Simplilearn, the industry leader in online education and professional certification courses, won the most prestigious E-learning Leadership award under the individual category of Global E-Learning Awards 2013, at LearnTECH Conference, Mumbai recently. The Global E-Learning Awards recognizes excellence in e-learning – the programs, projects, tools, strategies. The honor was given to the industry leader for establishing successfully the smart use of instructional design and technology to enhance e-Learning courses. Krishna Kumar is recognized in the industry for his strong leadership, strategic planning and facilitation to the robust growth of E-learning industry.
“We are glad to receive this award. Since inception we focused on better customer experience through easy to follow e-learning courses and intuitive e-learning platform. It gives me immense pleasure to see this getting globally recognized.” said Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO, Simplilearn.com on winning the prestigious award.
Dr. R L Bhatia, Chairman, Global E-Learning Awards, stated, “The Global E-Learning Awards comprises of Online Learning, Virtual Learning, Distributed Learning, Networked or Web-based Learning, Mobile Learning, Digital Learning. The entire eLearning community comes together to learn, share, and connect around one common goal: to create more engaging and effective learning experiences. The aim of the Awards is to recognize the Best of the Best, and is organized for a professional cause. The objective at core is benchmarking Educational practices. The organisations that have won the Global eLearning Awards continue to lead and be a source of innovation for the corporate training marketplace. The Global eLearning Awards gallery displays all entries which makes inspiring work beyond easily accessible for peer learning. The Global e-Learning award recognises the most successful and innovative application to the delivery of Education and Training."
Krishna is a second time entrepreneur, whose previous venture, TechUnified, was into software product & services. Post-acquisition of TechUnified in 2007, Krishna started Simplilearn.com as a free portal to share his learning’s in project management that he gathered by successfully executing various complex projects for fortune 500 companies. In a short span of time, Simplilearn.com has become a leading global portal for meeting the professional certification preparation needs of working professionals training over75,000 aspirants across 150+ countries.
