Mind-Mapping Specialist Hires Douglas Stewart to Drive Educational Adoption throughout EMEA

26th June 2009: MindGenius, the leading educational-mapping software developer announces its partnership with Douglas Stewart EDU, a specialist in selling products to education and charity markets.

The deal takes the highly-acclaimed MindGenius education V2 application into schools, further education, training and charity establishments across the whole of EMEA, except the UK.

Newly appointed commercial director for MindGenius Dustin Newport explains:
“The education sector is of huge importance to MindGenius so having Douglas Stewart on board is instrumental to our growth. MindGenius is already in 500 schools and a further 350 educational establishments across the UK; but with this announcement we hope to emulate this success across all EMEA regions. Douglas Stewart’s experience in this area will help us expand our reach into Europe, Middle East and Africa. We are looking forward to working very closely with them as part of our extended sales team.”

MindGenius is an education and business mapping application with rich process driven functionality that more closely reflects educational use and needs than other mind-mapping products in the market.  Created and increasingly used to great effect by both teachers and students it is now seen by many as an invaluable learning tool.

Lori Mercier, Managing Director, Douglas Stewart EDU says: "We are confident that our partnership with MindGenius will be very successful. MindGenius have a fantastic product with a great reputation and we are confident that together we can deliver great benefits to schools, colleges and universities across Europe who are looking at introducing the concept of mind mapping into their learning programmes.”

The partnership will take effect from 26th June and follows hot on the heels of its recent hire of business mind-mapping specialists, Olympic.

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Edmund McFadden, Deputy Head of John Ogilvie Secondary School whose staff and students have been using MindGenius with tangible results for the last three years comments:
“MindGenius creates a level playing field for pupils of all abilities in presenting quality work and encourages them to ‘go that bit further’ whether they are working on projects or revising for exams.”