Colin Kingsbury | Founding Member, HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board

Colin W. Kingsbury is the president and co-founder of HRM Direct, a leading Software-as-a-Service provider of applicant tracking and onboarding systems to mid-sized organizations. Colin brings a lifetime of experience from both in and outside of the software industry, having previously held positions in product management, software engineering, sales, and as a newspaper journalist.

Prior to HRM, Colin served as CTO for empolis North America, a division of Bertelsmann AG, where he helped direct the development of the empolis Knowledge Management Suite, one of the world’s first commercially-deployed applications based on Semantic Web technologies. Colin is an expert in knowledge automation, and has consulted on technology and business practices for Northrop Grumman, Boeing, General Electric, and the US intelligence community.

Colin is a graduate of Tufts University with a B.A. in Economics, and holds a certificate in Mandarin from the College of Foreign Languages, Beijing, China. He is also an Alaska-trained seaplane pilot, and continues to write for several Boston-area publications in his spare time.

You can read Colin’s posts on HRExaminer.com here.

Colin’s website at HRMDirect