AcrossWorld Announces Addition to Advisory Board

AcrossWorld Education Company, Inc (AcrossWorld) today announced that Prof. Dr. Suman Kumar Mukerjee has joined AcrossWorld’s Advisory Board. With more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in India and abroad, Prof. Mukerjee served initially as a Reader at St. Xaviers College, Kolkata, and later as Professor, Xavier Labour Relations Institute (Jamshedpur) and IISWBM. An alumnus of the Delhi School of Economics, Professor Mukerjee is a former Director of Consulting & Training at Ernst & Young, India. Professor Mukerjee is currently the Director of Education at the J.D. Birla Institute, Birla School of Management.

“We are delighted to announce the addition of Professor Mukerjee to our Advisory Board,” said AcrossWorld President & CEO Stephan Thieringer. “He brings a unique perspective to our company and to the challenges in education. We look forward to the counsel that he will bring to AcrossWorld.”

About AcrossWorld Education Company, Inc.

AcrossWorld Education Company Inc. (AcrossWorld), provides content and technology platform services to academic institutions, foundations, and governments to improve the quality of education and collaborative knowledge management. Through its free content offering, consulting efforts, open source software applications, and incorporation of social networking tools, AcrossWorld will enable the new knowledge economy by connecting educators, allowing geographically dispersed users to collaborate via web 2.0 technologies and mashups, and creating innovative approaches to both traditional education programs and new opportunities in knowledge management efforts. AcrossWorld is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in San Jose, California, New Delhi, India, and Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit www.acrossworld.com.

Contact: Denise Turgeon, +1.617.927.9500, dturgeon@acrossworld.com