Anthony Hughes

Anthony is the CEO and co-founder of Tech Elevator, a demand-driven, in-person and online educational platform helping individuals and companies reskill to meet the massive and growing need for software developers. Tech Elevator was acquired by Stride in November 2020.Prior to founding Tech Elevator, he served as President of the Software Guild, an Ohio-based coding bootcamp. The Guild was acquired by Learning House (Wiley) in April 2015.Before his entrepreneurial endeavours, Anthony worked for JumpStart, a nationally recognized economic development organization focused on startups. At JumpStart, in partnership with MIT, Anthony founded the Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program, which matched serially successful entrepreneurs and executives with budding technology entrepreneurs in mentoring relationships. His experience also spans traditional and digital media, working in sports sponsorship, broadcast television, and at marketing agencies primarily in the area of sales and business development.Anthony holds a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University and a master's degree in American Studies from the University of Edinburgh.