Founder of Genius

Carl Downs

"It's June 16th 2015, a Tuesday evening, around 6PM. I sat at my computer and started to code. I was on a mission to create the very best Training Management System in the world. I have been an Entrepreneur my entire adult life and I had this idea while on vacation in Mexico. So for the next 2 years I coded, day and night, 18 hour days, 6 days a week..

The rest, as they say is history.. "

Carl Downs - Genius Founder & Lead Developer


2024 Global Recognition Awards Winner - News (October 2024)

Carl Downs - Winner
2024 Global Recognition Awards



Carl Downs, innovative software developer and founder of Genius, has been recognized with a 2024 Global Recognition Award for his exceptional contributions to the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, particularly in the field of Training Management Software.
Downs has demonstrated extraordinary ability and world-class leadership, service, research, and innovation performance.

Read about our multi award winning Founder..

Global Recognition Awards Winner 2024
Back in the day..

Back in 2015 Carl Downs founded Genius and developed a minimal viable product (MVP) for training providers in the UK as there was really only one system on the market and it's customers were frustrated with it. This MVP took two full years to develop, however finally a MVP was ready, and it was terrible. It was slow, ugly, buggy, and he had very few customers.
Those early customers used Genius for free in exchange for their valuable feedback, and slowly Genius began to grow, both in features and in paying customers.

Genius is now almost a decade old and is no longer the slow, ugly, buggy version that it once was. It's now a world class training management system that is used by companies of all sizes, in all industries all over the world, from the USA to the UAE, UK, Europe, Africa, Australia and more.
The Genius user base is wide and varied from small owner/trainer companies using Genius Lite to large training providers and universities and large PLC's who use Genius to track their own staff training in countries around the world. Genius now boasts some very high profile household brand names as clients especially in the USA which is where Genius is based.
Thanks really needs to be given to those customers who offered early feedback (sometimes brutal) as they are the real architects of Genius. Our community of customers still give valuable feedback today, and for those we are truly grateful.

Genius initially started out as a UK company, after all our founder is British, however as the majority of our client base is now American and the SaaS (Software as a Service) world is US based Genius is now an American LLC (Genius LLC) formed in Delaware USA, with a permanent presence in the USA, UK and Australia.

  • Started small in the UK and now at almost a decade on serves clients around the world in countries such as UK, Europe, Africa, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Canada, United States of America, Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and many more.

  • Genius LLC is a USA company with a presence in the USA, UK and Australia.




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