client news

PRESS INFORMATION ISSUED ON BEHALF OF:
MyKnowledgeMap
37a Mickelgate, YORK, YO1 6JH
tel 00 44 (0) 1904 466081; fax 00 44 (0) 1904 659465
web
www.myknowledgemap.com
MyKnowledgeMap senior sales gains with regional office openings
With new offices opening
in UK regions, knowledge systems specialist MyKnowledgeMap (MKM) -
www.myknowledgemap.com - has made key appointments to its commercial
and public sector sales teams.
Business Development Director (Public Sector) Paul Wren joins the
company, bringing over 20 years further and higher education management
experience. This includes work in sector skills developments and employer
engagements such as ?Train To Gain? as well as executive level
involvement in the Retail Academy and Skills For Care (North East).
Colin Tait, who joins MKM as Business Development Director (Commercial),
fields over 20 years of sales, consultancy and course delivery experience
in the training industry with previous posts held with Thomson NETg and
Barclays Bank training division.

Paul Wren (left) and Colin Tait take on new business management at
MyKnowledgeMap
MKM has worked on high profile learning and development projects over the
past 12 months with major brand and institutional clients including
Tesco, the British Council, international town centre management body IPM,
and ALPS, the UK?s largest mobile education project yet.
Business gains for the company?s web-based learning, skills academies and
diagnostic suites has seen expansion of MKM?s premises in York and the
roll-out of divisional offices in Manchester and Glasgow.
"Our output may be digital and therefore virtual, however its inputting
remains intrinsically human and with human needs," observes MKM managing
director Rob Arntsen.
"Physical expansion of premises has become inevitable as more join us
both in York and at new offices in major cities providing local level
support to our growing customer base."
ends
Issued by BLP&PR Peter Muir T 01296 715228
peter@pmpr.co.uk
About MyKnowledgeMap
Founded in 2000, MyKnowledgeMap (often known as MKM) is a dynamic company
delivering web-based knowledge systems designed by individuals for
individuals.
Operating in the corporate, public and education sectors, MKM's range of
products and services includes:
? Academies: MKM is the UK's leading supplier of infrastructure systems
for national skill academies, including those in the UK for food & drink
manufacturing, sport & active leisure, care, and retail. MKM's e-academy
infrastructure helps learners and people with a stake in a particular
skill to progress from entry to degree level.
Working with the UK's
national Sector Skills Councils (MKM's clients include Skillsmart Retail,
Improve and SkillsActive), MKM has pioneered online academies that can
help people with everything from day-to-day productivity to discovering
and achieving relevant qualifications. MKM also offers e-academies
tailored to the needs of organisations in the private and local
government sectors.
? Skills diagnostics: MKM's Skills Diagnostic suite allows clients to
build their own system of skills diagnosis and training regimens. Its
sophisticated software tools are designed to meet clients' specific
needs, and to facilitate, not impose, the required solutions.
? Learning: MKM's e-learning solutions, including e-learning content,
delivery systems and teaching aids, are used by a worldwide and growing
range of organisations from Lloyds TSB to the RSPB; from manufacturing to
retailing; from the police to local authorities; from the University of
York to colleges in Delhi, Bahrain and Nairobi. MKM produces inventive
and versatile applications that are can be shaped and contextualised by
their users to meet the rapidly-changing needs of contemporary work and
training, either for use within an e-Academy environment or as
stand-alone products.
Further Information from:
Rob Arntsen / Tom Holland, MyKnowledgeMap 00 44 (0) 1904 659465
Released August 2007 by BLP&PR. Contact: Peter Muir
c/o/ Whiteleaf Business Centre
Buckingham Industrial Park
Winslow MK18 3AF
UK
Tel 00 44 (0)1296 715228
Fax 00 44 (0)1296 715486