Fastlane acquires CEO Training
Source: http://www.rustreport.com.au/issues/latestissue/all-the-bottom-line-action-40/
As of the 30thof January 2012 Fast Lane (APAC) will have fully acquired the operations of CEO Training
As a result; all of our communications and billing from the 30thwill be under Fast Lane APAC (Fast Lane Institute for Knowledge Transfer)
About Fast Lane
Established in 1996 Fast Lane has one of the most Comprehensive coverage in the region. Currently headquartered in Sydney we are operational in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, HK, Seoul, China, Manila, and India, with great coverage of our domestic market. Fast Lane is the fastest growing Cisco CLSP and the only Global NetApp training partner.
Incorporating Microsoft CPLS to the list recently and now acquiring CEO, Fast Lane will have additional capacity and capability to meet our customer demand.
With this Structure, we will enhance our content of courses and capacity to deliver more pertinent solutions to our customers growing and changing needs.
“Fastlane continues to invest in our vision, to provide valuable training solutions in the ICT arena for the APAC region and support our customers evolving needs”says Paul Carney, Fast Lane Regional Sales Director
“The resident expertise at CEO Training will add to the capabilities of Fast Lane and also enhance the already great reputation Fast Lane has for delivering customer centric solutions across all verticals from Large Enterprise to SME”.
As a fully integrated part of Fast Lane the CEO Training team will continue to expand the reach of their award winning instructors and providing the industry with access to specific skills and experience to support the explosion in Data Centre and Unified Computing and other related technologies.
“We are elated to become a part of Fast Lane APAC, a major provider of ICT training in the region” said Erdal Ozkaya principal of CEO Training.
Of course there will be no disruption to the customers of either company, and will be business as usual with much more opportunity to access industry leading solutions in high demand technologies. The existing schedules have been brought together to increase in breath and regularity.
Fastlane has established IT Training Centres in all over the world. For more information please contact us on 02 9280 1820 or visit our website at http://www.flane.com.au
Source: http://www.rustreport.com.au/issues/latestissue/all-the-bottom-line-action-40/
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