34. Level Up your Career with APMG

Etienne is currently the CEO of Symphonise Consulting where he focuses on making a positive impact through the company’s portfolio of training and consulting services. Etienne has nearly 30 years of experience in IT Service Management, and for the last decade has focused on strategic alignment between business and IT through Digital Transformation and Governance implementation projects. 

Etienne's proudest achievement is pivoting Symphonise Consulting to become an ATO, in the turbulence of 2020, after providing training and consulting services to partner ATOs for many years.

Germany and The Netherlands

on behalf of APMG Stephan is working with Channel Partners and Trainers in the education space. He achieved business growth in the region and has used many of his capabilities in the IT Service Management and Project Management environment to engage with the community and to improve the relationships with his customers. Prior to his career with APMG Stephan has been the Managing Director of a training and consulting company. From his studies in law and communication sciences he started his career with IBM and a Germany based systems integrator.

Stephan is a member of the BPUG and a board member of itSMF. His engagement in the community helps him to contribute to a variety of topics in the industry. He is certified in IT Service Management, Project Management and is a Business Relationship Management Professional.     

Paul is Senior Trainer and Lead Consultant for Project Results, a training organisation accredited with APMG and AXELOS which Paul owns and operates.

Paul's focus is on helping people and organisations develop effective business cases, run effective projects and programmes, make the changes and realise the benefits at the end.

To do this Paul works with a wide range of people and organisations with training, coaching, consulting and hands-on delivery. Paul combines an in-depth process knowledge with 30 years of pragmatic hands-on experience in all of these areas. Paul is an accredited trainer in a wide range of products including AgilePM, Better Business Cases, Managing Benefits, Change Management and a range of other PPM methods.

For the past 11 years Paul has been on the organising committee for “the Project Community”. This industry group is intended as an idea sharing and capability building forum for the users Business Case, Project, Programme and Portfolio approaches.

Paul is a regular speaker for PMI in New Zealand

Paul lists his proudest achievement as being able to work with, train and develop thousands of people in building their capability across New Zealand and the wider Oceania region.

Martyn's relationship wtih APMG began over 20 years ago in 2000, and he and his team now have over 21 years of developing successful accredited training and certification products in the Project and Programme management marketplace across the world.

Although Martyn is not a trainer, he has helped thousands of individuals, their teams and organisations acquire new skills over his career.  He has a great appreciation of the value professional certifications bring, and how the training market has evolved over the years both in terms of content and in delivery.

Martyn's career highlights include:

• Winner UK Trade & Investment Northwest International Trade Award
• Scottish Power Small Business of the year
• Contribution to the Community Award - Cheshire

Martyn states his proudest business achievements included seeing an opportunity to purchase Prince2.com when no one else wanted it, being the first PRINCE2 accredited online product in the marketplace, and myself and my team going on to train at least 500,000 students through our PRINCE2 courses.  Throughout his professional career he has raised over £100k for charity.

Nandhakumar Swaminathan is a highly qualified management professional with in-depth exposure to product development; including development, sustenance, and escalation engineering management.

He is a competent and professionally matured engineering manager of enterprise class products rising to the ranks of Director Software Development with demonstrated success of 21+ years in IT industry.

He is proficient in working across different ecosystems of varying scales contributing to diverse organizations offering products/services in the software industry with emphasis on networking, security, storage, and database domains.

Nandhakumar is a lifelong learner with focus on self-development; demonstrated through various executive postgraduates in management and multiple professional certificates in Project, Program, Portfolio and Generic management. See a link to his qualifications on Credly below.