BURLINGTON, Mass., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Linkage, Inc., (http://www.linkageinc.com/) a global organizational development company specializing in leadership development, announced today that it is expanding its international reach by establishing a new office in Athens. This new partnership strengthens Linkage's growing presence throughout the world and confirms Linkage's commitment to extending its reach in developing leaders on a global level.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070206/CLTU021LOGO ) "We are delighted to be partnering with this talented group with such depth of experience in strategic human resource development in an important market," said Todd Langton, president of Linkage.
Linkage's office in Athens will conduct business under the name of Linkage Greece. It will be headed by Dimitris Papanikitopoulos and Artemis Miropoulos. Richard Pumfrey, Executive Vice President at Linkage, said, "We are excited about the established relationships with multinational businesses Dimitris, Artemis, and team bring and their experience in developing leaders at all levels throughout Greece and the region." Prior to co-founding Linkage Greece, Dimitris was Managing Director of Response, an organization comprised of 57 Greek and international firms that operate in Greece. Other members of this organization include Accenture, Deloitte & Touche, and the Hay Group. Previously, he worked for 10 years at Johnson & Johnson and was responsible for several J&J franchises and brands in the Greek market. He graduated from the University of Piraeus, Greece and from London School of Economics in the U.K.
Artemis Miropoulos has an extensive background in consumer products and services. Prior to co-founding Linkage Greece, he was a partner of Response, leading the Business Consulting division and conducting re-engineering and business transformation projects with Greek and multinational organizations. Artemis holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Athens and a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, London.
Dimitris Papanikitopoulos of Linkage Greece said, "We are all very excited about our partnership with a company as renowned and highly esteemed as Linkage. Through our partnership, we will be able to provide our clients with access to innovative development programs focused on their most valuable asset: their human capital. We know that this dynamic cooperation will lead both our organizations to success." About Linkage, Inc.
Linkage, Inc. is a global organizational development company that specializes in leadership development.
The Company provides clients around the globe with customized leadership development and strategic change solutions that include and integrate consulting, training, assessment, coaching, and benchmark research.
With a relentless commitment to learning, Linkage also offers a full range of conferences, institutes, summits, public workshops, and distance learning programs on leading-edge topics in leadership, management, human resource management, and organizational development. More than 100,000 leaders and managers have attended Linkage programs since the Company's founding in 1988.
Linkage (http://www.linkageinc.com/) is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with operations in Atlanta, Minneapolis, San Francisco and outside the U.S. in Athens, Brussels, Bucharest, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070206/CLTU021LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Linkage, Inc.
CONTACT: Cinny Little of Linkage, Inc., +1-781-402-5573 Web site: http://www.linkageinc.com/
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