Global Knowledge
<Global Knowledge>
Overview
Global Knowledge is a technology skills training business, currently headquartered in Cary, North Carolina USA. Its Chief Executive is Todd Johnstone, who was appointed in March 2018. Global Knowledge employs around 1,200 people, in locations in North America, Europe, Middle East and Egypt, and provides training to around 250,000 people annually in over 100 countries.
It primarily provides training for IT specialists, including preparation for the certifications required to work on advanced IT systems.
History
Global Knowledge was founded in 1995 in Waltham, Massachusetts as a spinoff of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and initially grew through a network of training centres in North America and through international partnerships.
It made a series of mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s, including the American Research Group in Cary, leading to Global Knowledge relocating headquarters from Waltham to Cary.[1]
Other large mergers included the purchase of VMX, a training and consulting company based in the Netherlands in 1999, Dutch company Computable the same year[2] and Azlan Training in 2006. [3]
In 2007, the company expanded into the Middle East and Africa through the acquisition of Synergy Professional Services.[4]
In 2009, the company acquired the training operations of Nexient Learning in Canada.[5]
Multi-channel training
Global Knowledge provides training through a range of channels, including on demand digital content, classrooms, instructor-led virtual classes and blended learning that combines digital and instructor led training.
Significant contracts
In January 2019, Global Knowledge entered into a collaboration with the UK’s National College of Cyber Security to train school-leavers and apprentices in cybersecurity skills.[6] [7]
In February 2019 Global Knowledge announced that it had won a $45 million contract to provide IT and cyber security training to U.S. military personnel in Europe.[8]
Recent honors
In June 2018, Axelos, the ITIL certification body, announced Global Knowledge as the world’s leading provider of certified ITIL training.[9][10]
In December 2018, Training Industry placed Global Knowledge in the world’s top 20 IT training companies.[11]
In 2019, Global Knowledge North America and Global Knowledge Netherlands won 2018 EC Council Training Center of The Year Awards.[12][13]
- Official website www.globalknowledge.com[14]
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- ↑ https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/1997/01/20/daily3.html
- ↑ https://www.computable.nl/artikel/nieuws/ict-branche/238169/250449/global-knowledge-koopt-nederlandse-firma.html
- ↑ https://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/1881873/azlan-training-sale-finalised
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22908539
- ↑ https://www.pehub.com/2009/08/global-learning-buying-nexient-learning/#
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_College_of_Cyber_Security
- ↑ https://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/academia-research/cyber-security-apprenticeship-launched
- ↑ https://www.globalknowledge.com/en-eg/company/news/press-releases/global-knowledge-to-provide-essential-tech-skills-training-to-us-military-in-europe
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXELOS
- ↑ https://www.axelos.com/find-a-training-provider/strategic-accredited-training-providers/global-knowledge
- ↑ https://trainingindustry.com/top-training-companies/it-and-technical-training/2018-top-it-training-companies/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC-Council
- ↑ https://www.eccouncil.org/ec-council-global-awards/
- ↑ https://www.globalknowledge.com/
