(openPR) - Dallas, Texas—February 16, 2007 — PMForum.org announced today that Mr. Louis Mercken, PMP and recent Chair of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), has been named a global advisor to the company. In August 2006, the company announced the formation of a Global Advisory Panel to advise the company’s editorial team on ways to better serve the world of project management. PMForum.org operates www.pmforum.org, one of the world’s most popular websites serving professional project management, and produces a popular monthly online e-Journal, PM World Today.

According to PMForum.org Managing Editor David Pells, “Louis Mercken is one of the most widely recognized and respected figures in the project management profession today. As the PMI Chair during 2005, he traveled widely, leading the world’s largest project management professional organization. We worked together on the PMI board in 2002 and I highly respect his knowledge and opinion. We are honored to have him on our advisory team.”

Louis J. Mercken is an International Partner and Chairman of the Threon Group, a leading international project management service organization, with facilities in most major countries in Europe. Threon delivers project management excellence education and coaching to large international companies and is one of the leading European companies in the field of Project Management. Louis has over 35 years experience in management and executive positions with large industrial organizations, including Ford, Exxon, Computer Science Corporation, and La Général de Belgique, the largest Belgian industrial and banking group. A member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) since 1995, he is a founder and past president of the PMI Benelux chapter, served as a Director and Member of the PMI Board of Directors during 2002-2006, and was Chair of the PMI Board in 2005, the first non-North American to fill that position.

Louis Mercken is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and holds degrees of Bachelor in Economics, MBA in Finance/Accountancy, MBA in Operational Research and a degree in Computer Sciences. From 1997 to 2001, he was visiting professor in Project Management Excellence at the International Institute for Project Management at the Leonardo de Vinci University in Paris-La Défense. Since 2002, Louis has been Executive Professor for a Project Management Excellence Program for UAMS (Universities Antwerp Management School). Louis is a Belgian citizen, lives near Antwerp and speaks Dutch, English, French and German fluently. Additional information about Louis Mercken can be found at (link to breaking news article that announces participation.)

Other well known professional leaders who have recently become advisors to PMForum.org include Russ Archibald in Mexico (PMI Fellow; PMI member #6); Martin Barnes, PhD, in the UK (APM Fellow, former chair of APM and IPMA, current President of APM); Gilles Caupin in France (IPMA Fellow, former Chair of IPMA & the French PM Association AFITEP); Eric Jenett in the USA (Founder, Fellow & former Chair of PMI); Brian Kooyman in Australia (Fellow & Past President of AIPM); Harvey Levine in the USA (Fellow & Past Chair of PMI); Marcio Prieto in Brazil (Founder of PMI Brazil & PMI Sao Paulo Chapters); Hiroshi Tanaka (Founder & President of PMAJ in Japan); Professor Vladimir Voropajev in Russia (Founder & Fellow, Russian Project Management Association SOVNET); Max Wideman in Canada (PMI Fellow; former PMI Chair); and Rebecca Winston in the USA (PMI Fellow; former PMI Chair). The Company expects to announce the addition of other global advisors in the future. Additional information about the PMForum.org Global Advisory Panel and about individual advisors can be found at www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#3.

PMForum.org administers and operates www.pmforum.org, one of the world’s best known project management websites and a leading source of breaking news from around the world of PM. PMForum.org also publishes the monthly online PM World Today e-Journal, where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading project management authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.

SOURCE: PMForum.org, Inc.
David L. Pells, Managing Editor
editor@pmforum.org