The Management Team

DON is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, and a widely respected teacher, author, and consultant. He has over 40 years of corporate and academic experience in training and evaluation, and is the originator of the Four Levels -- the premier international model for training evaluation. His four-level model of training evaluation has become the standard for evaluating the impact of training. He has conducted workshops in countries all over the world.

Don is the author of several management inventories and seven books, including Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels. He is past president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). In 1997, he was introduced into TRAINING magazine's Hall of Fame, and in 2004 received the Lifetime Achievement Award from ASTD.

DR. PALANIAPPAN A/L RAMANATHAN CHETTIAR, B.Sc., MA, Ph.D., A.P.T, a Malaysian, aged 51, is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of SMR Technologies Sdn. Bhd. (SMRT), a public listed company on the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. SMRT is principally an investment holding company and has the following wholly-owned subsidiary companies:

	SMR HR Technologies Sdn Bhd
	SMR HR Services Sdn Bhd
	SMR USA Inc
	SMR Services Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Prominent Prosperity Sdn Bhd)
	Specialist Management Resources (Spore) Pte Ltd

A technopreneur, Dr. Palan comes from a successful business family. He is the Founder/Chairman of SMR Group. He is an internationally recognised HRD expert with a strong IT background. He has travelled extensively. Various organisations in Asia, Australia, Europe and USA have used his services.

He pioneered the development of HRDPower™ software system, has written 11 books and has also developed HRD games and videos. His books on competency management and performance management are best sellers in the Asian circuit. Some of Dr. Palan's books are:-

	Competency Management: A Practitioner's Guide
	Performance Management & Measurement: the Asian context
	FAQ's in HRD
	The Magic of Making Training FUN!!
	Frame Jokes
	Creative Training Tips & Quotations