Five New Members Elected to the 2006 PMI Board of Directors.

TORONTO -- Project Management Institute (PMI(R)), the global advocacy association for the project management profession, today announced the names of five newly-elected Members of the PMI's Board of Directors to begin serving three-year terms on January 1, 2006. The five accomplished project management practitioners, selected earlier this week during PMI's Global Congress 2005 - North America, will join their colleagues on the PMI Board of Directors to map the strategic direction of the Institute for the next several years.

Included with this group of new Directors are incumbent Board Members Iain Fraser, Fellow PMINZ, PMP; Philip Diab, MBA, PMP; and Karen Tate, MBA, PMP. These noted professionals will join their sitting colleagues for 2006, including Louis J. Mercken, MBA, PMP; Linda Vella, PMP; Frederick A. Arnold PMI Fellow, CNSI; Yanping Chen, PhD, PMP; James M. Gallagher, PMP; Yamile Cendales Jackson, PhD, PMP; Bruce J. Rodrigues, PMP, MBL, PrEng.; Katherine J. Shawver, PMP; Kathleen P. Romero, PMP; and Gregory G. Stine, PMP.

Iain Fraser is internationally recognized for his expertise, experience and in-sights on project-based management approaches. He is Managing Director of Project Plus Ltd, a New Zealand based consulting organization with a specific focus on the provision of total project management services across many industry sectors and delivered globally. During 2005, Fraser has served as Vice Chair of the PMI Board of Directors.

Philip Diab is a Senior Project Manager with IBM and manages a portfolio of projects that includes internal product development initiatives and external strategic customer engagements to provide leadership to diverse teams spanning multiple divisions and geographies. He has over ten years of experience in the healthcare, financial services, insurance, retail, and consulting industries using skills in strategy crafting, planning, and project management at various organizational levels.

Karen Tate is President of The Griffin Tate Group, Inc, a Cincinnati, Ohio based project management training and consulting firm. She trains and consults with corporate and government organizations throughout North America, Europe, South America, South Africa, Asia, Australia, China, and New Zealand. Prior to founding the Griffin Tate Group, she held positions with General Electric, Bechtel Corporation, and Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation and has worked with projects and project teams for more than 20 years.

New to the PMI Board, Martin VanDerSchouw, PMP, currently serves as President and CEO of Looking Glass Development, LLC. With nearly 20 years of experience as an executive and information technology professional, VanDerSchouw also serves as a member of the U.S, President's Business Advisory Council, a member Colorado's Commission on Information Management and a member of the University of Kansas' Chancellor's Club. He also served as an information technology executive with Wells Fargo & Company in San Francisco, CA.

Rounding out the new slate of Directors is Thomas Walenta who currently serves as a Senior Project Manager for IBM in Germany. Walenta supports a client in coordinating all of his projects and services of IBM in Germany and serves as single interface to European client management in tactical and strategic topics and is responsible for client satisfaction and long-term relationships. He has been with IBM for over 22 years and defines and implements Program and Portfolio Management scenarios to improve project governance for clients.

In an ad hoc session, the 2006 PMI Board of Directors also elected officers to serve for the ensuing year. Iain Fraser was elected Chair; Linda Vella, PMP of Canada and an incumbent Director, was elected as Vice Chair; Philip Diab was elected Secretary/Treasurer and Chair, Performance Oversight Committee; Bruce J. Rodrigues of South Africa and a continuing Director, was elected Chair of the Strategic Planning and Program Alignment Committee; and Karen Tate, PMP, of Ohio USA and also an incumbent Director, was elected Chair of the External Relations and Volunteer Involvement Committee.

About PMI

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