About us
Company
Overview
- Company name
- Trainocate Holdings, Ltd.
- President and CEO
- Taito Sugishima
- Number of employees
- 427 (* across the entire Trainocate Group)
- Management
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Chairman
Takashi Ozawa
President and CEO
Taito Sugishima
COO
Tatsuki Kikuchi
CFO
Toru Asai
Directors
Atsuo Yoshida
Taku InoueExternal Director
Vincent Gibes
Mina SekiguchiCorporate Auditor
Masayuki Sato
External Auditor
Atsushi Iritani
Tatsuro MoriiCorporate Advisor
Youichi Furuya
- Head Office
address - Sumitomo Fudosan Shinjuku Oak Tower, 6-8-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
History
- 1995
- The Japan branch of Global Knowledge Network was established as a spin-off of the education and training business division of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC; currently Hewlett Packard).
- 2004
- The company was reorganized as an independent company by a management buyout (MBO) backed by venture capitalist company JAFCO Group Co., Ltd.
- 2006
- The company concluded an underwriting agreement for bonds with share options as well as call options with Internet Research Institute, Inc.
- The company became a subsidiary of Internet Research Institute, Inc.
- 2011
- The company became independent after transferring all shares from Internet Research Institute, Inc. The current management took over the business.
- A subsidiary, Global Knowledge Management Center Co., Ltd. (Quintegral Ltd.), was established through the transfer of all businesses in Japan previously handled by the American Management Association (AMA).
- 2012
- The company started to advance overseas. The Global Knowledge Network Asia Group(*) was formed
*Singapore:Global Knowledge Network (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (later known as Trainocate (S) Pte. Ltd.), Malaysia:Global Knowledge Network (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (later known as TRAINOCATE (M) SDN. BHD.), India:Global Knowledge Network India Pvt Ltd. (later know as Trainocate Networks India Private Limited). - 2013
- PT. Solutions Global Knowledge Indonesia (later know as PT. Trainocate Networks Indonesia) joined the group.
- 2014
- Global Knowledge (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (later known as Trainocate (Thailand) Company Limited) and Global Knowledge Vietnam Co., LTD (later known as Trainocate Vietnam Co., Ltd.) were founded.
- Clisk Corporation joined the group.
- 2017
- The corporate name changed from Global Knowledge Network to Trainocate.
- The company concluded a strategic business partnership with Kornerstone Limited in Hong Kong.
- The Quintegral Asia Group was formed (The Philippines: Quintegral Philippines, Inc.; Singapore: Quintegral Pte. Ltd.; Malaysia: Quintegral Sdn. Bhd.).
- 2018
- The company entered into a strategic business partnership with TLG Learning in the USA.
- Trainocate Taiwan (Trainocate Taiwan Co. Ltd.) was established.
- 2019
- Kornerstone Limited in Hong Kong founded a Chinese venture with Column Training and Consulting Co., Ltd. in Shanghai.
- 2020
- Trainocate Philippines (Trainocate Philippines Inc) was separated from Quintegral Philippines (Quintegral Philippines, Inc.).
- Trainocate Sri Lanka (Trainocate Lanka Pvt Ltd.) was established.
- Clisk Corporation became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trainocate Holdings.
- 2021
- Trainocate Australia (Trainocate Australia Pty Ltd) was established.
- Taito Sugishima became the President and CEO and Takashi Ozawa became the Chairman of the company.