PRIMA CONSULTING GROUP AND TECHKNOWLEDGE POINT CREATE A CUTTING EDGE ONLINE NETWORKING RESOURCE

Prima Consulting Group, Inc. and Techknowledge Point Corporation have joined together to create the web's premiere entrepreneurship and business development research and referral exchange. Located online at www.techknowledgepoint.com, this online resource is comparable to a giant business networking conference thats open 24-7 to enable CEOs, managers, and entrepreneurs to get connected to nearly 2,500 faculty-researchers and collegiate Entrepreneurship Centers worldwide, and allows commercial members to network about markets, industries, and various business opportunities.

(PRWEB) December 21, 2002 -- Finding qualified partner companies, consultants, or sales leads is often limited by time, costs and space. Prima Consulting Group and Techknowledge Point Corporation (TKP) recognize these limitations and have set a course to create the webs premiere entrepreneurship and business development research and referral exchange. The site provides a unique networking resource that quickly and directly links CEOs, management, and entrepreneurs to over 4,000 faculty-researchers and college university centers worldwide.

We are excited to be working with TechKnowledge Point in creating an easily accessible networking avenue that will allow companies to overcome time, space and cost barriers," says Demetri Argyropoulos, President and CEO of Prima Consulting Group. Together we are filling the demand for business research and referral functionality."

Prima will be the exclusive business consulting firm within the TKP online database and will complement the faculty research and college-university resource database. TKP nominated Prima for this role due to the firms well demonstrated success in aligning the business and technical develop needs of its clients with highly experienced professionals throughout a range of industries and markets.    

Prima is a natural fit for our networking alliance needs," says David Newton, President and CEO of TechKnowledge Point. Prima delivers specific business consulting contacts and results based on its multi-faceted industry expertise and global connections and referrals."
The core of TechKnowledge Points business model is strategic alliances, partnerships, and networking among researchers and firms," continues Dr. Newton. Were the only resource that gets managers and entrepreneurs directly connected to the vast wealth of applied business development research, improving performance and enabling success. As a global business consulting consortium with expertise in enterprise development and technical development through networking among consulting professionals and growth companies, Prima provides a great complement to the faculty research and college-university centers within the online database."

Within the TechKnowledge Point network, Prima Consulting Group will be responsible for delivering custom-tailored business consulting results based upon its multi-faceted industry expertise and global connections and referrals. Prima's Board of Consultants includes 120 professionals covering 25 metropolitan commercial centers in 16 countries. Board members have gained industry-specific experience through positions of CEO, Managing Director, Nobel Laureates, Academics, and Executives, in such industry areas as telecom, nanotechnology, manufacturing, product launch, branding, research, marketing, energy, healthcare, and optics. The resulting high level of expertise enables clients to receive expert assistance for any and all established needs.

Another major venture partner in the TKP network is Entrepreneur Media Group, publisher of entrepreneur.com and Entrepreneur magazine. Additionally, the TKP model includes one of the leading conference management IT-Solutions. This alliance allows TKP to provide interactive networking products/services with which to organize conferences that bring together hundreds of businesses at venues for business networking referrals covering a wide range of communications, manufacturing, marketing and operations issues. TKP users will have access to all such conferences.

TKP users will directly benefit from the many layers of corporate synergies, including Primas renowned Board of Consultants, the significant referrals from co-branding TKP with Entrepreneurs entire market, as well as the business networking conferences," says Argyropoulos. In turn our alliance with TechKnowledge Point will provide visibility, exposure and access to hundreds and eventually thousands of companies looking for high quality consulting contacts and solutions."

TechKnowledge Point can be contacted at (805) 965-3058, 224 Anacapa Street, Ste 2B, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. You can visit TechKnowledge Point online at www.techknolwedgepoint.com.

Prima Consulting Group can be contacted at (805) 695-0070, 1230-E Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. You can visit Prima online at www.primaworldwide.com.

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