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Sam Stembo took over the Presidency of the Association of Certified Professional Marketers (ACPM) from this month.

ACPM is a global association of Certified Professional Marketers, founded in March 2002.

Sam, a Certified Professional Marketer and a Chartered Marketer (UK) counts over 20 years in Marketing and Management. He is a Founder Fellow of the ACPM, Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK), Canadian Institute of Marketing and Institute of Marketing Management, South Africa.

He is currently the Managing Director/CEO of Institute of Global Resource Development (INGRED). He has held the positions of Managing Director of Panlanka Networking (Private) Limited and Specetonet (Private) Limited, Director-Educational Projects of Worldview Global Media Limited, Director/General Manager of Worldview Institute, Executive Director of Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing, Marketing Director of Family Planning Association, Marketing Manager of GTE Directories Lanka (Private) Limited, Account Planner of Mel Ads Limited and Director of Business Support Services (Pvt) Limited before he took over the current position in September.

Sam is a teacher and trainer in marketing and management. He has functioned as a resource person at training programs and workshops conducted in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, India, Bhutan and Nepal.

He has also presented papers at numerous professional forums and contributed articles to various journals and magazines including the South Asian Journal of Management. The case study Co-authored by him won the second position in the case study competition conducted by the Association of Management Development Institutes in South Asia (AMDISA).

The first and currently the only South Asian to be honoured by the Asia Pacific Marketing Federation for the valuable contribution to the Federation, Sam has pledged to foster the development, growth and wider global acceptance of the status of Certified Professional Marketer as key professional status in Marketing.

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