As he prepares for his April 17th ASQ speaking event, here are some questions we may want to have Daryl Guberman answer about his unaccredited certificate mill, G-PMC:

1.) You have called ANAB a monopoly. You then entered into an exclusive accreditation arrangement with the Industrial Leaders Group. Whereas ANAB accredits multiple registrars, ILG has only agreed to accredit you. How do you justify those statements?

2.) If ILG is an accrediting body, why has it not signed on with the IAF multilateral agreement?

3.) You told Chris Paris of Oxebridge that the AS9100 scheme is “like the days when country clubs wouldn’t allow Blacks or Jews.” Please explain, especially in light of the exclusive arrangement you have with ILG.

4.) You also told Chris Paris that you defended university diploma mills, because the university accreditation system cannot be trusted. You pointed to the example of medical degrees from India, and said, “we don’t really know where those Indian doctors got their degrees from.” Do you see how this statement can be perceived as racist?

5.) You have said that Guberman PMC follows all the “standards and practices” of the IAF for accreditation. Can you name those standards and practices?

6.) Accreditation rules have strict limitations against conflicts of interest. But you list an accreditation from AMSN wich is owned by Donald Sadoski, who is also listed as the CEO for G-PMC. How do you justify this shared ownership, since it violates the standards and practices?

7.) You have released dozens of press releases using paid services, and later claimed these as having been written by others. For example, you said you were “covered by major national and international publications, newspapers and media outlets” and pointed to the Boston Globe. The Globe piece was actually submitted by you through Emailwire.com, a paid press release agency, and was not written by the Boston Globe at all. Please elaborate.

8.) You claimed to Chris Paris that you have “over 200 clients,” but we could only find about 15 unaccredited G-PMC certificates. In another press release, you claimed G-PMC is the “fastest growing certification body in the world” and that companies were “flocking in droves” to G-PMC. How many actual certificates has G-PMC issued?

9.) Your address is the same as that of The Plastics Factory. You also issued an ISO 9001 certificate to the Plastics Factory. Was this done in exchange for rent?

10.) You recently removed more than half of all the endorsements on your website. You claim that these were published with permission and “on letterhead” but ASQ and Oxebridge discovered that most of these were not published with permission, and in fact were photoshopped using corporate logos without permission. Please elaborate.

I’ve sent a copy of these questions to Daryl as well, in the hopes that if he doesn’t answer them at the ASQ meeting, he can provide an answer via email. Let’s see if he responds.

 

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