Exporting Successfully with Trade and Investment Organizations

Global Chamber® held a 2-part multi-metro meetup series on exporting and successfully leveraging support of Trade and Investment Organizations, with support by my firm, The StartUp Suite. We chatted with Exporters and Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) to discuss tips and techniques to optimize success when taking products and services abroad. Our intent was to learn from exporters and EDOs about their real-life experiences doing business across borders around the world, on every continent.

Watch session one HERE and session two HERE.

Thank you to all our speakers, you were fabulous. Listen in to both programs!

Speakers - Session One (focus: Africa and the UK)

• Farard Darver - Founder & CEO of Healthcare International Research (United Kingdom)
• Ferbie Kuuji - Development Executive at Resources From Africa (Ghana)
• Agnes Gifty Adjei-Sam - Director of Market Promotion at the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA)
• Steven Gray - West Africa Regional Representative for UK Export Finance.

Speakers - Session Two (focus: Asia, Australia and Europe)

• Louis Lau - Executive Director at Ge-Shen Corporation Berhad (Malaysia)
• Zuaziezie Zulkefli - MATRADE Los Angeles
• Christelle Damiens - Exportia (Australia)
• Guy Abelkop - Investment Director with the Australian Trade and Investment Commission in San Diego

Moderator

Kuntal Shah Warwick - Global Advisor

Kuntal is CEO of KSW Consulting, a global marketing and communications company that recently launched The StartUp Suite, a program to help young companies establish their brand presence overseas.

Propelled by a vision to connect businesses across cultures and boundaries, Kuntal strives to deliver brilliant creative with business and industry insights. She has strategic communications, marketing, and partnership experience across sectors, with a more recent focus on innovation industries, global and digital trade. As KSW Consulting evolves into its second decade, we embark on a more global mission to help enterprises grow, communicate and tell their stories as impactfully as possible. She serves as a Global Advisor with Global Chamber and as a consultant with the Small Business Development Centers.

Kuntal's team helps a variety of businesses and organizations find worldwide success by launching or expanding into international markets. She also loves travel, arts, design and the outdoors!

Co-moderator: Doug Bruhnke - Founder/CEO of Global Chamber®. Doug is a global trade advocate, entrepreneur, speaker and author (2022) dedicated to helping members of Global Chamber® successfully reach new markets across 525 metros - everywhere! He is a two-time expatriate with Dupont in Tokyo and Singapore with 35 years of global business experience in nearly all countries and segments. Doug is a regional advisor for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and a member of the Arizona District Export Council. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah, an EMBA from Michigan State University and is co-inventor on 5 patents. Doug was born in Mt. Kisco, New York, and these days you can find him mostly on zoom, and sometimes in Scottsdale, Arizona or Palo Alto, California. Hear the Global Chamber® story here.

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