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Accessing International Opportunities Using Government Websites

Ever wondered how to navigate the maze of business opportunities on government websites? Learn from a former Foreign Service Officer just how to go about this feat…

What: Accessing International Opportunities Using Government Websites
Speaker: Peter Alois, Alois Global Trade Strategies Strategies
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010 from 8:30- 10:30 AM
Where: Delaware BioTechnology Institute, 15 Innovation Way Newark, DE

Register online today!


ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Alois Global Trade Strategies is the creation of Peter B. Alois upon his retirement from the Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, one of the Foreign Services agencies of the U.S. government. During his career with the U.S. government as a soldier and as a diplomat, Peter, his wife Beth and their three children lived on four continents – working, exploring and representing in the most personal way the best of the United States.

He was a true ‘intrapreneur’ within the U.S. Department of Commerce, making unique connections during his assignments. While in Germany, he recruited the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) into its first commercial trade show. He created a unique bilateral exchange for trade names with the Government of Ecuador to protect American intellectual property when he was assigned in Quito. In Milan, Italy, his office had more export sales than any other commercial office in the entire world. When he was reassigned to Germany, he became Commerce’s expert on the Euro even before the currency went into circulation but was already in contractual use. When he was based in Singapore, he created a global marketing team to increase American exports of safety and security equipment, which Peter realized would also enhance the security of both the USA as well as of its trade partners. He organized and led the first official trade mission of American companies into Iraq while stationed in Kuwait.

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