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Our advisors are trusted business leaders in their professional disciplines. Together, they speak a dozen languages fluently, have experience in nearly every region on the globe and are actively involved in most management areas.
PNWA
Advisors |
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| Jonathan M. Bensky | Seattle, USA | Director of South Asia – US Business Services |
| A retired Foreign Commercial Service Officer, Jonathan Bensky has 25 years of senior diplomatic experience in South and Southeast Asia, expanding US exports and advising American companies on markets, investment and international business relationships... Read Jon Bensky’s full bio. | ||
| Casey Chin | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Chief Representative – Southeast Asia |
| Casey is an entrepreneur and founding partner at ARCS with 20 years of Southeast Asian business development and cross border corporate integration experience through activities in financial investment and international trade ... Read Casey Chin’s full bio. | ||
| Wolfgang Graebner, Ph.D. | Frankfurt, Germany | Chief Representative: Germany |
| Dr. Graebner was a Managing Partner/Member of the Vorstand of BHF-Bank, a leading German bank, for 18 years before his recent retirement from the bank. He was a Member of the Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for 16 years. He served as an advisor to the Vietnamese government regarding it Stock Exchange legislation. He serves currently as an advisor to the Vietnamese government… Read Dr. Wolfgang Graebner’s full bio. | ||
| Hongyu He | Seattle, USA | Senior Advisor, China-US Business Advisory Services |
| Hongyu has an outstanding understanding of both Chinese and American business cultures as well as broad international business experience along with her excellent trilingual language skills… Read Hongyu’s He’s full bio | ||
| Jeff Hoyt | Seattle, USA | Managing Director – Corporate Finance |
| Jeff Hoyt has over thirty years of banking and corporate finance experience working for major US commercial and investment banking companies, and in such capacity has traveled extensively in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia… Read Jeff Hoyt’s full bio. | ||
| Stephen E. Murphy | Seattle and Rio de Janeiro | US Business Advisory Services: Latin America |
| A resident also of Brazil, Mr. Murphy currently provides business development for universities, software, media and clean technology firms expanding to South America, as well as to Brazilian firms seeking strategic partnerships stateside. His expertise includes access to high level government officials in Brasilia, Washington D.C. and to executives in multilateral and international financial institutions. He is fluent in Spanish, French and Portuguese.… Read Stephen E Murphy ’s full bio. | ||
| Jerry W. Ralston, Ph.D. | Seattle, USA | Managing Director Global Business Advisory Services |
| Jerry Ralston has personal business experience in over 40 countries, representing all major world markets. He is active as an international business practitioner, consultant and educator, currently serving as President and CEO, MSI United Ltd, and as a panelist for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association. ... Read Jerry Ralston’s full bio. | ||
| Steve Solot | Rio de Janeiro | PNWA Representative: Brazil |
| Steve Solot is currently President of the Rio de Janeiro State Government Film Commission. He is also President and founder of the Latin American Training Center (LATC), a regional media training and consulting center in Rio. He previously served as Senior VP, Latin American Operations of the Motion Picture Association of America - MPAA, the US film industry trade association for the major Hollywood studios.... Read Steve Solot’s full bio | ||
| Hemant Sonawala | Mumbai, India | Chief Representative: India |
| Mr. Sonawala is a leading Indian industrialist and entrepreneur who has been a leader in the introduction and development of high-technology products in India in many fields including information technology, electronics, instrumentation, telecommunications components and sub-systems.... Read Hemant Sonawala’s full bio | ||
| Donald W. Vollmer | Seattle, USA | President |
| For over 40 years, Don Vollmer has been involved in global business, including resident banking assignments in Frankfurt, London and Paris. He was president of the Paris-based merchant bank, Banque Ameribas, owned 60% by Bank of America, and a project analyst with the World Bank. He currently serves on the board and Executive Committee of the Washington State China Relations Council and board of the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington … Read Don Vollmer’s full bio. | ||
| John Y. Zhang | Beijing, China | Chief Representative: China |
| John Zhang is the Vice President of WEDO Investment Co., Ltd of Beijing. He served for 15 years as the Managing Director of the Beijing Economic & Technological Development Area (BDA) Investment Promotion Bureau, and as the Director of Foreign Affairs Office of the BDA, from where he retired in 2008. John Zhang has been involved in business investment negotiations in Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungry, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Russia, and the US. … Read John Zhang’s full bio | ||
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PNWA Advisory Board Our advisory board members are actively engaged in PNWA projects relevant to their background. These trusted professionals provide an additional layer to our global expertise. David W Bennett (full bio) Seattle, USA Director—Global Software Industry and Services Richard
K. Brinton (full
bio) Vice President Marketing & Sales, Novinium Russell
J. Cheetham, Ph.D. (full
bio) President, Asia-Pacific Investment Services Corporation Charles E. Doan (full bio) International trade/transportation
Peter
M. Guyer (full
bio) President of Athena Marketing International LLC, Dr.
Magdi Ahmed Abd El Hafiz, Ph.D. (full
bio) Chief
Executive Officer, UAE Academy Gregg
Haggquist (full bio)
President, Monterey Global Energy Co. Ltd. Sidney
Rittenberg (full
bio) Founder & President, Rittenberg Associates William T. Robinson (full
bio) International legal practice Hemant
Sonawala (full
bio) President, Hinditron Group; Founder, Indo-American Chamber
of Commerce
Andreas Udbye (full
bio) International Marketing/Supply Chain Management David
B. Woodward (full bio)
Chairman & CEO, Associates in Cultural Exchange |