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Richard Waple
Director, China Business Development
BMO Capital Markets
MMAC China Business Council’s Chinese New Year Networking Program
Richard Waple has 37 years of international banking experience. The last 14 have been spent with BMO. He is currently Director, China Business Development for BMO Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of BMO Financial Group. In this role Richard is responsible for promoting the Bank’s China capabilities to clients of Bank of Montreal and BMO Harris Bank N.A. in the North America, and to their China subsidiaries.
Prior to assuming this position, Richard spent 9 years as Vice President Trade Finance, advising Midwest importing and exporting clients on payment, financing and risk mitigation options.
Richard previously worked in the international division of British bank Lloyds Banking Group, with assignments in Brazil, Mexico and the United States.
Richard has lived and worked in Chicago for a total of 25 years, and has been married to a Chicagoan for 32. He has a Masters in Modern Languages from Oxford University, England.
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Tiffany Weigand is an alumnus of UW-La Crosse with a Bachelors in marketing and Marquette University with an MBA. Her marketing experience includes various industries including a Scottish non-profit organization, publishing, financial services and industrial manufacturing. She currently works for Rite-Hite as their e-Business Marketing Manager and is responsible for corporate marketing initiatives. In 2010, she initiated their social media efforts. In 2011, she unveiled a new corporate and mobile website that incorporated social media and other tools to help increase their unique visitors by over 16%.
Tiffany will be highlighting 10 Free Tools using Technology that will help any size business compete in a global market. By coupling these free tools with your existing marketing resources, you have opportunity to efficiently and effectively increase your reach to more prospects. |
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 Betsy HoagBetsy Hoag
Co-Founder, Kairos Consumers
Betsy Hoag accrued more than 10 years of experience in marketing, market research and strategic planning prior to co-founding Kairos Consumers. She began her career in marketing, with the Chicago White Sox. Later, as a consultant with Euromonitor International, she built custom research solutions for global CPG and retailing clients. Industries of expertise included retailing, food and beverage and personal care.
In an account planning role with JWT, Betsy coordinated and then integrated both quantitative and qualitative research with client needs to formulate brand strategy. Working primarily on the Illinois Bureau of Tourism account, she coordinated both domestic and international strategy for initiatives ranging from seasonal advertising campaigns to segmented outreach efforts involving such groups as domestic and Western European Baby Boomers. Though using a combination of consumer research methodologies during this stage of her career, Betsy recognized that opportunities existed to bring the consumer perspective to companies and organizations that traditionally relied only on secondary sources for all research needs. This prompted an entrepreneurial venture with a former Euromonitor colleague, Katerina Makatouni, and Kairos Consumers was thus founded in 2009.
She earned a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird. She is fluent in Spanish. |
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