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Carey Dentice
Position Last Held: Regional Sales Manager S. E. Asia
Employment History: Briggs & Stratton 2006 – 2009, Regional Sales Manager S.E. Asia; 2004 – 2006, Sales & Service Manager, Asia; 2002 – 2004, Briggs & Stratton Daihatsu LLC, Sales Manager; 2000 – 2002, Manager of Administration; 1996 – 2000, Briggs & Stratton Accounts Representative International Sales
International Accomplishments: Member of MWTA 1996 – Present, current board member; As Regional Sales Manager S.E. Asia, I had directed sales, marketing, distribution and business development for Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam. This has included distributor implementation, setting policies and procedures for regional distribution and assisting in strategies and training programs while also managing local staff in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam; Through my position as Sales and Service Manager Asia, I have helped to develop and successfully introduce a line of end-products and promotional programs to the region while working to identify alternate distribution; extensive travel throughout S.E Asia; As Sales Manager for Briggs & Stratton Daihatsu LLC, I have worked to establish sales and domestic distribution process while maintaining a close relationship with our Japanese partners. |
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Pauline Klaffenboeck is Vice President of Global Trade Services at the M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank, Milwaukee. She has been with M&I’s International Department for 30 years. In her current capacity as Vice President for Trade Services, she assists companies with their international needs, specializing in foreign political and economic risks. She has traveled to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific regions as well as Mexico and Canada on behalf of the bank.
Pauline was born in Madison, Wisconsin where she attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She graduated from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, majoring in French, German and Spanish. Prior to joining M&I Bank she spent four years in a bank in Salzburg, Austria as a foreign exchange trader.
In 1993 she served as chairperson of the National Association of Credit Managers, International Credit Executive Group. She is past President of the Madison International Trade Association and has served on the International Trade Advisory Committee of the Milwaukee Area Technical College. Pauline currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin District Export Council. She is Chairperson of the Board of the International Institute of Wisconsin, a committee member of Governor Doyle’s Wisconsin International Trade Council and a member of the Bankers Association for Foreign Trade. |
Jodi Yotsana Garg
Prior to starting Global Agiliti, LLC, Jodi served in a variety of strategy, operations and marketing functions at CNA Insurance. As Director of Operations, she was responsible for transitioning the Institutional Market’s business unit from a growth organization into a closed book of business. She also conducted an extensive onshore and offshore outsourcing evaluation for the runoff organization. Just before leaving CNA, she developed a business case for Institutional Markets’ offshore outsourcing initiative that was approved by executive management in 2007.
Previously, Jodi worked as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as an explosives engineer for the Department of Navy. She has worked in the financial services, healthcare, consumer and process goods, and energy verticals helping organizations with business planning, organization design and improvement, and outsourcing and offshoring.
Jodi has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University with concentrations in finance, operations, and strategy. She is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP) |
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Steven Wallace
Previously, Wallace worked in broadcasting in the newsroom of WMAL-AM 63, a network-owned radio station in Washington, DC and then as an attorney with the boutique tax law firm of Silverstein & Mullens in Washington, DC. He later served as the vice-president of Midstates Sportswear. He served on the board of directors of AFS-USA, Inc. and on the board of trustees of AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc. He holds a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa) from Brown University and a juris doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Wallace lives in Milwaukee, WI with his wife and three children. |
John Bengel
Noteworthy among these experiences is the breadth of understanding of risk and risk management. Mr. Bengel has experience in project management in Central Asia as a consultant for the first USAID projects in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan regarding corporate governance, shareholders’ rights, stock exchange formation and securities regulation. He was subsequently invited by Case Corporation (now CNH) to organize a joint venture agricultural equipment leasing company in Uzbekistan, and several years later established a wholly-owned leasing subsidiary in Kazakhstan for Raiffeisen Leasing International, Vienna. He has most recently served as an outside director and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Leasing Group LLP in Kazakhstan, and as a consultant for USAID in Baku, Azerbaijan, regarding leasing. |
John Pinkstone
John is based in Brookfield Wisconsin where he started his career with FedEx International Field Sales over 6 years ago He gained a broad experience of international business working with Starwood Hotels and Resorts, United Airlines and working as a consultant to the hospitality industry. He was recently promoted to the Worldwide Sales team where he manages some of FedEx’s largest corporate accounts.
He was elected in 2006 to the Board of Directors for the Milwaukee World Trade Association and in June 2009 became the President. As a member of the MWTA John helps support local resources and learning for all members with a core aim to expand Southeastern Wisconsin's role in the international marketplace.
John also supports the Global Business Advisory Board of the Waukesha County Technical College as the Joint Chair Person and is a board member of the International Institute of Wisconsin and the Friends of the Golda Meir Library. He is a Member of UWM Institute of World Affairs and has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society based in the United Kingdom since 1988.
John earned a Master of Science degree in Transport Planning and Management from the University of Westminster (1994) and Geography degree with honors from Kings College, University of London (1990) part of the Joint School of Geography with London School of Economics. He has a strong interest in Asia and undertook several undergraduate courses at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
During his Master of Science degree his dissertation was conducted in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga 1994 where he focused on Airlines & Tourism development. For his undergraduate degree he was the joint leader of the Kings College & London School of Economics Geography Expedition to Nepal 1989 that conducted social economic and physical studies of the potential impact of a proposed highway development sponsored by the World Bank. On return he was invited by the Lord Mayor of London along with Mark Bulmer to present the research findings of the team at his official residence in London, the Mansion House. |
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Frank Bryant
InSinkErator is the world’s largest manufacturer of household food waste disposers and instant hot water dispensers. Emerson Electric is a diversified global manufacturing and technology company serving industrial, commercial and consumer markets around the world.
Before joining InSinkErator he worked with S.C. Johnson & Son (Johnson Wax) in marketing positions in Canada, Mexico and the U. S., most recently responsible for worldwide business development. Frank previously worked with the Quaker Oats Co. in England in a variety of marketing positions.
He has a B.A. and an M.A. from Cambridge University, England. |
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George Blomgren
George Blomgren leads MRA's strategic use of database, Web, and other online technologies. George has nearly 20 years of experience in marketing, technology, and web development, and focuses on strategically advancing organizational goals. Prior to joining MRA, George managed the advertising and marketing department of one of the country's fastest growing networks of local employment web sites. He was responsible for web content, search engine optimization and strategic partnerships, as well as traditional advertising and marketing. George earned a bachelor's degree from Beloit College, and pursued graduate studies in business at Cardinal Stritch University. |
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