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Featured International Consultant Profiles

 

Jon Kimmich, (USA)

As a seasoned veteran of 15-years in the digital entertainment industry with companies such as Microsoft, Jon has established a reputation for thoughtful insight into successful product franchises as Halo, and identifying outstanding creative talent such as Big Huge Games and Gas-Powered Games.  Jon has established successful win-win relationships with key developers to create critically acclaimed and commercially successful entertainment, as well as helping them take their studios from ideas, through funding, to the shelf and beyond.

Scott Steinburg, (USA) 

Established in 2010 by leading consultants in the IT gaming industry, Tech Savvy Consulting Services is a full-service management consulting solutions and development oversight for organizations of all sizes. Hailed as a top game industry authority by dozens of outlets from the Associated Press to USA Today and NPR, over one billion people have tapped leading analyst Scott Steinberg for insight into today’s hottest video games and trends. Scott is a product acquisitions executive for Atari, CDV and DreamCatcher who’s brought hit titles to market the world over.  He is a frequent on-air analyst for ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and CNN. From Delta to Clear Channel and MTV, he’s helped many of world’s largest companies and brands to create and launch cutting-edge products and services. The go-to expert of choice for 400+ publications from The New York Times to Playboy and Rolling Stone, Steinberg is also the author of Video Game Marketing and PR and host of industry video series Game Theory. He’s a frequent public speaker at events like the Game Developers Conference, CEA Line Show and Festival of Games. 

Nicole Maraj-Pandohie, (Jamaica)

Nicole Maraj-Pandohie brings over two decades of constructive experience in Marketing Communications and Project and Event Management to every project, having worked extensively in both the Government and business sectors in the facilitation of event coordination, brand management, public relations and media relations in Jamaica as well as Trinidad and Tobago. In her capacity as an independent business consultant in Jamaica, some of Mrs. Pandohie’s recent initiatives include the organization of the Jamaica Investment Forum 2012 facilitating 400 global investors on behalf of the Government of Jamaica.  She also coordinated Jamaica’s involvement in the World’s Fair in Spain in 2008. She also was marketing communications principal for JAMPRO (Jamaica Trade & Invest) from 2005 -2007.

 

TRANSFER Latin Business Consultancy (Barcelona, Mexico DF, Paris, Rotterdam, Sao Paulo)

Duggan International Group has an exclusive agreement with TRANSFER to partner on all business to business missions from Canada to Latin America and Brazil.

TRANSFER is a leading company of Dutch origin offering market assistance to exporting companies looking to exploit opportunities in the Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands), Southern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Thanks to their 16 years of experience in the execution of trade missions, preparation of customized matchmaking and hands-on export support, Transfer has positioned itself as a key player in generating cross-border business.

With an office in Sao Paulo,  Columbia and Peru, every year TRANSFER organizes 8 to 12 trade missions to Latin America and Brazil. Since 1996 they have offered export support to over a 1,000 companies. Their client’s commercial missions include Ministries, Embassies, Consulates, Chambers of Commerce, go-betweens, banks and major sector / trade associations.

Julia Mota (Brazil/South America)

MOTA ADVOGADOS is a law firm located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, dedicated to all Business & Commercial Law practice areas. Our qualified attorney’s team has a solid technical background combined with many years of experience acquired during years finding solutions to clients’ matters.

We represent a wide range of clients in all business areas, such as oil & gas, real state, tourism, industrial, banking, manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation, construction, among other industry sectors. We assist clients on the structuring of transactions, ranging from the simplest to the most complex, and represent clients in all Brazilian courts in civil, commercial and tax litigation.

Our services are shaped by each client’s unique and specific challenges. After fully understanding our clients’ business and goals, our attorneys apply their energy and talent to achieve outstanding, proven results and thereby add value beyond the strict confines of the legal arena. Our relationship with clients are based on transparency and we always act with the quickness, agility and quality required in the global business world. 

Liana Neuss (Brazil)

Meet the right people through targeted appointments is the entrance door for foreign companies to begin to understand and know the Brazilian market.  Liana Nauss of  ConexÕes Internacionais has a strong and long term relationship with the Petrobrás Vendors List Registration Department as we have been supporting companies to become Petrobrás suppliers for over 15 years. We discuss with our clients the registration process with Petrobrás as this is the first step to do business with the national oil company.  Companies registered will have access to 70 per cent of the overall procurement in the next 5 years. We also have built close and friendly relationships with Transpetro and Cenpes.

Marian Dougan (Scotland/Italy)

Marian Dougan is an international marketing consultant located in Glasgow, Scotland.  Ms. Dougan currently works on international projects and identification of key partners in Scotland and elsewhere in the UK. Ms. Dougan has also worked for Economic and Commercial Department of the British Embassy in Rome.  Ms. Dougan, given her economic/commercial background and her current work activities has extensive knowledge of the Scottish economy and marketplace and its position in the wider international context. Ms. Dougan is particularly adept at acquiring information and identifying key figures in sectors outside her own areas of expertise – a skill honed by working with Italian businesses and institutions.  Having worked in an Embassy, organised and taken part in meetings ranging from government ministers to trade delegations to trade union officials, she has considerable experience and expertise in gauging the appropriate level and type of contact required by mission participants.

David Bull UK

A founding Director of International Search Oil and Gas Ltd, David has worked with the oil and gas sector for some 10 years, initially managing the UK DTI’s promotion of British companies in the Americas. In 2002, he was appointed Deputy Consul General and Head of the UK Energy Team in Houston, responsible for coordinating the Consulate's participation in oil and gas, power generation, chemicals and the renewable markets. He led the team to win two national awards for innovation and business development.

Building up an extensive network at a corporate level in Houston, the United Kingdom, and internationally, David has developed senior level contacts in global blue chip oil & gas companies. In 2006, he joined the Energy and Natural Resources Practice of a major London-based executive search firm, working on a range of assignments from CEO to Project Management. As a career diplomat he worked in many areas of the world including Latin America, Africa and the Far East.

Callette, Terhaerdt,   (Scandinavian countries)

Callette specialises in facilitating business contacts between exporters and companies in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands.   Callette has  been active since 1985 and have assisted over 1400 companies in starting up and expanding export activities in the Nordic countries and in the Netherlands.  She is is located in Malmö, Sweden and we have local partners in Denmark, Finland and Norway.