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Brigitte Hoppe Carangelo
President
German American Affiliates
Tel: 617-846-5988
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| As a native German, Brigitte Carangelo has been working in the U.S. for 35 years. Her company: “German American Affiliates” has been assisting German and American businesses, organizations and individuals with relocation and cross cultural adjustment issues as well as with German language skills since 12 years. She is holding a BS in education from Northeastern University, MSW from Boston University and a Masters Degree in corporate psychology from Harvard University. |
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Warwick Davies
Vice President
Tel: 781-354-0119
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Warwick Davies is the Principal at The Event Mechanic!, a consulting business which assists event organizers and associations grow profits and revenues, launch new events from ‘scratch’ and bring events overseas. Prior to The Event Mechanic!, he was Group Vice President at IDG World Expo responsible for the Macworld Conference & Expo and LinuxWorld Conference & Expo brands, having joined the company in 2003.
Before joining IDG World Expo, he was Vice President of Expositions and International Business Development at DCI, one of North America's premier business and technology conference and exposition organizers. At DCI, Warwick conceived and launched DCI's international conference program, including events in the UK, Germany, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. He also held worldwide responsibility for DCI's Customer Relationship Conference and Exposition.
Prior to joining DCI, Warwick held a series of international sales, marketing, operations and administration management positions with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lufthansa German Airlines, Hertz Corporation and the British Government.
Warwick is also author of The Freeport Experiment, a book detailing the success and failures of the UK free trade zones. He holds a BS in Economics from Northeastern University.
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James DeLuca
Treasurer
Tonneson & Co.
Tel: 781-451-9221
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Jim DeLuca is a Principal with Tonneson + Co. and is a a Certified Public Accountant. He has over twenty years of experience in taxation and specializes in middle market clients with an emphasis on corporations, individuals, exempt organizations, fiduciaries, partnerships and subchapter S corporations, international taxation, and state & local taxation.
Jim holds a Bachelors of Science Degree from Northeastern University, a Masters Degree from Bentley University. |
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Robert Duggan
Secretary of the Board
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.
Tel: 617-348-1780
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Rob’s practice encompasses a wide range of business and financing transactions as well as the protection and exploitation of intellectual property and data assets. He devotes substantial time to corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as marketing, licensing, distribution, franchising, and manufacturing agreements, with an emphasis on the software and information technology sector for both domestic and foreign companies. Two interrelated areas of concentration are complex licensing and technology transfer transactions, including technology alliances, and the planning, negotiating and documenting of business process and IT outsourcing transactions. He has a particular experience counseling clients from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He also counsels clients regarding Internet, multi-media, publishing and advertising law.
He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Rob is a member of the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations.
Rob is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Munich, Germany; he received his M.A. from Middlebury College, where he was valedictorian of his class, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was a contributor for The Publishing Law Handbook, published by Prentice Hall Law & Business. Rob is fluent in German.
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Christa Bleyleben
Member at Large
Tel: 617-717-9601
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Christa is a native of Austria and has been an active member of the GABC. She is a Global Business and Economic Development Advisor, assisting international governments, organizations and universities with issues such as strategic partnerships, technology transfer, international financing as well as other economic development challenges..
Until February 2009 she was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment (MOITI), a position to which she was appointed in September 2005. MOITI is the state agency tasked to grow the Massachusetts economy and create jobs by marketing the state’s business sectors internationally via focused export promotion, attracting foreign companies to invest/locate in the state and managing international business relationships between the state government and regions around the world.
Before assuming that position, Christa was Managing Director in the Global Financial Institutions Group at Banc of America Securities LLC, managing a team responsible for a diverse portfolio of major international banking groups. Prior to the merger with Bank of America Corp, Christa was Managing Director and Group Head of FleetBoston’s International Financial Institutions Division. In that role she oversaw the bank’s teams in Boston, New York, London and Hong Kong which were responsible for global relationships with more than 250 top-tier banking groups headquartered in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Canada, Latin America as well as select central banks and multi-national organizations such as the World Bank, IMF and others. In her earlier banking career Christa was Chief Foreign Exchange trader at BankBoston.
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Marius Carstensen
Member at Large
Lufthansa German Airlines
Tel: 617-357-6547
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Marius has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2002, and most recently served as President from 2004-2007, and as Treasurer from 2007-2009. He is the Lufthansa District Sales Manager for New England, a position he assumed in 2002. As part of his duties as District Sales Manager, he leads a team of Account Managers in promoting Lufthansa as a preferred carrier of choice for corporate and private travelers requiring airline service from New England to Europe and beyond.
Marius attended Northeastern University, and has worked for Lufthansa since 1988. He is married with two children, and resides in Malden, MA.
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Dr. Jens Eckstein
Member at Large
TVM Capital
Tel: 617-345-9320
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Dr. Jens Eckstein joined the Board of Directors of the GABC the Fall of 2009. He works at TVM Capital since joining them in 2004, and is a General Partner in the firm’s life sciences practice where he focuses on earlier-stage investments. He is a member of the Board of Directors of CoNCERT Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Enanta Pharmaceuticals, SelectX, Inc., Rapid Micro Biosystems and Ascent Therapeutics, served as an Advisor to Sirtris Pharmaceuticals.
As Director, Lead Discovery and Research IT at Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., he directed the company's lead discovery and knowledge management programs for novel therapeutics in hepatitis, asthma, psoriasis and other autoimmune disorders. Prior to joining Enanta, he managed research groups in biochemistry, structural biology, and computational chemistry at Mitotix, Inc. (now GPC-Biotech). At Mitotix he led the $48 million research collaboration with the BASF Bioresearch Corporation (BBC) on Cdc25 anticancer therapeutics. Dr. Eckstein is an Alumni of the Kauffman Fellows Program.
Dr. Eckstein earned his doctorate, summa cum laude, in biological chemistry at the University of Konstanz and Harvard University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF). The author of more than 20 scientific publications, Dr. Eckstein also holds several issued and pending patents. He is managing editor of Frontiers in Bioscience “Current Topics in Lead Discovery” and serves as an editorial board advisor for IDrugs. Dr. Eckstein is also an Advisor to the Alzheimer Research Forum (ARF) and a founding member of the Cure Dystonia Initiative Advisory Council (CDIAC).
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Claudia Schuett
Member at Large
German Consulate General Boston
Tel: 617-369-4913
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Claudia Schuett took over as a GABC member-at-large from Dr. Bernd Rinnert. She came to Boston in July 2009 and has served since then as Deputy Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New England.
Claudia Schuett was born in Brunswick, Lower Saxony (Northern Germany) and grew up in and around Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany). After a vocational training in the apprenticed profession of General Business Administrator (Industriekauffrau) at Mercedes-Benz Headquarters in Stuttgart, she studied International Economics at Tübingen, Lyon (France) and Münster Universities with scholarships from the European ERASMUS program and the German National Academic Foundation. After graduation, she worked as a Consultant with Kienbaum Management Consultants in Düsseldorf, focusing on efficiency promotion and introducing cost and activity accounting methods in the public sector.
In May 1999, she joined the German Foreign Service. After training in Germany, China and India, she served in Beijing and in Kabul, Afghanistan. From March 2004 through May 2008, she was in charge of international indeptedness and financial sanctions at the Foreign Ministry's Directorate General for Economic Affairs and Sustainable Development. After maternity leave and before coming to Boston, she rejoined the Ministry in spring 2009, working on renewable energy matters.
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Karsten Xander
Member at Large
TÜV SÜD America, Inc.
Tel: 978-573-2501
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Karsten Xander is President and CEO of TÜV SÜD America Inc., a leading globally recognized testing and certification organization with services for various industries including automotive, consumer and industrial goods, medical, petrochemical and manufacturing. TÜV SÜD has its North American headquarters in Peabody, MA.
Prior to working at TÜV SÜD he has held numerous executive posts throughout his career. He was Managing Director of Razorfish, Germany, and sitting on the Management Board of a publicly traded high-tech firm. Furthermore he joined M-DAX Jenoptik AG, Germany in major corporate developments.
Karsten Xander began his career in strategic business consulting at Bossard Consultants, a spin-off of McKinsey, and Gemini Consulting, where he was able to impact a variety of global companies. The consulting engagements included strategy, operational and M&A as well as work for Private Equity companies. Karsten Xander is married, has two children and holds a MBA from the University of Mannheim, Germany. |
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