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Marian LeMay took on her duties as Executive Director of GABC in 2008, following a temporary post at the Goethe Institute Boston where she continues to consult on a needs basis.

She earned her BA in Psychology, with minors in Studio Art & German at American University in Washington, DC, a city which until 2004, she called home. For two years, she lived in Munich, attending the Ludwig Maximillian Universität, and working at Kunsthandlung Koestler, a renowned art gallery. She has traveled extensively through Europe and Australia, and for almost two decades, held art-related positions in cultural organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Washington DC Capital Childrens' Museum, and an artist studio in London, where she lived for a year. Prior to moving to Boston, she held the position of Central Division Administrative Liaison at Legg Mason (now SmithBarney MorganStanley).

She is a first generation American, born in Maryland of German parents, and raised bilingually in a German household.

Lufthansa German Airlines
Tel: 617-357-6547
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Marius Carstensen 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.

Marius was born and raised in Germany, but moved to the United States in 1983 to attend college. He is the Lufthansa District Sales Manager for New England, a position he assumed in 2002, and he oversees and directs a team of Account Managers in promoting Lufthansa as the 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.

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Tel: 617-437-2525
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Erik Dilger is a Senior Manager at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP in Boston and plays a central role in leading and overseeing initiatives. He is known for his ability to establish a vision, marshal the necessary resources, and execute operations to achieve results.

For over 10 years, Erik has provided Audit and Forensic & Dispute Accounting Services to clients. He has worked with the leadership of Deloitte to incorporate forensics into their audit approach in response to SAS 99 and the Sarbanes Oxley act and has been trained in tactical behavior assessment and strategic interviewing methods for purposes of eliciting information during forensic investigations. He has been a guest speaker at multiple Universities and professional associations, and has been an adjunct professor at Northeastern University since 2004 where he instructs multiple Fraud and Investigative Accounting classes.

Mr. Dilger received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Delaware and his education included minors in Economics and German. He is active in community service and has acted as the Deloitte FAS Boston United Way Chair since 2003. Erik is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the National Ski Patrol.

SR One
Tel: (617) 413-8733
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Dr. Jens Eckstein joined the Board of Directors of the GABC the Fall of 2009. He is President of SR One, Glaxo Smith Kline's independent healthcare venture organization where he oversees the overall activities of the group and manages the investment and support team. He is responsible for evaluating the technology, business model, management team, investor base and financial status of non-public companies in promising technologies and sciences in order to determine their suitability for investment by SR One. Prior to this, he worked at TVM Capital in the firm's Life Sciences practice where he focused 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).

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.

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 has a BS in education from Northeastern University, MSW from Boston University and a Masters Degree in corporate psychology from Harvard University.

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.

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.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Tel: 978-750-2414
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Douglas Hauer is a Partner with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., where he practices in the firm's Immigration Practice and Israel Business Section. Doug has substantial experience in business immigration law, related government investigations, family-based green card sponsorship processes, EB-5 investor visa filings, and corporate immigration policy development. He has guided in-house counsel and human resources professionals in all aspects of U.S. and global immigration law and policy. Doug regularly represents German companies seeking E-1 and E-2 visas for their employees, and he is frequently called on by German clients who are setting up business in the United States and who need to navigate the American system.

Doug was selected for inclusion in Who's Who Legal (2011), and he was named a "Rising Star" in Super Lawyers 2009. Doug is a Member of Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council, the preeminent immigration law think-tank and legal policy nonprofit organization.

Doug has a J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law (2001), an M.A. degree in Yiddish and Hebrew Literature, Harvard University (1997), an M.A. degree in German Studies, University of Chicago (1994) and a B.A. in German Literature and Russian, Ohio State University (1993), where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Doug speaks German and Hebrew fluently and Russian and Yiddish proficiently.

At 16, he spent a year of high school living with a German family close to the Alps, a formative experience resulting in a passion for the German language. When not in Boston with his three parrots, Doug and his spouse can be found at their home in Tel Aviv or traveling to interesting places such as Uganda, Rwanda, Antarctica and Bavaria. Doug is especially interested in German literature and loves the writings of Kleist, Kafka and Tieck, among others. Doug is very committed to the continuation of a strong, dynamic relationship between the United States and Germany.

Strategic Adviser for Nonprofits
Tel: (646) 327-4140
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Beatrix Henize has more than twenty years of experience in corporate and foundation relations at leading universities and medical centers – including MIT, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, George Mason University, Jhpiego, and Harvard University. Most recently Beatrix was Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.

Prior to joining Harvard, she was Director of Corporate Relations and a member of the Senior Leadership team at Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. At MIT, her responsibilities included technology monitoring for major European and Taiwanese companies, as well as expanding relations with European governments and universities. She often was invited to speak at international conferences on issues of technology transfer. She is currently a strategic adviser for nonprofits.

In the late 90s, Beatrix served as Vice President (1996-1997) and then as President (1997-1998) of the German American Business Club of Boston. She is a native German, raised in Düsseldorf, with B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Bonn.

German Consulate General Boston
Tel: 617-369-4913
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Claudia Schuett came to Boston in July 2009 and serves 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.

InterContinental Boston
Tel: 617-217-5008
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Christoph was born and raised in Germany, but moved to the United States in 2000 due to a company relocation. He is the International Sales Manager for InterContinental Hotels in Boston, a position he assumed in 2006, and he oversees and manages the leisure sales as well as corporate negotiated sales activities for the hotel.