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John Caslione: Profile

Global Business Expert, Keynote Speaker and Best-Selling Author providing today’s business leaders – experience, knowledge and access

Mr. John A. Caslione is the founder, President and CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc. (AWI), a global marketing and sales firm with offices in Chicago (USA) and in Frankfurt (Germany). AWI assists companies to develop and implement global marketing and business alliance strategies.

Mr. Caslione is also founder and President and CEO of GCS Business Capital, Inc. (GCS), a Chicago (USA) and Frankfurt-based (Germany) firm that assists companies of all sizes and in a variety of industries, including small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), to globalize their business, with a special focus on the US, Europe and China. GCS further represents Chinese businesses and Chinese investors to establish new business, make investments in or acquire businesses in the US and in Europe.

With his firm AWI, Mr. Caslione personally has implemented business strategies in 87 countries on six continents including the US, Canada, Europe, Russia and CIS, Central Asia, the Middle East, China, India, Australia, SE Asia, Africa and South America for many companies, large medium and small, including ABB Semiconductors, Becton-Dickenson Biosciences, ChevronTexaco Lubricants, ExxonMobil Chemical Films, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Philips Automotive Lighting, RJR International, etc.

Mr. Caslione is highly sought after as an expert on the new global economy and global business development and speaks in many globally influential business forums. As an expert on business globalization and a leading China expert, Mr. Caslione appears as a guest expert for CNBC Europe on its “Squawk Box” and “Morning Exchange” programs where he speaks on critical issues in developing global business and China.

Mr. Caslione serves as director and advisor for a number of companies in the USA, Europe and Asia, including firms that assist companies of all sizes (including small and medium size enterprises) to globalize their business, with a special focus on China. These companies provide financial investment and operations assistance to European and US firm seeking to develop closer ties to China and Chinese businesses.

Mr. Caslione frequently speaks on the new global economy and global business development in many forums including the Institute for Management Development’s (IMD) Program for Executive Development (Lausanne, Switzerland); at IAE (Aix-en-Provence, France); at the Dubai Strategy Conference and many others worldwide.

Mr. Caslione is also a frequent guest lecturer at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he speaks to business executive in Kellogg’s Global Initiatives in Management Program (GIM) on global marketing and business development, including in China and Asia.

Mr. Caslione is also a member of the adjunct faculty of Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Edwin L. Cox School of Business’s Executive Education Department where he teaches marketing strategy.

Mr. Caslione has authored a number of articles on globalization, developing business globally especially for small and medium size businesses (SMEs). Mr. Caslione writes a monthly global business column in Expression Magazine, the monthly in-flight passenger magazine for five of the largest seven airlines in China with a monthly readership of more than 20 million passengers each month. Mr. Caslione was also the subject of the featured cover story of Expression Magazine’s December 2003 issue.

In July 2004, Mr. Caslione was the featured subject of, Cai Zhi Ren Wu, the leading nationally-broadcast and highly-acclaimed business news program in China featuring global opinion leaders in business and politics, including Bill Gates (Microsoft), Alan Greenspan (US Federal Reserve), Lee Scott (Wal-Mart), etc.

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