Globinar Global Chamber® Exporting, Importing and FDI News

Globinar Global Chamber® Exporting, Importing and FDI News

We gather the global tribe each month to discuss global trade including exporting, importing and foreign direct investment. What are the opportunities and challenges?

How can we use the collective knowledge of the global tribe to be more successful?

Leaders from around the word gather, speak, share, exchange... to gain insights. It's a global roundtable with Q&A to gain insights on growth, and to move the trade and investment conversation forward. Be global and UNSTOPPABLE!

605+ Chapters in 8 Regions...

1. Africa
2. Middle East / GCC Region
3. Europe / Emerging Europe
4. Central Asia ex China / India
5. China
6. East Asia / Japan and Australia
7. Latin America
8. North America

Segment Groups ~ 20...

• Aerospace + Space
• Agriculture / Agtech + Food and Beverage + Water
• AI / Technology + Semiconductor
• Automotive
• Book Authors
• FDI + Econ Dev / Business / Real Estate
• Defense / Homeland Security
• Energy / Power + Oil & Gas 
• Fintech
• Global Marketplace
• Healthcare / Life Sciences
• HR / Talent / Workforce / Innovation
• Manufacturing 
• Mining / Critical Minerals
• Music Industry 
• Services
• Sustainability
• Women in Global Leadership
• Non-Profits

Agenda

• Speakers
• Members Roundtable

Özge Tekalp - Digital Transformation Leader (Turkiye)

Özge Tekalp is a globally recognized business leader with over 30 years of experience driving digital transformation and customer experience excellence across major corporations including İş Bank, Kodak, BNP Paribas, and QNB Finansbank. Named one of the World's 50 Most Influential Business Women in 2025 and featured in Inc Magazine, she currently serves as fractional Chief Customer and Project Officer at LST (Locksmith Software Technologies) while providing strategic consultancy and training to organizations worldwide. Her deep expertise spans strategic leadership, banking and fintech, customer experience and digital transformation.

Barbara Engelbart McKenzie - Executive Director at Global Chamber® Alberta

Ms. McKenzie is a change maker and disruptor. She has over 30 years’ experience in leadership, entrepreneurship and corporate growth, and strategic disruption. She is CEO and Founder of Ignition CEO, a venture that provides support to build and grow a new generation of business leaders and CEOs. She is also the Managing Director of DB McKenzie Group and the Executive Director of the Global Chamber, Alberta Chapter.

Ildiko Mokran - Founder and CEO at I M Bookkeeping USA

With over 15 years of experience as the founder of IM Bookkeeping Ltd and I M Bookkeeping USA, I provide high-quality bookkeeping, accounting, and customs brokerage services to clients across various industries and sectors. I help US CPAs and accountants seamlessly outsource reliable, compliant bookkeeping services, so they can scale their client work without adding operational strain, and I help UK businesses and accountants stay compliant and in control by providing dependable bookkeeping alongside expert customs support for smooth UK and international trade. I am a Certified Bookkeeper (CB) from the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, a proud member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers, and I have earned additional credentials in advanced customs compliance and VAT in international trade from reputable institutions.

Michael J. Boardman - Chair, Executive Board & Chief Executive Officer at Ready Global

I’m a C-suite operator who tends to get called when things are either unclear, underperforming, or at an inflection point.

Over the past 25+ years, I’ve led organizations across healthcare, financial services, technology, and global resilience—ranging from Fortune 100 environments to founder-led and turnaround situations. The common thread: helping teams regain clarity, rebuild trust, and execute in a way that actually holds up under pressure.
I don’t position myself as the person with all the answers. My value is building aligned, accountable teams that can find them quickly—and deliver.

Jennifer M. Superales - Chief Resiliency Officer at ReadyGlobal

Jennifer M. Superales is the Chief Resiliency Officer of ReadyGlobal, where she serves as the principal architect for enterprise continuity, risk governance, and crisis management frameworks. She specializes in safeguarding critical assets and long-term stability for organizations where failure is not an option. With nearly 30 years of leadership across the U.S. national security and defense sectors—spanning Military
Intelligence to Federal Emergency Management and beyond—Jennifer is a recognized expert in governing systemic risk and designing secure and resilient systems that perform under the pressure of unpredictable global environments.

Jennifer’s career is defined by her leadership in high-consequence environments. In the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) she directed risk governance and led complex regional planning for core capabilities, community lifelines, and the 16 critical infrastructure sectors, ensuring the resilience of the nation’s most vital physical and digital systems down to community block level. With both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), she led the design of catastrophic response plans for ICS/NIMS application in natural, technological, and human-caused incidents, and for high-profile events classified as National Special Security Events (NSSEs) and those rated as Special Event Assessment Rating (SEAR) Level 1, bridging the gap between federal policy and real-world
operational execution. Her foundation as a Military Intelligence Analyst (96B) and Non-Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Army provided the blueprint for her career, where she synthesized all-source information into a ‘decision advantage’ for senior commanders during military campaign deployments (OSW/OIF/OEF).

Facilitator...

Doug Bruhnke is CEO of Global Chamber®. He's a founder, entrepreneur and global connector focused on advancing Global Chamber® member businesses with new clients, and into new markets. He worked in corporate for decades, first the Dupont Company in Asia and globally, and later Phelps Dodge / Freeport McMoRan. Doug had two expatriate assignments, one in Tokyo and another in Singapore. He has over 40 years of global trade experience working with clients in nearly every market segment including automotive, aerospace, industrial, manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences, mining, retail and technology. 

Doug has 5 U.S. patents related to his work at Central Research in DuPont. His education includes a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah and an EMBA from Michigan State University. Doug's affiliations include the Global Chamber®, Arizona District Export Council, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Thunderbird Global Alumni Network (TGAN) Advisory Council and hundreds of groups in Global Chamber®. He is a German-Polish American born in New York and living in Arizona + California. Doug has a wife of 44 years, a daughter and a superstar grandson.

Connect with Doug here. Hear the Global Chamber® story here.

About Us

Global Chamber® is a diverse, innovative and positive worldwide platform for CEOs, executives, investors and industry leaders across 195 countries and 605+ metros around the world to find opportunities and effectively empower growth, success and progress. We're the only chamber of commerce operating in hundreds of locations that delivers strategic connections, information and resources to facilitate exporting, importing and investing across regions and borders, while addressing climate change and advancing sustainability. Be global and UNSTOPPABLE! Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber, LLC since 2014..