Global Chamber Brussels

GC BRUSSELS              ADVISORY BOARD

Global Chamber® Brussels

Global Chamber® Brussels helps members get business done across metro areas!

We are a thriving and collaborating community of CEOs, executives, and professionals growing businesses across 525 metropolitan areas. We leverage technology and our collective networks around the world to help member companies grow, reduce risk, be more productive, and succeed faster.

We are the only organization in the world with the mission to grow business from anywhere to everywhere while collaborating with every organization. We help companies, investors and business service providers around the world succeed.

Advisory Board Member

Jo Spalburg

Jo Spalburg is a professional, multi-cultural and multi-lingual marketing consultant, who gained more than 30 years of international sales & marketing experience, while based in 9 different countries on 3 different continents. Spalburg occupied various sales & marketing positions, based at Headquarters, Regional and Local level, for international hospitality and travel companies, including the Air France Group, Golden Tulip Hotels, Hilton International, ITT Sheraton, Renaissance Cruises, Steigenberger Reservations Centre, South Seas Resorts and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, as well as many
other independent properties. He also served the public sector, working for a number of National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) and the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) as Director of Marketing Europe for almost seven years, before starting to work as an independent marketing
consultant in 2003.

He subsequently worked on strategic marketing plans for a variety of global destinations (including Abu Dhabi, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Mozambique, Puerto Plata (Dominican Republic), Singapore, and Suriname), while employed by Howarth International France, Tourism Intelligence International (Germany), Emerging Markets Group (EMG) Ltd (UK), International Travel Communications (New Jersey, USA), Instituto de Qualidad (QI) (Spain) and the VIP Consulting group (FWI) respectively. Most recently he also worked as marketing consultant for the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) in Barbados.

After creating Media Partners International (MPI) in 2003 to promote European products and services in the Americas, in particular the Caribbean. Subsequently, he founded Caribbean Media Partners (CMP) in 2012 to enhance the distribution and promotion of Caribbean content, including news, audio-visual productions and any other content for both broadcast and print/new media. CMP is the only agency covering the greater Caribbean in all languages of the region (i.e. Créole, English, Español, Français, Nederlands, Papiamentu &; Português). Spalburg is also a founding member and secretary general of the Caribbean Chamber of Commerce in Europe
(CCCE) since 2019.

Spalburg was born in the Netherlands, where he graduated from the Hotel Management School Maastricht, and he holds an MBA in Hospitality Management from CORNELL/ESSEC (IMHI, France). He speaks 6 languages, including Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish, as well as Italian.

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Global Chamber® is a growing, nurturing and innovative community of CEOs, executives, and leaders in 525 metro regions and 195 countries around the world, everywhere. We're the only chamber of commerce in hundreds of locations that simply and proactively connects exporting, importing, investing and growing member organizations to clients, partners, projects, investors and resources anywhere through warm introductions, events and more.

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