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Global Chamber® New York City: Awakening the Global Giant in the City That Never Sleeps

Date: November 25, 2025
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Location: CBIZ Advisors at 730 3rd Ave, 11th Floor | New York | NY | 10017
730 3rd Ave
11th Floor
New York , NY 10017
Contact: Susan Assadi

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Global Chamber® New York City:

Awakening the Global Giant in the City That Never Sleeps

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 25th at 5:00pm ET

Location: CBIZ Advisors at 730 3rd Ave, 11th Floor | New York | NY | 10017

NOTE: New Location. In person only.
 
Come hear from our innovative and diverse businesses headquartered in the New York City area. Share and engage.
 
Our advisory board chair Charles Bernard and Executive Director NYC Susan Assadi will lead this event to continue our path for 2025 for the NYC Chapter: to connect high-performing CEOs and executives with opportunities to collaborate and grow their businesses globally.

Members will connect and learn how our chapter can serve as a launchpad for national and multinational success.
 
We will discuss key initiatives and how you can be actively involved in our chapter as we tap the business electricity of New York City for our Global trajectory. Join this dynamic team of NYC members to lead our initiatives moving forward.
  
The focus is to help global businesses streamline employee expenses and to help move money internationally, with ease.
 
Spotlight Speakers: 
David Brazda - Corporate & SD/VOB Outreach Consultant
 

David serves on the Advisory Board of the National Veterans Business Development Council (NVBDC) – www.NVBDC.org – where he was one of the founders in 2007. NVBDC helps veteran and service-disabled veteran business owners obtain contracts from the private sector through third party certification and support from corporate America. David is actively engaged in the organization and is currently spearheading a global initiative to serve veteran-owned businesses abroad, as well as support those in the US who export goods and services.

For the better part of his career, David has excelled in the outsourced professional services space, supporting small to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs. A pioneer in the PEO or Outsourced HR industry, he opened the NYC offices for Insperity (formerly known as Administaff) in the late 90s and helped define and establish the PEO marketplace in the northeast US. David then went on to focus on growing and expanding the outsourced accounting industry where he currently spends his time as an independent consultant.

David and the NVBDC are excited about leveraging our membership in the Global Chamber community to help Veteran-owned businesses succeed.

Barış Aytan - Director of Client Success at CargoTrans

Barış AYTAN is the Director of Client Success at CargoTrans and a strategic leader in international logistics. Leveraging over 15 years in the supply chain industry, Barış is an expert in Supply Chain Operations, Business Development Strategy and optimizing Procurement Strategy to drive revenue and efficiency for importers and exporters. He is passionate about helping Small to Midsize Businesses (SMBs) turn volatility into consistent growth. Barış holds a joint B.S. in Marine Transportation from Istanbul Technical University / SUNY Maritime College and an M.S. in International Transportation Management from the SUNY Maritime College.

 

Uvika Sharma - Founder & Managing Partner, INTLDA

Uvika Sharma is a visionary Data & AI strategist with over 20 years of experience guiding Fortune 500 companies and startups in leveraging data and AI for transformative impact. She has worked at industry giants such as Pfizer, Accenture, S&P, Moody’s, and Citi, advising global teams across Marketing, Operations, Compliance, Risk Management, Supply Chain and International Trade.
 
As founder of her consulting practice, INTLDA, she helps organizations navigate the responsible and practical adoption of AI, focusing on AI literacy, change management, and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) to ensure sustainable and trustworthy innovation. She is a global ambassador for the USA at the Global Council of Responsible AI, advocating for responsible and ethical AI practices. Recognizing AI’s potential as a business equalizer, she is co-authoring a book on custom tool development with OpenAI’s builder tool, simplifying AI adoption for businesses.
 
Beyond her advisory work, Uvika is deeply committed to mentoring and supporting startups. She actively mentors founders at Cornell Tech and the Harvard Business School’s Startup Partners program, guiding them on AI strategy, product-market fit, and scaling operations. Passionate about diversity in tech, Uvika co-founded Asian Women Advancing AI, a community dedicated to empowering Asian women to shape the future of AI.
 
A sought-after speaker and workshop leader, Uvika helps senior executives and organizations navigate AI’s evolving landscape, bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology, business strategy, and responsible AI governance.
 
She holds a Computer Science degree from Stony Brook University and an MBA from Cornell University, combining technical expertise with business acumen to drive innovation, strategic growth, and responsible technology adoption.

Facilitator:

Charles Bernard - Advisory Board the Founder of Criteria for Sales Success (CFS),

A Manhattan-based management consultancy specializing in strategic revenue planning and cross-departmental collaboration to achieve measurable results. Charles is also the founder of Collavia, an AI-driven sales enablement platform designed to transform how companies empower their teams. Collavia is built around Charles’ philosophy of Enabling Buying rather than Enabling Selling.

He is a renowned sales improvement expert, keynote speaker, and founder of two transformative organizations that are reshaping the way businesses approach growth and client engagement.

 

Susan Gitenstein Assadi, Executive Director at Global Chamber® New York City

Susan leads GAPR, a PR firm with an emphasis on expert and thought leadership campaigns. She is a highly respected national media strategist who helps her clients to be promoted to the national media, weaving in compelling stories that resonate with top media outlets. Her campaigns have enabled her clients to have features and recurring citations in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg.  As a result of her campaigns, her clients have been boosted into leaders of their respective fields. Susan has over four decades representing public and private companies in the financial services, corporate governance and the proxy industry, alternative energy, and those with an emphasis on responsible business practices such as ESG. Most recently she has been working with disruptors who are helping to build the domestic supply chain of rare earth materials.  Susan also has represented some leading non-profits. She also co-founded Safed House, a non-profit, that provides a welcoming place for refugees and recent immigrants to share their stories.

Her firm’s campaigns are fresh, creative, tech savvy, and innovative, a cocktail that engenders powerful results.

Prior to founding her own PR firm, Susan was the publicist for PBS MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.  She received a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from New York University, and obtained a Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.


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