Globinar Beyond Borders Australia - US - France Opportunities

Globinar Beyond Borders Australia - US - France Opportunities

• Wednesday, Jan 14th at 2pm PT / 3pm MT / 5pm ET / 10pm Accra / 11pm France  
• Thursday, Jan 15th at 3:30am Mumbai / 6am Singapore / 7am Tokyo / 9am Sydney

Join Global Chamber® Sydney (plus Melbourne and Brisbane), San Francisco (plus Sacramento and Los Angeles) and Strasbourg (plus Paris and Lyon) for a dynamic Globinar exploring emerging 2026 opportunities across Australia, the US, and France.

Industry leaders will discuss key trends, cross-border business insights, and high-potential opportunities, along with sharing specific deals shaping these markets.

Speakers:

Adam Klooster - Commercial Director at Zedra Group

Adam is Commercial Director at Zedra Group. He has been assisting U.S. companies to expand internationally for many years. He has worked in international market development and managed back-office functions of companies throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from California State University, Chico.

Kaoru Nishinakagawa - Global Chamber Sydney

Innovation Consultant/Entrepreneur with 15+ years of international professional experience focused in creating new business, managing strategic partnerships, and generation of value through an understanding clients' strategy, and market needs to apply innovative solutions in and around technology.

Business Design: Orchestrate the creative problem-solving skill, strategy design and international business acumen to analyse market demands, organisations' capabilities, and challenges to help clients market new business models / products / services and achieve long term growth.

Service Design: Strong dedication toward customer centric approach and creative problem solving with the adaptation of design thinking and lean startup methodology that are effectively utilised for customer insight discovery and analysis, ideation and prototyping development, and hypothesis testing and iteration.

Entrepreneurship: Co-Founder of Innovation Dojo which was established to foster cross-cultural entrepreneurship initiatives between Japan and Australia, develop global talents, and enhance economic partnership between Australia and JAPAC region.

Business Development: The proven track record of achieving sales targets by forging strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, conducting comprehensive in-depth market research, and developing and executing marketing strategies.

Project Management: Deliver complex projects in a timely and cost effective manner and enable organisations to achieve the strategic project objectives with strong stakeholder management, efficient time management and creative problem-solving skills. 

Eddie Geisel - Prana Sales

• We help tech leaders—across mining, medical, aerospace, energy, and advanced materials—close the gap between brilliant product development and sales performance that actually sticks. With 20 + years leading global sales and business development teams across six continents, we solve the pain of misaligned strategies.
  
  At Prana we’ve channeled that experience into solutions that work.

We offer end‑to‑end, value‑selling methodology with deep experience between the US, Australia and the world that...

• Uncovers what your buyers really need
• Translates your technology into clear business value
• Launches high-performing, globally aligned sales leaders and teams
• Equips them to negotiate and close complex deals

For more consistent year-over-year growth, stronger margins, faster time-to-close, and leadership teams who finally feel confident in their process, contact us.

Renee Meyer - Global Chamber Strasbourg

From a young age, I was plunged into the world of the pharmaceutical industry. My father and grandfather were both pharmacists, and Meyer & Co was an important part of my life from all angles. In addition to prescription medicines, Meyer Drug sold over-the-counter medicines, perfumes and watches. I helped patients with their purchases, and learned first-hand the value of good client service. On the wholesale side, I learned about billing for hospitals and was one of the first employees to work in the company IT department.

However, there was always the desire to look at life from outside U.S. borders. I studied music and French architecture in France. My first audits for a U.S. packaging company were in Venezuela and Colombia because they needed a Spanish speaker. And finally, at the age of 30, I established residency in Europe, first in Switzerland, and now in France. I returned to pharma with Hoffmann-LaRoche. Work with pharmaceutical startups followed.

With a financial mindset, I always seek to promote products and projects that work towards a positive triple bottom-line, which means incorporating social and environmental factors. For several years, guided by a scientifically-based concept, I worked with a consultancy group in Geneva to guide organizations in the integration of sustainability into their strategy.

As a polyglot and innovative entrepreneur in the life science space, I accompany European medtech companies in their transition to the U.S. market. I travel frequently to the U.S. and am continually in contact with American professionals. I hear and see how corporate cultures evolve, and live the differences between the different parts of the country.

Moderator: 

Doug Bruhnke is founder and CEO of Global Chamber®. He's a global entrepreneur, connector, trade advocate, speaker and author dedicated to growing Global Chamber® and helping members reach new markets and gain new clients across metros and borders more successfully.

Doug worked with the Dupont Company and had expatriate assignments in Tokyo and Singapore. He has over 38 years of global trade experience working with clients in nearly every market segment including automotive, aerospace, industrial, healthcare, life sciences and technology. Currently his memberships include Global Chamber®, the Arizona District Export Council, the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and the Thunderbird Global Alumni Network (TGAN) Advisory Council. He's a German-Polish American living in the U.S. who has 5 U.S. patents and an education that includes a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah and an EMBA from Michigan State University. 

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

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