Americo "Mack" Tadeu Email & Phone Number

Looking at new opportunities to share my work experience and mentor young professionals interested in the diplomatic corps and government service.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

BlueWave Merchant Partners is committed to making companies more competitive in their pursuits abroad and accelerating business growth overseas.Through the utilization of US Government trade assets, new business opportunities are created and relationships with foreign government officials are strengthened. There are myriad resources available to help companies with their overseas efforts, but knowing when and how to utilize these assets can be an arduous task, especially since the sales team needs to focus on making sales and looking for the next business opportunities. BlueWave is focused solely on pulling together all USG advocacy and financing assets. Our goal is to augment the work the sales and business development teams are doing to drive top-line revenue for the client.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed staff of 30, located on 3 continents, and monitored a database of 1300+ activeadvocacy cases involving 500+ U.S. companies (small to large) with commercial interests in 127 countries. Effectively supervised $3.5 million office budget.Advised senior company executives regarding business strategy to expand their company’spresence to new foreign markets. Coordinated inter-agency U.S. government team to advocateon company’s behalf before foreign government procurement agencies to create equity onbehalf of company’s business interests. In 2020, reported over 100 major project wins contributing an estimated $35.5 billion in U.S. exports, supporting 185,000 U.S. jobs.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Established new office for the Commercial Service (CS). Recruited, interviewed and hired 15professionals dedicated to enhancing and expanding CS mission to provide products and services to U.S. exporters.Led organization in strategic mission development to determine the course and needs fororganization for next 5 years. Conducted focus groups, internal and external, to redesign andalign agency’s products and services to support its mission.Managed five distinct teams dedicated to Strategic Analysis, Policy Coordination, ProcessImprovement, IT and Finance.Drafted and disseminated monthly reports on each team’s progress and contributions toimproving efficiencies of the CS. Successes included: reducing recurring costs at CS Offices abroad by $12 million in one fiscal year; published a series of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for each fee-based CS service; supervised the modernization of the entire CS IT system with new PCs; submitted a series of strategic analysis reports for the Government Accounting Office (GAO).

Washington D.C. Metro Area

U.S. Commercial Liaison with the U.S. Executive Director's Office.Built a strategic partnerships between U.S. and IDB member countries. Initiated collaborationbetween the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Bank’s Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) to sign a Memorandum of Agreement to provide program design, training and staff for IIC’s trade capacity building program in Central America & the Caribbean.Liaised with each principal industry division to introduce and promote state-of-the-arttechnology and services from U.S. to economic developing economies of region.Offered numerous presentations and speeches before trade groups, associations, chambers and academia on trade and investment among 26 IDB borrowing countries. Example: Webinar –“The Inter-American Development Bank – Where the Money Is”.

U.S. Embassy - Santiago, Chile

Represented Embassy regarding U.S. Commercial policies on Intellectual Property Rights,copyright violations, and adoption of local standards in adherence to newly signed U.S./ChileFree Trade Agreement (FTA).Designed new market research report that served as model for entire Commercial Service. Thepopular executive summary reports covered best prospect industries offering new tradeopportunities to match U.S. with potential foreign partners.Organized and led annual strategic planning meetings with key stakeholders, both public andprivate, and then drafted Embassy work plan outlining trade opportunity by sector includingcalendar of commercial events to promote trade under U.S./Chile FTA.Doubled revenue and increased successful client cases through professional training, staffrealignment and quantitative results.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Managed 14 country CS Offices in East Asia Pacific Region, 300+ staff and $14M operatingbudget.Facilitated Agency-wide Intranet database management system to track financial, commercialevents, product and service offerings, and client accounts across 200+ field office network.Redesigned recruitment, promotion, assessment, assignment and training for 100+ newCommercial Officers.Served as voting Board Member assigning Commercial Officers to 70+ countries, matchedOfficers competencies to country program needs. (averaged 60 officer assignments annually.)

U.S. Embassy Brasilia, Brazil

Lead Commercial Officer to U.S. Ambassador and principal commercial liaison to Government of Brazil regarding commercial trade and policy between U.S. and Brazil.Managed major Western Hemisphere office, developed strategic commercial plan, outreachprogram and professional development program for 70 permanent staff.Expanded four new of partnerships with local Brazilian Chambers in neighboring states to theFederal District to identify and promote trade with the U.S.Introduced successful Gold Key matchmaking service in new areas of Brazil offering U.S.company customized services such as market research, & scheduled meetings with business and government leaders in central Brazil.Assisted major U.S. defense, aviation, pharmaceutical, courier and telecommunications companies to comply with complex Brazilian import regulations and expand their market presence.

U.S. Embassy - Panama And U.S. Consulate - Guadalajara, Mexico

Organized, promoted and recruited for 80+ booth USA Pavilion at Expocomer, Panama’s largestannual trade show. Floor sales led to tens of millions of dollars in U.S. exports.Counseled U.S. firms on Panama’s Free Trade Zone to trade throughout Latin America.Promoted, in Mexico and U.S., trade benefits of North American Free Trade Agreement; through speeches, meeting with state and municipal leaders, and counseling companies regarding new commercial opportunities.Coordinated trade missions and exhibitions every 6-8 weeks, for agriculture, furniture, consumer goods, machinery and U.S. tourism, among others.Set up U.S. pavilions at major industry exhibitions and scheduled one-on-one meetings between U.S. companies and qualified Mexican companies seeking partnerships.

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