Nigel Manuel Email & Phone Number

In operational charge of the 2010 United States Decennial Census office in Long Island City, Queens and ensuring the enumeration of Borough residents. Responsibility for five department heads and a combined field and office staff of over 2000 ethnically diverse people working on a 24-hour schedule.Conducted classroom and on the job training of Field Representatives in the methods and techniques of conducting detailed interviews for the NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey. Carried out personal observations and appraisals of field staff. Demonstrated interview techniques, dealt with refusals by phone and in the field and carried out re-interviews in several Boroughs to verify the accuracy of information as well as conducting short-form blitzes in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Supervised a highly effective team of Field Representatives and managed the HVS call center/phone-bank to obtain missing survey data and to respond to refusal letters.

Provided expert marketing services to commercial clientsResearched and approached potential business partners for Scottish clients.Established US business connections for Scottish exporters and organized trade missions and participated in meetings with companies and trade bodies in the USA.Developed a web platform to foster effective trans-Atlantic innovation and technology transfer exchange between companies.Prepared and tested a model to exchange best practices between social enterprises.

New York, Ny

Managed a New York office to promote NW Spain as a new and competitive international investment location for US corporations.Dramatically increased the business identity and profile of Galicia in the USA through trade shows, media coverage, advertising and targeted mail shots.Achieved investments in the automotive, telecoms and service sectors.Created an autonomous 10,000+ contact database of corporate executives, management consultants and media people to manage information dissemination, project progress, telephone call campaigns and >175 company meetings per year. Participated in a $100 million major counter trade deal between IGAPE, Lockheed Martin, and the BAZAN naval shipyard in Galicia.

Performed strength and weakness analyses and provided hands-on marketing planning expertise and consultancy direction to improve the performance of investment promotion agencies from Austria, Sweden, and the UK.

Identified potential internationally mobile investment projects, approached the companies and presented the benefits of a UK location and project managed the subsequent case requirements until success was achieved.Achieved the largest single US investment in the UK in 10 years.Raised the level of inquiries by 160% and the rate of successful investments by 309%.Pioneered the use of customs data to identify potential overseas investorsDuring my contract I was intimately involved in strengthening the UK's position as the leading recipient of US overseas investment.