Ron Dulin {He/Him} Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

You know that feeling when you taste something new and exciting for the first time and you just love it? Well I get to provide that feeling! Working with Australian businesses, my role is to connect them within the U.S. and create opportunities for exciting and innovative Australian products to enter market.While my specialty lies within the beverages space (wine, spirits, beer, and non-alcoholic alike), I can help you find and connect with the best Australian food and beverage products to help you increase your portfolio and offer your clients and patrons a more diverse and global culinary experience.Want to know more? Reach and contact me and I'll be delighted to talk!

Greater Chicago Area

Lead relationship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, its Cooperator base, and State Departments of Agriculture to consultatively assist with export market strategies.- Surpassed revenue targets every fiscal year, equaling more than $2M contracted.- Maximize international strategic objectives for 80+ cooperators and 50 State Departments of Agriculture, plus Puerto Rico, through consultative needs assessment and market analysis.- Deliver quarterly webinars on topics including: Consumer Trends, Sustainability and Transparency, and International Agriculture Export Development.- Consultatively uncover strategic needs to help clients fully realize international food/beverage commodity export efforts across 100+ markets.

Greater Chicago Area

What's more important than making the world a better place? I am responsible for leadership in our U.S. and global CSR program efforts, overseeing volunteerism and community engagement strategy for the Chicago branch of Euromonitor's global £1M+ giving program and regularly engaging with offices around the world. In our office of about 200 people, my duties include coordinating individual and team volunteer initiatives, regularly liaising with 20+ regional partners for engagement and giving opportunities, and acting as the face of our international CSR program internally and externally.Personally, I spent the past four years leading our Green Team - focused on office sustainability and culminating in our annual Green Week, revamped our recycling program, developed and implemented our annual coat drive partnership, initiated our in-office composting program (it doesn't smell!), shaped the format for our monthly charity events, written and published our monthly "recycletter", and led several volunteer and philanthropic campaigns resulting in donations of more than $150,000.

Greater Chicago Area

After a highly successful first year where I reached 138% to my revenue target, my role expanded to include increased opportunities for mentorship and growth as well as editing final deliverables on custom consulting projects. I continue to service and support an almost $2M account, have become a go-to resource for information on our Natural Resources system, was asked to create and present a teaching demo on using our Passport Business Dynamics system to develop an international strategy, have performed 11 strategic webinars to support my clients' international business needs, continued my leadership role on our CSR Committee, and again ended the year above 100% in revenue generation.

Greater Chicago Area

My days are filled with building and expanding international relationships for the US Department of Agriculture and its cooperator base. While responsible for accounts totaling almost $2M annually, I assist clients in maximizing their strategic objectives through the use of syndicated and customized research services.My mission is to uncover needs for the strategic benefit of my clients, no matter how nuanced or complex, to aide them in meeting their international trade and export goals.Additionally, I have trained dozens of new users on our syndicated platform, Passport, while keeping dozens more veteran users refreshed and up to date on new and exciting system updates.Go ahead.Ask me how Euromonitor International can help you know your markets better than ever...

Chicago, U.S.A., Latin America

Little Monkey Productions was a boutique dedicated to the support and promotion of original and independent projects in environmental technology, social justice, and the arts.Among our projects, we partnered in the development of the ePet location and security system, consulted on wind and solar energy in Chile, and produced the Beatnik Ramble original album “Living Room Blues”.

Greater Chicago Area

Event coordinator and meeting planner; project director and consultant for book publishing, speaking engagements, and blog management.• Coordinated logistics for speaking engagements and fundraising events.• Developed business strategy for companies looking to increase their international presence in Latin America and the U.S.• Creative/content consultant for corporate communications to more than 500 clients, subscribers, and potential clients.• Edited content and grammar for three published books.• Designed three corporate logos (including the one here on LinkedIn).• Contributing author for one published book.

Responsible for increasing commerce between Israel and the US Midwest in the areas of food, wine, green and blue technologies, and attraction of investments through advanced networking, key relationship management, business to business, and business to government consulting.• Designed, initiated, and led a delegation of highly placed alcoholic beverage executives to Israel in 2011 to introduce them to the Israeli wine sector. The trip has thusfar resulted in regional and national exposure of Israeli wines through two restaurants, two television stations, and three blogs. • Consulted with major municipalities regarding implementation of alternative energy production, transfer, and storage options sourced from Israel. • Promoted in 2010 to office liaison to the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, an organization that provides grants of up to $1 million to collaborative projects between US and Israeli companies. • Assisted in the development of more than 100 potential collaborative agreements between Israeli companies and US based companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 multinationals. • Acted as a featured speaker at events related to Israeli green technology, food, and wine. • Researched and wrote annual US Midwest regional and Israel regional industry reports on the topics of green technology, food, and wine for three consecutive years.

Planned and strategized more than 10 public and private events and symposia including designing all programs, advertising, and signage.Acted as department’s communication liaison to the Loyola University community; directing all communications and taking charge of community relations internally and externally.Creative director for eight video interviews with high-ranking risk management experts from organizations, including the Securities Exchange Commission, the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and the CME Group.Managed department website, billing, and email.

Developed and grew individual and small business book of business from $0 to approximately $2.5M.Exceeded goals and targets for 20 consecutive months including balance sheet and loan balance growth.Performed compliance and corporate social responsibility training for three other bankers at my branch.

Acquired and expanded new and existing client revenue base from from less than $500,000 to over $5M.Proactively contacted clients to evaluate needs and actualize goals and service requirements.

Business Society & Impact

An online learning experience designed for leaders seeking to deepen their expertise at the intersection of profit and purpose. BSIP.

Certificate, Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Catering to business leaders seeking to learn about innovations in corporate social responsibility strategy, and CSR experts seeking new.

Graduate Certificate, Applied Business Ethics

Graduate Certificate, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Net Impact, Loyola University Chapter VP of Membership & Founding Member

Mba, International Business

Activities and Societies: Graduate Scholar at the Center for Risk Management - 2008-2009, Co-Founding Member of the Loyola University.

Graduate Certificate, Paralegal Studies, Litigation

Certificate, Band Instrument Repair

Ba, Philosophy, Music