I help clients identify and capitalize on opportunities in global markets while helping them mitigate risks, obtain license to grow, and navigate foreign cultures.- Market Research: Combining exhaustive research, insights from a diverse professional network, in market experience, and fresh thinking, I find clients new and profitable market opportunities.- Risk Management: I help clients look around corners by crafting data-driven risk mitigation strategies that incorporate my experience in geopolitics, research, and disciplined decision making.- License to Grow: Through stakeholder engagement, public relations, and thoughtful programming I help clients both successfully enter markets and unlock long-term growth.-Cross-cultural Fluency: I help clients confidently engage with foreign partners and would-be customers through cross-cultural advisement and training as well as in-person support at the negotiation table.

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-Co-founded and led the Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center, a 5-year, 25 million USD Walmart and Walmart Foundation initiative, to advance a safer, healthier, and more sustainable food system through technology, industry capacity building, and policy advocacy- Managed an international team and partnerships in the USA, China, and Europe with Fortune 100 companies, top universities, global food tech startups, etc. that advanced food safety, quality, and wellness research, scouted and piloted supply chain innovations with global startups, developed food safety and wellness materials for the food industry and consumers, and engaged governments on food law and policy

-Managed multinational partnerships and projects for Walmart as an expat in China, including founding the first open food innovation platform for global startups, the Global Food Innovation Pipeline, which identified successful startups for Walmart and its corporate partners while advancing Walmart's corporate reputation in key markets