List of participants at the US Trade & Investment Mission to Algeria April 5-10, 2008
1. Mr. Daniel Chavis, Vice President, Bricking Solutions, Seattle, Washington.
At Bricking Solutions, SAFETY, SPEED, and QUALITY are the goals behind each product designed for our Circle of Refractory Maintenance System. Losing valuable production days due to an emergency outage can become a thing of the past. By utilizing the most comprehensive and complete rotary kiln refractory maintenance system in the industry, emergency outages can be turned into planned ones.
Bricking Solutions is the worldwide leader of custom manufactured rotary kiln bricking machines and related equipment because of our close relationship with installers, contractors, plant designers, and refractory manufacturers. Our products are custom designed to adapt to their needs.
2. Mr. Omar Amrous, Manager at Costco Headquarter in Seattle, Washington, Marketing and Business Development. Agribusiness Sector
Costco is the leader wholesale club in the US, CANADA, MEXICO, ENGLAND. Costco has 50 millions members.Each store has pharmacy, meat department, bakery, tire shop, groceries items, clothing department, optical, hearing aid, with the top quality and standardsworldwide
3. Mr. James Darradji, President of International Trade and Financial Services. Charlottesville, Virginia
The International Trade and Financial Services, Inc., was founded in 1993. Its main objectives are:
* Help and assist US companies export their products overseas (including Algeria)
* Put together buyers and sellers from the private or public sectors
* Provide financial services such as business loans (at the lowest rates) for exporters and importers.
4. Mr. Blake Thornton, President of BTM Machinery, South Carolina
5. Mr. Mike Finley, Vice President of BTM Machinery, South Carolina.
BTM Machinery Inc. is located in Charleston, South Carolina. We pride ourselves on importing and exporting the world’s finest late model and new heavy construction machinery. We serve our customers by offering a wide variety of mechanically sound machines primarily from Asia and Europe. We deal with equipment from some of the world’s foremost manufacturers, including but not limited to Hitachi, Caterpillar, Volvo and Komatsu.
6. Dr. Belkacem Habba, Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Tessara Company, Silicon Valley, California.
Tessera is a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry. Tessera enables new levels of miniaturization and performance by applying its unique expertise in the electrical, thermal and mechanical properties of materials and interconnect. Tessera's technologies are widely adopted in high-growth markets, including consumer, computing, communications, medical and defense electronics. More than 15 billion semiconductors worldwide incorporate Tessera's technology
7. Mr. Richard Erdman, Managing Director at World Developments Corporation, McLean, Virginia.
World Developments Corporation, WDC, is a privately-held U.S. group based in Washington, D.C. providing services that span various sectors, including development of fully-integrated construction and civil engineering projects worldwide; installation and implementation of large-scale corporate IT networks; internet technology and corporate communications solutions, and the creation and maintenance of healthcare informatics solutions for both public health systems and the private healthcare sector.
8. Mr. Daniel Brownlee, Regional Manager for Africa, Raytheon, Virginia.
Raytheon: Aspiring to be the most admired defense and aerospace systems supplier through world-class people and technology. Raytheon is a technology leader specializing in defense, homeland security, and other government markets throughout the world.With a history of innovation spanning more than 80 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services.
9. Mr. Mickey Oros, Vice President of Altergy Systems, California.
Altergy Systems designs and manufactures proprietary proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell systems, collectively known as Altergy Freedom Power™ products. These compact, rugged, high efficiency systems produce power at the point of use -- making reliable, low cost, distributed power generation a reality. Telecommunications, data centers, and other mission-critical premium power applications benefit greatly from the uninterrupted, on-demand power, peak shaving and load shedding made possible by Altergy’s innovative fuel cell systems.
10. Mr. Kamel Ounadjela, President & CEO of Calisolar, California.
CaliSolar is a photovoltaic (PV) company that designs, patents, manufactures and markets solar cells in high volumes for the largest segments of the PV industry. The company's break-through patent-pending technologies will enable it to fabricate mass-market solar cells at the industry's lowest costs. By leveraging its proprietary process
technologies, CaliSolar will achieve competitive advantages in feedstock costs, wafer yields and labor savings as well as solar cell efficiency.
11. Mr. Jonathan Lifa, from Chevron, Houston, Texas.
12. Mr. Ewing Clemmons, Vice President of Chevron, Houston, Texas.
Chevron is a collaborative enterprise whose many parts work in concert to deliver vital energy. Acting with a common vision all around the world, our various businesses fulfill our commitment to provide the energy that drives human progress. Our portfolio includes major operations in the world's most important oil and gas regions. The chemicals we make are used in many household products, packaging and fuel additives. Manufacturing, Marketing and Transportation We maintain a significant presence in all segments of the downstream industry. Other Businesses. Chevron's interests range from power generation and mining to energy research and nanoscience.
13. Mr. James Bleke, Board Member of EWAC, Miami Florida. Expert in Engineering and in Infrastructure project management
14. Mr. David Esbeck, Vice President of Solar Turbines, San Diego, California.
Solar Turbines is a world leading producer of mid-range industrial gas turbines for use in power generation, natural gas compression, and pumping systems. It provides full product support, equipment supply, financing, plus installation and operation and maintenance capability. In 1981, Caterpillar purchased the Company, and today, Solar Turbines Incorporated is a wholly owned subsidiary. Products include six gas turbine product families, Saturn®, Centaur®, Mercury™, Taurus™, Mars®, Titan™, and eight centrifugal gas compressor product families including both pipeline and multi-stage compressors. Gas Turbine Products range from 1-22 MW (1500-30,000hp). Solar also manufactures Turbotronic™ microprocessor-based control systems utilizing PLC technology. Services offered by the Company cover gas turbine and gas compressor overhaul, parts replacement, field service, package refurbishment, and asset management. Solar sells, manufactures, and services its products in more than 96 countries from over 30 worldwide locations. Business is conducted through these offices with sales and service employees plus sales representatives and selected distributors. Although 80% of Solar's employees and 85% of the physical assets are located in the U.S., Solar exports more than 70% of its products. Solar is one of the 50 largest exporters in the United States.
15. Mr. Bassim Karkachi, President of Bivision Systems, San Diego, California.
Bivision helps you achieve the goals of securing your investment and increasing your margin. No matter how big or small your company is, you must have a high level of insight into your processes. It is essential to have a high level of automation, therefore increasing productivity and the bottom line. This can only be achieved if all data sources are combined into a single instance application, thus providing a streamlined, global view of all facets of your operation. Gaps and overlaps in your system must be uncovered in order to gain understanding into the underlying processes that affect the level of service you provide to your subscribers. InVision Systems provides a ready-to-use structure, one where users are fed with the right information at the right time and at the right level of detail. The program pays for itself many times over by increasing the quality of service provided, thus reducing customer turnover rate, and, in turn, adding significantly to your bottom line.
16 -Mr. Josh Leachman, Vice President of Mcwane International,
McWane Incorporated is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of ductile iron and cast iron products for AWWA and UL/FM projects. Products include pipe, fittings, valves, hydrants, and waste water and drainage for the water works industry. The corporation is highly focused with 100% of its resources dedicated to manufacturing products targeted exclusively for this single market. McWane International was established in 1992 to coordinate the international sales activities of McWane Inc.'s eleven manufacturing divisions. Previously these activities were conducted by each individual unit. Although some of the divisions have only recently begun manufacturing products to international specifications, other divisions have been active internationally for several decades.
Several of the divisions have been producers of iron pipe, valve and fitting products since the late 1800’s.Ten of the eleven manufacturing divisions operate their own foundry as part of their production process. McWane companies have supplied waterworks products to North America, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe including the newly opened Eastern European countries, the Middle East, Africa, Asia including China, and the Pacific Islands
17- Mr. Zinou Chair, Vice President of Marketing & Co-Founder of Cortina Systems
Cortina Systems is driving the evolution of multi-service carrier and enterprise networks with advanced analog and digital communications ICs. Founded in 2001, Cortina Systems is based in Sunnyvale, California.
18- Mr.Barry Lites, President of TradeCard MENA
TradeCard, Inc. is the leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions. The TradeCard Platform synchronizes financial transactions with physical events in the global supply chain to help customers automate trade transactions from purchase order to payment and chargebacks. Buyers, sellers and their trading partners manage transactions through a web-based platform with online financial services integrated into the workflow. This turnkey transaction management enables customers to improve margins and enhance growth, with extra-organizational supply chain visibility. TradeCard's on-the-ground trade experts throughout the world assure superior supply chain agility.
TradeCard manages global trade for thousands of users in over 40 countries, including Columbia Sportswear, Rite Aid and Wolverine Worldwide. TradeCard Inc. is headquartered in New York City and has offices in San Francisco, Hong Kong, Brussels, Taipei, Seoul, Colombo, and Shenzhen. TradeCard is located online at www.tradecard.com.
19-Mr. Don Deline, Chairman of USABC and Vice President of Halliburton, Houston, Texas.
20-Ms. Elisabeth Lord Stuart, Operations Director at the US-Algeria Business Council.
21-Dr. Smail Chikhoune, President of US-Algeria Business Council.