Executive Speaker Series: James Jameson, International Entrepreneur

Date & Time:

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Location:

Soda Activity Center: Lafayette Room, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road, Moraga, CA 94575
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Description:

Business Beyond Borders: Exploring International Entrepreneurship

Global market and cultural diversity present unique opportunities for individuals with great ideas. And there has never been a better time for entrepreneurs to consider looking abroad when thinking about where and how to start their businesses.

As an international entrepreneur, James Jameson’s career has spanned multiple industries on a number of different continents. After an initial stint at Qantas Airlines, Jamesonlived in Indonesia and traveled extensively in the Middle East. In Indonesia he sold helicopters to the national petroleum company, and in the Middle East, he introduced desert-area agricultural techniques that led to the blossoming of the desert. Later, following the fall of communism in Poland, he helped run an avant-garde printing press. A former assistant secretary of commerce in the George HW Bush administration, Jameson has been associated with a wide range of companies in aerospace, agriculture, publishing, book distribution, and real estate in the United States and abroad.

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Location: Lafayette Room, Soda Activity Center
1928 St. Mary’s Road, Moraga, CA
Parking: Saint Mary’s is an active campus. Please leave yourself time to find parking in one of our visitor lots highlighted on the campus map.
RSVP: Registration for this event is required. RSVP today!
Agenda:
6 p.m. – Registration & Networking (food & beverages provided)
6:30 p.m. – Welcome, Introductions and Keynote Presentation
7:30 p.m. – Q&A Session
8 p.m. – Networking Reception

Keynote Speaker:
James D. Jameson is a founder and/or major shareholder of a number of companies both in the United States and abroad. His companies’ interests are in the fields of aerospace, agriculture, publishing, book distribution and real estate. Collectively, this group has over 3,000 employees and operates in 14 countries of the world. The companies are privately held. The companies include Glenair, Inc., LIDCO, Inc., the Luxembourg Cambridge Holding Group S.A., Rancho Los Lagos, China Cambridge Holding Group and Speak Mandarin Co., Ltd. Most recently, Jameson has established a very successful publishing group of companies under Luxembourg Cambridge Holding Group in Poland, Ukraine, and China. These publishing companies concentrate in the professional, reference and educational sectors. He also sits on the Advisory Board of Trilantic, a Merchant Bank successor to Lehman Brothers Merchant Bank.

Jameson chairs the Advisory Council for the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California at San Diego. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Reason Foundation (a policy think tank interested in free market solutions to societal problems). He spent 8 years on the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Americas, an independent non-profit institution devoted to finding effective responses to some of the major challenges facing the countries of the Western Hemisphere. He was Chairman of this Institute, but resigned to enter the United States Government as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development in the first Bush Administration. In that capacity, he was an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and on the Board of Directors of the Export Import Bank. He also served as a member of the President’s Export Council and on the Board of the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States.

Jameson also spent several years as a member of the U.S. Polish Action Commission chaired by Zbignew Brezezinski. This Commission has been involved in the economic development of Poland and is composed of both United States and Polish members. Mr. Jameson served as the International President of the Young Presidents’ Organization in 1989/90. This group of 7,000 chief executive officers under the age of 50 in over 70 countries of the world provides continuing education and networking for its members.

Jameson was selected for a United States Presidential Business Mission by President Bush in 1990 to attend the Helsinki Summit and to go to Moscow to discuss economic development with President Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Shevardnaze.

Contact

Questions? Contact Craig Kaufman, crk2@stmarys-ca.edu.