USCIB Welcomes New Director, Customs and Trade Facilitation

We are pleased to announce that Megan M. Giblin joined USCIB as our new director of Customs and Trade Facilitation. Megan brings strong a customs background with nearly a decade of experience in the field. She spent most of her career at HP as a business operations manager for global trade, where she worked on customs and trade policy matters, including trade facilitation. During her time at HP, she worked closely with the ICC Customs Commission and the World Customs Organization. Additionally, Megan served as a cleared advisor to USTR and DOC on the Customs and Trade Facilitation Advisory Committee, which she co-chaired. Further, she has also worked with many of the company representatives that are on USCIB’s Customs Committee including the chair.

USCIB Vice Chair Dennis Nally Begins ICC Leadership Term

ICC announced the appointment of Dennis Nally, chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC) and vice chairman of USCIB, as a new vice chairman of ICC. Nally has served as chairman of PwC since 2009. He is an expert on issues affecting the global capital markets and the professional services profession, and also leads many of PwC’s corporate responsibility efforts. The ICC World Council meeting in July also saw five new appointments to the ICC Executive Board. They were: John Denton (Corrs Chambers Westgarth); Daniel Feffer (Suzano); Robert Gutsche (KPMG); Mari Pangestu (former Trade Minister of Indonesia); Yassin Saeed Al Suroor (Al Suroor United Group).

USCIB’s Meyerstein Reappointed to Key Trade-Labor Panel

On August 25, U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez appointed Ariel Meyerstein to serve another term as member of the National Advisory Committee for Labor Provisions of U.S. Free Trade Agreements (NAC). In this capacity, Meyerstein will serve on a multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee that advises the Secretary of Labor through the Bureau of International Labor Affairs on the implementation of labor provisions in existing U.S. free trade agreements with labor provisions (currently 19). “I’m honored to continue serving in this important role,” said
Meyerstein. As a member of the NAC, Meyerstein will help assure that the implementation of existing agreements help to level the playing field for global businesses by continuing to develop U.S. trade partners’ capacity for regulating their own labor markets by assuring for worker protections in line with the standards in U.S. law and policy.

Remembering Bill Matteson, a Longtime USCIB Champion

We are saddened to report the passing in May of William B. Matteson, a longtime member and supporter of USCIB who served as vice chairman from 1986 to 1999 and also served as chairman of BIAC, the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD. A native of Westchester County, New York, Bill graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for Justice Harold Burton in the United States Supreme Court before joining the Debevoise & Plimpton law firm in 1955, where he went on to become partner in 1961. He headed the Paris office of Debevoise from 1973 to 1976 and was presiding partner of the firm from 1988 to 1993.

New USCIB Members

We are delighted to welcome the following companies and organizations as the latest additions to USCIB’s diverse
membership:

The Chemours Company
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
Jones Day Repsol

To learn more about how USCIB membership can benefit your organization, contact Alison Hoiem (202-682-1291
or ahoiem@uscib.org).

We are delighted to welcome six new additions to our Policy, Membership and Business Development teams. Darren Maynard joins USCIB as the senior director for Carnet Product Development and Regulatory Affairs, who is responsible for relationships with ATA Carnet Service Providers and strengthening the operations for Carnet issuance, marketing, and compliance. Darren has a background in the export and trade services field, working at IBM for 12 years before moving on to run a number of start-up technology companies.

Also in Trade Services, Derek Leite has come aboard as USCIB’s director for Trade Services and Carnet Services Liason to help our Trade Services team develop the Carnet product. Derek graduated from North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He has worked in sales and product development for 9 years at Cisco, IBM and A Plus Performance Computing. He has successfully run his own business for 12 years in New York.

In addition, David Murphy joined as a consultant with USCIB, serving as acting vice president of finance to support our accounting and finance teams. David is a certified public accountant with 23 years of experience. He has also worked as an auditor with Deloitte.

Also, Eric Robinson is USCIB’s new accounting and claims mitigation associate. Eric started out with USCIB in the summer of 2013 as an intern working closely with the accounting department, and returned again in June 2014 working with accounting and with the ATA Carnet team. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 2014 with a major in English and minors in Economics, Interactive Media and Design, and Journalism as well as a certificate of Business.

Christopher Olsen joined USCIB’s Washington, D.C. office in June as the new policy and program assistant. Chris comes to USCIB from the Atlantic Council, where he was first an intern, then a project assistant with the organization’s Millennium Leadership Program. Prior to the Atlantic Council, he was an economic security intern at the EastWest Institute after earning his Bachelor’s degree in international affairs and history at James Madison University in Virginia.

And Shertease Wheeler joined USCIB in May as our event planner. Shertease graduated from Hampton University in Virginia with a major in Print Journalism and has eight years of event planning experience. She will work with the policy department to support many upcoming programs scheduled throughout the year both in New York and Washington, D.C.

Welcome to all our new USCIB team members!

New USCIB Members

We are delighted to welcome the following companies and organizations as the latest additions to USCIB’s diverse membership:

Starbucks Coffee Company
American World Trade Chamber of Commerce
St. Louis Regional Chamber of Commerce

To learn more about how USCIB membership can benefit your organization, contact Alison Hoiem (202-682-1291 or ahoiem@uscib.org).

Ed Potter, chair of USCIB’s Labor and Employment Policy Committee and Coca-Cola’s director of global workplace rights, has spent nearly half his life representing U.S. businesses at the annual International Labor Organization (ILO) Conference. Last summer, Potter attended his 33rd and final ILO Conference in Geneva, more than any other American business representative. He will retire in June 2015.

Potter’s unparalleled leadership at the conference – and the relationships he has brokered and nurtured along the way – have had a positive impact on the global landscape of international labor standards.

“Ed Potter’s record of achievement at the ILO speaks for itself,” said Guy Rider, director general of the ILO. “He served 17 years as the U.S. Employers’ delegate to our annual Conference. During that time, he took on the responsibility of spokesperson of the world’s employers in several key discussions.”

Last June, USCIB honored Potter’s 33 years of ILO service with a special farewell dinner in Geneva.

“It’s a humbling validation of my work with the ILO,” Potter said. “I’ve left the conference every year feeling proud of the fact that, in some small way, we helped improve the lives of workers somewhere in the world.”

Staff Changes at ICC

The International Chamber of Commerce Secretariat has announced the appointments of Philip Kucharski as chief operating officer and Remi Faure as chief financial officer. Kucharski’s in-depth knowledge of ICC, and many of the
team at the ICC Secretariat, will ensure that he is able to hit the ground running when he begins his tenure in January. Faure has shown true leadership of the financial areas of ICC in the past few months. “I am pleased to be able to promote
internally for this position,” said ICC Secretary General John Danilovich.

New USCIB Members

We are delighted to welcome the following companies and organizations as the latest additions to USCIB’s diverse membership:

Business Alliance for Secure Commerce
Discovery Capital
Ericsson
United Technologies Corporation

To learn more about how USCIB membership can benefit your
organization, contact Alison Hoiem (202-682-1291 or ahoiem@uscib.org).

In August USCIB elected a new slate of officers, board members and trustees to govern and champion the organization over the next two years.

Among the highlights, Dennis Nally, chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd., has been elected vice chairman of USCIB. Nally has extensive experience serving large multinational clients in a variety of industries, principally focusing on technology and life sciences.
He also serves as a member of the Executive Board of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Terry McGraw, chairman of McGraw Hill Financial [now S&P Global] and chairman of ICC, was re-elected USCIB’s chairman.

In addition, the following individuals were elected USCIB Trustees for the first time: Stephen Chipman, chief
executive officer, Grant Thornton LLP; and John Veihmeyer, global chairman of KPMG and chairman and chief executive officer of KPMG in the U.S. Chipman, in his more than 30 years with Grant Thornton, has held numerous leadership positions throughout Europe, North America and Asia, developing a unique combination of international and U.S. business experience. Veihmeyer, with more than 35 years of experience working with CEOs, senior executives and board members at many of the world’s leading companies, is a top global business leader and an influential and sought-after advisor on business and financial issues.

Finally, the following individuals have joined USCIB’s Board of Directors: Neal Goins, vice president, international government relations, Exxon Mobil Corporation; Barry Granger, vice president and general manager, governmental marketing and government affairs, DuPont; Steve Hilton, corporate vice president, global government affairs and public affairs, McDonald’s Corporation; Charles R. Johnston, senior vice president, international government affairs, Citigroup Inc.; Michael F. Quinn, managing director, global trade services, J.P. Morgan Chase & Company; Pilar Ramos, senior vice president, global public policy and regulatory counsel,
MasterCard Worldwide; and William Sample, corporate vice president, worldwide tax, Microsoft Corporation.

Trade Services Hire

Kristen Bauer joined USCIB’s Trade Services department as executive assistant. Kristen earned a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University where she double-majored in International Political Economy and Anthropology. She is familiar with USCIB’s work since she’d been working as an intern in Trade Services since October 2012.

New USCIB Members

We are delighted to welcome the following companies and organizations as the latest additions to USCIB’s diverse membership:

Koch Industries
Mead Johnson Nutrition Company

To learn more about how USCIB membership can benefit your organization, contact Alison Hoiem (202-682-1291 or ahoiem@uscib.org).

Eric H. Loeb, vice president of international external affairs with AT&T, has been named the new chair of USCIB’s Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) Committee.

Loeb, whose term began July 1, will oversee the committee’s development and delivery of business views on information technology and Internet policy developments worldwide. He will succeed Ambassador David Gross, a partner with Wiley Rein, who is stepping down as chair of the USCIB committee to become president of the Federal Communications Bar Association.

“We are delighted that Eric Loeb will lead our ICT work at this
important juncture in global discussions about the digital economy,” said USCIB President and CEO Peter Robinson. “As an active participant at bilateral and multilateral meetings every year, a frequent speaker at international ICT events and a practitioner with experience working in countries around the world, he brings hands-on experience shaping policy on the global stage.”

Loeb also chairs the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Task Force on the Internet and Telecommunications. He is a m ember of the board of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute, and serves on the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.

USCIB’s ICT Committee advocates sound international policy to ensure the continued growth of ICTs, emphasizing free and fair competition, minimal government intervention, free information flows and a user orientation. It works through USCIB’s overseas network of business groups, including ICC and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the OECD, to secure strong industry representation and input to major multilateral discussions of ICT issues.

“I am eager for this new opportunity, especially to build on the positive contributions that U.S. business makes to the global digital economy,” said Loeb. “USCIB is the consensus voice of American business in international ICT policy forums, and colleagues around the world value the quality and balance of its contributions.”

New USCIB Members

We are delighted to welcome the following companies and organizations as the latest additions to USCIB’s diverse membership:

Eversheds
Foley & Lardner LLP
GoDaddy

To learn more about how USCIB membership can benefit your organization, contact Alison Hoiem (202-682-1291 or ahoiem@uscib.org).

It was the end of an era at the February meeting of USCIB’s Competition Committee in Washington, D.C., as longtime Chair Michael Blechman (Kaye Scholer) and Vice Chair Jim Rill (Baker Botts), stepped down and passed the baton to new Chair John Taladay (Baker Botts) and Vice Chair Jennifer Patterson (Kaye Scholer). Blechman and Rill, who have been esteemed and productive leaders of the committee for 20 years, said it has been a great pleasure to work together. Taladay is vice chair of the BIAC Competition Committee, while Patterson co-chairs the ICC Task Force on Due Process. Both also serve as non-governmental advisors to the International Competition Network. In 2014, the USCIB committee will focus on developments in procedural fairness (ICN, trade negotiations, China), due process (waivers and confidentiality), international antitrust cooperation, trade and competition linkages, and regulatory reform.

New Policy Hires Boost Work on Policy, Communications and Trade Services

We are delighted to welcome two new additions to our Policy
and Program team. Ariel Meyerstein has joined USCIB as Vice President for Labor Affairs, Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Governance, working out of our New York headquarters. With a law degree and PhD in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California at Berkeley, Ariel has a background in sustainable development and human rights in the extractive and financial sectors, and has worked on issues related to corporate responsibility in the public and private sectors. He comes to us from the law firm of Chadbourne & Parke, LLP and before that Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP. He also has served as a legal adviser at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and a Judicial Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Eva Hampl has come aboard as USCIB’s Director for Investment, Trade and Financial Services, working out of our Washington, D.C. office. Eva has a master’s of law in international and comparative law from the George Washington University Law School and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. She has worked on investment and trade issues, and done research on transparency in dispute settlement in the WTO and under investment treaties. Eva recently completed a one-year fellowship with GE’s Global Government Affairs and Policy division. Prior to that, she served as a trade associate with the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and interned at the European Union’s delegation to the United States. She has also served as a law clerk to the Connecticut Superior Court.

In addition, Michael Sicangco has joined USCIB’s Trade Services department as a Carnet Claims Examiner. Michael earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Baruch College/CUNY and previously worked for Michael Page, the recruitment firm, and Quick Billing Service.

Also, Christopher Zoia has joined USCIB as Communications Manager, with responsibility for website content development and dissemination, production of USCIB’s e-newsletters as well as this magazine, and social media strategy. He recently earned dual master’s degrees in international affairs and journalism from Columbia University. Prior to graduate school, Chris worked in Washington, D.C. as a researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focused on international economics and American foreign policy, and coordinated Carnegie’s Economic Strategy Roundtable series. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and English from the University of Chicago.

Welcome to all our new USCIB team members!

New USCIB Members

We are delighted to welcome the following companies and organizations as the latest additions to USCIB’s diverse membership:

Brown-Forman Corporation
Eaton Corporation
Facebook
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
Johnson Controls
MasterCard
Semiconductor Industry Association
Sidley Austin LLP
Sorini, Samet & Associates, LLC
Troutman Sanders LLP

To learn more about how USCIB membership can benefit your organization, contact Alison Hoiem (202-682-1291 or ahoiem@uscib.org).