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Mike Miller
Mike Miller
Core Value Proposition:
" By combining business acumen, market and sales management expertise, Michael helps organizations transform ideas into scalable enterprises, connect with investors and strategic partners, and create measurable economic and social impact across diverse national and global markets.”
Strategic Growth Advisor | International Market Expansion Specialist | Investment & Financial Inclusion Leader | Ecosystem Development Leader
Michael has more than 30 years of experience leading business growth, market expansion, strategic partnerships, and investment initiatives across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has worked with startups, growth-stage companies, multinational corporations, investors, chambers of commerce, universities, and economic development organizations to create new market opportunities, attract capital, and build sustainable business ecosystems. His international experience includes supporting cross-border investment, entrepreneurship development, financial inclusion, technology commercialization, and diaspora engagement initiatives.
Michael Miller is a senior business strategist, advisor, and growth executive with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations accelerate growth, enter new markets, raise capital, and build strategic partnerships across domestic and international markets. His expertise spans strategy development, market expansion, fundraising, business transformation, economic development, and stakeholder engagement for startups, emerging growth companies, investors, and mission-driven organizations.
He earned a MBA from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. He is certified in Leadership & Management Assessment and Development by the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC.
Mike was selected for inclusion in the 2023 Top 100 Innovators & Entrepreneurs magazine (www.thetop100magazine.com). He presented How to enter the USA Market at the International Pavilion during the January 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas, NV). He has been a speaker or panelist during international symposiums in Africa, China, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden.
NJ Hahn
NJ Hahn was born in Seoul, South Korea and later educated in Governors Academy in MA and Davidson College in NC. Upon graduating, he worked in Korea helping companies such as Samsung and LG electronics visiting their headquarters around the world to develop marketing strategies especially for mobile and home appliance divisions. He served in US Navy Reserve from 2011 to 2018 as an avionics and IT technician.
Since 2009, he has been in Los Angeles area working for real estate investment companies and Korean companies meet with their US counterparts alongside with various Korean government agencies such as KOTRA branch in America for trade and investment promotion purposes.
NJ found Asia Trade Partner, LLC in 2013 and later amended the name to PDG Development West, LLC. Over the 10 years, he served more than 1,000 Korean government officials and top executives through meetings and in search of buyers and/or partners. Over 70% of his clients including small to medium size Korean companies have now entered the US market due to his efforts.
During the recent pandemic, he quickly sourced PPEs from Korea and distributed over $5M worth of items such as KF94 masks and COVID19 test kits.
Arie Shen
Arie has created a successful and diverse career, leveraging business opportunities and growing companies. His projects and sales experience have spanned the Americas and EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). As an expert in business development where research and networking are equally important, his leadership leads to sales growth, JV, strategic partnerships, investments, and exposure.
Arie’s international background, experience, and training have successfully guided a broad range of companies, including B2B, B2C, and nonprofit organizations. He is passionate about management in all its aspects: social, psychological, process, leadership (both inward and outward facing), employees, and org. functional hierarchy.
However, most important is the validated and measured results. Arie can produce meaningful and fast results.
Arie has developed a rich career in managing company ecosystems with suppliers, VARS, customers, advocates, and regulators. His business development skills and sales acumen allow him to identify emerging opportunities and negotiate unique positions for success in multiple markets, including hi-tech, biotech, green-tech, and consumer products. His technical skills, operational management, and creative thinking address employer needs in operations, supply chain issues, marketing, and sales.
During more than a decade as an executive manager for publicly traded companies, Arie has managed technical professional services and ran P&L operations with sales responsibility. He has operated in many Fortune 1000 sectors, local and federal governments, and businesses in the insurance, manufacturing, aerospace, financial, healthcare, sales and marketing, distribution, and retail arenas.
His education background includes IAF Pilot and Aviation course, Bar Ilan U. Accounting and economics, UCI Information and computer science, math and management, and UCI MBA.
Terry Gubatan
A native of Los Angeles, he married to my high school sweetheart 27 years later. They live in a 100 yr old Victorian house in Echo Park and they have two daughters and three grandchildren. He’s committed to local community efforts as a past President of Historic Filipinotown Rotary and I enjoys music and art. He’s a graduate of University of Phoenix, Silicon Valley in Business Administration. He served 2 decades in sales management staffing & opening stores for major retail organizations. He later moved his career in finance and have spent 15 years working with various products of financing for small business. Currently he has served the last 10 years with Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corp that operates the City of Los Angeles Business Source program supporting small business owners with coaching, technical assistance, access to capital and expansion. He supports small businesses with legal, accounting, marketing and digital strategies. Terry considers this purpose driven work creating jobs in an underserve market. Terry also operates a business out of state for Veterans
