GDP Network

Ruben Anton

Site Editor — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 03:01:28 PST

Ruben Anton, Head of Client Services at GDP Global, studied Translation and Interpreting at the University of Alicante and has since developed his career in the areas of marketing and communication, account management and client services. He worked with the leading UK inbound tourism services supplier as a sales manager and as a director of a Spanish services company.

Ruben joined GDP Global to support on key accounts and projects as well as develop GDP’s training and benchmarking programmes. His working languages are English and Spanish and he is also proficient in Catalan, Italian and French.

Promotion video from the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development

John Hanna — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:16:48 PDT

Poland Promotional Video

Guest Blogger

Site Editor — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:26:50 PDT

From time to time we are lucky to feature the ideas and opinions of others interested in investment and trade promotion. If you are interested to be a guest blogger contact us for further details using the links at the top or bottom of the page.

Roz Hanna

Site Editor — Sun, 29 May 2011 15:48:00 PDT

Roz Hanna has over 20 years experience in journalism and public relations. As a business journalist she covered the retail and property industry before moving into the public relations business, working as international PR director at ICI. Most recently she has become involved in organising media relations campaigns for GDP Global’s clients to help raise the profile of overseas regions and countries with British business in general and also to industry specific sectors. Roz is also Managing Director of Roz Hanna Consulting, a PR and magazine publishing company.

Rolf Gohdes

Site Editor — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:57:55 PDT

Rolf Gohdes is an independent economic and business consultant. He spent the last 7 years in Berlin with Germany Trade & Invest leading an intercultural team charged with attracting foreign investors for the chemicals and healthcare sectors. He also contributed towards GTAI’s marketing, public communications and strategic planning functions. Now officially retired, he supports a number of companies as “Senior Advisor” for special projects.

Prior to joining Germany Trade & Invest, Mr Gohdes worked for almost thirty years in the German chemicals sector with BASF. During this time he held numerous positions, including Director Chemical Sales for UK/Ireland; Global Director, Marketing Chemical Intermediates (Amines, Acrylates); Director Global Strategy and R&D for Paper and Chemicals (Sales:> 1 Bill €). He started his career with Hoechst South Africa as Technical Applications Representative for Polymers.

Enda Connolly

Site Editor — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:53:45 PDT

Enda Connolly has accumulated more than twenty years’ senior management experience and success in leading business critical functions for IDA Ireland, both at home and overseas. He has an in-depth understanding of strategic issues, economic drivers and public policy used to influence changes in Ireland. Over this period at the IDA Enda developed lasting relationships with top-level policy makers, politicians, business, academic leaders and influencers, both in Ireland and internationally.

His roles included Manager, Life Sciences & R&D at IDA Ireland, a function in which he developed the Irish FDI offer to the industry, which played a key role in establishing Ireland as a significant base for the industry amongst biotech, pharmaceutical and medical equipment multinational companies. For over five years, Enda also ran and extended the IDA Ireland’s North America operations. Subsequently, Enda returned to Dublin to assume a major role in developing the overall direction of IDA’s investment promotion strategy, in particular the development and implementation of Ireland and IDA Ireland’s Research Science and Technology Strategy.

Currently Enda is Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Health Research Board, a position he was appointed to on leaving IDA Ireland in 2008.

Paul Rivers

Site Editor — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:48:35 PDT

Paul Rivers is Chairman of RE:Media Group, which he established in the UK’s East Midlands in 2001. The company has become not only a noted creative digital agency, but also a specialist creative communications house to meet the interests of economic development and promotion agencies. The company has a particularly strong focus on meeting the needs of the public sector, and is actively supporting best practice investment promotion agencies including Derby and Derbyshire Economic Partnership, Invest in Nottingham, Hull Forward, Leicestershire Promotions, as well as many leading blue chip companies. In fact RE:Media is probably the UK’s leading agency to address digital communications needs of economic development agencies.

Mark Rutter

Site Editor — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:43:45 PDT

Mark Rutter is Product Manager for RE:Systems’ Inward Investment product. RE:Systems is a part of RE:Media. Mark is proficient in the good practices of handling enquiries alongside a variety of essential website bolt-on modules that make the difference in economic promotion.

Since its formation in 2001 RE:Media has become not only a noted creative digital agency, but also a specialist creative communications house to meet the interests of economic development and promotion agencies. The company has a particularly strong focus on meeting the needs of the public sector, and is actively supporting best practice investment promotion agencies including Midas, Business Birmingham, Invest in Nottingham and Hull Forward, as well as many leading blue chip companies. In fact RE:Media is probably the UK’s leading agency to address digital communication needs of economic development agencies.

Tony Male

Site Editor — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:39:02 PDT

Tony Male established Sector Marketing in 2007, of which he is Chef Executive. The agency provides client marketing, promotion, communications and sales support services internationally. Its capabilities span the communications spectrum of a full service agency: from advertising, conference organisation, exhibition participation to international marketing management and sales support, business development, market entry and lead generation services. Sector Marketing is based in the UK (Bristol and Birmingham), and also has staff and associates in Europe, North America and Asia.

Tony and the Sector Marketing team have provided marketing services to leading economic development and investment promotion organisations including, in recent times, to Birmingham International Airport, Coventry City Council, Advantage West Midlands, State of Sonora Mexico, Invest in Arizona, Invest in Spain. His team often deliver event solutions in major international trade shows, such as Connecticut Farnborough and Paris Airshows; MIPIM, Domotex, CeBIT, CEMAT and Hannover Messe.

Tony is responsible for the overall direction of the agency and the business development programme. His more than thirty years of business development experience, for both the private and government sectors, provides advice to all clients, from strategy to implementation. He is a fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing.

HP to open an IT data centre in Sydney

Alessandro Ravanetti — Mon, 02 May 2011 02:26:20 PDT

Hewlett-Packard (HP), the American global technology company, will open this year a $120 million next generation data centre in Sydney, Australia, from which will be able to offer a new range of cloud computing services.

The facility, which is set to be completed by the end of 2011, will be situated on an area of 134,000sqm in Eastern Creek,
Western Sydney, and will create jobs for about 200 people.