At the October meeting of the Executive Committee, USCIB’s board of directors, Donald Monks was unanimously elected USCIB’s treasurer.  Mr. Monks is vice chairman of The Bank of New York, Inc., where he serves as chief administrative officer, manager of operations and technology and a member of the company’s senior policy committee.

As USCIB’s treasurer, Mr. Monks will chair the Finance and Oversight Committee, a standing committee of the board that oversees USCIB financial operations, working closely with Paul Cronin, USCIB’s vice president and chief financial officer.  He succeeds J. Frank Brown, who retired earlier this year from PricewaterhouseCoopers to become dean of the INSEAD business school.

During more than three decades with Bank of New York, Mr. Monks has directed key functions including an operations and technology organization that now spans three continents and includes a staff of nearly 7,000.  He has been recognized globally as a leader in shaping the evolution of the payments and securities servicing industries as well as in developing industry protocols for infrastructure resilience and business continuity.

Thanks to Outgoing Chairs!  – Also at its October meeting, USCIB’s Executive Committee unanimously adopted a resolution expressing the organization’s thanks to several outgoing committee chairs: George D. Carpenter (Environment),Nancie S. Johnson (Trade Policy), John F. Manfredi (Marketing and Advertising), Donald M. Nelson (Food and Agriculture) and Edward J. Regan (Information Policy).

“On behalf of USCIB, we thank you for your commitment and leadership, which have advanced the mission of USCIB and its international affiliates for the benefit of the American and global business community,” wrote USCIB Chairman William G. Parrett and USCIB President Peter M. Robinson in follow-up to each outgoing chair.  “Your colleagues on the Executive Committee, and in the wider USCIB family, honor your outstanding contribution in clearly demonstrating the USCIB theme of ‘Global Business Leadership at Work.’”

Additional Committee Changes

In addition to Mr. Monks’ election, noted above, and following close consultation with members involved, USCIB has consolidated several committees, while appointing new chairs to these and several other committees and working groups to succeed a number of outgoing chairs.  The changes are as follows:

Environment Committee

Chair: Terry A. Cullum, director of corporate responsibility and environment & energy, General Motors Corporation

Lead staff: Andrea Fava (212-703-5047 or afava@uscib.org) and Norine Kennedy (212-703-5052,nkennedy@uscib.org)

Food and Agriculture Working Group

Chair: Leonard Condon, vice president of international business relations, Altria Corporate Services, Inc.

Lead staff: Kimberly Halamar (212-703-5091, khalamar@uscib.org)

Information, Communications and Technology Committee

(combining Information Policy Committee and Telecommunications Committee

Chair: Kenneth W. Leeson, chairman and CEO, TheDCoffice, Inc.

Vice Chairs: Joseph Alhadeff, vice president of global public policy, Oracle Corporation; Kim J. Ambler, director of information services policy affairs, The Boeing Company

Lead staff: Heather Shaw (212-703-5068, hshaw@uscib.org)

Marketing and Advertising Committee

Chair: George Velez, global process leader, General Motors Corporation

Vice Chair: Carla Michelotti, executive vice president and general counsel, Leo Burnett Worldwide, Inc.

Lead staff: Alix Heywood (212-703-5090, aheywood@uscib.org)

Trade and Investment Policy Committee

(combining Trade Policy Committee and Investment Policy Committee)

Chair: R. Scott Miller, director of national government relations, The Procter & Gamble Company

Vice Chair: Geoffrey B. Gamble, director of international government affairs, DuPont

Lead staff: Steve Canner (202-371-1316, scanner@uscib-dc.org), Joseph Gavin (202-371-1316, jgavin@uscib-dc.org)

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USCIB Staff News

USCIB President Peter M. Robinson has been elected to the board of NAFSA, the Association of International Educators, a member organization promoting international education and providing professional development opportunities to the field.  Mr. Robinson has long been involved in international educational exchange and travel.  He served as director of the inbound division at the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), an international educational travel company, and he was a member of the International Board of Trustees of AFS (American Field Service) Intercultural Programs from 1997 to 2004, following six years on the Board of Directors of AFS-USA.  He was also an AFS high school exchange student to Austria.

Congratulations to Josefa Sicard-Mirabal, the ICC International Court of Arbitration’s director of arbitration and ADR for in North America, who was named in October as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine.  “New York-raised Ms. Sicard-Mirabal cut quite a swath through the legal community of her native Dominican Republic, serving as chief justice of the Civil, Commercial and Labor Court in La Vega,” the magazine notes.  “She worked with powerhouse law firm Greenberg Traurig before taking her new posting with the ICC in August.  The trilingual Ms. Sicard-Mirabal (Spanish, English, and French) founded and chairs Dominicans on Wall Street and can often be seen commenting on the news on television or in domestic and international newspapers.”  We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

New Members

USCIB is proud to welcome the following new members:

• Akerman Senterfitt, a law firm of some 500 attorneys and consultants, with offices in Florida and elsewhere around the United States
• Allen & Overy LLP, an international legal practice with approximately 4,900 staff, including some 450 partners working in 25 major locations worldwide.

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Terry A. Cullum, director of corporate responsibility, environment and energy with General Motors, has assumed the chairmanship of USCIB’s Environment Committee, taking up the reins from longtime chair George Carpenter of Procter & Gamble, who retired at the end of September.

The two men jointly led discussion at the most recent committee meeting in Washington, D.C., which was also the scene of a September 27 reception in Mr. Carpenter’s honor, recognizing his leadership and close involvement in USCIB’s environment work over many years.

USCIB’s Environment Committee promotes appropriate environmental protection within an open trade and investment system, and advances environmental protection and economic development as fundamental to sustainable development.

Mr. Cullum began his career in General Motors’ Cadillac division as a project engineer.  He held positions dealing with selection of materials, validation testing, and specification development before joining the corporate environmental staff in 1994.  He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan at Dearborn.  Mr. Cullum is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and serves on a number of academic advisory boards.

“We are delighted that Terry Cullum has agreed to lead USCIB’s dynamic environmental affairs activities,” said USCIB President Peter M. Robinson.  “Working with a team of dedicated members and staff professionals, we know he shares the goal of ensuring that business continues to play a major role in international environmental policy discussions.”

“We are very grateful to George Carpenter, who has helped define the whole idea of corporate sustainability, for his outstanding work on behalf of U.S. business in promoting greater awareness of environmental matters and of the many efforts by companies to improve environmental performance.”

Other Member News – Congratulations to John K. Veroneau, until recently an attorney with member law firm DLA Piper, who has been nominated by President Bush to serve as deputy U.S. trade representative. … The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently published a paper entitled “Farm Policies Block Progress for the Poor,” written by USCIB Executive Committee member Lionel C. Johnson, vice president and director of international government affairs with Citigroup, and Viji Rangaswami of the Carnegie Endowment.  They argue that the WTO’s Doha Round talks have already yielded potentially significant “wins” for developing countries, and they propose a three-fold solution to the present impasse over agriculture.  The paper is available at www.carnegieendowment.org/trade.

Trade and Investment Committees Join Forces – We are delighted to announce that USCIB’s Trade Policy and Investment Policy committees have agreed to merge their operations, in order to more effectively address the range of policies affecting both international trade and cross-border investment.  R. Scott Miller, director of national government relations with Proctor & Gamble, will chair the combined committee, with Geoffrey B. Gamble, director of international government affairs with DuPont serving as vice chair.  Joseph Gavin (202-371-1316, jgavin@uscib-dc.org) and Stephen Canner (202-371-1316, scanner@uscib-dc.org) will share staff support responsibilities.

USCIB Staff News – We welcome Josefa Sicard-Mirabal (212-703-5065, jsicard-mirabal@uscib.org) to USCIB’s New York offices as the ICC International Court of Arbitration’s director of arbitration and ADR for North America.  She succeeds Lorraine M. Brennan, who has returned to private practice as a lawyer with the New York offices of Kilpatrick and Stockton.

Josefa holds a law degree from the Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic and studied at Fordham University School of Law.  She began her legal career as a judge and subsequently chief justice in the Dominican Republic.  Since 1989 she has been a practicing attorney with major law firms in the U.S., specializing in international arbitration and litigation, and international business transactions including mergers and acquisitions and capital market transactions.

Caitlin Martin (212-703-5086, cmartin@uscib.org) has joined the International Chamber of Commerce full-time as BASCAP (Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy) information specialist, working out of USCIB’s New York offices.  Since March, Caitlin has worked part-time as an intern for the BASCAP initiative, ICC’s global effort to connect all business sectors and cut across national borders in the fight against counterfeiting and piracy.  Caitlin’s key responsibility has been to help build the BASCAP website (www.bascap.com), an international resource center for comprehensive information about counterfeiting and piracy.  She will coordinate the growing amount of information inflow, handling data collection, content editing and communications with BASCAP stakeholders, ICC national committees and ICC member companies.

Tina Tsao (212-703-5074, ttsao@uscib.org) has joined USCIB’s ATA Carnet Export Service a foreign claims examiner.  Issued and guaranteed by USCIB, Carnets are used for duty-free, tax-free shipment of temporary exports such as product samples and professional equipment.  Tina is a recent graduate of the University of Rochester and worked for Evergreen-America, a New Jersey-based shipping company.  In addition, supplementing his foreign claims responsibilities, Chris Gillard
(212-703-5076, cgillard@uscib.org) will serve as USCIB’s coordinator for customs training, coordinating outreach and instruction for U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel around the country on how Carnets are used.  And Mike Megliola (212-703-5081, mmegliola@uscib.org) has been promoted to senior foreign claims examiner and coordinator for special projects, focusing on streamlining our Carnet computer systems and internal processes.

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Fall 2011

Donnelly Is Among New Staff Appointments

Shaun Donnelly joined USCIB in September as vice president for investment and financial services.  In this key role, he will spearhead business efforts to open markets abroad for American investment and financial services, and to promote high standards of protection for cross-border investment both in the United States and overseas.  A career diplomat who has held a number of senior State Department posts, including principal deputy assistant secretary for economic and business affairs, Shaun also served as ambassador to Sri Lanka and as assistant U.S. trade representative for Europe and the Middle East. He succeeds Stephen Canner, who will stay on at USCIB as a senior advisor.

Lou Markert, who has worked as a technology consultant for USCIB over the past several years, has joined our staff as vice president of technology.  Lou previously worked as vice president for client services with  eCommerge, Inc., and before that as senior manager with Deloitte & Touche.

Norine Kennedy, USCIB’s vice president for energy and environmental affairs, has been appointed USCIB President and CEO Peter Robinson’s staff liaison to the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee (TEPAC), a key body that advises the Environmental Protection Agency and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative on the interplay between environmental and trade rules.

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New USCIB Members

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

Novozymes

Parker Drilling Company

USA Tank Storage Systems

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