WNG Member News
Spring 2016

Joe Brinker has accepted the position of senior democracy, governance, peace and security advisor in the Middle East Bureau at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Joe will cover 11 countries in the Middle East in this role and will be based in Washington, DC. We are proud to have Joe as a WNG Advisory Board member.

Tim Young, President of Young Marketing Consulting, has joined the WNG Entrepreneur Roundtable steering committee. Learn more about Tim at: YoungMarketingConsulting.com and @YoungMktg. Please join us in welcoming Tim to the steering committee!

Meghan Dotter, Principal and Founder of Portico PR, has joined the WNG Board of Advisors. In January, Meghan led a session on "Help for the Reluctant Presenter" convened by the WNG Communications Roundtable. Learn more at: PorticoPR.us, @PorticoPR, @MeghanDotter. Please join us in welcoming Meghan to the Board!

Nino Kader, CEO of Spark Digital, recently appeared on Aljazeera TV to discuss whether Apple's iPhone has peaked. Based in Doha, Qatar, Nino is a WNG International Council member and WNG Communications Roundtable steering committee member.

Pamela Peseux, president of Cimperium International LCC, an international trade promotion and advisory firm, led the technical program development for two USTDA-sponsored reverse trade missions from East Africa’s port and airport sectors. Ms. Peseux developed the 11-day itineraries which included meetings and site visits with U.S. port and airport stakeholders. Peseux traveled with both the port and airport delegations to three cities in March and April. Ms. Peseux also traveled to India in March as a member of the USTDA India Smart City Technical Advisory Team to participate in a needs assessment workshop with Ajmer city stakeholders. Ms. Peseux organized a technology roundtable which brought U.S. company representatives together with the city officials. For more information about Cimperium and these projects, visit www.Cimperium.com

Bill Stokes is working with ExecCareers DC, an executive search firm headquartered in the greater Washington DC region. Bill can be reached via email. Additionally, he continues as chairman of the Washington Network Group.

Robert Grupp is chairing the 7th National Summit on Strategic Communications during April 26-27 in Arlington, Virginia. The Summit shares best practices at the intersection of corporate communications, military public affairs and government relations. Among 25+ speakers: Army PA Chief Gen. Frost, DHS’s George Selim, and State’s John Kirby. When registering, WNG Members use promo code "C786WNG" for 15% discount.

Eric Staal has joined the WNG International Council. A long-time WNG Member, Eric is based in London, where he leads business development for Lex Mundi's top-tier law firms throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

Mary Gotschall, is now Director of Marketing at LinkedIn.Qnexis Inc,, an award-winning digital communications, information technology and management solutions firm based in Reston, Virginia.

Tasleem Kassum, a native Washingtonian, has recently relocated to Washington from New York and is Principal of Kassum Communications. With nearly twenty years of global strategic communications, HR communications, marketing, executive coaching and strategy experience working in agency, management consulting and client side environments, her firm focuses on communications advisory work and executive coaching. Tasleem can be reached via email or via LinkedIn.

Jim Stockmal will be speaking at the Association for Strategic Planning annual conference in San Francisco during March 16-18, 2016. Jim will also be a judge at the inaugural "Start-up Experience" as part of St. Johns' College High School's new Leadership and Entrepreneurial Development program on March 5.

Laura M. Labovich, CEO of The Career Strategy Group, has been selected to author a chapter of the new book coming out from Association of Talent Development (ATD) on Effective Networking. She's busy working on that chapter now and eager to see it hit bookshelves in the fall!


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