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Presentation: Global Implications of a Volatile FX Marketplace

After years of relative calm, volatile markets and a strong USD have many in Corporate America looking closer than ever at effects of currency volatility on their financial results. Join the IBN for an informative session as we look back at 2015, assess the state of the current market, and discuss practical applications for corporate […]

Seminar: Staying Safe While Traveling Overseas for Business

Security Awareness Training With increased insecurity and risks around the world, how do you protect your employees and yourself? IBN is sponsoring half day seminar applicable to small and large businesses featuring Damon Brown, Security Awareness Advisor for the U.S. Dept. of State Foreign Service Institute. Damon has trained government personnel engaged in extensive overseas assignments. After a career in Policing […]

Post Holiday Reception

The International Business Network invites you to its Annual Post Holiday Reception on Monday, January 11, 2016. Chris McNulty, Director of Political & Community Affairs for the RNC 2016, will present: Update on RNC 2016 Cleveland   When: January 11, 2016, from 5:30 to 7:30pm Where: The Club at Key Center (127 Public Square) Cost: No charge. Hors d’oeuvres will be […]

Economic Forecast by Ken Mayland

When: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Where: Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd, Independence, OH 44131 Cost: TBD More details coming soon!

Is Business Success Possible in Africa – Where and How

Access the world’s fastest growing markets sensibly.  Speaker Patrick Griswold, founder and president of Why Africa Now! Griswold helps companies enter or improve their position in Africa. He has done business in Africa since 1985, and has lived there for over a decade as the Africa CEO of a $40B global automotive supply manufacturing company. […]

Doing Business in Brazil Breakfast

Our breakfast meeting will feature a broad spectrum of topics that relate to the contemporary legal and political climate of Brazil that is important to U.S. businesses and for foreign trade opportunities to the region. Seminar presentations will compare similarities and differences of contract obligations and will cover Brazil’s past, present and future economical, political […]

CYBERSECURITY – “Protecting Your Business At Home and Abroad”

Have a Website? Do business online? Use Municipal/County Government IT systems? Then YOU are at risk. CYBERSECURITY  “Protecting Your Business At Home and Abroad” The Cybersecurity Event of the Year Join us for this special event with Cybersecurity experts, from Washington, Ohio and Israel to help you identify the threats and how to protect yourself and […]

Foreign Exchange: Dodd-Frank and Affect on Corporate America

The International Business Network invites you to attend a presentation and panel discussion featuring an international treasury manager from a large manufacturing company, treasury owner/contact from a small business and a KeyBank documentation lawyer in charge of Dodd-Frank compliance for Foreign Exchange. When: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 8:30 – 10:30 a.m. (Registration at 8 a.m.) […]

New Year’s Reception

Join the International Business Network at our New Year’s Reception! Listen to speaker Ivan E. Schwarz, the Executive Director of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, as he discusses Northeast Ohio’s role in the International Film Industry. When: Thursday, January 17, 2013, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Where: The Ariel International Center, 1163 East 40th St., 4th Floor, […]

The World in 2013 – Come Back or Catastrophe?

The International Business Network invites you to attend a breakfast featuring Dr. Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics, LLC. Dr. Mayland has spent more than 35 years studying business cycles and providing economic analyses to a variety of constituencies. When: Thursday, November 15, 2012, 8:30 – 10 a.m. (Registration at 8 a.m.) Where: Crown Plaza […]