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International Career Workshops
Overview
This event is split into two parts. Attend one or both.
Marketing Your International Experience
4:00-5:15 p.m.
4151 Grainger Hall
Learn how to integrate study abroad experiences into your resume and interviews. Hear how alumni have used skills gained while abroad to boost their careers. Network and socialize with study abroad returnees and alumni.
Panelists:
Greg Iaccarino
Senior Career Advisor
L&S Career Services
Andrew Seaborg
Partner and Director of Private Client Group
The Capital Group
Kathy Koritzinsky
Co-Director
PLACES International, LLC
Sponsors: International Academic Programs and Letters & Sciences Career Services
How to Launch a Global Career: Top Strategies from Business Leaders
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Plenary Room, Grainger Hall
Learn about international business careers from members of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) advisory board. Panelists will address topics relevant to working internationally, such as:
-Advice on launching a global career
-Business opportunities in emerging markets
-Life as an expatriate
-Working across cultures
-Government sector career opportunities
-Overseas trade missions
Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served
Business casual dress is encouraged
Panelists:
Nancy Ballsrud
Vice President and Assistant Treasurer
Cargill, Inc.
David Foley
Director of Service Operations for the Americas
and Asia Pacific
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Steven M. Fraundorfer
Vice President - Global Sourcing and Supply Chain
Remington Personal Care Division of Spectrum Brands
Mary Linton
Director, Enterprise Solutions
Promega Corporation
Mary Regel
Director
Wisconsin Department of Commerce –
Bureau of Investment & Export
Sponsors: Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and the Business Career Center
Co-Sponsors: AIESEC, Mu Kappa Tau & Phi Beta Lambda
Date(s)
10/15/2008
Location
Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI
Speaker Biographies
Nancy Ballsrud
Nancy Ballsrud served Cargill for more than 33 years until her retirement in September, 2008. Most recently, she served as vice president of Cargill’s Administrative Division. Prior to that, she was named assistant treasurer and assistant vice president of Cargill's Administrative Division. She served as the regional treasurer for Latin America and had global responsibility for Cargill’s cash management, operations, accounting and IT functions.
Ballsrud joined Cargill in 1975 as a financial analyst. She was named manager of the Financial Information Services Department in 1977 and manager of planning and development for Cargill Agricola, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1979. Ballsrud returned to Minneapolis in 1982 and established and managed the Travel Services Department. She also became the operations supervisor of Corporate Aircraft and assistant vice president of travel services in 1986. She joined Corporate Treasury as a financial officer in 1990.
Ballsrud has served as a chairperson for United Way, a steering committee member for the Minnesota Special Olympics, an advisor for Junior Achievement, and a member of the board of directors of the Minneapolis Crisis Nursery. In October 2003, Ballsrud received a Top Women in Finance award from Finance and Commerce.
Ballsrud received her bachelor's degrees in finance and French from Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota, and an MBA in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ballsrud currently serves as a board member for the Center for International Business Education and Research at UW-Madison and as a board member for the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
Nancy Ballsrud and her husband Jim Nelson have two children and reside in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
David Foley
In his current role as director of field service operations for Harley-Davidson Motor Company, David Foley leads a team of more than 50 to provide dealership service operations consultancy, technical assistance, and service marketing advice for dealers/distributors throughout United States, Latin and South America, and the Asia-Pacific in order to improve the profitability, response to market demands, and the customer satisfaction levels of their service/after-sales operations.
Foley has been with Harley-Davidson for 13 years serving a number of sales, market development, and operational roles. He recently returned from China, where he pioneered the company’s market entry into China. There, he established the initial infrastructure from the ground-up to an office with more than 10 staff handling sales/channel development, marketing, and special projects. He launched Harley-Davidson’s first China retail dealer points and significantly raised the H-D brand profile in China via PR and marketing, which included media coverage on CNN, CNBC, and BBC.
Prior to China, he had responsibility for Harley-Davidson’s Australia and New Zealand regions, where he led the restructuring of the distribution network and laid the foundation for Harley-Davidson Australia, a wholly owned Harley-Davidson subsidiary. In this role, he also served as the team leader responsible for Harley-Davidson’s sponsorship of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Prior to Harley-Davidson, his work experience focused on international sales and distribution primarily in the Asia-Pacific region.
Foley has a bachelor’s degree in economics and Asian studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University.
Speaker Biographies
Steve Fraundorfer
Steve Fraundorfer serves as vice president of global sourcing and supply chain for the Remington Personal Care Division of Spectrum Brands in Madison, Wisconsin. In this position he is responsible for development of the global supply base for the Remington brand worldwide. Previously Mr. Fraundorfer served as division vice president of Spectrum Brands North American supply chain. He joined the company, then known as Rayovac Corporation, in 1993 as a manufacturing engineer, and later served as a buyer, senior buyer and purchasing manager (1993-1998), and as director of program management and external manufacturing (1993-2002) for Rayovac in Madison. From 2002 and 2005 he worked as operations leader of Rayovac’s Illinois Packaging and Distribution Center in Dixon, Illinois.
In his current position of vice president, global sourcing and supply chain, he spends 60 percent of his time in Shenzhen China managing a 70-person sourcing and product development office. All products that are marketed by Remington brands worldwide originate in this office from commercial discussion to final product qualification.
Mr. Fraundorfer holds three degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison: a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, an MBA in quantitative analysis, and a Master of Science degree in finance, investment, and banking.
Mary Linton
Mary Linton joined Promega in 1993, and is currently Director, Enterprise Solutions. This position recognizes an evolution of roles during her 14 years at Promega--from international auditing and accounting in Finance and Accounting, to Corporate Development, helping the establishment of our organization in China (1994-2001), oversight of distributor operations in Asia and Latin America (1995-1997), to leading the Genetic Identity team (2002-2006), and most recently, in Corporate Marketing. Her ability to be flexible to the organization’s needs allows her to move throughout the organization to provide leadership, decision-making and support for a flexible and varied range of corporate business opportunities or challenges. Mary’s responsibilities include developing, planning, implementing and communicating business solutions. She also participates in identifying, assessing or implementing strategic collaborations.
Mary’s affiliations with local institutions and businesses include: Business Board of Advisors, Edgewood College (2002 – 2007) and Board of Directors, Madison Community Family Wellness Clinic (2007 - ).
Mary received her undergraduate BBA degree in Accounting and Information Systems Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982. She has an MBA from Edgewood College, May 2000. She has been a licensed CPA since 1983.
Mary spent a year abroad as an AFS student in the northern Spanish province of Asturias in 1977-1978. She treasures business and personal travel opportunities to maintain fluency in Spanish.
Speaker Biographies
Mary Regel
Mary Regel serves as director of the Bureau of International Development in the Wisconsin Department of Commerce. She began her career with the Department of Commerce in 1987 as an international consultant for the Western Hemisphere. During that time, she administered export assistance and foreign agribusiness investment opportunities in the Western Hemisphere. She also represented the governor on the National Governors’ Association Staff Advisory Council to the Committee on International Trade and Foreign Relations and served as the chairperson for the U.S.-Canada Task Force.
In 1992, Ms. Regel became head of the Division of International Development promoting international trade and foreign investment. She oversees the five foreign trade offices and a staff of six based in Madison and throughout Wisconsin that provide technical assistance and organize international trade promotions for Wisconsin companies. Ms. Regel has organized and traveled with Governors Thompson, McCallum and Doyle on 20 trade missions to Canada, Mexico, Europe, SE Asia, China, Japan, Latin America and Africa.
Ms. Regel is on the board of CIBER and the State International Trade Directors Organization (SIDO) and serves as secretary of the Governor’s International Trade Council (WITCO). She assisted the WITCO Taskforce on International Education during its work to develop recommendations on “How to Create a Global Generation in Wisconsin for the 21st Century”. She serves on the Wisconsin District Export Council and the Executive, Finance and International Committees of the Council of State Governments. She was recently appointed to the UW-Milwaukee Lubar School’s International Business Center Advisory Council.
Ms. Regel received a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture economics with a minor in business from UW-Madison.