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Business Exchange South America 2013 FORUM

Bogota, Colombia

Dear Industry Professional As a professional company interested in opportunities globally, you are invited to the first ever Trade, Commerce, Infrastructure and Built Environment Business Exchange Forum, scheduled to take place in Bogota, Colombia on Jan 31st & Feb 1st, 2013. The focus of the forum is to promote and provide opportunities for international companies to do business in the five featured countries of South America. Country representatives from the highest level of the Ministries of the Infrastructure, Finance, Trade and Commerce from Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Peru and Panama will be available to meet with sponsoring companies at exclusive “One on One” sessions. In addition, the sponsors will be afforded an opportunity to present their expertise at a general session to all five countries on day 1 of the forum. Sponsorship packages available for participating companies are as per below: For $6,000 -One 90 minute session with one of the participating country ministers as per Day 2 program -30 Minute company profile presentation opportunity as per Day 2 PM program & recognition on Forum Brochure For $10,000 -Two 90 minute sessions each with two of the participating country ministers as per Day 2 program -30 Minute company profile presentation opportunity as per Day 2 PM program & recognition at Forum Brochure For $13,000 -Three 90 minute sessions each with three of the participating country ministers as per Day 2 program -30 Minute company profile presentation opportunity as per Day 2 PM program & recognition at Forum Brochure For $21,000 -Five 90 minute sessions each with five of the participating country ministers as per Day 2 program -30 Minute company profile presentation opportunity as per Day 2 PM program & recognition at Forum Brochure Should your company be interested in participating as a sponsor, please contact [email protected] as well as [email protected] The Forum is being organized by PRIA Global Inc., an US based consultancy, with endorsement from the US Department of State, Embassy of India in Colombia, International Design and Construction Management Asia, Construction Management Association of Spain, Chartered Institute of Buildings, UK and International Construction Project Management Association. For more information on the event, please contact us at [email protected] Sincerely

Porie Saikia-Eapen AIA FCIOB Developer & Organizer of Forum Dec 18, 2012

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PRIA Global

Forum Developer & Underwriter

Strategic Solutions for a Sustainable Built Environment

Endorsement & participation location

Embassy of India, Colombia

Session 1 Immediate Future Development Plans for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Session 2 Sponsor Company Profile Presentation

January 31st

Session 1 Private Meetings with Sponsor Companies and Country Representatives

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Session 2 Private Meetings with Sponsor Companies

and Country Representatives

February 1st

The Business Exchange South America Forum brings together professionals

and practitioners from all corners of the globe to discuss opportunities on business exchanges, new trends and create business partnerships in South America. High level government representatives will outline their countries’ upcoming physical, economical and social infrastructure improvement programs. They will also provide information on investment & work opportunities for foreign consultants and companies in related fields. For more information contact [email protected]


Bogota, Colombia

Event Management: PRIA Global Inc.

US Department of State

Colombia

US Commercial Service, ITA


January 31th

February 1st

FORUM AGENDA


Bogota, Colombia


Potential Work in Five South American Countries: COLOMBIA, ECUADOR, PERU, PANAMA, COSTA RICA A must attend presentation: The senior most executives of each country will present their immediate future developmental plans. They will also discuss their expectations of foreign consultants as well as outline processes of foreign company engagement.

Presentation of Experience Portfolio: Sponsoring Companies Experience high lights of the sponsoring companies’ portfolio on delivery excellence and qualifications.

Private, One On One discussions with Sponsoring Companies and Countries of their choice. Forum sponsoring company delegates will have the rare opportunity of meeting privately with country representatives for 90 minutes each to establish contacts and relationships to position themselves for upcoming pursuits., programs, opportunities.

International Industry Organizations Roundtable International industry organization in economic and business trade will meet to discuss a collaborative path forward for globally sustainable business strategies .

8:00 Registration & Coffee

8:30 Welcome and opening by Host Sponsor

Porie Saikia-Eapen, Managing Director, PRIA Global Inc.

8:45 Keynote Government of India, US State Department

9:00 Colombia - Country’s Growth Plan Minister, Public Works Ministry of Industries/Construction/Economic Development/ Foreign Trade, Colombia

9:50 Ecuador- Country’s Growth Plan Minister, Public Works Ministry of Industries/Construction/Economic Development/ Foreign Trade, Ecuador

10:40 Peru - Country’s Growth Plan

Minister, Public Works Ministry of Industries/Construction/Economic Development/ Foreign Trade, Peru

11:30 Costa Rica - Country’s Growth Plan

Minister, Public Works Ministry of Industries/Construction/Economic Development/ Foreign Trade, Costa Rica

12:10 Panama - Country’s Growth Plan Minister, Public Works Ministry of Industries/Construction/Economic Development/ Foreign trade, Panama

13:00 LUNCH

14:30 - 15:30

Company Profile Presentation Sponsoring Companies

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:00

Company Profile Presentation Sponsoring Companies

17:00 Adjournment

18:30 To

21:00 Forum Reception

January 31st


Bogota, Colombia

February 1st

9:00 to

10:15

Private, One On One discussions with Sponsoring Companies and Countries

Sponsoring Companies- First Session with Choice of Country #1

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 to

11:15


Sponsoring Companies – Second Session with Choice of Country #2

11:15 to

12:30


Sponsoring Companies – Third Session with Choice of Country #3

12:30 Lunch

14:00 to

15:15


Sponsoring Companies- Fourth Session with Choice of Country #4

15:15 to

16:30


Sponsoring Companies – Fifth Session with Choice of Country #5

16:30 Coffee and Closing Session Participating Country Representatives, Sponsoring Company Representatives


Bogota, Colombia


18:00 -20:30 Post Forum Optional Event : to be announced

10:00 AM- 5:00PM – Parallel Roundtable discussion of International Organizations of the Built Environment


Bogota, Colombia

Message from the Chair It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the first Business Exchange Forum South America in Bogota, Colombia. This is a landmark opportunity to create an inclusive forum for trade and business transaction opportunities. To be part of this imperative which is transforming the global trade industry, we invite you to the ancient yet modernized city of Bogotá, Colombia. Bogota figures amongst the 30 largest cities of the world. The Business and Trade Exchange forum features five countries: Colombia, a key target for foreign investment, analysts hail Colombia's pro-business government; Panama, where the Government has created some incentives to become a destiny of Multinational Companies; in Ecuador, largest foreign bilateral lending from China, allows the government to maintain a high rate of social spending; Peru, as of 2011, is one of the world's fastest-growing economies owing to the economic boom experienced during the 2000s; and Costa Rica, whose location in the Central American isthmus, provides easy access to North and South American markets and direct ocean access to the European and Asian continents. -Porie Saikia-Eapen, AIA, FCIOB

Forum Chair & President and Managing Director, PRIA Global Inc. Porie Saikia-Eapen successfully initiated, developed and managed the Infrastructure Business Exchange Forum 2012 in Bangkok. Ms. Saikia-Eapen is a licensed architect and holds a CIOB license as a Fellow on Construction Management. She is a Governor of the New York Building Foundation, Chair of Women’s Council at NYBC, the Americas Ambassador for the Chartered Institute of Building; a trustee at the BWAF, Director of International Construction Project Management Association and Founder of Tree of Life Professional Development Inc (501c3). she has held positions of Business Vice President at a multinational company, Chief Architect at Metropolitan Transportation Authority

New York post 9/11, Executive Director at a Women Support Foundation, Program and Construction Manager at public and private sector built environments programs.

Biographies of Invited Country Representatives


Bogota, Colombia

His Excellency Sergio Díaz-Granados Guida, is the current Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia. Before he was called to head the ministry, he served as Deputy Minister of Industrial Development. He has served as Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2002 to 2006, Deputy in the Magdalena Departmental Assembly from 1998 to 2000, and Councilman in the Santa Marta City Council from 1995 to 1997.


His Excellency Riewad Warjri serves as the current Ambassador of India to Colombia and accredited to Ecuador and Costa Rica. A seasoned diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service, Mr. Warjri has served as the Ambassador, High Commissioner, Deputy Consul General, First Secretary and Director on Deputation to the UN for Govt. of India during his 30 year career.

Garth Hall is currently an Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota and primarily reports on civil aviation and infrastructure. He previously served at the U.S. embassies in Kuwait City and Cairo.



Bogota, Colombia

His Excellency Rafael Poveda, Minister Coordinator of Strategic Sectors of Ecuador


His Excellency Francisco Rivadeneira, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade & Economic Integration, Ecuador His ministry is responsible to plan, direct, manage and coordinate the policies of foreign trade, economic integration and investment that contribute to the development of an economic, social and national solidarity in, and a fair trade based on international complement under existing constitutional and national development plans.

His Excellency Santiago Leon, previously director of the National Customs of

Ecuador (SENAE), is the Minister for Coordination and Production at the Ministry of

Production, Employment and Competitiveness. After graduating from the Escuela Superior

Politécnica del Litoral in 2001. he continued his studies at the University of New Orleans,

where he obtained a Master’s in Public Administration and Finance. His professional

experience started in 2000 as a Specialist at the Ecuadorean Customs Corporation (CAE),

and in 2005 he became a consultant to the UN Development Program. In 2007, he was

appointed General Manager of the CAE, and later became its President.

His Excellency Oscar Rueda García, Vice Minister of Tourism, Colombia, studied at the Faculty of Law and Socio-Economic Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He served as a legal secretary of Insurance and Financial Advisor as well as the Private Secretary to the Ministry of Communications, during President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen. He was the President of the World Association of the Universal Federation of Travel Agents' Associations, and of the Colombian Association of Travel Agencies.



Bogota, Colombia


His Excellency Jose Luis Silva Martinot is Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism. He

has been the Director of Innovation Waste Peru SAC (2010 to present), Director of the

Agency for the Promotion of Private Investment in the Amazon (2010 to present),

Advisory Board Member of the National Competitiveness Council-Presidency of the

Council of Ministers (2006-2010), Director of the National Confederation of Private

Business (CONFIEP), Director of the Centre for Information and Education for the

Prevention of Drug Abuse (CEDAR), Vice President of the Center for Magnetic

Resonance (CEREMA) and Advisory Board Member of Healthy City (2006 to date).

His Excellency René Cornejo Diaz - Minister of Housing, Construction and

Sanitation, Peru is an electrical mechanical engineer (UNI), MBA (ESAN), graduated

from the Masters in Applied Mathematics (PUCP). Doctoral candidate in

Management at ESADE (Spain) and has postgraduate diploma in Business Law and

Production Management. Before taking office as Minister he served as Project

Manager on various processes of promoting private investment.



Bogota, Colombia

Licenciada Miroslava E. Vilar, President of Proinvex, Panama. The mission of PROINVEX is to manage an integrated information system that allows the investors to easily identify the instruments that the National Government has for attracting the direct foreign investment, as well as all the necessary information for this purpose, with emphasis on sectors identified as engines of the Economic Growth in the Strategic Plan of the Government. Before becoming the Director General of

Multinational Corporations to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Ms. Miroslava served as the Executive Secretary of the Board Substantive for Electoral Tribunal of panama, Director of Special Projects and International cooperations for Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


His Excellency Ricardo Quijano Jiménez , Minister, Commerce and Industries, Panama. Born in October 1946 in Panama City, he earned a degree in Air Conditioning,

Refrigeration and Heating Systems at Lindsey Hopkins Institute - Miami, Florida - USA,

in 1969. From 1977 to 2003 he served as President and CEO of Food Packing, SA, a

company dedicated to seafood processing and export. From 2009 to the present he has

been serving the Panama government, first as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry

and currently as the Minister of Commerce and Industry.

His Excelllency José Pacheco Tejeira , Vice Minister, Foreign Trade, Panama Viceministro de Comercio Exterior , Panama. Mr. Jose Pacheco Tejeira, was born in

1970. He studied at the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University in the United

States in Agricultural Engineering. He specialized in the College of Agriculture at

Cornell University in the United States, with a Masters in International Agriculture. Has

assumed various leadership positions in the public sector as Head of International

Technical Cooperation in Agricultural Research Institute in Panama and the Regional

Director of the Ministry of Agriculture. Currently, he serves as Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade in the

Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Comprehensive Solutions BORM provides comprehensive development services of engineering, project management, and specialized consulting, with a focus on genuine sustainability. From our inception, BORM has put research and development front and center, enabling us to place cutting edge theory to practical use across the globe.www.borm.com/international

RABCO Engineering 8 West Merrick Road, Freeport NY 11520 RABCO Construction Consultants Asia All Seasons Place Building, 87/2 Wireless Road, 36/F CRC Tower, Lumpini, Phatumwan Bangkok 10330 THAILAND www.rabcoengineering.com

Sponsoring Companies

Strategic Solutions for a Sustainable Built Environment

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Bogota, Colombia


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Bogota, Colombia

Sponsoring Companies


Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) of India is a technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company. It is one of the largest and most respected companies in India's private sector. L&T has an international presence, with a global spread of offices.

China Construction America, Inc. (CCA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited, a Fortune Global 500 company and a public listed company in China.China Construction America, Inc. (CCA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited, a Fortune Global 500 company and a public listed company in China.

The Shapoorji Pallonji Group is a dynamic enterprise which draws vital support from its various individual entities to be able to execute turnkey projects, swiftly and efficiently. Along with the flagship company Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Limited (specializing in Construction, Design & Build and EPC), the other luminaries give the SP Group its tremendous strength and capability.


Bogota, Colombia

Supporting International Organizations


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