International Author and Business Consultant - Dr. John Caslione

Dr. John A. Caslione is the founder and President and CEO of GCS Business Capital, Inc. (GCS), with offices in Chicago (USA), Frankfurt (Germany), Shanghai and Nanjing (China). GCS assists middle market companies (SMEs) in a variety of industries to globalize their business with a special focus on the US and Europe with China. GCS assists Chinese investors to establish new business in the US and in Europe via joint venture, investment and acquisitions.

Dr. Caslione is also the founder, President and CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc. (AWI), a global marketing and sales firm with offices in Chicago (USA) and in Frankfurt (Germany). AWI assists companies to develop and implement global marketing and business alliance strategies.

With his firm AWI, Dr. Caslione personally has implemented business strategies in 87 countries on six continents including the US, Canada, Europe, Russia and CIS, Central Asia, the Middle East, China, India, Australia, SE Asia, Africa and South America for many companies, large, medium and small, including ABB, BD-Biosciences, ChevronTexaco Lubricants, ExxonMobil Chemical Films, GE, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Philips, etc.

Dr. Caslione is highly sought after as an expert on the new global economy and global business development and speaks in many globally influential business forums. As an expert on business globalization and China, Dr. Caslione appears as a frequent guest expert for CNBC Europe on its "Squawk Box" and "Morning Exchange" programs.

Dr. Caslione frequently speaks on the new global economy and global business development in many forums including the Institute for Management Development's (IMD) Program for Executive Development (Lausanne, Switzerland); at IAE (Aix-en-Provence, France); at the Dubai Strategy Conference and many others worldwide.

Dr. Caslione is a frequent guest lecturer at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he speaks to business executive in Kellogg's Global Initiatives in Management Program (GIM) on global marketing and business development, including in China and Asia.

Dr. Caslione is also a member of the adjunct faculty of Southern Methodist University's (SMU) Edwin L. Cox School of Business's Executive Education Department where he teaches marketing strategy.

Dr. Caslione has authored a number of articles on globalization, developing business globally especially for small and medium size businesses (SMEs). Dr. Caslione writes a monthly global business column in Expression Magazine, the monthly in-flight passenger magazine for five of the largest airlines in China with a readership of 20 million+ each month.

In July 2004, Dr. Caslione was the featured subject of, Cai Zhi Ren Wu, the leading nationally-broadcast and highly-acclaimed business news program in China featuring global opinion leaders in business and politics, including Bill Gates (Microsoft), Alan Greenspan (US Federal Reserve), Lee Scott (Wal-Mart), etc.

Dr. Caslione's best-selling book entitled, "Global Manifest Destiny: Growing Your Business In A Borderless Economy" (Dearborn Publishing), provides critical insights and a competencies roadmap for companies to become true "global organizations" to successfully compete in the new global business environment Global Manifest Destiny is a featured book recommendation and chosen as one of the top business book selections for five consecutive years (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and now in 2006) by Harvard Business School's "HBS Working Knowledge" (HBSWK), (http://hbswk.hbs.edu).

Dr. Caslione has two books published in China (May 2005). "Developing Successful Global Sales and Distribution Channel Strategies" and "Going Global - How to Globalize Your Business" (Economy & Management Publishing House). These two new books written by Dr. Caslione are specifically written to assist Chinese businesses to enter foreign markets and to globalize their businesses.

Dr. Caslione has earned his Bachelors of Science and MBA from the University of New York (Buffalo, NY) and his Doctorate of Law (Juris Doctor) from Illinois Institute of Technology's (IIT) Chicago-Kent College of Law.

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