UK - USA Opportunities for Business Growth and Collaboration

Brenda VanHorn is career member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Foreign Service. She serves in London as Commercial Counselor assisting American businesses expand their global markets, and UK businesses interested in investing in the United States. Previously she has served in India where she worked extensively on supply chain issues during the COVID pandemic. Other postings were in Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Poland where she has assisted businesses with winning foreign tenders, expanding markets, resolving trade disputes. She started her Commercial Service career in the Buffalo NY Export Assistance Center - where she previously had been a client while working as an International Trade Account Manager in the private sector.

Hamish is the founder and CEO of Mobilise and based in London. Hamish has day to day operational responsibility of Mobilise but also participates in Product Development and Sales.
Hamish is a hands-on telecoms entrepreneur with 19 years’ experience supporting Tier 1 & Tier 2 International Telecommunications Operators. Before founding Mobilise, he worked as a consultant launching and growing start-up telecoms companies primarily in the MVNO domain. This included the launch of 8 MVNOs across 5 countries.
His background is in technology, however his management experience spans the end-to-end telecoms value chain, including in-depth knowledge of sales & marketing, commercial, finance, operations, and technology functions.

Peter Holland, is the Founder and CEO of Global EMS (Expatriate Management Services Ltd.), and has held senior leadership roles in both International Business and Military Organisations for 40 years. His clients, often headquartered in the US and UK, include multi-national enterprises and NGO’s, who operate globally in many sectors including Finance, Technology, Engineering, Energy, Healthcare, Media and Manufacturing. He gets into the heart of an organisation to rapidly define and implement, their Global Payroll, HR and Finance processes and supporting systems. Peter has lived as an expat and worked with the US, and globally throughout his life. He ran operations as a VP and then Managing Director of a US relocation firm (GMAC) in London. In the Military, Peter served predominantly as an RAF Officer, was taught Arabic and worked with the Army in the Middle East, was a Contingency Planner and an Operational Squadron Commander.