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Who's Here CEO Spotlight

Mark Templeton

Mark Templeton

President, CEO Citrix Systems

When Mark Templeton signed on as vice president of marketing of Citrix in 1995, he was barely out of his 30s. The company, with revenues of $95 million, wasn’t yet 10 years old and was largely unheard-of outside the confines… Read More

People Making News

John Rodriguez
John Rodriguez Wells Fargo
Lexi Segre
Lexi Segre Axiss Advertising
Diane Sanchez
Diane Sanchez Telefonica
Sofia Ioannou
Sofia Ioannou MTV Latin America
Ken Finneran
Ken Finneran Hellmann Worldwide Logistics
Keith Koenig
Keith Koenig City Furniture

CEO Club

Winds of change are being blown by technology

June 26th, 2009

Diane Sanchez is the president of Telefonica USA, a subsidiary of the one of the world’s two- or third-largest fixed-line and mobile telecommunications company in the world, a global company… Read More

Trade Connections

With trade in retreat, efforts to boost it matter more than ever

June 18th, 2009

South Florida’s trade with the world might not be falling as rapidly as the rest of the nation’s but it is falling fast nonethless. (See earlier story.) Each of the… Read More

Government Affairs Connections

Cuba: Like 'Alice in Wonderland'

June 12th, 2009

“Everything in Cuba, it’s like Alice in Wonderland,” said Jay Brickman, vice president of Government Services for Crowley, during WorldCity’s Government Affairs Connections meeting on Thursday. “Nothing is as it… Read More

Global Connections

Citrix plans to profit from rather than be streamrolled by seismic tech changes

June 25th, 2009

Window seats on planes are normally reserved for wide-eyed, first-time-flying children and, as it turns out, the CEO of Citrix on occassion. When he has made a mistake or is… Read More

South Florida Business News

For GM LatAm, 'business as usual,' president says

June 8th, 2009

General Motor’s Latin America operation is not part of the GM Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last week, and its top leader is planning a series of face-to-face meetings in the… Read More

TradeNumbers

South Florida's trade off 18% in April, still among best performers in U.S.

June 10th, 2009

South Florida’s trade with the world fell 18.35 percent in April, when compared to the previous April, according to the U.S. Census data released today and analyzed by WorldCity. But… Read More

Marketing Connections

Making dollars while making friends

May 22nd, 2009

If you have a successful global brand, you have instant recognition and almost certainly many friends. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you probably also have many… Read More

HR Connections

Engagement: 'Do you have a best friend at work?'

May 13th, 2009

“Do you have a best friend at work?” When Diane Vento, the director of Human Resources for Olympus Latin America, read this question on an engagement survey that was going… Read More

Sky Warrior

Ospina is CFO for British firm G4S, formerly Wackenhut

November 28th, 2008

The Sky Warrior: G4S Chief Financial Officer Eric Ospina Eric Ospina was in Buenos Aires and planning his next trip, to Costa Rica, where he was born, at the time… Read More

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