Intelsat’s Carmen Gonzalez talks as Clorox’s Michael Costello looks on. To watch TV, read an email on your phone or download a video to your computer, you likely use satellite services. But most people don’t know how satellites work, how the satellite business operates or how explosive growth in demand for bandwidth may affect what…

  Chevron’s Mauricio Nicholls is responsible for Chevron operations on the “downstream” or fuel side of the business in the Caribbean Basin Talk about energy with Chevron’s Mauricio Nicholls at WorldCity’s CEO Club on Jan. 29, and topics range from global trends to working with Venezuela’s government and even tips to spot the best gas…

Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ Carlos Garcia led the discussion at WorldCity’s CEO Club. Imagine competitors nipping at your heels every day and a constant battle to defend your company’s intellectual property, with consumers as well as regulators. Then you have an idea what it’s like to be a major pharmaceutical company doing business in Latin America. Latin…

DHL’s Samuel Israel talks about company’s Colombia operation as other “CEOs” look on It costs a multinational somewhere between $29,000 to $31,000 annually per employee to have an operation in Costa Rica, with about half of that the cost directly related to the worker and the rest related to everything else, from phones to rent,…

Diaz Reus Managing Partner Michael Diaz said China is advancing in Latin America For Ed Fuller, who oversees Latin America and the Caribbean for Sharp Electronics, there is before October of 2008 and after, and they are two very different worlds. “In September 2008, we sold as many LCD TVs as we had sold in…

South Florida’s multinational business leaders are certainly less optimistic than in past years but also indicate they are holding up OK in the face of the global recession, according to preliminary results of WorldCity’s ongoing CEO Survey. For the fourth consecutive year, WorldCity has polled the top executive at each of the 1,100 multinationals in…

  Telefonica’s Diane Sanchez talked about competitors coming from unexpected places Diane Sanchez is the president of Telefonica USA, a subsidiary of the one of the world’s second- or third-largest fixed-line and mobile telecommunications company in the world, a global company with more than 250,000 employees. And yet, when she looks back, over her shoulder,…

Neoris’s Claudio Muruzabal The average cost for Microsoft Outlook is $500 per user per year, according to the president of the global IT and business consulting firm Neoris, Claudio Muruzabal. For Lotus Notes, the cost drops to $350 per user per year. Using google’s Gmail option ” and still keeping your company’s email address domain…