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About the Speaker:
Since 1984, Mr. Martinson has been working on various projects with Korea’s Hyundai Business Group. The first project he initiated involved organizing a consortium of rail vehicle companies to bid on the Los Angeles – Long Beach Light Rail project in 1987. In the rail area, Mr. Martinson was successful in arranging the sale of double-stack container freight cars by Rotem’s predecessor company, Hyundai Precision and Industries Company, to TTX in Chicago.
For almost nine years, Mr. Martinson lived In South Korea where he has launched businesses for U.S. companies and also assisted Korean companies in acquiring new technologies covering defense, aerospace and semiconductor technologies. He joined Rotem USA Corporation as Vice President of Business Development in April 2005.
A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Martinson has over 30 years experience in project development and management with major multinational companies and has worked on projects in Europe, South America and Asia. Early in his career, he worked as a sports journalist and headed his own marketing and public relations firm.
Mr. Martinson received a B.A. degree from the University of California, Irvine and has completed graduate studies in international business at UCLA and the University of Southern California (MBA program). He currently resides in Avondale, PA.
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