Charmaine Martin (Trade Advisor for State of Pennsylvania)

Charmaine joined the CGLG in 2000 after several years working as administrator for the Africa Round-Table - an association of corporate companies working across Africa. Her many years of experience working with companies from an association and then facilitation perspective are of great benefit. She is currently studying a B. Commerce and is available for part-time administration and outreach activities.

Estelle has been involved in U.S. trade facilitation since 2000 with the U.S. Commercial Service in Johannesburg. She joined as a trade advisor in 2007. Estelle has experience in industry research and has published several research papers on behalf of a well-known information resource group in South Africa. She has a BA (Hons) Information Science degree from the University of Pretoria, and a National Diploma in Library and Information Science from the Tshwane University of Technology.

Abigail has four years of experience with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and six with the U.S. Foreign Commercial Services. She is located in Durban and assists with projects in KwaZulu-Natal. Abigail has a diploma from the Durban University of Technology in Public Relations Management. Abigal resides in Durban, South Africa.

Allan Brown (Trade Advisor for the State of Ohio)

Allan is a consultant specializing in benchmarking development projects. He has wide experience in advising on development issues in island economies - having worked throughout the West Indies and South Pacific as well as Indonesia, Kazakhstan and South Africa. He designed and implemented performance-based programme monitoring systems which have been used successfully through USAID's global presence. Allan has a Bachelor of Science in Pure Mathematics from the University of Auckland. Allan currently resides in Europe.

Carin Danon

Carin has several years of experience working with the Embassy of Japan in trade facilitation as well as the State of California's trade office before joining Zurcom in 2003. She completed a B.Commerce at Pretoria, an Honours B. of Commerce at South Africa as well as a certificate in Public Relations at the Institute for Industrial and Continuing Education. Carin is re-locating to Melbourne, Australia in the near future.

Ndudi Osakwe

Ndudi operates out of Lagos, Nigeria. His office of four people complements ours in the trade facilitation services. He also manages an outreach office in Accra, Ghana. Ndudi has experience working with two US state governments. He has an M.Sc. from the U. of Jos, Nigeria, a B.Sc in Geography from U. of Ibadan, a graduate certificate from Hebrew University and a post-graduate certificate from Brookes University in the UK.