Mentor-Protégé with Cardno Emerging Markets USA

GBSI is one of the early companies to be in the USAID Mentor-Protégé Program with Cardno Emerging Markets USA Limited, as its mentor. With nearly 30 years of experience serving donor clients (e.g., USAID, DFID, the European Commission, the Global Fund, the World Bank and the Millennium Challenge Corporation), private clients and partner governments, Cardno Emerging Markets USA applies business expertise to strengthen physical, economic and social infrastructures to help improve peoples’ lives.

Cardno's Emerging Markets Division manages US$700 million in contracts and grants. Cardno Emerging Markets USA now has expanded capabilities in physical infrastructure with access to the engineering competencies of Cardno professionals. Cardno's Emerging Markets Division has a network of 3,000 international professionals who have lived or worked in over 100 countries and speak more than 40 languages.

With its mentor and partners including Maden Technologies, a leading-edge integrator of IT and cyber security solutions for the public and private sectors, Global brings varied experts with breadth and depth in different sectors to her engagements.

GBSI augments its staff with some from Applied Experience Associates Inc. (AEAI); a consulting firm whose partners represent over 100 years of international experience in public works, oil marketing, manufacturing, governmental issues, infrastructure, and higher education. Key staff available to GBSI are the following. Quincey Lumsden has had a distinguished career spanning 38 years in the Middle East culminating in his stint as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates; he served in Paris as director of oil marketing for the International Energy Commission. Bob O’Neil was president of Parsons Transportation Group in Washington D.C. and as one of the world’s leading authorities on transit and transportation he led the team that developed the Washington METRO; the Northeast Corridor Rail Improvement Project among a whole range of infrastructure including airports, roads, rail and transit both domestic and internationally. Jim O’Hearn was president of a chemical company in Taiwan and as such was responsible for product marketing and development all over East Asia. Joe Motheral spent 28 years in East Asia and the Middle East with Parsons Corporation involved in transportation, environmental and public works projects as project manager and project developer; as vice president and executive vice president in a joint venture company in Japan.