IMES TEAM

IMES International Market Entry Strategies

IMES Team

CEO & Founder, David Brown opened the San Francisco, USA IMES office after 15+ years helping companies develop their domestic and international business strategies. His work in high tech marketing, international market entry strategy and sales development has spanned many industries and countries.

As marketing director in the Wall Street financial district, he led the marketing, advertising and public relations for a boutique object technology consulting firm focused on the financial services industry.

As a consultant with Ernst & Young, he developed the firm’s first Asia Pacific Marketing plans for the Asia Pacific Global Consulting practice, the first Asia Pacific website as well as strategic marketing plans for the North America SAP and Oracle service lines.

While at Dun & Bradstreet he analyzed client’s sales strategies and marketing plans; in order to deliver high tech data cleansing and CRM system enhancements. This enabled clients to better utilize their internal data warehouses.

David is currently the CEO of the IMES Office in San Francisco. He is responsible for developing and delivering bilateral consulting services as well as business development for Australian companies breaking into the Americas and US companies into Australia. Over four+ years with the Victorian Government of Australia he created and directed the Access America (AA) Program. This highly successful export development program assisted 200+ companies in delivering in excess of $150 million in new export business and investment deals. The AA Program served as the export model for new international programs such as Access Hong Kong, Access China, and Access India.

David Brown’s MBA from the University of Binghamton is in International Business and Marketing. He also holds a B.A. in History as well as an A.S. from Johnson & Wales University in Hotel & Restaurant Management.

He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Australian American Chamber of Commerces (www.sfaussies.com) and is a member of a number of local non-profit organizations such as the ANZA Technology Network(www.anzatechnet.com), Advance (www.advance.org) California Academy of Sciences, de Young Museum and San Francisco Zoo.

IMES has partnerships with a number of Australian and European Consultancies that expands the breadth and depth of our services. We employ specialists when and where appropriate and have a great bench that comes into play when our clients need them. We beleive that this structure reduces our clients investment while providing them with the best people possible rather than paying for someone's learning curve.