International Business

David F Smallman
For the last 42 years David Smallman has been involved in international business development and contract negotiation for corporations and local governments, during this time he has lived in Canada, France and the USA and travelled on business to some 55 countries. In 1990, encouraged by some of the current Team members, European political contacts and associates in international financing, he created Pathfinder Team Consulting Ltd to bring together people of experience to provide truly independent advice. Since then the Team have worked in over 40 countries on a variety of projects advising companies and governmental bodies; including the restoration of a railroad to developing long term economic development strategies for US local and state governments. His firm currently acts as the European representative for Louisiana Economic Development. David is a regular speaker on both sides of the Atlantic at business events where he is known for his extempore style of presentation on how to succeed in international business. He is member of the editorial Board of International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry for whom he contributes articles on worldwide business development. He is currently contributing a series of articles on business to the Aberdeen Press & Journal.

Bruce R MacQueen
President of Novecon Financial Ltd. since 1995, he has nearly 25 years experience in international banking and corporate finance. The former Managing Director of the French and Belgium subsidiaries of a major Wall Street bank, he earlier served as its Chief Representative in Australia, and senior marketing officer in South Korea. In recent years his activities in various countries including Egypt, Montenegro, Bosnia and Argentina where he worked with Pathfinder on financial planning for low cost housing. He covers a broad range of international financial advisory assignments including mergers and acquisitions, project finance, insurance and banking, valuation and privatisation and new forms of money and settlement.

H. Don Mauldin
One of the original members of Pathfinder Team Consulting; with 38 years of extensive civil engineering project management & conceptual engineering expertise, which he provides to clients in the USA and abroad. Over the years amongst many projects; he has advised on new town development in France, a restoration of a railway in Ireland, sea defences in the UK and infrastructure design in the Bahamas. In 2005, working with other Pathfinder team members he engineered trials of a new flood prevention product in the USA which has since received world wide patent approval. His client list includes both private and public agencies in the USA for which the firm carries out town planning work and engineering design.

Sir Alan Traill
With 44 years experience in insurance based in the City of London, where he has served as the Lord Mayor as well as being an Alderman on the City Council for more than a third of a century, he still advises clients in the USA on specialist insurance needs. He acts both as a consultant on a wide variety of projects and as an Expert Witness. He is a qualified Arbitrator. His expertise has been instrumental in assisting a variety of Pathfinder clients to fully understand the risk abatement methods available to them in projects as diverse as casino gaming in the USA, public transport in Central America and mining development in Venezuela. From 2003-2006 he was appointed to the Board of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, and was responsible for re-writing their insurance law both for Agents and Companies.