Florida’s International Business Strategy
March 23rd, 2011
Instruxo CEO selected to plan Florida’s International Business Strategy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Florida Chamber Foundation taps CEO to help Design Blueprint for Florida’s Economy (Orlando, Fl., March 23, 2011) – Instruxo founder and CEO, Rafael Gerena, has been selected for a group that will help craft the first-ever, state-wide strategic plan to help modernize Florida’s [...]
Florida’s New Global Trade Era?
March 17th, 2011
Is Florida entering a New Era for Global Trade? Some signs: Miami wants to deepen it’s port to ready for the Panama Canal Expansion Orlando International Airport said that International traffic rose 8% in January Tampa’s Port has expanded direct container service to Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela Tampa hopes for ferry service to Cuba Orlando’s [...]
Instruxo CEO Promotes Child Literacy
March 14th, 2011
Instruxo CEO, Rafael Gerena, joins Advisory Board of First Book Orlando FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Instruxo CEO joins effort to promote literacy in Central Florida (Orlando, Fl., March 14, 2011) – Rafael Gerena, CEO of global consulting firm Instruxo LLC, has joined the advisory board of First Book Orlando. He will help raise money and awareness for [...]
Person to Watch: Zoraida Velasco
March 1st, 2011
By: Rafael Gerena, Instruxo Zoraida Velasco is the type of young professional Orlando’s economy needs: She’s tri-ingual (speaks English, Spanish, French), accomplished (has worked for former Florida Gov. Charlie Christ), and well-connected (has more than 500 LinkedIn contacts). Even better: Zoraida wants Central Florida to become a bigger player in global business. This week, Orange County [...]
An Introduction to Exporting
February 22nd, 2011
Interested in Exporting? Then check out the “Introduction to Exporting” seminar scheduled for March 9 in Orlando, Fl. Topics will include: 1. Organizing Export Procedures 2. Protecting Your Interests Abroad 3. Export Payment Methods & Financing 4. Export Logistics 5. Building an Overseas Infrastructure I’ll be speaking about ways companies can use social media [...]
China’s Achilles Heel
February 16th, 2011
By Rafael Gerena, Instruxo I was on a conference call today with Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, a global political risk research and consulting firm. He spent most of his 1-hour talk focused on China. His first main point: China will drive global economic growth for the next 5 to 10 years, but lose steam [...]
Florida Airports Prepare for Cuba
February 7th, 2011
Florida airports are preparing for a New Era of U.S.-Cuba relations: Airport officials in Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Key West and possibly Orlando plan to seek federal permission to establish direct flights to Cuba under new travel rules implemented last month by the Obama administration. The goal is to prepare for a possible rush of traffic if the two [...]
Business Expansion in Poland & Vietnam
January 26th, 2011
By Rafael Gerena, of Instruxo Need a job? Well, U.S. companies are hiring thousands of people- overseas. Manpower, a U.S. staffing firm, says virtually all of the more than 100 offices it plans to open this year will be in emerging markets such as Poland, India, China and Vietnam. (It’s a great time to be [...]
New College Syllabus: Portuguese and Chinese
December 12th, 2010
By Rafael Gerena, of Instruxo As China and Brazil experience strong economic growth… Chinese and Portuguese now rank among the Top 5 foreign languages with the fastest-growing enrollment rates at U.S. colleges. College enrollment in Arabic classes boomed 46% in the three-year-period ending in 2009. The jump resulted from the U.S. government’s recruiting of Arabic interpreters [...]
Instruxo LLC Selected Among Florida’s Most Innovative Companies
November 29th, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Instruxo LLC Selected Among Florida’s Most Innovative Companies to Demo at TechVenture 2010 Demonstrators represent growing number of next-generation technologies being developed across Florida at TechVenture 2010 (Orlando, Fl., November 28, 2010) – Florida Technology Journal, a leading source for business technology news, is proud to announce its list of companies demonstrating [...]