Courses & Events
Omar Mencin
Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011
04:15 pm - 05:30 pm
Omar Mencin is currently the President and CEO of the US Market Access Center. The US MAC is the oldest high-tech busines incubator in Silicon Valley for foreign companies seeking to successfully enter the Silicon Valley and the greater US Market. Omar joined the US MAC in 2004 as Vice President of Business Development where he created partnerships with several foreign trade agencies and incubators and designed the US MAC consulting services offerings. Throughout his time with US MAC, he has helped over 100 foreign based technology companies successfully enter the US Market and regularly advises government agencies from Japan, Finland, China, Slovenia, Chile, Belgium, and Germany which work to bring small and medium sized technology companies to the US market.
Omar has spent his entire career working in international business and in economic development. He started his career with the World Bank in its Paris Office and then worked as an analyst in the New York Office of Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, which invests private equity capital worldwide. While pursuing graduate studies at Stanford University, Mr .Mencin served as a research assistant for the US Asia Technology Management Center and the Stanford Project on Regional Centers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE).
He has a BA from Swarthmore College with Honors, has studied mandarin Chinese at the Taipei Language Institute and National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, has a certificate in Management Science and Engineering and an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and has recently completed the Executive Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. Currently, he is a member of The Pacific Council on International Policy and serves on the board of two non-profit organizations and one private start-up.
