Expertise & Resources
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NextEarth Group represents an integrated effort to create large-scale sustainable business value by mobilizing a broad collection of resources and expertise. We are privileged to bring together an extraordinary team of professionals with a breadth of experience in their fields. Our team’s core assets include expertise and networks in international business development, manufacturing, merchandising, trade finance, supply chain logistics, clean technology commercialization and finance, and intellectual property management.
These core assets are complemented by in-house expertise across a broad range of global sustainability issues, market-based conservation and environmental strategy. Bolstered by a thorough understanding of the social and economic aspects of global development, and proficiency in the science behind major environmental challenges, our team’s skill-set is extensive.
To expand our knowledge base and evaluative capacities, we draw upon on our expansive external cross-sector network — a collection of the world’s leading social innovators, entrepreneurs, NGOs, philanthropists, scientists, universities, and research institutions. Our network plays a central role in helping us deliver vetted and deeply informed solutions.
Ultimately, all of these assets are combined and shared across business divisions — driving deeply-informed, systemic and innovative solutions that deliver measurable and transformative results.
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UNIQUE POSITIONING & KNOWLEDGE BASE- Over forty-year history of practical, hands-on experience in the operational, financial, legal, and regulatory aspects of mass-manufacturing, sourcing and supply chain logistics in China, as well as Southeast Asia, Mexico and Central & South America.
- Direct experience in trading and merchandising of light-industrial and consumer products around the world.
- Extensive knowledge of industrial manufacturing processes and global raw-material flows.
- Proficiency in global sustainability issues, informed by a deep understanding of the social and economic aspects of international development, and proficiency in the science behind major environmental challenges.
- Exposure to global clean technology deal-flow and fluency in all aspects of the rapidly developing clean technology sector.
- Extensive and deep network of relationships with leaders from the corporate, financial, government, philanthropic, NGO and science communities, in the US and around the world.
- Broad network of highly reputable investors and venture capital funds in the United States, Europe and China.
- Relationships with major manufacturers of consumer products, electronics, and light industrial products throughout China, Europe, Japan, Mexico and Latin America.
- Experience in all aspects of intellectual property licensing and protection.
- Expertise in the direction and oversight of research and development, across a number of industries.
- Specialized ability in combining science-literacy with broad market knowledge to design distinct value creation strategies.
- Acumen for building and guiding synergistic management and operational teams, through all stages of the growth cycle.
- Vast and deep experience in the mass production of a wide variety of consumer and industrial products, with expertise in areas such as:
- Import-export finance
- Supply chain optimization
- Factory development
- Logistics, packing, and shipping
- Regulatory compliance
- Mass product sales