MARINA BUHLER-MIKO

Worked alongside attorney on complex cases, legal processes, funding and PR presentations.

• Helped customers locate products and checked store system for merchandise at other sites.
• Answered customer questions regarding sizing, accessories and proper care for merchandise.

• Privately owned and managed hedge fund contracting with a UK-based FOREX Trader
• Managed all relations with the Trader, marketed and supervised all aspects of the business relationship with investors
• Sought out “Angel Investors” to enable non-profits to benefit from this fund
• 26% ROI for 2007,19.5% ROI for 2008.

• Creating strategic & competitive analysis, business & financing strategies for Clients
• Consultant to the Managing Director of The National Development Corporation of Tanzania (NDC) seeking funding for its projects in coal gasification, gold processing & other economic development plans
• Set up NDC’s relationships with banks in London, Luxembourg & Switzerland
• Arranged for NDC to meet private placement opportunities in UK & Switzerland
• Introduced The SEED Fund to the Anglican Bishop of Rukwa province, Western Tanzania with presentations to BP resulting in $45,000USD worth of solar panels.

• A Zürich brokerage house for investing its Trust Fund in private placements in the UK.

• Commodity trading, consulting & investment company working with emerging private sector of the former Soviet Union
• Designed programming for Gostelradio (Soviet TV) comparing business functions in planned verses market economies with assistance from the Marketing & Pricing Committee of the Supreme Soviet; Designed TV programs & financing plans for presentation to companies doing business in USSR, including Apple, 3M, and Pepsi
• Consultant to CEO of Neftagas, Surgut, Western Siberia, a newly formed private LP-Gas company seeking to build an export facility on the Black Sea with product trained down from Siberia
• Developed Neftagas’ business relationships with the majors (Enron, Shell, Neste) plus the wider LP-gas transport companies in London & US; presented Neftagas funding requirements to these companies plus EBRD
• Introduced Owens Glass to local wine growers seeking bottling plant in exchange for land to train gas
• Consultant to a series of partners in: Latvia, (beef export,); The Republic of Georgia’s Minister of Economic Development on LP-gas export as well as the early stage planning of the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan pipeline; Delanergo, the energy company of the Primorsky Krai on export (steel) and Deleco, Inc for import (sugar) from Vladivostak.

• Live Closed-circuit TV programs of Oceanographer Bob Ballard’s underwater exploration from ocean sites to science & technology museums in US & Canada for high school students
• Managed the network of 12 broadcast sites as well all curriculum development
• Reported to Board of CEOs from Turner Broadcasting, EDS Corp., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and The National Geographic
• Raised over $6m for two years of broadcasts.

• This research & consulting firm which adapted strategic approaches from business for use by the Boards and top management of universities, non-profits and government agencies
• Adapted the Strategic Planning Institute’s data analysis system (“PIMS”) developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for corporations using 10 public & private institutions as case studies
• Clients included State Colleges & Universities in New York, California, Missouri, Maine, & Puerto Rico The Board of Trustees for the State Colleges of Nebraska, the WSRAC Project for the Colleges & Universities of greater Chicago as well as private colleges as diverse as Georgetown University & Rocky Mt College, Billings, Mt.

• Organized funding sources for its modular waste co-generation systems and a RFID tagging on beef, chicken and fish for major food distributors.
• The Norfolk Baseball Co in its efforts to obtain a major league sports team for the Hampton Roads region of Virginia; Secured $100m funding commitment although Norfolk did not win the team.

• Food Safety Inspection Service running their department-wide two-year strategic planning project resulting FSIS’s international division.

• The Resource Center Planned Change American Association State Colleges & Universities serving the 350+ Presidents & Academic Vice Presidents of AASCU, providing planning, management training and consulting services.

Designed & ran evaluation of students on a CAEL grant from Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ

• Dos Pueblos High School, Santa Barbara, English teacher, UC-Santa Barbara teacher trainer.