Ozwald Balfour Launches International Business Consultancy

July 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Ozwald Balfour began his career in 1973 as a Caribbean entertainer and spent three years dancing his way through the islands. He has lived in or visited every island in the Caribbean except Cuba and Haiti/Dominican Republic.  As the manager of the La Tropical Folk Performers, Balfour became acquainted with high level negotiations. In 1974, he joined the Cruise Staff of Carnival Cruise Lines as an entertainer on board the TSS Carnival, performing on seven day cruises from Miami to Puerto, St Thomas and St Martin.  
Balfour migrated to the United States in 1975, making a transition from on stage, to behind the scenes.  For the past 35 years, he has been an accomplished producer/director of corporate, entertainment,  broadcast, education, and projects for a wide variety of clients throughout the United States as well as abroad.  After earning a degree in International Communications from the University of Utah (1984), Balfour was hired by the government of Trinidad and Tobago as a Senior Producer in the Ministry of Information.  His responsibilities included regular interviews with the prime minister, cabinet members, senior government officials and foreign heads of state.  Among his most prestigious assignments, is his 1986 interview with Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations.  Following his stint we the government, Balfour launched Caribbean Broadcasting Network, Ltd, the first American styled network in the Caribbean.  He leveraged his government connections to benefit his clients.  
In 1987, Balfour moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he launched, International Media Services, Inc, a Media and Business Development Consultancy. His clients included AT&T, IBM, Wang, Coco-Cola, Proctor & Gamble as well as small businesses.  Membership in various NGOs such as the Caribbean Tourism Organization as well as his participation in various government al initiatives promoting international trade recognized Balfour as a major player in International Business Development. He was hired by the World Bank to lead a team to document a Divestiture Conference in Jamaica.
Moving back to Utah in 1994 positioned Balfour to take advantage of a variety of business opportunities leading up to and during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.  Since then, he has been on official and no-official Trade Missions and business development trips in the United States and abroad including Mexico, France, Germany, England and Scotland.  Balfour has provided International Business Development services to companies such as Novel, Iomega, Seibel and Microsoft.

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