Kylie Hargreaves
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Kylie is the Executive Director, International Markets and Trade for the largest State in Australia, New South wales (NSW). Her Division is responsible for helping to internationalise the NSW economy by tapping into international export and investment opportunities.
In her first six months in the role, Kylie has overseen the opening of four NSW Trade & Investment offices overseas, led a Women’s Going Global mission to Japan, facilitated four CEO Sustainability Roundtables and personally assisted two UK companies to set up in NSW, bringing in an estimated 1000 jobs to Australia over the next five years.
Prior to joining the NSW State Government, Kylie spent 10 years overseas as Australia’s Senior Trade Commissioner for the UK, Ireland and Israel; Senior Trade Commissioner for West USA and Senior Trade Commissioner for Spain and Portugal.
17 years with the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade), most of which were served living and working in the US and the EU, has provided Kylie with extensive experience in sectors as diverse as business services, FMCG, financial services, resources, creative arts and music.
During her time in the largest music market in the world, Kylie noted an opportunity to improve services to the Australian music industry and as a result opened Austrade’s Australian Music Office (AMO). This model was replicated in several key music markets around the globe.
Kylie was also one of the Founding Partners of G’day LA, which in 2007 became G’day USA. G’day USA has become the largest annual promotion by any country in the US, delivering millions in commercial outcomes to Australian businesses.
In June 2009, Kylie was again a Founding Partner of the first ever G’day UK, held in London.
During her time with Austrade, Kylie authored numerous articles on international business and spearheaded two key Austrade guides for Australian exporters, Doing Business in the US and E-commerce in the US, which included information on the US market, business culture and consumer interests.
She also designed and authored Austrade’s award winning Client Service Charter.
Kylie has an honours degree in International Business Relations from Griffith University in Queensland.
For more information or to contact Kylie please visit her LinkedIn profile at :-
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/kylie-hargreaves/3/b75/746
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