Our Team comprises decades of experience in transatlantic business development, incorporates a broad network of specialists across the US and Europe, and speaks the majority of the European Union’s principal languages.

Sven C. Oehme, Founder, President & CEO  
Mr. Oehme is a recognized expert in European-American affairs. Until 1998 he served as Managing Director of the European-American Chamber of Commerce, Inc.  (EACC) with special responsibilities for the chamber's legal department. Before joining the EACC in 1991, Mr. Oehme held numerous executive positions for subsidiaries of Gruner+Jahr, the magazine and newspaper publishing division of the German media company Bertelsmann. He studied law and economics at the University of Hamburg, Germany and is admitted to the bar in Hamburg. Mr. Oehme's earned a Master of Laws degree in International Business and Trade Law with a focus on European law from Fordham University, Graduate School of Law, New York. Mr. Oehme frequently speaks at trade and professional groups, as well as universities on developments in the European Union and EU-U.S. commercial and trade relations. Specifically, his expertise includes European Economic and Monetary Union, the Euro and international trade.

Mr. Oehme is a member of the Executive Board of the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) which is the official dialogue between American and European business leaders and U.S. Cabinet Secretaries and EU Commissioners. He is the Senior Advisor for the Northeast Region of the United States for the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. He is also a director of the American Foreign Law Association, a member of the Advisory Committee of the European Union Studies Center of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Weissmann Center for International Business at Baruch College. For more than 15 years he produced and anchored a weekly news show on public access television. oehme@eabo.biz

Henry G. Meyer-Oertel, Partner
Mr. Meyer-Oertel has a strong management background gained  in leading American and German marketing and publishing companies among others as Executive Vice President of Gruner+Jahr International in New York City.  He assists clients in a wide range of industrial and business areas including communications, economic development and tourism.

Mr. Meyer-Oertel received his graduate Degree (Dipl.-Kfm.) from the Business School of the University of Vienna, Austria and his MBA Degree from the University of Chicago. He is the author of many articles on change in the advertising industry.

He is a member of the International Advertising Association in New York and a former President, Vice President and Treasurer of that organization.  He also serves as President of the German Forum Inc, a not-for-profit organization supporting German-American cultural programs. HMeyerOertel@eabo.biz

Annabelle Fischer, General Counsel

Prior to joining the European-American Business Organization, Inc., Ms. Fischer was an Associate Attorney with prestigious international law firms in Cologne (Germany) and New York City. She is experienced in representing domestic and international corporations with respect to general business, commercial and corporate law issues in both litigation and transactional matters. Ms. Fischer received her LL.M. in Corporate, Banking and Finance law from Fordham University School of Law in New York City, and her J.D. equivalent from the University of Cologne, Germany. She was admitted to the German bar in 2002 and to the New York bar in 2006. Ms. Fischer is fluent in English, German and French. annabelle.fischer@eabo.biz

John M. Zindar, Partner

With 20+ years of experience in international business development, Mr. Zindar has developed keen insights on how to bring companies together across borders for mutually beneficial results. Mr. Zindar is a specialist in assisting a wide array of industries in cross-border negotiations and due diligence, marketing, branding & distribution, PR & PA, technology transfers, private fundraising and public incentives, partnering and acquisitions. Mr. Zindar has worked in Europe and Latin America and is fluent in German and Spanish.

Tobias Dose, Vice President Marketing & Communication
Tobias Dose joined the European-American Business Organization in October 2005. His duties include cross-border communication solutions, governmental relations, public affairs and marketing communications. For the affiliate American Business Forum on Europe Mr. Dose is charged with speaker relations and management, programming ideas, as well as project coordination and execution. He holds a law degree from the Georg-August University in Göttingen, Germany, and an M.A. in Corporate Communication from Baruch College’s George Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at the City University of New York. tobias.dose@eabo.biz

Beatrice De Bacco, Operations Manager International

Beatrice De Bacco is a native of Treviso – a city of 85.000 inhabitants located in the Northeast of Italy, one of the richest areas of the country. Beatrice moved to New York in 2008 following her dreams of supporting the transatlantic economic development. At EABO, she provides consultancy services to both American and Italian companies that want to expand their business internationally. She is in charge of international business development services with a focus on the southern EU countries. In addition to Italian, she is fluent in English, and speaks Spanish. 

While still in Italy, she served the system of the Chambers of Commerce for 10 years (from 1998 to 2008), at the beginning working as an EIC Officer and the last 3 years as the Head of the Department for European Affair at Unioncamere Veneto (the Association of the Veneto Chambers of Commerce).

She travelled the world leading economic delegations and representing the Veneto region and its own peculiar model of industrial cluster development. She took part as a speaker in different seminars and business convections on economic issues and trained young entrepreneurs on writing projects and proposals to get European funds.

She is a graduate of the University of Padua in Social Studies, and she sits on

the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of Padova University and on the

Board of Directors of the German Forum. beatrice.debacco@eabo.biz

Tiia Henttonen, Executive Assistant  
In addition to her role at EABO, Ms. Henttonen is the membership coordinator for the ABFE and the Project Manager for its Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).Ms. Henttonen received her master’s degree from the University of Helsinki, Finland, in the Department of Translation Studies. She also studied in Russia at both the Linguistic University of St. Petersburg and the Moscow Linguistic University, and has completed studies in international marketing and economics. She has worked for international companies both in Finland and the USA, especially in the travel industry and in translation. Besides her native Finnish, she speaks English, Russian and Swedish.  tiia.henttonen@eabo.biz

Caitlin F. Curtin, Senior Consultant - San Francisco

Ms. Curtin consults with organizations to create fruitful alliances that further innovation worldwide, with a focus on for life sciences and information technology. As the Associate Director, Corporate Relations for the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Ms. Curtin connected organizations with the University's institutes, departments and scientists, creating and negotiating agreements to further research, product and technology development between UCSF and companies such as Genentech, Amgen, Merck, NovoNordisk and Pfizer. In her three years at UCSF, she raised over US$10 million, exclusive of funds from corresponding licensing agreements, and she led the University of California's BIO program.

Ms. Curtin also has a personal entrepreneurial background: from start-up in 1986 to sale of her company's patents and copyrights in 2002, Caitlin led her company, Luminaire, in pioneering many of today's common technologies including database-driven enterprise web portals, mass market games and entertainment marketing web sites. Clients included companies such as AT&T, Phillips, Sony, Charles Schwab and Oracle. Ms. Curtin has consulted for the World Bank and the UNDP in private sector development, presenting in Washington DC, Paris, Berlin and Amman. She has lectured widely in Europe and the Mediterranean was featured in the WSJ, ComputerWorld, Rolling Stone and others.