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Franca Gargiulo
Franca Gargiulo serves as Director of the Western Region for the US India Business Council based in San Francisco. This role encompasses a wide variety of functions including program management, marketing, public and media outreach, member relations, business development and consular relations. The Silicon Valley office is dedicated to facilitating the dialogue and representing the many technology firms seeking to expand business in India.
Her background spans a vast background in corporate international marketing, public relations and public affairs. After an appointment with the first Bush Administration at the US Department of Commerce, she served as the senior regional manager for the National Association of Manufacturers in San Francisco until mid -1999. As head of AvenirMonde, a San Francisco based international public relations and marketing firm, she has represented many clients in the international public affairs and public policy arena including the United States Council for International Business, (USCIB), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC – Paris), and the California Council for International Trade among others. On the corporate side she has established global marketing distribution channels for firms such as Seagate Technology, LSI Logic and Novell among others.
Franca serves on the board of directors of the International Diplomacy Council, The Big Sur International Marathon, San Francisco Public Relations Roundtable, Citizens for a Better San Francisco and Occhiata Productions, a newly formed charitable Foundation dedicated to supporting arts education in the migrant communities of the Salinas Valley. In 2003 she was selected to be a fellow in the Asia Foundation’s Freeman Fellowship Program which examined the role of moderate Muslim communities throughout Southeast Asia.
She is a graduate of Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service and completed graduate work in European Union Studies at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Thomas J. Quinn.
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- AvenirMonde
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- San Francisco
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- http://avenirmonde.com
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