Written by: iiGrowth

On May 25, 2010, the speaker of the Latvian Parliament, Gundars Daudze, was in Washington DC.  Speaker Daudze was here as part of an official visit of Nordic and Baltic Parliament speakers to the United States.  While in Washington the speaker visited with House leaders such as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi; the Foreign Affairs Committee chair, Howard L. Berman; as well as Bill Delahunt, who is a member of the subcommittee on Europe.

On the evening of May 25, Speaker Daudze was a keynote speaker at the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia, where he addressed an audience of Latvian and US citizens on a variety of issues including cooperation in the Baltic- Nordic region in areas such as democratization and energy security, the upcoming elections in Latvia, as well as his desire to promote and strengthen trade between Latvia and the Baltic-Nordic region and the United States.

During the evening event Speaker Daudze took time to congratulate iiGrowth CEO Gustav Plato, for his role in founding the Latvian Chamber of Commerce in the Americas.  He presented Gustav with a special commemorative coin celebrating 20 years of renewed independence for the Republic of Latvia.  Also in attendance were Latvian Chamber CFO, Juris Lazdins; as well as honorary Latvian Chamber member, Latvia’s Ambassador to the United States and Mexico, Andrejs Pildegovics.

Written by: iiGrowth

The iiGrowth LLC’s Global Innovation Center is designed to provide firms with the tools and expertise to generate new ideas, innovate, and develop strategies for growing the bottom line and core competencies.

The center is focused on bringing best of breed solutions to global businesses and has identified a need to make social network analysis (SNA) or organizational network analysis (ONA) accessible and affordable to businesses across the globe.

iiGrowth has created a strategic partnership with Keyhubs, a firm that is an innovator in social network analysis, to offer solutions for mapping informal (human) networks in the workplace.  Using Keyhubs’ unique methodologies and tools now makes it possible to uncover hidden talent, expose key influencers and identify high-performing teams to help organizations realize their full potential.

iiGrowth’s program is founded on the principle that establishing relationships with best-in-class organizations, such as Keyhubs, will offer superior solutions to the market, faster, with lower cost, and with reduced risk.   iiGrowth’s Idea and Innovation Center will be launching a series of partnerships in 2010 and 2011 that will offer our clients a one-stop shop for solutions and also look to build collaborative communities.

Keyhubs Founder, Vikas Narula, stated, “we have made significant investments to create a game changing solution in the field of organizational development.  The companies that have already been introduced to Keyhubs have been amazed by its clarity and ability to provide them with valuable information on the true workings of the organization.  We admit, we are biased, but this product offers a competitive advantage for the early adopters.  For those companies that come later, this will be the solution that will help them level the playing field.  We are excited about the offering and expanding it globally.  In that light, we are also very pleased about connecting with iiGrowth to help us bring the solution to global markets.

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USA and UK based company iiGrowth LLC and the Sentio Ltd., based in Tallinn, are partnering to shorten the time to market for Estonian business entering US and UK markets.  In addition, we are working together to help firms enter the Baltic market.  iiGrowth, which has been working in Latvia, is now expanding its base of operations to also work with Estonian enterprises.  iiGrowth has been working with Mobile Now (whose U.S. leadership team is of Estonian heritage) for the last several years in the Washington DC region.  Sentio and iiGrowth believe that the timing is right to escalate cooperative efforts, as Estonia and Latvia have a number of cooperative agreements in place to partner on an international scale.

iiGrowth CEO Gustav Plato stated; “We are very pleased to accelerate our efforts to link with Estonian markets.  We believe the Baltic region offers attractive business partners and that Tallinn is certainly one of the leading Baltic Innovation Centers.  Sentio, which is based in Tallinn, offers a natural extension for iiGrowth.  We are already working with the Ventspils High Technology Park and Incubator, which also collaborates across the Baltic Region, and this also extends our base camp in the Baltic region.