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 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
Mr. Zindar has fifteen years of experience in economic and business development in Europe and Latin America in both the private and public sectors. He has served as advisor to the Minister of Economics of Germany as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama.

He is an expert on investment incentives in the European Union and is a specialist in other services for foreign investors such as cross-cultural negotiations and due diligence, marketing and distribution, PR/CR, technology transfers, partnering and acquisitions.

His record includes successfully assisting overseas operations decision-makers in the aerospace, agriculture, automotive, biotech, chemical, construction, energy, environmental, food processing, glass, ICT, medical, paper and water industries.

Mr. Zindar has also worked as a teacher/trainer, journalist/business writer, risk analyst and U.S. army intelligence officer with Meritorious Service. He is widely published, is a frequent speaker at industry events and has given expert testimony before both the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.

He is a Phi Beta Kappa with an MA in international economics from The Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School. Besides his native United States, he has lived in Germany, Italy, Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico. zindar@eabo.biz

Kateřina Joklova, Project Manager, Business Department

Kateřina Joklova graduated from the University of Economics in Prague with a doctoral degree in European Studies. Her award-winning doctoral research project focused on barriers to small and medium entrepreneurship in the European Union. Ms. Joklova has more than five years of experience in providing consulting services to European businesses. As the Project Manager of the Enterprise Europe Network office in the Czech Republic, she assisted European companies crossing borders in their pursuit of new business ventures. During the Czech Presidency of the European Union (first half of 2010), Ms. Joklova served as a liaison officer at the Delegation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic. She also completed short-term internships in the European Parliament and the United Nations Economic Commission on Europe. Besides her native Czech, Ms. Joklova speaks English, French, German and Portuguese. katerina.joklova@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

Tobias Dose, Seminar and Event Supervisor
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