GlobalWelsh, the non-profit Welsh diaspora organisation, has introduced that it has launched a brand new international hub in america of America.
GlobalWelsh USA, the brand new ‘digital’ hub, shall be led by automotive veteran Jan Griffiths, along with a group of profitable Welsh diaspora. Will probably be centered on rising and connecting the enterprise diaspora community within the USA and facilitating alternatives for mutual development between members each house and away.
There’s nearly two million folks in america with Welsh ancestry alone. Constructing new hyperlinks with enterprise leaders and passionate members of the diaspora throughout america affords enormous alternatives for GlobalWelsh members and enterprise members. Getting access to a related group of Welsh enterprise leaders throughout the USA has the potential to be an actual financial asset for Wales.
GlobalWelsh USA host, Jan Griffiths, was born in Bridgend and moved to the USA in 1985 with Borg Warner, a tier one provider within the automotive trade. Jan has loved a profitable profession in varied roles throughout the trade together with buying, provide chain and manufacturing, culminating in her appointment to Automotive Information’ Prime 100 Main Ladies within the automotive trade in 2015. In 2018 Jan began her entrepreneurial journey as founding father of Gravitas Detroit, an organization dedicated to getting ready leaders for the longer term within the auto trade. Jan hosts The Automotive Leaders Podcast.
Jan shall be supported by a small group of fellow passionate Welsh diaspora and senior enterprise leaders throughout the USA who will assist the hub’s actions just about and on the bottom, in addition to constructing the community throughout the USA. Initially, the hub shall be focusing exercise within the following areas:
- Offering steerage for Welsh companies who want to broaden into the USA
- Advocating for inward Welsh funding from the USA into Wales
- Creating cultural consciousness between Wales and diaspora throughout the USA
Jan Griffiths commented:
“I’ve spent over 30 years residing and dealing within the USA working within the automotive trade. Through the years I’ve met many Welsh individuals who, like me, have been trying to find a approach to reconnect and provides again to Wales, GlobalWelsh is the conduit for us to do precisely that.”
GlobalWelsh USA goals to work carefully with current Welsh communities, networks and authorities organisations throughout America to collaborate and produce about alternatives for folks to reconnect with one another, Wales and different Welsh folks globally.
Walter Could, founder and CEO of GlobalWelsh, commented:
“The USA-based diaspora presents a giant, if not the most important, alternative for Wales relating to diaspora engagement. We share a novel and wealthy migrational historical past with the Americas. There’s a large quantity of nice work being finished socially and culturally to convey folks collectively and rejoice their Welsh roots everywhere in the USA however relating to enterprise we haven’t even scratched the floor but. By means of GlobalWelsh USA, led by Jan and her proficient and well-connected group, we are able to begin tapping into and grabbing the massive potential that awaits us on the opposite aspect of the pond.”
