MFM Group, Inc.
MFM Group, Inc. was founded in 1994
and produces high-level conferences and international trade
event solutions for corporations, associations, and government
agencies. MFM
helps clients to meet their business objectives through a
group of related services that design and deliver outstanding
events, and provide superior language and specialized
communication equipment services.
MFM Group's Management For
Meetings Division provides complete
conference and
meeting management solutions for associations, corporations
and governments. MFM
Emerging Markets Consultancy helps clients
strategically develop and implement events that bring the
right people together to advance their interests, or that
create significant encounters with clients and potential
clients, in emerging markets.
MFM Conference
Interpretation provides specialized
language and audio visual services, including simultaneous
interpretation and conference microphone
systems.
SENIOR
MANAGEMENT
Frank Ferrer is President of MFM
Group, Inc. Has over 20 years of event production and
international trade experience.
He has organized meetings for corporate leaders as well
as Heads of State and Government, including the Prime Minister
of
Canada
, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, President Clinton, President Kim of
Korea
, the Emperor of Japan and HM, the King of Jordan.
Recent projects include event production of HM, the
King of Jordan’s first G-11 meeting in New York, the 2008
World Congress of the International Advertising Association,
the Young Arab Leaders Forum, and the Nigeria Meets the World
Summit in New York. In
2002 he was executive producer for the Davos-based World
Economic Forum’s annual meeting, held that year in
New York City
.
Prior to
founding MFM, he was Executive Director of Marketing for
Junior Chamber International (JCI) and was directly
responsible for all meetings of the organization.
During his years at JCI, he was instrumental in
creating the International Business Network (IBN).
The network brought young business people together and
enhances international trade.
As such he arranged numerous trade missions including a
delegation of 25 Japanese businesspersons to
Florida
which generated over $20,000,000 in contracts to American
companies. Through
the IBN network over $50,000,000 of business contracts were
generated per year. Prior
to his departure from JCI he designed and organized the Bali
Business Conference which generated (after his departure from
JCI) over $80,000,000 in confirmed contracts.
He has extensive political sensitivity and protocol
experience, having worked for the office of the Prime Minister
of Canada in the early 1980's.
Frank has conducted site advance and organized events
in over 50 countries,
from small conferences of less than 20 participants, to
congresses of 20,000 attendees, and special events of up to
200,000.
Born in
Barcelona
,
Spain
and raised in
Montreal
,
Québec
,
Canada
, Frank holds a degree in Political Science and Economics from
McGill
University
in Montréal and speaks five languages.
Dan
Lamey, is Executive Vice President of MFM Group, Inc and Lead Officer of MFM Emerging Markets
Consultancy. He
has over 30 years experience in the international trade and
development and meetings industries, and was a senior
association executive in both
Canada
and the
United States
. He was Secretary
General of Junior Chamber International and Executive Director
of the Kinsmen Clubs of Canada. For
the past 12 years, Dan has lead MFM's production, marketing,
and project identification for U.S. Government international
trade promotion events and conferences around the world,
representing billions of dollars in international trade and
investment opportunities in emerging market countries.
He has lead project teams on trade events in Southeast
Asia, Africa, South Asia, Central and
Eastern Europe
,
Turkey
,
Russia
, Central Asia,
Mexico
, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and
North Africa
,
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
. His sector
experience includes Information and Communications Technology,
Energy, Hispanic Marketing, Entertainment and Media, Tourism,
Infrastructure, Transportation Security, Customs and Supply
Chain, Banking, Finance, and Investment, and Environment.
As Secretary General of Junior Chamber International,
he was responsible for financial, program, staff and event
management, including up to six annual international
conferences held in destinations in Europe, North America
Asia, Africa, Australia and Latin America, drawing up to
20,000 participants. He
has also managed international development projects in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America, including providing the
Camp
Bete
medical relief facility, during the Ethiopian Famine of
1984/85. Dan was
born in
Antigonish
,
Nova Scotia
,
Canada
and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Business
Administration from St. Mary's University,
Halifax
,
Nova Scotia
. He is a
Certified Association Executive (CAE) and a past President of
the Florida Society of Association Executives.
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