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Suresh Kumar

[Commerce Department logo] Commerce Department
Assistant Secretary and Director General of U.S. Foreign Commercial Services
Announced: Oct. 29, 2009
Nominated: Oct. 29, 2009

Bio

  • From: Princeton, NJ
  • Ethnicity: Asian

A former news anchor on national television in India, Kumar is president & managing partner of KaiZen Innovation and served as a special advisor to the Clinton Foundation where he worked with governments in Sub-Saharan Africa and corporate CEOs to establish private-public partnerships to stimulate economic development in the region.

Last Job

  • KaiZen Innovation, president and managing partner

Other Jobs

  • Clinton Foundation, special adviser
  • Johnson & Johnson, served on group operating committee
  • Warner Lambert/Pfizer, vice president of consumer products for Latin America

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