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PAXAFE brings jobs, investment to Michigan
Ashok Seetharam was living in Milwaukee when his startup, PAXAFE, began to take off. But he wasn’t sure he’d be able to stay. PAXAFE was Ashok’s third startup. After moving to the U.S. from India and graduating from Brown University with a graduate degree in...
“We Are Hamtramck”
On Saturday October 12, we worked with Hamtramck residents to create a "We Are Hamtramck" mural in Veterans Park to celebrate and share our vision for the future Hamtramck Recreation District Park. This event was held in collaboration with TEN x TEN and the...
Pam Lavers Receives Global Detroit’s 2019 Champion Award
A passionate public servant with more than 23 years of service, newly retired Deputy County Executive of Macomb County Pam Lavers always wanted to work for government. Hand-picked in 2011 by newly elected Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel, Lavers helped to set up...
OpTech’s Ronia Kruse Receives Global Detroit’s Corporate Impact Award
“Innovation cannot exist without the right talent,” says Ronia Kruse, president and CEO of OpTech, an award-winning talent solutions and technology firm specializing in enhancing Fortune 1000 and government organizations by providing innovative tailored solutions and...
Global Detroit’s 2019 Young Professional: Arjun Venugopal
Arjun Venugopal moved to the United States from his native India in 2015. Like many international students, Arjun, a Masters in Manufacturing Engineering graduate from Wayne State University, was experiencing what most of us would consider a frustrating employment...
Bank of America’s Tiffany Douglas Receives Global Detroit’s 2019 Corporate Leadership Award
What would you like the power to do? That is Bank of America’s rallying call and Tiffany Douglas and her colleagues take it seriously. As the company’s Senior Vice President and Market Executive for Michigan, Tiffany supports the Bank’s lines of business to...
Elias Gutierrez Receives Global Detroit’s 2019 Community Entrepreneur Award
Situated in an office on the second floor of an old bank building that dates back to the 1930s are the headquarters of Latino Press, the newspaper Elias Gutierrez launched in 1993. “I came from Chile in 1991. Just like everyone else, I was looking for a better...
GTA Prepares International Students for Job Market
On July 15, we celebrated the graduation of 11 international students from our inaugural Global Talent Accelerator. These hardworking students, with degrees (or soon-to-be completed degrees) from bachelor’s to Ph.D, spent the summer attending interactive workshops on...
Connecting Small Businesses to Funding, Encouragement
Rezaul Karim came to America to create a better life for his family–twice. Although he worked as a bank officer in Bangladesh, he knew there were more opportunities for his four young daughters in the U.S. So he moved his family to New York and then Detroit, where he...
Communicating and Building Trust Through Art
Over several weeks last fall, more than 30 women and girls gathered around red onion skins, dried eucalyptus leaves and buckets of indigo dye to create beautifully printed silk scarves and vibrant blue canvas tote bags. The collective art project, called Common...