Virtual Get-together via Videoconferencing

Topic: Using Virtual Communities to Facilitate International Trade

Wednesday, January 23, 2002
10:55 - 11:55 a.m.
Presenter: Phyllis Bonanno
Hosted by: Mount Aloysius College

This virtual get-together will explore the area of international trade in a very innovative way. Many of us are familiar with virtual communities in business and have even participated in virtual get-togethers. Some of us are somewhat familiar with International trade and all of the complexities surrounding that. This discussion addresses how International Trade is implemented using virtual communities. This discussion is just one of three workshops taking place at the Mount Aloysius College Information Technology Day.

About the presenter:

Phyllis Bonanno is the President of CrossStreetTrade, Inc., an information technology company based in Massachusetts that develops virtual commerce communities for the purpose of facilitating international trade. Ms. Bonanno is also former President of Columbia College in South Carolina. Prior to her involvement with CrossSteetTrade and Columbia College, Ms. Bonanno was Vice President of International Trade for Warnaco, Inc., a worldwide apparel manufacturing company. While with Warnaco, Ms. Bonanno managed four divisions for the corporate office including: global trade, customs, international and domestic transportation, and the technical testing center. Ms. Bonanno has also served as the first director of the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) Office of Private Sector Liaison in the Executive Office of Presidents Carter and Reagan. During her ten-year tenure at USTR she was also the Executive Director of the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations. She began her career as a member of the editorial staff of McCall's magazine in New York. She transferred to Washington, DC to become a personal assistant to President Lyndon Johnson. She is a member of both the International and Washington, D.C. chapters of The Women's Forum; and is co-chairman of the teams committee of the national breast cancer "Race for the Cure."

To schedule your campus for this event, please contact your campus CAPE Operations Committee Representative who can Register Online for your site to participate.

CAPE contact person: Thya Riley at rileyt@acape.org.