President Danilo Medina has hosted a delegation from Florida, as part of a visit by Enterprise Florida to develop more Dominican business with the state of Florida.
Gray Swoope, Secretary of the Florida Commerce group and CEO of Enterprise Florida, Ananth Prasad, secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and Barbara Sharief, Miami’s Broward County mayor, headed the delegation.
Also present at the meeting yesterday, Tuesday 25 February were the Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States Embassy Daniel Foote, Alan Becker of Becker & Poliakoff, Park Brady of St. Joe Company, Frederick Leonhardt of Gray Robinson, vice chancellor of Keiser University Belinda Keiser, Florida Power & Light Company president Eric Silagy, and Florida Ports Council chair Val Schwec, among others.
Jean-Alain Rodriguez, executive director of the Center for Exports and Investment in the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD), and the general consul in Miami, Oscar Amaury Rios De Padua were among those who represented the Dominican government.
Around 130 people representing more than 32 companies and leading investors from Florida came for the meetings. The DR is ranked ninth on the list of Florida’s top ten trading partners by value in 2012, when total trade was worth US$5.5 billion. Dominican exports to Florida totaled US$2.45 billion.
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