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In Japan he worked for three years as Executive Vice President of Olympus Symbol, Inc., a joint venture company between Olympus Optical Co. of Japan and Symbol Technologies, Inc. of Long Island, NY.<\/p>\n<p>He has held several positions at Symbol Technologies (now part of Motorola) over a fourteen year period, including Vice President International Marketing and Managing Director of Symbol Technologies International based in Brussels, Belgium. He has been instrumental in the development of Symbol&#8217;s international business in Europe, Latin America, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Rim. His involvement with the Automatic Data Capture industry started in 1975 when he joined the Plessey Company, a European pioneer in bar coding systems, in the capacity of Sales Executive Europe.<\/p>\n<p>He was the founding chairman of the trade show Scan Tech Europe and the trade association AIM Europe in 1984 and is the recipient of the 1989 Richard R. 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Paxar Corporation is the world leader in woven and printed labels for the apparel industry.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in the Netherlands, became US citizen in 2001. He graduated from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands with and MBA in International Business. He speaks Dutch, English, French and German fluently and has a working understanding of Italian and Spanish. He is a frequent lecturer on international business practices and foreign business cultures at universities in the greater Cincinnati area and teaches international business strategy as adjunct professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Berg\u00e9 International LLC provides international business development consulting services for companies in the AIDC industry and serves several companies in this capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Berg\u00e9 manages his own consulting firm, providing services to manufacturers in a number of industries and technology companies. 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