In 1996, after spending over ten years working in import/export operations including several years as an expatriate based in Jakarta, Indonesia where he served as export marketing advisor to the senior management of the 1.2 billion dollar conglomerate Argo Manunggal Group, Jonathan used his experience and core competency in the marketing, export, and branding of commodities to launch IndoAsean Trade Inc., a highly profitable international trading company specialized in extending distribution, sourcing networks and supply chains for several U.S. and regional Asian based importers and manufacturers. While heading up IndoAsean Trade Inc, his firm facilitated the export of high-volume container loads amounting to over $5 million dollars per year of raw materials from manufacturers in Indonesia and SE Asia to the United States. In the late 1990s, at a time when SE Asian markets were undergoing financial turmoil, Jonathan relocated from SE Asia to his company’s U.S.-based office in San Antonio, Texas where he pursued a strategy of diversification and expansion into trade advisory consulting services focused on assisting small and medium-sized US manufacturers in a wide range of industries to expand operations in the global market. Jonathan steered the practice into several new areas of consulting including advising U.S. manufacturers and exporters operating in the high-technology and aerospace industries on export compliance with the US Export Administration Regulations or “EAR” (15 CFR Parts 730-774) as well as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or “ITAR” (22 CFR Parts 120-130). In recent years, he has developed a significant portfolio advising the senior management of over fifty US companies spanning various hi-tech sectors ranging from commercial/ military aerospace, semiconductors, machine tools, information technology, electronic components, UAV systems and infrared/high speed cameras on complex EAR and ITAR related export compliance and licensing cases.
In addition to managing TSI Global Consulting, for many years he has served on the adjunct faculty at both San Antonio College and the University of the Incarnate Word where he has taught undergraduate courses in macro and microeconomics. He also has held graduate-level adjunct teaching positions in international business in the Bill Greehey School of Business at St. Mary’s University. Jonathan has presented papers at several national and regional conferences including the Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) and the Association of Social Economics (ASE) on topics related to international trade and economic development in Southeast Asia and Latin America. In September of 2007, he was invited as a guest of the Mayor of Brisbane, Australia to serve as a speaker on a high-level panel of internationally renowned experts that included senior U.S. government officials, at the Asia Pacific Cities Summit (APCS) in Brisbane, Australia. And in May 2019, he moderated a high-level Panel at Super Conference 2019 in Chicago sponsored by Law.com, entitled How to Navigate Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Global Supply Chain Disruption. He is often quoted and interviewed by the press on key international business and trade policy matters.
Jonathan holds a master’s degree in international economics from Boston University (1988) and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Richmond (1986) where he was also an NCAA Division 1 cross-country and track athlete. He is also ABD status (all but dissertation) having completed all of his coursework towards a Ph.D. in International Economic Development at the University of Southern Mississippi where he was inducted in 2007 into the Phi Kappa Phi academic honor society. He is conversant in both Indonesian and Spanish. In his spare time, he can normally be found on his road bike riding the farm roads of the Texas hill country preparing for his next road race or spending time outdoors at a dark sky rural location studying deep space objects as an amateur astronomer.
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