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Our firm provides management consulting, executive search, and project development expertise to clients to support their interests in the U.S., Mexico, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, where Bill Gottfried began his career as a U.S. Naval Officer managing petroleum shipments in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, and Yemen. We support energy, agribusiness, biotechnology, health care, space technology, and real estate development and our team has helped our clients raise over $275 million in investment funding. We developed one of the first commercial payloads for the International Space Station, a remote sensing and imaging system for the energy industry, raising $75 million in funding commitments for this project. Bill and Danielle Gottfried established The Kidney Research Institute of Texas to honor family members who have suffered from kidney disease. Gottfried International Estates advises clients on real estate investments in U.S. and global markets.
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Bill Gottfried joined the first U.S. Government Trade Missions sent to Russia and Central Asia during the collapse of the Soviet Union to support investment cooperation with the new Republics that declared their independence from the USSR. Bill helped establish energy projects in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan and he recruited management teams for these joint ventures. We developed $125 million in investment funding to support these joint ventures. Bill was a founding member of the U.S.-Russia Business Council in Washington, D.C. and he formed the Council's Energy Committee to support U.S. energy investment cooperation with Russia. We formed the first U.S. agribusiness joint venture in Kazakhstan during the collapse of the Soviet Union with support from the EBRD in London.
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Bill began his career as a U.S. Naval Officer in the Middle East stationed in Awali, Bahrain; Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia; Shuaiba, Kuwait; Abadan, Iran; and Aden, Yemen where he managed petroleum shipments (300,000 b/d) for the Department of Defense. Following military service, Bill was a Petroleum Supply Analyst with Mobil Oil Corporation and subsequently served as Manager of the Crude Oil Allocation Program in the Federal Energy Office at The White House. Bill later worked with Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc.'s Energy Division in Washington, D.C. and Houston supporting energy industry clients.
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Bill earned a B.S. in Petroleum Marketing from The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; a M.B.A. in International Business from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; he attended Executive Ed. at Harvard Business School; he was commissioned a U.S. Naval Officer at Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island; and he graduated from Navy Supply Corps School, Athens, Georgia. Bill has been listed in the Financial Times of London's "Who's Who in World Oil & Gas", he is an Eagle Scout, and he is a Knight of the Silver Circle Member of The Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. Bill served on the Board of Directors of the Houston Association of Realtors and the Texas Association of Realtors serving as Chairman of the International Committees of both Associations; he served as the National Association of Realtors Presidential Liaison to the United Arab Emirates; and he was a founding Board Member of the Asian Real Estate Association of America, Houston Chapter.
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Please contact us at 713-299-0653,
email at billgottfried@gmail.com, thank you.
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