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Title: Project Director
Email: bobtisch@gicgroup.com Mr. Tisch is the Project Director of Export Promotion Services
for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. He has 35 years of experience in the Horticultural & Tropical Products Division of the Foreign Agricultural Service/USDA, working with the U.S.
horticultural product industry (fruit, vegetable, wine, tree nut, and nursery products) in the areas of market development, strategic planning, evaluation, and supply demand analysis.As Deputy
Director of Marketing with FAS, he oversaw the development of the Strategic Plan, Unified Export Strategy, and the evaluation of horticultural product industry market development proposals. He was instrumental in
helping create the California Agricultural Export Council, an organization that helped small agricultural companies identify and develop overseas markets for their products and obtain MAP funds for export
promotion. As a marketing specialist he identified foreign markets for U.S. horticultural product exports. As a commodity analyst he evaluated competitive developments in the world horticultural product market. He
has traveled to more than 35 countries on behalf of the horticultural product industry. Education: M.S. Program for International Trade, University of Maryland, 1965-1967. B.S., Agribusiness, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963. |
