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Narbeli Galindo
GlobalEITrade LLC, President and CEO
Narbeli is an accomplished global marketing, management, business development and finance professional with over 30 years of international business experience. She has developed and implemented successful international and domestic marketing and business expansion strategies and led all facets of the business plan execution process. Her expertise includes strategic market analysis, expansion, and brand awareness.
In 2020, she founded her own consulting firm, Global EITrade working with several companies to lead them on growth and expansion globally and locally. Additionally, she became Baker University Mealman Chair of Leadership and Innovation with the task to implement the first-ever Entrepreneurship program for the institution.
In 2015, she became the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) Director of International Affairs and Trade responsible for all global aspects of the Kansas City, Missouri development appointed by the former City Mayor, Mayor Sly James. Previously she was the Managing Director of her own importing business, Narbeli’s Imports LLC founded in 2003. Additionally, she was a UMKC International Business and Finance professor teaching undergraduates and graduates on international Management, Marketing, and Finance, directed study abroad programs to Spain, and trained corporations on how to successfully expand their companies’ products and services globally. Narbeli also served as the 2014 Past President of The International Trade Council of KC (ITC) and is now a current Board of Directors for both the ITC and International Relations Council Kansas City (IRC).
Narbeli’s business career has been driven by her creative, results-oriented ability to work with people in several industries and from around the world. She has a record of bringing positive changes to the marketplace, which resulted in profits and economic growth for the communities in which she worked. Narbeli has been awarded several global awards in the representation of KCMO and the EDCKC.
Narbeli is multilingual and has a great appreciation for the global marketplace. She has an outstanding cross-cultural background, strong leadership, and management skills.
Prior to Narbeli’s Imports LLC, Narbeli held various leader positions with Cerner Corporation, Sprint, AT&T and Warner-Lambert Co. as Senior Marketing Strategist, Global Marketing Manager and Global Product Manager, and Financial Analyst, respectively.
Narbeli’s personal mission is to unite the business world by contributing to business and individual achievement and to increase corporate profit growth while respecting clients’ individual needs.
Narbeli has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Finance, Abilene Christian University, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Marketing and Management from THUNDERBIRD, School of Global Management.
Narbeli has received several awards and recognitions all over her career, such as:
- BAYLOR Global Business Award 1996
- AT&T Excellence Award 1988
- SPRINT Excellence Award 2002
- First-ever WTCKC Go Global KC Outstanding Economic Development Agency Award 2018 (recognize its work in increasing KCMO’s visibility as an economic development player on the international stage)
- IRC City of KCMO Award 2018 (City’s international efforts that have contributed to economic growth in the area and have shown exemplary service to the community).
- ITCGKC Women in International Business Legacy Award 2019 (for all the international work she had done for the City and the community)
- Featured by Ingram's Magazine as one of the 50 Missourians You Should Know in 2019
Narbeli has achieved several certifications over her career, such as:
- Executive Hecht and Associates Business Professional Executive Training Certificate 2000
- Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Fast Trac New Ventures Program KC, KS 2003
- Johnson County Community College Biotechnology Certificate 2014
- FBI Citizens Academy graduate 2017
- Leadership certificate by the Southern KC Chamber of Commerce, in 2018
- Harvard Business School Online Global Business Certificate 2021
- Harvard Business School Online Leadership Principles Certificate2021
