Charles P. Collin This is Me

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1. 1. www.elcominternational.com

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   Published on: 3/3/2007   Last Visited: 3/3/2007

   Charles P. Collins Managing Director, Global Strategic Alliances As Managing Director, Global Strategic Alliances, Mr. Collins oversees and manages elcom, inc.'s global business alliance strategies and implementations. His role is essential for defining the future of elcom, inc.'s position in the electronic marketplace and the institutions both private and public, which will affect the widest possible business audience, then establishing significant long term relationships with each as appropriate, in the areas of co-marketing, joint ventures, research and development, legal, business policy and regulatory frameworks.
   
   Mr. Collins began his career in international business in 1976 working in Mexico City, Mexico as an executive programs developer with the Mexican Federation of Professionals. Upon returning to the United States in 1978, Charles worked with a number of management consulting firms for the next six years, in the areas of manufacturing productivity improvement, and office automation.
   
   In 1984, he was one of the first professionals in America, to establish commercial electronic marketplaces for vertical trading communities in cooperation with a variety of industry trade associations including the Boston Bar Association. In 1987, Charles was a founding member of the International Business Network, which over the next 10 years would electronically link internationally active businesses across 100 countries through their national and local Chambers of Commerce. This work eventually transformed into the World Chambers Network - the Internet's official destination for the more than 10,000 chambers of commerce worldwide.
   
   During this same period, he spent 5+ years working with the international trade finance group of Standard Chartered Bank, one of the world's top trade finance banks based in London, linking their internationally active customers in more than 700 offices in 67 countries, into a trusted trading community.
   
   In 1989, Charles was part of the team which pioneered the first commercial use of the Internet in America under special grant from the National Science Foundation, in the establishment of BioTechNet: an information and commercial web- portal serving the biotechnology industry.
   
   Charles is a 1976 honors graduate of Emerson College, Boston, with a degree in Business & Political Communications, with post-graduate work in Intercultural Communications at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

2. 2. www.elcom.com

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   Published on: 2/15/2007   Last Visited: 3/3/2007

   "We are honored to be recognized by the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals for our partnership with U.S. Bank, which has resulted in the deployment of a next generation commercial card offering under the U.S. Bank brand of Access® Purchase," said Charles Collins, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategic Alliances, Elcom International.

3. 3. Press Releases

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   Published on: 10/3/2006   Last Visited: 11/22/2006

   "U.S. Bank's customers and the market in general need a complete purchase-to-pay solution that captures and manages everything from Level-III order detail, to transaction settlement and reconciliation," said Charles Collins, managing director, strategic alliances at Elcom.