Costas, Inc. Expands the Board with
Professor of International Business
Las Vegas, Nevada; June 22,2017 - InvestorsHub NewsWire
- CEO of Costas, Inc. Mr. Clifford Redekop is pleased to
announce the addition of Dr. Stephen L. Gomes to the Costas Inc.
board of directors. Mr. Redekop says, "Dr. Gomes will add
significant expertise in our planning and execution of building the
Costas brand. Our push is to acquire digital companies that rely on
or primarily operate with FINTech, and Dr. Gomes' ability to do
analysis on our acquisition targets will ensure Costas is making
moves with the best advice in the market".
Dr. Gomes' professional career has been focused primarily on the
formation, leadership and management of international business
strategic alliances and cross cultural business strategies.
This assumes a deep understanding of what counts as strategic in an
enterprise versus what is only short term tactical in nature.
Dr. Gomes earned a Ph.D. in Public Management and International
Relations from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of
Public and International Affairs funded on a NASA Ph.D.
fellowship. His early career was in executive management
positions with large international companies with senior
responsibility for contracts with government leaders, royal family
members and large corporations such as ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia and
Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan. His executive duties have
included extended assignments in France, Greece, China, Malaysia,
Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Russia, Brazil and Holland.
Included in his work history of more than 30 strategic alliance
and joint venture agreements are the following:
developed and negotiated more than 15 public/private
high-tech co-development strategic alliance agreements between
major U.S. companies, universities and the Federal Research Labs
with a total value of $160 million;
five major supplier alliance agreements with values up to
$15,000,000 for two major U.S. Oil Companies;
long term real estate asset management outsourcing alliance
agreement with values up to $1 billion in real estate
asset value;
set up multi-party manufacturing alliance with major big three
air bag manufacturing firm;
Assisted IBM to develop five outsourcing alliances with
technology providers for the master Information Technology health
care system contract for the Province of Alberta;
supported negotiations and alliance discussions on behalf of 15
U.S. corporations and multinational companies with combined assets
up to $15 million for each agreement.
Currently, Dr. Gomes manages Gomes & Company, which is a
boutique executive consulting firm engaged in a broad range of
domestic and international multi-party consulting assignments
mostly focused on high tech and finance start-ups, joint ventures
planning, action planning workshops, organization problem solving
and specialized business plan strategy and development. For
several years, his firms main clients were Fortune 500 companies
working with the Warren Company based in Providence, Rhode
Island. While in San Francisco, Dr. Gomes managed the West
Coast operation where he was responsible for assisting large
corporate clients in the creation and implementation of strategic
business alliances, facilitated technology transfer, the formation
of technology co-development alliances, R&D consortia and joint
ventures. He was instrumental in helping to bring in one of
the firms largest clients, Andersen Consulting which became
Accenture Corporation. Before being retained by the Warren
Company, he was CEO of American Technology Initiative (Am Tech), a
non-profit corporation, co-founded by NASA and the private sector,
based in Silicon Valley dedicated to the implementation of
public-private technology development alliances and partnerships
between universities, federal research labs and the private sector.
Clients included NASA, Los Alamos, Cal-Tech, Boeing, and Sandia
labs.
Dr. Gomes has also taught MBA Masters degree courses in Start up
Management, Technology Commercialization and Strategic Alliance and
Joint Venture Practices (Oregon Graduate Institute - now OHSU,
State University of New York (SUNY-Stony Brook Korea Campus) and
Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht,
Netherlands).
Dr. Gomes is active in a number of non-profit activities and
boards. He has served in the past as a director on the National
Board of Advisers for the Peace Corps and the Virginia Satir
Foundation. He currently is also a fellow of the Innovation
Creativity and Capital Institute ( IC2 ) of the University of Texas
at Austin, which is meeting April 2017 in Austin. This is a group
of international business thought leaders and professors who
participate in the University of Texas Business School annual
leadership strategy conference sessions by invitation only. Finally
Dr. Gomes is an aviation enthusiast and has been flying airplanes
since he was 12 years old. At one time he was the youngest
pilot in the United States. Howard Hughes hired him for his
aviation expertise and knowledge of local Las Vegas flying
conditions and politics. At the age of 25, Gomes was put in
charge of planning a new $650 million airport for Las
Vegas to replace McCarran Field which was to be built at Howard
Hughes expense and turned over to Las Vegas at his cost.
Later in his career Dr. Gomes used that experience with two other
companies to participate in the planning of 12 major new
international airports around the globe over a 20 year period.
About COSTAS (CSSI): http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/CSSI/profile
COSTAS INC. is a publicly traded company on the OTC
Markets under the symbol CSSI. Costas Inc. invests in early
stage Digital Currency projects. We believe strongly in the growth
of Distributed Asset Technology and its integration into Financial
Technologies (FINTech. Distributed Networks are the next massive
internet investment market, as social media was 10 years ago.
Costas Inc. strongly believes that a Distributed Asset Technology
product will be the next Facebook or Twitter. The current US market
of FINTech is approximately $1.24 Trillion.
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