Joachim C Bartels

Current

Managing Director at BIIA - Business Information Industry Association Asia Pacific
Owner at Intrepid Explorers, Inc.

Past

Senior VP for Global Busienss Development at Dun & Bradstreet
all at Dun & Bradstreet

Education

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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Industry

Information Services

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Joachim C Bartels’s Summary

Joachim C. Bartels founded Intrepid Explorers, Inc. in 2000. Bartels is an information specialist with global business experience (operations, planning, M&A, divestitures, market & key account development). He worked most of his career in business-to-business, direct marketing and business information services environments. He pioneered new information concepts, new business models and set up businesses in emerging markets with continually changing political and economic environments.

Bartels held line and staff management positions at the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in the USA, and Europe. As senior vice president, Bartels managed D&B’s business development program that spanned the globe with a particular emphasis on China, Eastern Europe, India and South East Asia. He was also responsible for D&B’s strategic relationship with the credit insurance industry [Berne Union and ICISA members].

Bartels debates on a regular basis with political and industry leaders around the world about the role of information in national economies and business decision processes, plus the need to create information infrastructures as a basis for economic growth. He is a regular participant in information and credit management forums working on issues concerned with the value of information in trade credit decisions.

Joachim C Bartels’s Specialties:

Gobal Business Development, Global Account Management, Business Know-how and technology transfer - business information services

Joachim C Bartels’s Experience

Managing Director

BIIA - Business Information Industry Association Asia Pacific

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Intrepid Explorers is a co-founder of Business Information Industry Association Asia Pacific - Middle East Limited (BIIA). BIIA constitutes a neutral Forum of information content companies in Asia Pacific and Middle East to promote, protect and inform the Industry. BIIA serves as a platform for networking and informing users, regulators, governments and the general public about the value of information services.
www.biia.com
Owner

Intrepid Explorers, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

April 2000 — Present (9 years 8 months)

Intrepid Explorers, Inc. (IEI) specializes in serving information content providers in the development of new international markets, the identification and selection of potential partners, the development of new strategies and information concepts. IEI also serves clients outside the information content industry, but which may have a keen interest in entering or investing in the content industry. IEI advises the banking sector (including Central Banks) in information pooling of loan performance data and in setting up Credit Bureau operations.
Senior VP for Global Busienss Development

Dun & Bradstreet

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DNB; Information Services industry)

1972 — March 2000 (28 years )

Bartels held line and staff management positions at the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in the USA, and Europe. As senior vice president, Bartels managed D&B’s business development program that spanned the globe with a particular emphasis on China, Eastern Europe, India and South East Asia. He was also responsible for D&B’s strategic relationship with the credit insurance industry [Berne Union and ICISA members].
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Dun & Bradstreet

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Services industry)

1972 — 2000 (28 years )

Joachim C Bartels’s Education

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Business Administration 1971 — 1973

College Mechanical Engineering Germany
College for Business Administration Germany

Activities and Societies:

Marketing - Business Strategy