Mr. KV Kumar was recently honored by the City of College Park, Georgia with a Proclamation for building alliances in the United States and abroad.

Mr. KV Kumar is Founder and President of Business & Strategic Consultants International, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona. KV, as he likes to be called has successfully provided consulting services to corporations and governments throughout the world specializing in strategy development, liaison, crisis management, policy analysis, marketing and negotiation. Clients have included major financial institutions throughout the world including the World Bank and to the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines.

His established business relationships included business and governments both in the U.S. and India as well as the Philippines, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Sierra Leone, Chad and Thailand.

Mr. Kumar is also President and CEO of the U.S. India Trade Foundation (USINTF). USINTF is a non-government and non-profit organization that facilitates a pro-active role in developing and growing trade between the U.S. and India. A major objective of USINTF is to expand business trade opportunities between the U.S. and India by working closely with both governments.

Mr. Kumar has served as the Founding National Chairman and CEO of the U.S. Indian American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC and from the conception and founding of the organization in 2003 through September 2007, Mr. Kumar led a variety of activities beneficial to the constituent business community. He fostered establishment of seven chapters in different parts of the United States and opened two offices in India.

Mr. Kumar successfully mediated the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Government of India in January 2007.

He is an invited guest at economic conferences throughout the world to include the White House Conference on the Economy.

KV is married and has two sons.