Are you feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of expanding your business into the U.S. market?
Do you find yourself struggling to navigate the regulatory requirements, cultural nuances, and competitive challenges the U.S.A presents?
Are you concerned about making costly mistakes or missing out on key opportunities in the world’s largest economy?
You’re not alone. Many ambitious founders face these hurdles when eyeing the lucrative but daunting U.S. market.
What if you could unlock the full potential of your business in the U.S. market with less hassle, less waste and more confidence?
FD Global Connections offers expert guidance and tailored strategies to ensure your successful expansion into the U.S. market.
Book a Discovery Call today and take the first step towards unlocking your business’s global growth potential.
Book a Suitability Call
Book an obligation free, 1:1 call where CEO and U.S Market Expansion Specialist Trena Blair will help you uncover your businesses potential opportunities and roadblocks on the path to U.S market success.
Complete Our Thorough Scalability Audit
We work with you to conduct an audit of your business to determine if it’s ready to expand internationally. We clinically assess your business using our proprietary model, providing you with a comprehensive report and action plan.
Work Alongside Us to Get It Done
Whether it’s finding you clients, building your sales pipeline, finding the perfect location for your U.S operations or helping you establish a trusted network of lawyers, accountants and service providers, FD Global Connections will work alongside you for as little or as long as it takes to make your aspirations a reality.
“Trena’s fresh approach to forming genuine partnerships in a new market is to be applauded. Trena is an outstanding and trusted advocate for Australian companies. Her thinking is clear, strategic and smart and her networks extensive.”
Anthony Bastic, CEO AGB Events, who became Australia’s first exhibitor at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington DC after working with FD Global Connections.
Decades of Proven Experience & Client Success
An Extensive Global Network
The Strategic Tools to Support Your Journey
We offer six distinct programs that each help ambitious founders and business leaders gain clarity on the next steps they need to take in order to scale their businesses into the U.S.A. You can choose to leverage one or all of these programs to prepare your business to meet your vision.
Our GLOBAL SCALABILITY AUDIT™ uses our proprietary formula to ensure that your business is ScaleUp ready. We begin by assessing your business to ensure that your business has the capability and capacity to meet the challenges of scaling internationally, providing you with a report showing your strengths and gaps (“red flags”), plus suggestions and connections to close the gaps.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE GLOBAL SCALABILITY AUDIT™
Ensure you have clarity on your vision and create your short, mid and long-term goals. Get clear on what you can achieve and build a plan for what needs to be done. Our GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FOR GROWTH™ program takes clients identifies their governance structure to support international growth, whether this be reviewing advisory committees or establishing governance boards. This also includes introductions to our network of USA-based Professional Service companies, ensuring they are ready to operate legally in a highly complex market.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FOR GROWTH™
Do you know your global customer? When you sign up for FD Global’s USA MARKET DISCOVERY program, we ensure you know everything about your customer: their culture, who they are, where they are located, their buying behaviour, marketing messages, pricing strategies, and distribution options. We customise research for every client based on their business needs and then we build you a bespoke go-to-market strategy.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT USA MARKET DISCOVERY
Inside our GLOBAL GROWTH RUNWAY program, clients receive concierge service to directly connect with in-market Interim or full-time Sales Representatives or Distribution Partners. Our global partners are industry leaders and super connectors – and a powerful resource to fast-track your business growth. Tap into FD Global’s highly valued and experienced network to generate that all-important revenue.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT GLOBAL GROWTH RUNWAY
FD GLOBAL POWER PLAY is for business leaders seeking an independent mentor and advisor who is an expert on the USA market. PowerPlay is a 3-month engagement, fully custom-designed for the savvy business leader. Engage our internationally renowned mentor for independent, confidential and trusted advice.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FD GLOBAL POWER PLAY
Our NEW YORK CITY IMMERSION Program has been available since 2017 for companies requiring introductions to Investors and Potential Clients. Register to be the first to receive news when applications open.
Are you a University or large Organisation seeking creative programs for your students or members? We create bespoke subjects for MBA and undergraduate students focussing on USA entrepreneurship, CX design and innovation.
Visit our Partnerships page to find out more.
“Trena Blair was instrumental in connecting us with potential partners that are highly-experienced in local laws, taxes, recruitment, distribution, marketing and customer support. Having someone with in-depth experience of both our home market and the U.S. has provided us with confidence and clarity moving forward.”
Andrew Coppin, CEO, Ranchbot
“Australia’s Scaleup Specialist into the USA” Forbes Magazine
Trena Blair is the Founder and CEO of FD Global Connections and a highly accomplished global businesswoman and professional presenter who effortlessly transverses transcontinental corporate and entrepreneurial communities. A global citizen, Ms. Blair has lived and worked in Australia and the United States of America. As a qualified company Director, she combines her CEO responsibilities with a Board portfolio, bringing a keen eye for risk mitigation & good corporate governance to everything she does.
Author of Decoding Global Growth: How Successful Companies Scale Internationally, Trena is a regular guest across various media channels in Australia and the USA. Trena has been profiled in Forbes magazine, The Australian Newspaper and Sky Business.
“Trena’s strength goes beyond her intelligence, experience and strategic nous. Her core strength is her relatability. Her USA network is enormous, she’s universally liked & admired and she’s a natural connector.”
Stacey Fisher & Lorraine Cherry-Nguyen, Co-Founders/CEO Minnow Designs
Our clients’ stories are a testament to our impact. These stories aren’t just a small sample of our clients successes; they’re blueprints for what we can achieve together.
If, like our previous clients, you’re ready to accelerate your international expansion with a trusted partner by your side, book a discovery call today.
“Trena has the best index of USA contacts I’ve ever seen. If she isn’t connected to somebody, she is not six degrees away, but one”
Philip Campbell, CEO, enigmaFIT, whom Trena helped win contracts with Estee Lauder, Chanel and Boston Consulting Group in just 6 weeks.
A: We work with Scaleups through to ASX listed companies from a wide variety of industries. Our strategies are customised to fit your precise needs, ensuring relevance and effectiveness.
A: We specialise in finding unique market opportunities, positioning your business for success.
A: Our expertise includes navigating U.S. regulatory landscapes, making the process smoother for you.
A: We offer scalable solutions to fit different budgets, ensuring a high ROI.
A: While timelines vary, our strategic approach is designed for efficiency and effectiveness.
“With Trena’s extensive New York network, Inlogik connected to 15 Global Banks, securing 10 product demos. Inlogik was subsequently invited to participate in 4 RFP’s. As a direct result of Trena’s efforts, Inlogik won the RFP for the global bank (HSBC) and our office is now firmly established in New York.”
Richard Eskell, CEO Inlogik Group
With FD Global Connections, your dream of U.S. market success is within reach. Let us help you get there. Book your discovery call with Trena Blair today.
Copyright © 2024 FD Global Connections Pty Ltd Introduction
At FD Global Connections Pty Ltd we are committed to protecting personal data and to fair and transparent processing. Please read our privacy statement: it will help you to understand how we collect and use personal data from our clients, suppliers, sub-contractors or others during the course of our business. We will only use personal data for the purposes described in this privacy statement or as stated at the point of collection. We regularly review this privacy statement and may make changes at any time without giving notice.
Who We Are
FD Global Connections Pty Ltd is an Australian registered company (Australian Business Number: 61 111 381 929). Our registered office is FD Global Connections Pty Ltd 275 Ryedale Street, Ryedale, New South Wales 2122.
This privacy statement only applies to FD Global Connections Pty Ltd. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any other organisation our website may link to.
Our Lawful Basis for Processing
We rely on several lawful basis of processing when we collect and use personal data to operate our business and provide products and services to our clients. These include:
Our Clients
We only ask our business clients to share personal data with us where it is necessary in order to provide our services or other agreed purposes. We rely on our clients providing any necessary information to the individuals whose data is shared with us regarding its use.
In providing a range of services to our clients, we may need to process the following categories of personal data including name, contact details, job title and employment related information (company name, position, responsibilities).
For our services we do not expect our business clients to share special categories of personal data (defined as race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, genetic data, biometric data, sex life or sexual orientation) and criminal records. Where this is the case we rely on our clients having gained the explicit consent of individuals, it being a legal obligation or other lawful basis.
Typically, we will collect personal data directly from our clients or from third parties acting on their instructions (eg their suppliers).
We use such personal data collected for the following purposes:
– Providing professional services: we offer many different services to our clients and many of these services require us to process personal data in order to give advice and deliver reports to our business clients.
– Managing our business: in order to run our business effectively we may need to process personal data for multiple reasons, including managing our client relationships, developing our business and services, hosting events, and to manage and administer our website, IT systems and applications.
– Quality, risk and security management systems: to protect our information and our clients’ information (including personal data), we use security measures that involve detecting, investigating and resolving security threats. As a part of the security monitoring we do personal data may be processed (eg automated scanning of emails to identify threats). We monitor the services we provide to our clients for quality purposes this may involve processing personal data held on the relevant client file.
– Providing information about our services: we may use business contact details to provide information about us, our services and activities, including events that may be of interest.
– Complying with local legal, regulatory or professional obligations.
Suppliers/Contractors
We only process personal data about our suppliers (this includes subcontractors and any individuals associated with them) where it is necessary for us to receive services, contract, manage our relationship and help provide services to our clients (where relevant).
We use personal data in these circumstances for the following purposes:
– Providing professional services: where a supplier/contractor helps us to deliver services to our clients, we process the personal data of its people involved to help manage our relationship and to deliver those services to our clients.
– Managing our business: in order to run our business effectively we may need to process personal data for multiple reasons, including managing our client relationships, developing our business and services, hosting events, and to manage and administer our website, IT systems and applications.
– Quality, risk and security management systems: to protect our information and our clients’ information (including personal data), we use security measures that involve detecting, investigating and resolving security threats. As a part of the security monitoring we do personal data may be processed (eg automated scanning of emails to identify threats). We monitor the services we provide to our clients for quality purposes this may involve processing personal data held on the relevant client file.
– Providing information about our services: we may use business contact details to provide information about us, our services and activities, including events that may be of interest.
– Complying with legal, regulatory or professional obligations.
Clients or Prospective Client Contacts
Using a customer relationship data management system, we process personal data about contacts, these are existing clients, prospective clients and individuals connected with them. This personal data will usually include name, employer identity, job title and business contact details.
Typically, we will collect the personal data directly from the individuals themselves or from public sources such as public registers, social media and professional networking sites, news articles and internet searches.
Such personal data will be accessible and used for the following purposes:
Unless we have the consent of the individual we do not sell or otherwise release any personal data collected for purposes above.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data or message that is sent from an organisation’s web server to your web browser and is then stored on your hard drive. Cookies can’t read data off your hard drive or cookie files created by other sites, and do not damage your system.
However, you can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. Web browsers allow you to control cookies stored on your hard drive through the web browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
At FD Global Connections Pty Ltd we only use cookies to monitor the performance of our website and to improve user experience.
If you choose not to accept our cookies, some of the features of our site may not work as well as we intend.
How We Keep Data Secure
Security is of the upmost importance to us. Whilst no data transmission over the internet or any other network can be guaranteed as 100% secure, we take all reasonable steps to safeguard the personal data we hold and we have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures.
Who We Share Data With
We only share personal data with others when absolutely necessary for the purposes for which we hold it and where appropriate contractual arrangements and security mechanisms are in place. We may pass your personal data to:
– suppliers that support us and help provide services to our clients, such 3rd party contractors, providers of cloud-based software, IT systems, security, archiving storage, recruitment, marketing and payment services
– law enforcement or other government and regulatory agencies or to other third parties, where we are required by law, the courts or any legal or regulatory authority we are subject to. We will only provide personal data in this circumstance where permitted or there is a legal requirement.
How long do we keep personal data?
We keep personal data only for as long as necessary and this will reflect the requirements of:
Individuals’ rights
Individuals have certain rights over their personal data that we process as data controllers.
If we process your personal data and you exercise any of your rights we will aim to respond promptly and within any required time limit. However, please note that the length of time it will take us to respond will be dependent on the nature and extent of your request. You have a right to:
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TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL FD GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE FD GLOBAL CONNECTIONS WEB SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE FD GLOBAL CONNECTIONS WEB SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE,
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Termination/Access Restriction
FD Global Connections reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the FD Global Connections Web Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and FD Global Connections agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the city of Sydney, New South Wales.
Statute of Limitations – You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the TOU must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
Trademarks
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The example companies, organisations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organisation, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Notices and Procedure for making Claims of Copyright Infringement
FD Global Connections makes no representations or warranties with respect to the ownership of, or copyright in, content on this website uploaded, linked or otherwise disseminated by users of our service and in no way represent others who claim to be authors, creators or owners of copyright or other rights thereto. You shall obtain all permission(s) when required and are solely responsible for determining the existence of such rights, satisfying any copyright or other use restrictions, intangible rights, or related interests for obtaining any and all permissions and releases, for guarding against the infringement of those rights that may be held elsewhere, and for paying any associated fees necessary for the reproduction or use of the materials and for rights to any proprietary material depicted, and you expressly assume all responsibility for observing applicable laws of copyright, literary right, trespass, conversion, property right, privacy, publicity and defamation.
Special Admonitions for International Use
Recognising the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
Who to contact
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, wish to complain about our use of personal data or exercise one of your rights, please send your correspondence to our Data Protection Officer:
Data Protection Officer
FD Global Connections Pty Ltd
275 Ryedale Street,
Eastwood
New South Wales
Australia 2122
Email: enquiry@fdglobal.com.au with subject “Urgent: Data Privacy”. Note: This emailed is monitored Monday – Friday: 9am – 5pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time).