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Profile of:
FERNANDO M. SOPOT
Charter President, Council for Trade and Investment Promotion
Member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Director, PPP Institute at Meritorious Biz Tech College (MBTC), Uganda
President & CEO, Global First Financial Partners, Inc.
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Particulars Remarks
1. Name FERNANDO M. SOPOT
2. Date of Birth November 3, 1947
3. Nationality U.S. Citizen
4. Educational Attainment Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering, Masters Degree in Business
Administration, Major in Management and Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
5. Membership of
Professional Association
Council for Trade and Investment Promotion (CTIP)
China Finance Association (CFA)
6. Other Training and
Seminars
Settlements of disputes, conciliations and arbitration; Export Credit and Project
Finance; Brokers Training and Export Finance at US EXIM Bank.
7. Countries of Work
Experience
Brunei, South Korea, China, Philippines and United States
8. Languages Filipino language and English, proficient both in reading, writing and speaking
9. Work Experience 2012 to Present –
Founder and Charter President – Council for Trade and Investment Promotion
(CTIP- www.ctip.info)
2010 to Present –
President & CEO – Global First Financial Partners, Inc. (GFFP –
www.globalfirstfinancial.net)
2011 to Present –
Technical and financial consultant for Milan Farms Dominicana, S.A.
exporters of fruits, and owns about 2,000 acres of Mangoes and Plantain Farms in
Bani, Dominican Republic.
2014 to Present –
Appointed by Milan Farms to lead the development of a 50MW Solar Energy
Project in Bani where Milan Farm is located.
Previous Experiences:
He has more than 30 years experience in construction and engineering and project
development and management in its capacity as President of a large Construction
and Engineering Firm in Asia.
Lead Consultant of one of the largest bank in Panama. As Lead Consultant, his
responsibility and objective is to create or organize an International Import-
Export Credit Division within the Bank to support the credit requirements not
only of their clients in Panama, but also clients from South and Central American
Countries. Likewise, he is also tasked to create a “training Program” for the
Bank with some Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) Officials acting as Resource
Speakers, with the end in view of accrediting the Bank as their correspondent bank
or conduit bank. He has designed for the Bank a training program on export credit
for their staff assigned in the trade finance division.
Accredited Consultant for America’s Small Business Development Center of
New Jersey.
10. Project Experience and
Accomplishments
Team Leader and Financial Advisor for the following:
May, 2010 –
1. Arranged support from China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation
for a large Construction Group in China an amount of $300 Million to
finance Jacksonville Container Port Infrastructure Project in the U.S.;
2. Arranged credit support from China Export and Credit Insurance
Corporation for a large Construction Group from China to fund an
infrastructure project involving 391 kilometers New Rail Lines, and
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Profile of:
FERNANDO M. SOPOT
Charter President, Council for Trade and Investment Promotion
Member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Director, PPP Institute at Meritorious Biz Tech College (MBTC), Uganda
President & CEO, Global First Financial Partners, Inc.
the Government of Bolivia through the Ministry of Transport.
3. Arranged support from China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation
for a large Construction Group from China and Peninsula Infrastructure
Partners, LLC an amount of $600 Million to finance expansion of
Bayonne Port Infrastructure, New Jersey in the United States;
December, 2010 –
Arranged from China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation for Integrated
Infrastructure Corp. an amount of $250 Million export credit line in the amount of
$200 Million to participate in bidding for a Metro LRT Project in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia for the Government’s Ministry of Transportation.
January, 2011 –
1. Arranged for a credit insurance under a Build and Transfer (BT) from
China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation to finance Tripoli Tower
in Tripoli, Libya. Project Costs: $85 Million. The project was on-hold as
we were overrun by events in Libya;
2. Arranged financing from China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation
to finance acquisition of Passenger Buses for the Government of Libya’s
Ministry of Transportation. Project Costs: $37 Million. The project was
on-hold as we were overrun by events in Libya.
April, 2014 –
Acted as Financial and Transaction Advisor for Primus Hotel Corporation to
finance a Hotel project in Paterson City, New Jersey. Project Costs: $80 Million.
March, 2015 -
Arranged a credit guarantee from Atradius of Netherlands for RL Logistics of
Tanzania an amount of $500,000.00 to finance acquisition of material handling
equipments from Tito Lift Trucks of Netherlands;
April, 2015 –
Arranged a loan from Banco Agricola, in the Dominican Republic in the amount of
$2 Million to finance Milan Farms Dominicana, S.A. expansion plan for its mango,
plantain and melon farms;
June, 2015 to Present -
1. Arranged a loan from an accredited US EXIM BANK’s Financial
Intermediary for RL Logistics of Tanzania an amount of $300,000.00 to
finance acquisition of construction equipments.
2. Arranged financing from Korea to finance the requirements of Tema Oil
Refinery in Ghana to supply and install a 120 TPH Boiler and related
equipments. Project Costs: $10.04 Million, at the same time participated
in a bidding for the Project.
3. On-going negotiations with some creditors to finance Milan Farms’ 50MW
Solar Energy Project in the amount of $60.5 Million. The project is located
in Bani, Dominican Republic.
4. Helped arranged partial financing from Korea an amount of $100 Million
to finance a 100MW Natural Gas Fired Power Plant of Milan Farms and its
Partner, Corban Energy Group of New Jersey. The Project is located at
Bani, Dominican Republic; and
5. On-going negotiations with some creditors to finance a Solar Energy
Project and a natural gas fired Power Plant Project in Tanzania;
11. Experience as a Resource
Speaker
1. Export Finance hosted by various World Trade Center Organizations and
Chamber of Commerce Organizations in the East Coast. Yearly, he is also
invited to be a resource speaker on Export Finance for an Asian Pension
Funds hosted by Shorex of Singapore and at Shorex Head Office in
Switzerland;
2. Resource speaker for Latin Rail Conferences (2010 and 2011) held
in Miami, Florida hosted by Terrapinn.com. And in 2012, a Conference
was held by the same Group, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he
submitted a Paper on the subject of debt and equity, project finance and
Public-Private-Participation (PPP);
3. Submitted a Paper for a UK based, International Quality and
Productivity Centre (IQPC), in its May, 2013 Conference entitled
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Profile of:
FERNANDO M. SOPOT
Charter President, Council for Trade and Investment Promotion
Member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Director, PPP Institute at Meritorious Biz Tech College (MBTC), Uganda
President & CEO, Global First Financial Partners, Inc.
Africa, where most of the Ministers of Transport of various West African
Governments have attended the said Conference. The topic assigned to
him during the Conference was “Financing Government
Infrastructure Projects, How do we go forward?”
4. Co-hosted a training program, entitled “Business Planning, 2013, with the
Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce of Essex County
(http://www.haccecnj.org/). It was a very successful event, and as a result
the US Government supported the organization with funding to
continuously support the Latino Businesses in the Essex County;
5. Greater Paterson Chamber of Commerce and Industry invited Mr. Sopot
as their Guest Speaker last August 14, 2013;
6. CTIP has so far hosted three (3) events for the year, 2014. Two events
were held last February, 2014 entitled Economic Forum in the City of
Paterson, the other was about Travel and Tourism Forum, 2014.
The third event was last April 4, 2014 entitled, Paterson City:
Investors Forum – Part 1 – INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS.
7. November, 2015 – Conducted PPP Seminar dubbed as PPP101 – An
Introduction to Public-Private-Partnership;
8. August, 2015, hosted a Conference on Trade and Investments for
a Trade Delegation from Jianxie Province, China attended by top
Government Officials of the Province and Jiangxie’s Business Leaders.
9. December, 2015, hosted a Conference on Banking in New Jersey
for a Trade Delegation from Hubei Province, China attended by
top Government Officials of the Province and Hubei’s Business Leaders.
12. Creating PPP Institute CTIP is into promoting the creation of PPP Institute in New Jersey and overseas,
by partnering with Schools and Universities. As a starter, he has successfully
executed and organized a PPP Institute at MBTC in Uganda. MBTC stands for
Meritorious BizTech College, Kampala, Uganda.
13. Fernando M. Sopot
Contact Address
108 Orchard Terrace,
Union, New Jersey 07083
P: 1.908.463.9417
E: fmsopot@gmail.com : fms@globalfirstfinancial.net :
fernando.m.sopot@ctip.info
W: www.ctip.info : www.globalfirstfinancial.net
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