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The World Trade Center Delaware (WTC Delaware) has added a “dream team” of multi-talented Wilmington consultants to its staff: Dinette Rivera joined the WTC Delaware in 2019 as senior business consultant. Speaking several languages, Dinette brings a truly global perspective to her 30 years’ experience in business management and consulting. She has lived on two continents, two islands and 16 cities and has traveled in Europe, Canada, North America and Central America. Dinette is President-elect of Delaware’s chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). She is a University of Delaware Customized Learning Solutions Instructor, training hundreds of Financial Coaches for the State of Delaware’s Stand by Me Financial Coaching Program. Dana Dobson joined the World Trade Center of Delaware in January 2019 as director of marketing and communications. In this capacity, Dana develops and leads WTC Delaware’s overall communications strategy tied to global and regional goals and objectives. She oversees the planning, management and implementation of all marketing, communications, content strategy, public relations and media relations for the organization. The president of Dana Dobson Public Relations, Dana is a well-respected public relations consultant, speaker and TEDx speaker coach with 30 years of experience working with both Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs in a broad range of industries. L. J. Nick Callazzo III, joined the WTC Delaware in December, 2018 as membership manager. Nick is an internationally known dynamic speaker, corporate consultant and executive coach. A former marine who serves on the board of a veteran’s home, Nick is the president of Resource Specialists, a performance consulting group that Nick started in 1985. He has facilitated entrepreneurial programs at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is an adjunct professor in the MBA program at Wilmington University and at Delaware State University’s College of Business. “Our mission is to grow trade. Each of these professionals brings years of talent and expertise to assist companies and individuals in Delaware and in the surrounding region, to our partners, and to officials in the Legislature and state agencies through business consulting and generating awareness of the wide range of services WTC Delaware offers,” says Carla Sydney Stone, president of WTC Delaware. “Additionally, this ‘dream team’ will focus on growing our membership and designing a new member program that will help them immediately to explore new international business opportunities.”