1. Ireland & Uruguay Working Together – Creating Opportunity Jim Krzywicki

2. Background Ireland & Uruguay Why Ireland? Agenda

3. Learn from Each other Trade with Each other Collectively Promote our Value Our Advantage

4. The Time is Right For Small Countries to be Big Players Free Trade Agreements are Helping Realities of Business as usual Growing Middle Class in LATAM Technology Tools

5. Background

6. Three World Trade Centers Boston, Washington and Dublin.

7. Background Offer Trade Services to help members Export/Import Find a way to support Global Trade Services Members want to trade in a broader Context

8. …Trusted Partners & Verified Members Companies, Resources & Expertise - online …Tuned for Global Trade The Networked Global Community over 100 participating partners

9. Latin America Headquarters WebPort Global Montevideo, Uruguay WTC

10. Achieve Business Success through Global Trade Three very Important Markets 738 million people in Euro Zone 598 million people in LATAM 532 million people in N.A.

11. Ireland & Uruguay

14. Ireland & Uruguay

15. Ireland & Uruguay

17. Ireland & Uruguay

18. 176.215 km² 3.4 million people 84.421 km² 4.6 million people Ireland & Uruguay

19. Less than 5 million People Almost 2 million live & work near the Capitol Educated Population High Quality of Life Favorable Business Tax Structure Stable Politics Advanced Digital Infrastructure Small enough to be Neutral Gateway Advantage

20. Ireland’s Advantage

21. Position itself as Gateway to Europe Recruit Firms to set-up Euro Headquarters Government Incentives and Support Trained and Educated workforce Tax favorable Target Industries – Financial Services – Pharma, BioMed – Clean Tech – Euro Headquarters Ireland’s Advantage

22. Industry Clusters in Ireland

27. What does this mean for Uruguay?

28. Position itself as Gateway to Europe Recruit Firms to set-up Euro Headquarters Government Incentives and Support Trained and Educated workforce Tax favorable Target Industries – Financial Services – Pharma, BioMed – Clean Tech – Euro Headquarters Uruguay’s Advantage

29. Thank You