Brustuen International

Creating international alliances and export opportunities for U.S. companies.

Professional Experience of Eldon Brustuen:

Eldon Brustuen is President of Brustuen International, Inc., an international consulting and trade brokerage firm specializing in trade between the United States, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. Since 1986 Brustuen International has been a matchmaker for trade ventures throughout the international marketplace.

From 1983 until July 1986, Mr. Brustuen was Director of International Trade for the Minnesota Trade Office. The office, which he co-founded, was created by the Minnesota Legislature to promote the export of Minnesota products and services and to attract foreign investment to the state.

He was employed for nine years by the Avionics Division of Honeywell, Inc. In 1983, as a Honeywell Loaned Executive to the Governor's Office, he helped create an international trade promotion program for the state through the establishment of the Minnesota Trade Office.

Mr. Brustuen is considered a spokesperson for the regional international trade community. He has organized and directed numerous international events, including the Korean-U.S. Midwestern Economic Conference, Japan Month in Minnesota, and Shaanxi month. He has spoken extensively on international trade issues to more than 100 business, civic, governmental and academic institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

A 1968 graduate of St. Olaf College, Mr. Brustuen received his master's degree in business administration from the University of St. Thomas. He has attended numerous postgraduate courses and seminars on a wide range of business and international trade subjects.

Mr. Brustuen spent four years as International Trade Consultant to Padilla Speer Beardsley Public Relations firm. His primary focus was in establishing international marketing communications programs for client companies, as well as in marketing the international services of the firm. He assisted in creating WORLDCOM, the largest group of independent public relations firms in the world. With over 100 offices worldwide, WORLDCOM established Padilla Speer Beardsley's New York office as its world headquarters.

He was a co-founder in 1988 of Laurel Medical Corporation, a privately held medical products company that developed a non-invasive fetal monitor used for heart and respiration monitoring of the infant prior to delivery. He served as an officer and director of the company until it was acquired by Peritronics Corporation in 1994.

In 1986 he co-founded American Midwest Trading Corporation in partnership with former Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson. The company imported upscale European consumer products to the United States under contract to several national mass merchandisers.

Professional and Civic Involvement

Mr. Brustuen has most recently been a member of the Japan-American Society, Minnesota World Trade Center, Minnesota International Center, Minnesota Software Association, World Trade Association, the U.S.-China Friendship Association, and the Sons of Norway. He is serving or has served on the boards of Sunrise Software, NuShape Foods, Inc; Laurel Medical Corporation, Capital Travel Corporation, Family and Children's Services, the Nordic Center, the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Twin Cities International Citizen Award. Mr. Brustuen has also served as Executive Director of the Governor's Advisory Commission on International Trade, was a member of the Governor's Task Force on Woodfuel Products, and was part of the original Advisory Commission on the World Trade Center. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the National Association of State Development Agencies International Division, the World Trade Center Agricultural Advisory Board, the Iberaki City/Minneapolis Cultural Association, the International Committee of the Minnesota branch of the American Electronics Association, and the board of the Midwest-Japan Association.

Mr. Brustuen has been active in Minnesota politics for many years. In 1982, he served as statewide chair of the successful Rudy Perpich for Governor campaign.

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