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PDT Global Institute, Inc. is a privately held multidiscipline provider of innovative, high-quality, custom consulting, research, and educational solutions in agriculture/agribusiness, science and technology, education and related industries. We serve the private sector, non-governmental organizations, public agencies, and attendant institutions globally. We know that each of our clients is unique and faces specific challenges on every one of their projects. To address these various needs of the clientele, PDT Global Institute Inc. has adopted a responsive business model that is based on the realization that "one-size-does-not-fit-all" in delivering innovative services and solutions to our client's problems. Our business model meshes well with rapid and incessant changes in the increasingly competitive knowledge-driven global economy of the 21st century. Resultantly, PDT Global Institute Inc. provides customized solutions efficiently and with integrity. Our services enhance business performance and enable clients to achieve their goals as they maintain a competitive edge and focus on their core competencies.
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Advisory Board Members
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Kuehn, Konrad. Mr. Konrad Kuehn brings a wealth of hands-on entrepreneurial and business executive experience to the Board. He is a retired entrepreneur and executive. Mr. Kuehn founded Classic Knitting Mills, Inc. of Greensboro, NC in 1970 and grew the business to a 12 Million Dollar (annual), 95-employee enterprise at its peak.
Classic Knitting Mills, Inc., became a main supplier of higher-end high-quality Knit Wear to major suppliers to the Golfing Apparel Industry which include Polo Ralph Lauren, Ashworth, and Sport Haley, to mention a few. Mr. Kuehn retired and closed his firm in 2002. He joined the Greensboro, NC Chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executive (SCORE) in 2003, and provides counseling services to start-up as well as to owners of established firms seeking to grow. Mr. Kuehn is a much sought after business consultant especially in the Textile Manufacturing Industry where he spent a total of 40 years with the last 30 years being CEO and President of Classic Knitting Mills, Inc. Prior to Classic Knitting Mills, he gained manufacturing and management experience at Burlington Industries as Technical Superintendent of their Knitting division. Kuehn still consults with companies in the U.S., China, Germany, Peru and Mexico.
Mr. Kuehn graduated from State of Wuerttenberg Trade School of Metalwork Professions (Berufschule) and became a trained Circular Knitting Machine Assembler and Technician after completing an apprenticeship at Mayer & Cie Knitting Machine Company in Albstadt, Germany. Mr. Kuehn is fluent in two languages besides English also German. |
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Kakoma, Ibulaimu, Ph.D. MSc., Dip. Bact. B.V.Sc. (D.V.M). Dr. Kakoma is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Chief of Clinical Microbiology and Hemotropic Diseases Laboratories at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also is coordinator of the multidisciplinary technical training for veterinarians of various nationalities. He brings over 20 years of academic and global experience to the Board.
In addition, to subject matter expertise, Dr. Kakoma has particular strengths in capacity building, institutional development through research, teaching and service, animal-human health interphases, bio-security, vaccine development and monitoring. He is author and/or co-author of over 100 publications in books, refereed journals and in scientific proceedings. Dr. Kakoma's original research achievements include:
1. Being the first scientist to demonstrate that immunoconglutinins and heterophile antibodies/antigens in contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia caused Mycoplasma mycoides var. mycoides;
2. Isolated and demonstrated that galactans from M. mycoides were immunogenic and could experimentally trigger pulmonary autoimmunity in cattle and camels;
3. Defined and purified the platelet migration factor in tropical canine pancytopenia;
4. Produced hybridomas and corresponding ascitic tumors secreting antibodies to a synthetic 29-mer peptide of Plasmodium falciparum, and
5. Spearheaded the isolation and characterization of the etiologic agent for atypical canine erhlichiosis (ACE).
Kakoma earned his Ph.D. in Immunology Concentrating on Direct and Indirect Cytotoxicity at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.Sc. in Immunology and Immunochemistry form University of Birmingham, England; Postgraduate Diploma in Bacteriology from University of London, England; B.V.Sc. (D.V.M.) from Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Kenya. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and has worked with the United Nations World Health Organization in developing countries and traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada, South America, Africa, Europe, Taiwan, India, South Korea, and Israel. Dr. Kakoma is fluent in three languages, is a certified translator of two, and has reading knowledge of another.
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| Kadzere, Charles T., Ph.D., M.Sc., M.S., B.S., Dip Agric. Dr. Kadzere is founder and CEO of PDT Global Institute, Inc. He is a nutritional physiologist, animal scientist, development economist, and a practical agriculturalist by training. Kadzere brings over 20 years of relevant hands-on experience to the business and Board.
Dr. Kadzere was Visiting Scientist, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Chair & Associate Professor Department of Animal Sciences, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro; Visiting Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Deputy Dean & Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Fort Hare, South Africa; lecturer, Department of Animal Science, University of Zimbabwe; researcher, Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany. Dr. Kadzere has teaching, research, and administrative experience from top-in-their-class large and small, majority and minority universities in the U.S., Africa, and Europe; provided consulting services to numerous organizations, and gained practical agriculture experience from day-to-day management of a large-scale commercial mixed-farming enterprise. Dr. Kadzere is author/co-author of over 50 refereed articles, technical papers and reports. Earlier, Kadzere was Instructor at Mlezu Institute of Agriculture and also at Chibero College of Agriculture; Manager at Igava Farms (Pvt. Ltd); Teacher at Sanhani Primary School and at Ipelegeng Secondary School in Zimbabwe and Botswana, respectively.
Kadzere earned his Ph.D. (first-class) in Animal Nutritional Physiology, M.S. in Animal Sciences, and B.S. in Agriculture degrees from Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany; M.Sc. degree in Development Economics from University of London, England; and Diploma in Agriculture (first-class with distinction in Field Husbandry) from Chibero College, Zimbabwe. He has traveled extensively to discharge academic duty in North America, Europe, Africa, Indonesia, and Oman. Dr. Kadzere is fluent in three languages and has working knowledge of another three.
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