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Yvonne Burton is president and principal consultant of Burton Consulting International (formerly Burton & Associates Consulting), a New York based consulting firm delivering a range of services including Technology and Management Consulting, Cross-Cultural Training and Business Development to companies operating in the Japanese market or in partnership with Japanese firms and to Japanese firms operating internationally.
Yvonne gained first hand experience of Japanese culture while attending Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan and then as she worked in education, as a cross-cultural trainer and business consultant to several Japanese firms in the Kansai area in the fields of importing/exporting, retail and manufacturing. She trained clients in doing business more effectively in the United States and internationally as well as writing collateral materials and initiated procedures to increase overseas customers and sales.
Upon returning to New York City, she worked in technology field in the areas of marketing and business development for a web development firm she co-founded, project management for the online marketing and advertising division of the largest online job site where she designed and implemented sponsorship campaigns for financial, recruiting, and automotive clients. For several years she worked as a business analyst for a leading technology consulting firm specializing in customized software solutions for the regulated industries such as the pharmaceutical industry where she provided software development functions including analysis, requirements gathering and definition, design and integration testing and training.
She formed Burton Consulting International to combine her Japanese experiences with her project management, marketing and technology consulting expertise to assist Japanese firms and U.S. firms doing business in the Japanese marketplace.
She is a member of Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo, and an ITAP International Alliance Associate. She has been profiled on www.Womenandbiz.com, a website for women entrepreneurs. In the past, she has been a panel member on “Going Global” at the Bank of America/Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference and has been interviewed in Networking magazine.
She holds a BA in International Business and Economics from State University of New York, College at Brockport and an Asian Studies certificate from the Asian Studies Program at Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku University in Osaka, Japan.
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