About the Founder
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| Badge from Internet Brokers meeting a Salvadorean trade delegation from visiting Chicago |
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Ken Shapiro is the founder of Internet Brokers. He is a graduate of New Trier
East High School in Winnetka, Illinois and received his B.S. degree from the
Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University in Syracuse,
New York. As a freshman at Syracuse University he took Humanities Doctoral
courses. Before starting Internet Brokers, he developed new accounts for a
Chicago TV station airing mostly Hispanic and financial programs and later he
managed a TV station where he received mention in publications such as the
Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. Some of the things he has
been involved in as the founder of Internet Brokers have included being invited
overseas by trade organizations from other countries to meet local companies,
having an association with a trade organization founded by a relative of
President Bush, and giving a presentation at an U.S.-African trade conference
where the keynote speaker was the Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for
African Affairs, Susan Rice (later, under the Obama Administration, the U.S.
Ambassador to the U.N.). Ken Shapiro is a resident of Chicago.
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