Joachim C. Bartels für Internationales

Joachim C. Bartels is Owner of Intrepid Explorers, Inc. and Managing Director bei BIIA - Business Information Industry Association Asia Pacific

Joachim C. Bartels founded Intrepid Explorers, Inc. in 2000. Bartels is an information specialist with global business experience (operations, planning, M&A, divestitures, market & key account development). He worked most of his career in business-to-business, direct marketing and business information services environments. He pioneered new information concepts, new business models and set up businesses in emerging markets with continually changing political and economic environments. 

Bartels held line and staff management positions at the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in the USA, and Europe. As senior vice president, Bartels managed D&B’s business development program that spanned the globe with a particular emphasis on China, Eastern Europe, India and South East Asia. He was also responsible for D&B’s strategic relationship with the credit insurance industry [Berne Union and ICISA members]. 

Bartels debates on a regular basis with political and industry leaders around the world about the role of information in national economies and business decision processes, plus the need to create information infrastructures as a basis for economic growth. He is a regular participant in information and credit management forums working on issues concerned with the value of information in trade credit decisions.