Omar Mencin is responsible for the worldwide business development of the US Market Access Center’s (USMAC) services. In 2003, Mr. Mencin started the USMAC consulting group which provides strategic consulting services to foreign based high-tech small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and government agencies worldwide. Since 2003, he has closed contracts and created partnerships with over 100 client companies in the information communications technology, solar and renewable energy, and biotech and life science sectors, and with several government agencies and foreign based business incubators from over thirty countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa.

Mr. Mencin is currently an advisor to several government groups from Japan, Finland, China, Slovenia, Chile, Belgium, and Germany which work to bring small and medium sized technology companies to the US market. He was previously an analyst with Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, which invests private equity capital worldwide. Mr. Mencin has also worked in a variety of law offices structuring M&A deals, IPO's, and international finance projects, has served as an intern for the World Bank Paris Office and as a research assistant for the Hoover Institute at Stanford.

He has a BA from Swarthmore College with Honors, has studied mandarin Chinese at the Taipei Language Institute and National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, and has a certificate in Management Science and Engineering and an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. Recently, he was elected to membership at the Pacific Council on International Policy.