Message from Doug Partington - USA Director, Western Australian Trade and Investment Office 

The Western Australian Trade and Investment Office recently appointed Doug Partington as Director of their American office. Doug takes over the role from David Doepel who has accepted a Perth-based position with the Western Australian government.

Since taking over as Director of the Western Australian Trade and Investment Office in America I’ve been amazed by how many great Western Australians I’ve met and how big an impact their talents and businesses are having here in the US.

In my former role as Manager of the Americas Desk at the Department of Industry and Resources in Perth I was aware of many of these WA success stories, often assisting West Australians as they prepared to enter the US marketplace.

Now I get the opportunity to help West Australians do business in America – in America.

I’m not sure there could be a better fit for an Australian/American who has spent the past few years entrenched in the workings of WA’s exciting industry and resources sector…and now gets to use that knowledge on the other side of the world, in his other ‘home’. [More...]