About us

Our Mission is quite simple: to provide practical, immediate support to SMEs and their consultants in developing their export potential. To save you time & money, open new sales channels and find new clients.

The key members involved in the design, development and promotion of the Exporters Almanac are: 

Flavio Caricasole – flavio.caricasole@tradetech.cloud

Until 2016, Flavio was a senior banker with the UBI Banca Group, where he was responsible for International Trade and Payment Systems. He has a deep knowledge of: Correspondent Banking, Trade Finance & Cash Management. (He is a Contract Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, teaching International Banking.)

In addition, he has developed: (a) business intelligence tools to analyse interbank messaging traffic and (b) Transaction Banking Lab, a virtual space which aims to match banks’ demands with the various solutions available in the fintech market.

Roel Crooijmans - roel.crooijmans@tradetech.cloud

Roel has a background in: logistics, tourism, finance and IT. He is the founder and co-owner of several innovating businesses. His ventures have included the development of international e-invoicing solutions and services. He was founder of an e-Invoicing company that was sold to Genpact LCC (later on to SIMAC). Prior to that he worked on innovation in the airline industry optimising process flows, reducing fraud and paper.

His recent ventures include CargoLedger (Smart Form and Distributed Ledger solutions in logistics and finance) and Logisa (Social Supply Chain Management in Africa). 

Ian Dunning – ian.dunning@tradetech.cloud

Ian is a former international banker with HSBC. He is also an author of books for SMEs and professionals on how to gain commercial benefits from the internet. For the past 20 years Ian has been involved in the conception, design, build and development of online reference data services for the international banking community. 

The Exporters Almanac is an initiative of TradeTech Solutions Ltd.