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Company
Background
Mission
Dralla
Group LLC was founded in 2001. It engages in all aspects of Strategic
Alliance Lifecycle Management, as explained in our concepts
and services pages.
Dralla
Group strives to be the premier provider of practical, customized
solutions for the Strategic Alliance Management function within
a variety of organizatons in the US and in Europe. We support companies
interested in establishing Strategic Alliances to achieve:
- Entrance
to a foreign market
- Successful innovation through partnership with complementary businesses
- Enhancement
of brand, product and revenue through alignment with partners
- Efficiency through sharing of core competency with strategically
important partners
Strategic
Allliances are an innovative approach to conducting business, for
which a variety of support mechanisms are needed to allow organizations
to fully flourish. Dralla Group LLC offers access to these tools and knowledge sources and help its clients apply them to their own unique business challenges.
Dralla
Group LLC is
a global business services company with physical presence in the US and Europe.
Management
Joost
A. Allard
Managing
Director, email: Joost
Allard
Professional
experience
In
1999 Mr. Allard combined his IT experience with his interest in
building bridges between companies. For the next 2 years, he helped
pioneer the concept of Strategic Alliance Management as a Principal at
Business Marketing Group Inc. in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Allard
was instrumental in the expansion of the firm's expertise in strategic partner
deal making into a full lifecycle Alliance Management methodology.
As a Principal, Mr. Allard was responsible for developing and marketing these services
as well as managing the consultants that executed them.
This
methodology forms the basis of his entrepreneurial efforts today.
It comprises strategy, process, infrastructure automation and hands
on best practices components, resulting in a comprehensive practical
approach to growing a business through strategic partnerships.
Mr.
Allard was born and raised in the Netherlands. He got his career
start in the United States in 1989 as a consultant with PriceWaterhouse.
Assigned to several large-scale re-engineering projects, he quickly
developed a grasp for the issues involved with managing large scale
IT programs in support of business objectives.
By
way of IT positions at several medium sized companies, he landed
at the NASD in Washington D.C. in 1994. Until his departure in 1999,
he performed in a variety of assignments, ranging from managing
departmental computing needs, to architecting new web-based systems
and technology infrastructures. His involvement in a cross-departmental
team at the Nasdaq Stock Market to establish strategic relationships
with Securities Exchanges in Europe (London, Frankfurt) led him
to seek an assignment with greater involvement in this area in 1999.
Volunteer experience
Mr. Allard volunteers for the local school system in his district. He is a mentor to elementary and middle school students. He is vice president elect for the Heidelberg Officer and Civilian Spouses Club, a support organization with over $ 200,000 in annual charity funds. From 2000 to 2001 Mr. Allard was elected to the board of directors for the Seattle-based
Dutch American Chamber of Commerce (DACC). As President, he spearheaded stronger coordination
and cooperation between various organizations in Washington State,
as well as those in Europe, to promote trade and business opportunities
for companies with a variety of interests.
Education
Mr.
Allard has a broad cultural and educational background, which serves
him extremely well when dealing with international clientele in
a variety of industries. He achieved his BA in Education (English
and Dutch) in 1983 in the Netherlands, and his MA in Computer Systems
Management and Commercial Bank Management from Frankfurt City College
(Germany) in 1989. Mr. Allard interned at the Frankfurt branch of
"AMRO Handelsbank", now ABNAmro, gaining valuable exposure
to all operational aspects of a commercial bank. Mr. Allard graduated
in 1992 with a MBA degree specializing in International Management
from the University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN.
Mr.
Allard is fluent in English, German and Dutch.
Affiliations
-
Chapter Leader Germany, Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, Inc.
- President, Community Support Association, Heidelberg
- Associate Member, Technologiepark Heidelberg
- Past Vice President, HCSC Heidelberg
- Past
president and treasurer, Dutch American Chamber of Commerce, Seattle
WA.
- Alumn,
University of St Thomas (MN) graduate school of business.
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