Our Mission
Our mission is simple: to provide practical, immediate support to SMEs and their advisors in developing their export potential — saving time and cost, opening new sales channels, and helping businesses find new clients in international markets.
ExportersAlmanac is a structured international trade reference resource designed to support SMEs in identifying markets, partners and opportunities.
Tradetech Solutions provides a range of services and platforms supporting SMEs and trade professionals, include:
- AEODirectory
- ExpoNI.cloud
- ExportersAlmanac.co.uk
- ExportersAlmanac.com
- ExportersAlmanac.it
- ExpoScotland.cloud
- ExpoUK.cloud
- ExpoWales.cloud
The Team
The ExportersAlmanac has been developed by a team with experience across international banking, trade finance, logistics, digital platforms and global market development.
The key team members involved 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. Flavio has also developed the Italian export portal Proexporters.
Roel Crooijmans - roel.crooijmans@tradetech.cloud
As an entrepreneur, Roel is always trying to simplify and innovate business via digitisation of the business process. Transitions from paper to electronic exchange and ethically and legally sharing data and information today, are key in simplifying and innovating international business. International e-invoicing, eCMR, blockchain and Peppol are some of the innovations in which Roel is closely involved.
In his role as Chief Innovation Officer with TTS, Roel has found that the newest innovation in creating multilingual microsites also simplifies and innovates international business.
Nick Daniel - nick.daniel@tradetech.cloud
Nick is a seasoned IT professional with over 30 years’ experience in business development of IT and services, principally within the financial services sector. Previously, he was a co-founder of a start-up fintech and regularly undertakes consulting assignments for other start-ups and new entrants. Over the past two years, Nick, together with Ian, has been working closely with ICC Ukraine on their Rebuild Ukraine Portal and Global Export Promotion Programme.
Ian Dunning – ian.dunning@tradetech.cloud
Ian is a former international banker with HSBC. For the past 20+ years, Ian has been involved in the conception, design and development of online reference data portals & delivery systems for the international banking community e.g. SWIFT’s SWIFTRef business unit. In developing these systems he extended the use of payments reference data into systems designed for corporate use, payments and e-invoice validations. He is also a published author of books (in English and Italian) on how to gain commercial benefits from the internet. For the past two years, Ian,
together with Nick, has been working closely with ICC Ukraine on their Rebuild Ukraine Portal and Global Export Promotion Programme.