Episode 53: Chris Sedgwick, Americas Trade Specialist at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Office of Trade and Investment

Chris Sedgwick is the Americas Trade Specialist at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Office of Trade and Investment. He has lived in Chicago for 9 years. Born in Los Angeles, he attended California State University Northridge where he received his Bachelor of Arts in French. As a student, he participated in the Junior Year Abroad program at the University of Aix-en-Provence in France. He later went on to receive his MBA from the Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management in Glendale, AZ.

After a few years in the freight forwarding and customs brokerage business, Chris went on to a career in international sales for a variety of industrial manufacturing companies in the reinforced plastics, welding, specialty and medical gas, and personal protection equipment industries.