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Reinvention with Nathan Hunt
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We’re turning the tables on Nathan Hunt today - the host for the ICE/Breakers Podcast - making him the interviewee. Nathan is a Yale University graduate, summa cum laude, and a former Russia Director of the Canadian meat and dairy traders, Ronald A. Chisholm Limited. Nathan is one of the founders of CERBA and has chaired its Moscow Chapter since its inception. He’s sharing his experience of living and doing business in rapidly changing Russia reinventing himself and discovering new potential throughout two and a half decades in the country.
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Timeline:
0:00 Intro
1:19 Setting the stage
2:17 80s and early 90s speculating on cassette tapes in Russia
4:40 Chicken purchase gone afoul
7:30 Pivoting to the Canadian angle
10:00 Late 90s/early 2000s: Pioneering new sources of meat to Russia
12:10 CBAR inception
13:58 Time when Russia favoured Canada
15:30 Lada imports from the USSR to Canada
17:58 Punching above our weight: CERBA story
23:46 2008 recession and new beginnings
25:36 Early 2010s: CERBA expansion to Vancouver and Kazakhstan
29:00 Hollywood Hunt: Larry King, Demi Moore & Ashton Kutcher
31:41 Let’s be honest: Jean Charest meeting with Yuri Luzhkov
35:15 Business diplomacy
37:26 “Russia – a lousy place to do business, a great place to make money”
38:59 “Harper, Putin to star in 1972 Summit Series rematch”
44:00 The challenges and opportunities of the pandemic and climate change
47:04 What does the future hold for Nathan Hunt?
51:32 What made Nathan a leader?
Icebreakers is produced by CERBA, an independent non-profit organization that promotes bilateral trade and investment between Canada and Eurasia. www.cerbanet.org
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