Our team
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Yasmina Edwards is the founder and President of GlobalVpA. A French
University graduate with a degree in International Management, she also obtained
a certificate in Marketing and Advertisement from New York University. She has been
living in New York for 13 years where she has worked with various Fortune 500 companies
as an Office Manager.
Fluent in English,
French and Spanish, Yasmina says, "Becoming a Virtual
Assistant was a natural step for me and utilizing my experience
as an Office Manager and translator with C level Executives
into my virtual practice has been extremely rewarding".
Yasmina is also committed to bring visibility to the African continent specifically
small businesses and African e-commerce. Global VpA was officially launched in Cotonou
(Benin) her first West African stop. The company is committed to play a role in
bringing visibility to this untapped world: The African e-commerce. |
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Alberta Ntoutoume-Wilson, an American native, is a multi-faceted
professional who is pleased to offer her services as a life and career coach and
instructor. Half of her career was spent in Gabon, Central Africa where she served
as Personal Advisor to the President. Her Masters Degree from Long Island
University in Social Science with a Graduate Certificate in UN Studies (International Institutions)
prepared her to effectively work with the President, his Chief of Staff, members
of government and many national and international players. Before, during and after
her Gabon experience, Ms. Ntoutoume-Wilson has had the pleasure of providing both
private and classroom instruction, basically in English to speakers of other languages,
a discipline for which she has a Masters Degree from Columbia
University. Aside
from her BA in French from NYU, Ms. Ntoutoume-Wilson obtained a Business French
certificate from the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. |
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French Cameroonian with a passion for fashion and travel, Celine
Victoria Fotso studied Business Administration in
Nice (France) and later moved to Montreal (Canada) to study
design at l’Academie
des Arts et du Design. After her graduation, she worked with
several designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Hold Rendrew
and Francesco Smalto. Celine currently lives in Paris. |
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Francis
Toussaint, a graduate of the University of Aix-en-Provence
(France) in Statistics and Sciences, began his career as an
International consultant for Peugeot in France and West Africa.
Before moving to the US, where he pursued his dream of opening
a bakery, Francis owned and managed a Toyota dealership in
France. He also taught French to employees of Fortune 500 companies.
Francis‘eclectic background is a real asset to Global
VpA. |
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Laura F. Heron was born in Panama city , Republic of Panama. She
is a graduate of the University Santa Maria la Antigua of Panama where she pursued
a degree in English with a major in translations.
One of her first job experiences was with International Service Company, Inc., a
law firm. In 1979, while working for this same company, she obtained her license
as Certified Public Translator of the Republic of Panama. She also had the privilege
of working, for almost 11 years, for Bank of America, Panama branch, where she began
as an executive bilingual secretary for the vice president and country manager,
hence developing an interest in the banking arena. After two years, she was promoted
to assistant operations officer, and in 1988, when Bank of America management made
the decision to cease operations in Panama due to the political situation prevailing
at that time, she was performing as an operations officer, job that she really loved
and enjoyed to the max.
Finally, in 1989, she is employed by the United States Air Force until 1999 when
the administration of the Panama Canal was turned over to the Panama government.
She is retired now but she enjoys teaching English on school vacation and weekends
to first and second graders. Laura Heron currently lives in Panama City.
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