Overseas Market Development Corporation (OMDC)

OMDC Network Partner Team Profiles

Panama

Eric Dormoi-OMDC Panama Representative Mr. Eric Dormoi is the Overseas Market Development Corporation official representative for Panama. He is responsible for providing clients with market research, business development services, sales representation, sourcing, and related company services for Panama.

Mr. Dormoi has over 15 years of broad-based global business experience, including in senior management positions for consumer product companies. He has a close working knowledge of Latin American and Southeast Asian markets and their culture. His area of expertise is in the food and beverage sector acting as the international sales manager of a major food processor.

In addition, he has been a partner in a Guatemalan distribution company that represented, imported, marketed, distributed, and exported foreign products to the Central American market. Customers included supermarkets, membership clubs, and key wholesalers throughout the region.

Mr. Dormoi's skills include the ability to conduct market research, provide trade show support, create product promotions, establish sales and distribution, develop international markets, and source local products. He is adept at assessing how government regulations may impact business operations, conducting due diligence on Panamanian businesses, providing quality control services for international firms purchasing Panamanian exports, and advising companies on a wide range of strategic issues related to doing business in the region.

Fluent in English and Spanish, he has traveled extensively in Central America, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Mr. Dormoi holds an MBA from Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management in the US. He also received his Bachelors degree in Business and Economics from Morningside College, in Sioux City, Iowa.

Potential product opportunities for import into Panama include:
Food products, frozen food items, franchising, technology, educational products and services, capital equipment and chemicals.

Export opportunities from Panama include:
Commodity products (pineapples, mangoes, melons, bananas, shrimp, sugar, coffee) and clothing.

Investment and other service opportunities in Panama include:
Tourism, insurance and banking center, logistics, distribution center for Americas, free trade zone, and offshore banking services.

His interests and hobbies include playing piano, reading and outdoor activities.

If your company is interested in doing business, conducting market research, gaining competitive intelligence, sourcing products, or in utilizing the local expertise of Mr. Dormoi for other Panamanian projects, please send your inquiry or questions via e-mail to panamaATomdc.com, replacing AT with the @ character.