Trade Representative ARCHIMEDES C. GOMEZ
Mr. Archimedes C. Gomez currently serves as the Trade Representative (TR) of the Philippine Trade and Investment Center (PTIC) based in Los Angeles City, USA. His office services and develops trade and investment opportunities within the jurisdictional coverage of LA Consulate, Honolulu Consulate and the Philippine Embassy in Mexico.
Prior to his US posting, TR Gomez served as Commercial Attaché at the Philippine Consulate General in Guangzhou, China for 5½ years. His office, in close cooperation with the Philippine Consulate General, has been instrumental in increasing the export volume of traditional products, promotion and export of non-traditional products and the organization of the first Philippines-China Chamber of Commerce – one of the 19 accredited Chambers of Commerce in China and the only one with office outside of Beijing, during his term.
Prior to joining the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), TR Gomez has worked with Land Bank of the Philippines for 11 years as a Bank Executive Officer. He was mainly responsible in evaluating and determining the feasibility of agribusiness loans prior to approval.
TR Gomez had a short stint as plant supervisor at SEA Commercial Company, an agricultural machinery and spare part trading and manufacturing firm, where he supervised 10 technical staff responsible in the manufacturing of rice mill, power tiller and repair of single piston engines. He also handled the design and preparation of feasibility study on the development of new agricultural machineries.
He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering (BSAEng’g) degree from the BenguetStateUniversity at La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines graduating at the top of his class (Cum Laude) in 1985. He took and passed the Professional Agricultural Engineering Licensure Examination on the same year landing among the top 20 examinees.
To prepare himself for supervisory and managerial level position, he pursued and finished his Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree from Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) as government scholar in 1993. He was among the first Local Scholarship Program grantee of the Philippine government.
A year later, he pursued and finished his Master in Applied Business Economics Program (ABEP) from the University of Asia and the Pacific (formerly known as the Center for Research and Communication). In his batch of 25 students, he was one of the three (3) who finished the program. He wrote and defended his thesis entitled “Evaluating Credit Worthiness of a Universal Bank’s SME Borrowers using Multivariate Discriminant Analysis”.
The Philippine Trade and Investment Center in Los Angeles holds office at 3250 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 602, Los Angeles, CA 90010. Trade Representative Gomez may be contacted at:
Tel No. (213) 822-4479 and (213) 572-7204.
Email: ptic-la@earthlink.net.
Tel No. (213) 822-4479 and (213) 572-7204.
Email: ptic-la@earthlink.net.