About Nex

Taiana Mora

International trade and cooperation for development

General Manager and founder of NEX, has 30 years of experience in trade development in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean region. She was the Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), an international organization that belongs to 15 member states in the Caribbean and is based in Barbados, with a Sub-regional Office in Santo Domingo. During her tenure at the Agency (12 years) she also supervised and carried out activities in the United States market. She was responsible for the design and negotiation of the € 10.5 million in the Development Program of the Private Sector of the 9th EDF (phases 1 and 2), in addition to multiple projects from other donors.

Ms. Mora has extensive experience of directly assisting companies and institutions in matters related to trade, as well as issues of market access in different natures, including Dominican Republic. She has advised dozens of companies in the DR and other markets, has supported the development of export plans and has assisted in the design of sectoral strategies that have resulted in successful market penetration by Caribbean companies in other Caribbean markets, including the DR and the rest of the region.

Ms. Mora also has experience in the directly assisting companies through training, seminars, press interventions and individual business coaching. She is Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Association of Exporters of Services (ALES) and Coordinator of the Services Coalition of the Dominican Republic (CSRD).

Areas of Expertise:

• Development cooperation. Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects.
• Capacity building for development institutions, especially private sector development.
• Regional integration and issues related to the Caribbean.
• Development and promotion of exports, including expertise in markets and specific sectors.
• Development of exporting SMEs.
• Export of services.
• Taking advantage of commercial agreements. Especially EPA and CARICOM-DR FTA.
• Business and marketing strategies.
• Training in the areas above mentioned, on both program development and facilitation.

Carlos Delgado

Music and culture industries

Our main expert in the music sector is Carlos Delgado Imbert. Carlos is 100% dedicated to the Music Industry. He has experience working in the United States and the Dominican Republic. In the Caribbean region, he has worked as a consultant in initiatives focused on the export development of the Music Industry in Guyana and St. Lucia and Aruba. Additionally, he has made webinars about the Music Industry in Curaçao and Grand Cayman. Carlos is the president and founder of Güira Music Publishing. He has worked at The Harry Fox Agency in New York, General Society of Dominican Composers and Music Publishers and in multiple initiatives in the Music Industry as a consultant.

Areas of expertise:

• National Development of the Music Sector, integrating the public and private sector.
• Establish areas of focus for the development of Exports of the Music Sector
• Creation of Action Plans at sector level in the short and medium term.
• Individual and sector workshops.
• Consultancy and individual coaching to companies.

Maricecili Mora Ramis

Mediation, leadership in business and health sector

She is an expert in Psychosomatic Medicine, Clinical Psych diagnosis and Psychopathology, Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy, Eating Disorders and Anxiety Disorders, by the Spanish Society of Psychosomatic Medicine and Health Psychology. She studied a PhD in Psychology at the Miguel Hernández University in Alicante, Spain. She has two master’s degrees, in Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Mental Health, from the University of Alicante, and a Master’s Degree in Governance and Public Policies from the José Ortega y Gasset University Institute and the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

She has extensive teaching experience in postgraduate and graduate, both in Spain and in the Dominican Republic. She has worked as a diplomat for the Dominican Foreign Service in Spain and Portugal.

Areas of expertise:

• Organizational Climate Analysis.
• Satisfaction studies in health users.
• Trainings to companies and health organizations.

Training offer for companies

• Training in conflict management at the organizational level
• Training in negotiation skills
• Workshop on Integrated Teams
• Conflict Mediation Workshop
• Leadership and Emotional Ecology Workshop
• Organizational Climate Analysis

Training offer for the health area

• Training in communication skills for health personnel (doctors, nurses, administrative staff, etc.).
• Workshop for doctors: How to communicate bad news and handle emotions in patients and family.
• Training in the Conformation of Multidisciplinary Teams in the Field of Health.
• Workshop Prevention of Burnout in health personnel.

Leiko Hidaka

Sustainable Development, strategic planning and public sector

Specialist in Sustainable Development with focus on Human Settlements and the Environment, with more than 10 years of experience in local, regional and community development projects in the public sector and with multilateral organizations, as well as in the inter-institutional coordination of public and private entities linked to the provision of social services.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Settlements and Environment from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, as well as various courses and training in territorial, regional, and local management and development.

Area of ​​expertise

• Sustainable development.
• Local and economic development at the local level.
• Territorial planning.
• Risk management.

Among the topics covered by her work are: Risk management, local economic development, governability and democracy, citizen security, migration, population and gender.