Jose Ignacio Gonzalez

Jose Ignacio Gonzalez is the President of Hemisphere Trade Services, a nonprofit, public-private partnership formed by the State of Georgia, City of Atlanta, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Georgia Department of Economic Development. He was appointed in August 2003 by Governor Perdue to lead the campaign to attract the permanent Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas to the State of Georgia.

Gonzalez received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Purdue University and his Masters in Business Administration from Mercer University.