MARK K. NEVILLE, JR., Esq. is the Principal of International Trade Counsellors. He has more than forty years’ experience in international trade and customs affairs and in advising both US- and foreign-based clients on complex commercial transactions and on strategic matters of planning, compliance and enhanced efficiencies.

Starting as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice representing the Customs Service and the Treasury Department, his career includes a Tax Partnership at the international accounting firm KPMG, where he founded and ran the US trade and customs consulting practice for five years.

He spent six years on the corporate legal staff of CPC international (with a two-year assignment in Brussels), then a Fortune 100 company, in both industrial and consumer foods organizations, prior to CPC’s acquisition by Unilever. In Brussels, he was responsible for Europe, Africa and the Middle East and worked on customs and trade issues as well as on varied corporate transactional matters.

Mr. Neville holds law degrees from the University of San Francisco and NYU (LL.M., International Legal Studies) and history degrees from Fordham University and UCLA. He is also a licensed customhouse broker. Mr. Neville has served as an adjunct faculty member of the Walter A. Haas School of Business of the University of California and the Stern School of Business of NYU. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Journal of International Taxation, for which he writes a monthly column on trade and customs issues and is widely published in other journals and law reviews as well. Mr. Neville is a member of the International Chamber of Commerce select working group on customs valuation and regularly represents the ICC at sessions of the World Customs Organization’s technical committee. He was the editor of International Trade Laws of the United States: Statutes and Strategies. Finally, he was the author of the acclaimed treatise, The Customs Valuation Agreement, for Wolters Kluwer.

JEROME J. NEVILLE, Esq. is a customs attorney with high tech industry experience. Jay was the Customs Manager of a rapidly growing Fortune 500 multinational, 3Com Corp, a pioneer in the networking industry where he established customs policy for its global manufacturing and distribution network while successfully preparing for its CAT audit. He was also a customs program manager for the largest communications technology company in Silicon Valley, Cisco Systems. There, he was responsible for integrating the customs operations of acquired companies, monitoring broker performance, tracking assists attributed to imports, drafting a customs compliance manual, improving recordkeeping procedures and researching and maintaining a landed duty matrix for company products available in world markets. He also worked as a customs consultant for PriceWaterhouse Coopers in the San Jose office.

Jay served as a Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Navy, specializing in military courts martial and federal torts claim litigation. He holds degrees from Saint Mary's College and the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is licensed in California and Pennsylvania and enjoys US and EU dual citizenship.

DJ GARNER, LCB is a licensed customs broker with over 40 years’ experience in managing trade compliance and logistics operations for large multinational companies. Past roles have included director level trade and logistics transportation management positions in the areas of high-tech chip manufacturing, pharmacal, aviation and customs brokerage and cargo movement.

Past work experiences also include extensive regulatory consulting experience in Europe, Asia and North and South America. DJ is also a Certified Dangerous Goods (HazMat) instructor as well as being a member of the International Compliance Professionals Association (ICPA) and the Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of Northern California. DJ has managed numerous trade automation projects for such significant companies as Logitech, Intuitive Surgical and FedEx.

DJ was educated at Holy Names University and Golden Gate University. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area.