Director
Founder & Director of Atlantica Group, Portland, Maine
Perry B. Newman is the founder and director of Atlantica Group, a division of Pierce Atwood Consulting LLC. A global business development consultancy based in Portland, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts, Atlantica Group assists business, governments and not-for-profit organizations in achieving international development objectives, with clients in North America, Europe and Israel.
Prior to forming Atlantica Group, Mr. Newman served from 1996 – 2000 as Maine’s first Director of International Trade and President of the Maine International Trade Center. In that capacity and as an international business attorney he has facilitated exports, projects and cooperative linkages with partners in more than twenty-five countries on four continents. In 2000, Mr. Newman was selected by the European Union to study project and infrastructure development in Brussels and Scandinavia.
He has served on the Maine District Export Council, appointed first by United States Department of Commerce Secretary William Daley (Clinton administration) and then by Secretaries Evans and Gutierrez (Bush administration). Long an advocate for international business and regional economic development, Mr. Newman is the author of Atlantica: Re-Mapping Maine for the New Economy, and The Ten Commandments of International Business (forthcoming.)
A frequent lecturer and writer on global business topics, Mr. Newman’s work has appeared in Northeast Export, World Trade Magazine, the National Law Journal, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald. He has spoken to groups on international business and economic development throughout the US and in Canada, and has been quoted as an authority on such matters by National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, US Business Review and the CBC, among others.
A graduate of Oberlin College (B.A.) and Washington University (J.D.), he serves on the Board of Directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce for New England, the New England Canada Business Council and the Portland Chamber Music Festival. In April 2004, Mr. Newman was named Canada’s first Honorary Consul to Maine and continues to serve in that capacity.
An avid musician, writer and runner, Mr. Newman resides in South Portland, Maine with his wife and two daughters.