Guss Maffry
gmaffry@globalba.com
Gus is a Managing Director serving as GBA’s Director for Western European Operations. His experience is summarized:
August (“Gus”) Maffry, formerly a member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, was Commercial Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands, until September 2006 when he retired. He entered the Foreign Service in 1981, serving subsequently as Commercial Counselor in Poland, the Philippines, Nigeria and Kenya, and as Deputy to the Minister Counselor in Italy and France. As an officer with the Foreign Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Mr. Maffry advised the Ambassador on commercial issues and promoted exports and investment initiatives on behalf of U.S. companies, concentrating on the computer, telecom, automotive, medical, pharmaceutical and defense and aerospace industries.
In 1998 Mr. Maffry was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service. That year he also was decorated by the Departments of Commerce and State for heroism in connection with the terrorist attack in Nairobi. In 2003 he was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service by President Bush.
Mr. Maffry began his federal service in 1977 in the Bureau of East-West Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Previously, he was Director of European Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a journalist with National Journal and Congressional Quarterly in Washington, and a French teacher at St. Paul‘s School, Concord, New Hampshire.