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Jinsoo Terry is the Founder and CEO of Advanced Global Connections, LLC., a company she formed in 2004 to meet the demand for training, consultancy and other services related to multicultural business activities in the USA and abroad.

She is a columnist and speaker in the USA, Asia and increasingly in Europe and has gained a reputation as an expert on multicultural and motivational issues. In Korea she has become very well-known and is in the process of signing her first book contract with one of the country's top publishers.

Born in Korea in 1956, Jinsoo broke with tradition in her country by studying for and gaining a university degree in engineering, and then capturing a leading job as an engineer. After graduating from Pusan National University in 1981, she became a Leading Engineer and Manager of the R & D Department in the Ilshin Corporation, Korea–a man's job in a man's world.

Jinsoo has a taste for challenges and for winning. She decided to immigrate to the USA where she made her way up the ladder, despite her then very limited English. Despite her engineering degree, she began in 1985 as a Lead Assembler at Nellcor, a Hayward, California medical equipment manufacturer. She then worked as Production Supervisor at Circa Corporation, and then she joined Cut Loose where she worked for more than 10 eyars. She was going from Production Manager to Director of Manufacturing and eventually VP Manufacturing.

Her skills in managing the widely multicultural workforces at these companies led to a demand for Jinsoo to train Korean managers in how to do business in the USA, to speak at international events on the subject and to help the US Department of Commerce with multicultural trade issues.

Always enthusiastic about helping other immigrants to have an easier time of it than she did, Jinsoo has been involved in many initiatives to help those for whom English is a second language and who are struggling to make it in the USA. She co-founded the Greater Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in San Jose and remains active in that organization. She co-founded Success Builders International in Silicon Valley to help train business owners and professionals in communication, leadership and human relations. Following her own enormous benefits from being a member of the Toastmasters Speaking Club, she founded a San Francisco chapter which she called the Rhinoceros Business Club (“charge ahead, thick skinned”) in 1998 where she has mentored more than 800 young business people in public speaking and leadership.

In 2006, SBS TV in Korea presented Jinsoo to an audience of 2-3 million in a documentary on fun management. Following the TV program she received offers from 20 publishing companies, including Random House Korea, to publish a book about her, and she is currently closing the contract with Korean publisher.

Having long since overcome her own cultural and language barriers, Jinsoo is also well known in US business circles. She is a regular weekly columnist for The Korea Times, America's largest Korean newspaper, for the Korean Christian Times and for www.younwooforum, a favorite among Korean business people. She was voted Most Influential Korean-American by The Korea Times, has been featured on Channel 5, CBS Eyewitness News in the San Francisco Bay Area and hailed as one of the 10 Asian Pacific Island community leaders by ABC TV, 2005 in San Francisco.

San Francisco Mayor, Willie Brown proclaimed July 10, 2001 "Jinsoo Terry Day" in recognition of her contributions to the San Francisco business community. This included founding the Rhinoceros Club to help the city's business people with business development and self-development, bringing together the various countries of the Pacific Rim to enhance business opportunities for the San Francisco business community and helping the city's business community to build up global connections. Jinsoo was also proclaimed Minority Business Advocate of the Year in 2003 by the US Department of Commerce and runner-up in 2002. In 2003 she got an export award by U.S. Department of Commerce, 2004 she gained the US Commercial Service Export Award.

Throughout her life and her career, Jinsoo has shown a remarkable ability and tendency to WIN! She accomplishes everything she sets out to do through her positive attitude, her persistence and her certainty that she can do it. And every day in her activities she works hard to give others a certainty that they too can do it.