Tania Kpognon

Expertise

Tania’s role is to support investment promotional agencies to attract and secure high-growth businesses across the globe into their locations. Tania has extensive experience in the delivery of high impact FDI programmes including lead generation, market research, proposal creation and FDI project management.

Tania joined Gateley in October 2023 and since then has helped dozens of businesses to maximise their international expansion potential. Tania supported the Inward Investment team for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region, where she successfully contributed to secure knowledge-intensive companies setting up in the region, contributing to boost the region’s economic growth. 

She is also experienced in the North American market having been the UK representative for several USA and Canadian regions. Her role supporting international promotional agencies involves engaging with businesses and stakeholders around relevant sector initiatives, lead generation, new investment support and value proposition creation. During her professional career Tania had the opportunity to work in trade and investment promotion activities for renown public sector clients including REDI Cincinnati, JobsOhio, Team NEO, JETRO Paris, DBT and others. 

With a background in economic intelligence and strategic information management, Tania boasts expertise in FDI delivery as well as in investment trends and FDI analysis, and international trade. Her multilingual abilities, coupled with extensive country and sector experience, make her an asset in the fields of technology, life sciences, cleantech and agritech.

Experience

1. Representing foreign investment promotion agencies in the UK and overseas for in-market FDI attraction.
2. Offering guidance to international high-growth, knowledge-intensive organisations seeking to enter the UK market, including market research, site selection, eco-system stakeholder engagement and introductions to commercial partners.
3. Identification and outreach of European companies in manufacturing, tech, life sciences and agritech industries with an interest in investing in France, Japan, Rep. Georgia., US (Ohio, Cincinnati), Canda. 
4. Supporting mission of US states’ delegations during visits in Europe, setting up meetings with new and existing investors as well as leading industry networks.
5. Supporting an economic development agency in Switzerland in a lead generation campaign from the USA market with a focus in the healthcare industry.