What is Daniel's role?

Daniel is Director & Head of the Expansion Program Division at USFTI and leads its Nearshoring Business Expansion Program, including the hands-on delivery of expansion engagements.

Is nearshoring only for manufacturing?

No. Services, technology, back-office and customer-operations teams all nearshore. The program adapts to each.

Expansion · With USFTI

Nearshoring that actually lands.

Moving operations closer to your market is easy to say and hard to do. Through the U.S. Foreign Trade Institute's Nearshoring Business Expansion program, Daniel leads the practical work: supply chain, talent, regulation, funding and supervision of distributed teams.

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The USFTI partnership

Aerial view of a logistics hub near the U.S.–Mexico border at blue hour

The problem

Nearshoring fails in the details nobody puts on the slide.

Supply chain contracts, customs, talent acquisition, immigration, inflation and cost drift, funding access, cross-cultural friction, and the quiet problem of supervising a team you cannot see.

The U.S. Foreign Trade Institute built a program around exactly that list. Daniel is Director & Head of the Expansion Program Division that delivers it.

What you get

Outcomes that show up in the numbers.

Supply chain that holds

Re-shored or nearshored supply chains designed around real lead times, costs and risk.

Talent you can actually hire

Sourcing, onboarding and retention strategy for nearshore teams.

Regulatory clarity

Compliance, immigration and funding pathways on both sides of the border.

Supervision that works

Operating rhythms and tooling for remote, distributed teams.

How it works

Diagnose. Decide. Deploy. Deliver.

Step 01
Diagnose
Cost, risk and timing analysis of your current footprint versus nearshore options.
Step 02
Decide
Select location, model and partners with a clear business case.
Step 03
Deploy
Stand up operations, talent and compliance through the USFTI network.
Step 04
Deliver
Stabilize, measure and transition to steady-state management.

Deliverables

Nearshoring business case
Location and partner shortlist
Talent and org design
Regulatory, immigration and funding roadmap
Remote supervision and governance model

Ideal for

U.S. companies moving operations or supply chain closer to home
Mexican and LATAM operators positioning to serve U.S. demand
Investors backing nearshoring-driven growth

Questions

Straight answers.

It is the U.S. Foreign Trade Institute's Nearshoring Business Expansion program, covering supply chain, talent acquisition, regulatory guidance, cost management, access to funding, immigration support, cross-cultural barriers and remote supervision of distributed teams.

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