# AI Context for crossbordergroup

## Profile
- Name: crossbordergroup
- Location: San Diego, California
- About me: Kenn Morris has nearly twenty years of experience in Mexico and US\-Mexico border industry and trade analysis, with a specialization in crossborder manufacturing, industrial siting and economic studies, as well as B2B and policy market research. Through the years, clients have related primarily to the maquiladora industry, technology, logistics, border infrastructure, and border\-related policy issues.

As founder and President of Crossborder Group Inc. and its Mexico\-based subsidiary \(Crossborder NS, S de RL de CV\), Kenn constantly seeks to help companies and policymakers understand the opportunities and potential of NAFTA, and crossborder US\-Mexico nearshore solutions.

Clients have included Global 100 firms, manufacturers, consumer product companies, universities, and government agencies \- in the US, Mexico, the UK, and Asia . He has been extensively quoted in media, including USAToday, Business México magazine, The Bureau of National Affairs, Milenio \(México\), The LA Times, The San Diego Union\-Tribune, The Orange County Register, Prism magazine, Retail Traffic Magazine, as well as throughout the blogosphere.

Kenn has led groundbreaking projects, such as the noted UCSD binational studies, "Borderless Innovation", and "Borderless Biotech & Mexico's Emerging Life Sciences Industry"; reflecting his passion for industry research and smart policy decisions for the US\-Mexico region.

He is a native of California, strongly bilingual \(English\-Spanish\), and has lived on both sides of the US\-Mexico border. In 2006, Kenn was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s San Diego District Export Council, and later appointed in 2008 by the Secretary of Commerce to serve on the US\-Mexico Border District Export Council \(Border DEC\), made up of business leaders from along the border from California to Texas.

In 2008, his firm was selected as an "in\-market" partner in Mexico for the Government of Wales' trade promotion agency, International Business Wales \(IBW\).

## Online Presence
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