Hello, my friends, and welcome to another exciting episode of Negotiate Anything.

Negotiate Anything is produced by the American Negotiation Institute, and with over 3 million downloads and listeners in over 180 countries, listeners just like you have made this the number one negotiation podcast in the world.

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Giuseppe, thanks for joining us today. My pleasure, Kwan. Yeah, it's great to have you,

my friend. So how about you get it started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

My name is Giuseppe. I am Italian, as you could quickly spot from my accent.

I have three lovely daughters, Emma, Sarah and Louisa, and I'm currently living in Switzerland.

From a professional perspective, I am fundamentally a procurement

person. I worked in procurement for 25 years with a number of leading multinational,

Procter & Gamble, Novartis, Merck. He worked in five different countries. And probably what is

unique about my career development is that in parallel to my corporate job, I started teaching.

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