Dear Member,

It is with great pleasure we introduce the newest members of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce: ALLEGIANT, GRUPO VERNON, and TAPLEX COMPANY.  These companies will serve as great assets to the chamber and its fellow members.

For a full list of the members of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce, please visit: http://www.us-angola.org/membershipdirectory.html.

ALLEGIANT
Daniel Ferraz
Executive Vice President
daniel.ferraz@goallegiant.com
5625 FM 1960 West, Suite 321
Houston, TX 77069
T: +1 (281) 880 2811
WWW.GOALLEGIANT.COM
The Allegiant group companies is a uniquely organization recommending only those solutions that a destination country can fully implement and sustain within its current stage of development. We have brought our powerful blend of technical leadership and ongoing operational expertise for 20 years to over 15 countries including Brazil, Angola, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Norway, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, and Saudi Arabia.
The Allegiant group of companies provides the infrastructure, technology, and training that help countries bridge the Digital Divide. Our integrated, holistic solutions serve to empower the economically disadvantaged, enable schools to be more effective, and help governments and businesses become more productive. With access to information and communications technology and the skills to use it societies have the opportunity to improve their quality of life while maximizing their capabilities in a global virtual economy.

GRUPO VERNON
Marcela Merejoli
Depto Marketing & Comercial
Edificio Vernon  - Av. de Portugal,
N . 18-20, 7 andar
Luanda - Angola
T: +244 (222) 392 160, 397 551/615
F: +244 (222) 398 589 
WWW.GRUPOVERNON.COM 
The Angolan Vernon Services offers specialized services in the Oil & Gas and acts intended to be an official driver of growth and reconstruction of Angola. Its activity is based on establishing partnerships with some of the most appraised international companies to operate in this area reinforce the position of Vernon Oil & Gas and economic subject responsible, highly competent.
Vernon Angolan Mission Services
Support the national reconstruction through the efforts of its business devoted to the sector of Oil & Gas, and to positively reflect directly or indirectly in the Angolan nation.

TAPLEX COMPANY
John D. Briggs II

Managing Member
jbriggs@lexumenterprises.com
401 Westpark Court
Suite 200
Peachtree City, Georgia 30269
T: +1 (678) 783 1073
F: +1 (678) 783 1074
WWW.LEXUMENTERPRISES.COM
The Taplex Company ("Taplex Company"), an affiliate of Lexum Enterprises, L.L.C., provides a range of premium equipment, materials and services for private and public infrastructure development within select regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.  With its principal office in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area, the Taplex Company also proudly offers an outstanding selection of specialty vehicles manufactured or distributed in North America for personal or business use.
John D. Briggs II is the Taplex Company’s chief executive.  Mr. Briggs has more than twenty-three years of professional experience as a business lawyer, having been a partner in the corporate and real estate sections of three large law firms and the senior real estate attorney in the US Mid-Atlantic region for Bank of America.
 Mr. Briggs is a graduate of Milton Academy, Princeton University and Duke University School of Law where he served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal.

***Don’t forget 2009 Annual Membership Meeting is September 10, 2009 at 10am at 1100 17th Street, NW, Suite 1100; Washington, DC 20036.  For more information, please contact mdacruz@us-angola.org.***