Co-Founder & Director
International market entry & diversification strategy · Strategic partnerships · Executive leadership
Trusted advisor to manufacturing CEOs navigating international expansion, former Bombardier executive, engineer and MBA, building global market entry strategies and transatlantic networks enabling ISA clients to scale.
Linkedin ProfileAndreas Waller is the advisor that manufacturing and industrial CEOs turn to when international expansion cannot afford to fail. He is known for turning complex environments into executable opportunity. A former business development leader at Bombardier, founder of Waller Global, and a trained engineer with an MBA, he has navigated market entry and diversification strategies across more than 30 countries.
His work with funding and scaling technology and manufacturing ventures from inception to commercialization, means he understands what it takes to scale and how the next generation of industrial leaders are being built right now. As Chairman of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in Michigan, he commands a transatlantic network that gives ISA clients access at every stage of their growth.
Co-Founder & Director
Political risk & state dynamics · Comparative geopolitics · University & international institutional networks
Leading globalization and political risk scholar, Fulbright recipient, and think-tank leader connecting universities, governments, and multilateral institutions worldwide, bringing ISA privileged access across academic, policy, and diplomatic networks.
Linkedin ProfileFernando López-Alves is a leading authority on globalization and political risk with over 20 years of experience as a Global and International Studies professor and program director at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Salamanca.
He has led multiple think tanks, established graduate schools, and authored ten books published by Princeton, Duke, and Cambridge University Presses across three continents.
A three-time Fulbright Award recipient, and U.S. Institute of Peace Fellow, he brings to ISA an institutional network spanning universities, governments, and multilateral organizations across five continents and the authority to open doors within them that few advisors anywhere can access.