When it comes to advocating on behalf of entrepreneurship and free enterprise, there is no one more passionate about these topics than Neal Asbury, chief executive of The Legacy Companies.  It’s no coincidence that he was the 2008 recipient of the coveted United States National Champion Exporter of the Year Award.  He has published over 100 articles on global trade issues, and been quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LeMonde, and has appeared on network television nationally and internationally.

Each week Neal hosts the nationally syndicated talk radio show “Neal Asbury’s Truth For America”, produced by Atlantic Radio Network and syndicated around the country including such stations as WZAB-AM 880 The Biz (Miami/Ft Lauderdale); WGKA-920 (Atlanta); KSEV (Houston/Galveston); 1500 AM (Washington D.C./Fredericksburg), KDOW-1220 (San Francisco/San Jose); and KKOL-1300 (Seattle/Tacoma).  Expect some strong opinions on “Truth For America” relating to America’s need to reinvigorate the entrepreneurial spirit that has made U.S. businesses the envy of the world in the pursuit of the “American Dream.”  “Truth for America” is affiliated with Bloomberg Radio and CNBC and broadcasts from Coral Gables, Florida and Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. It is streamed live on the internet at www.truthforamerica.com and can be downloaded at iTunes.

His book “Conscientious Equity: An American Entrepreneurs Solutions to the World’s Greatest Problems” has been acquired by Palgrave Macmillan, one of the world’s largest publishing companies and due to be in bookstores the fall of 2010.

Mr. Asbury’s www.conscientiousequity.com blog is quickly becoming a favorite on-line destination for visitors who share his passion for small business entrepreneurship and the benefits of expanding the U.S. role in global commerce. His advocacy has taken him to address the United Nations at the Commission of Trade and Development, as well as frequent speaking engagements at Universities, Government Events and Trade Associations.

Mr. Asbury has been an entrepreneur involved in global business since graduating from Rowan State University in New Jersey in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.  He moved to Asia in 1981 to represent the interests of a number of U.S. manufacturers throughout the region.

In 1987, he founded Asbury WorldWide which became the largest American Export Management Company in its segment, with twelve distribution facilities around the globe.  In 1989, he began FAB Asia, Inc. in Manila, Philippines, which was the exclusive Asian fabricator of commercial kitchens for McDonalds as well as other well-known American restaurant chains.

After selling his group of companies in July of 1999, Mr. Asbury established Greenfield World Trade which is a global Trading Company selling and servicing American manufactured products in over 130 countries to both the retail and commercial markets. He further acquired J. Cobo, a distribution company with operations throughout Latin America; General, a manufacturer of food preparation equipment; Zeroll a manufacturer of high end kitchen gadgets and Omega, a manufacturer of electrical kitchen appliances.

No stranger to Capitol Hill, Mr. Asbury has received the E-Star Export Award and the Export Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce. He is a founding faculty member of Export University (a collaboration between the District Export Council and the U.S. Department of Commerce).  He is the chairman of the Export University National Oversight Committee. He is vice chairman of the District Export Council National Steering Committee and chairman of the Florida District Export Council, appointed to serve by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee to Governor Charlie Crist of Florida and a member of the prestigious International Policy Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. He has testified before the Philippine Senate on multiple occasions on foreign trade.

In addition to his opinion pieces on www.conscientiousequity.com, Mr. Asbury writes a column on global business issues entitled Asbury’s World for To The Point News (www.tothepointnews.com) which is a Washington D.C. based intel service widely read by government and business leaders across the country. His article “The Great Debate” was adopted as the theme of the 2007 National District Export Council Conference moderated by CNN’s award-winning journalist Gene Randell.

Neal Asbury resides in Weston, Florida with his wife, Elizabeth and two daughters, Anjelica and Alyssa.