ALEXANDRIA, VA, September 26, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Janet Pearce Stenzel has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Ms. Stenzel is the president of ICM Insights LLC, a company she originally founded in California approximately a decade ago. After pausing her entrepreneurial pursuits to focus on raising her children, she relaunched ICM Insights in 2024 alongside colleagues similarly engaged in global trade facilitation. Under her leadership, the firm connects U.S. companies with partners in countries in Asia. Utilizing U.S. government funding, her company collaborates with local governments to initiate projects that establish basic communication networks and develop communication applications. Ms. Stenzel finds particular fulfillment in witnessing the tangible impact of these projects, which often require a minimum three-year commitment and result in repurposed facilities that benefit local communities and small to medium-sized enterprises expanding their market reach.

Before ICM's relaunch, Ms. Pearce Stenzel was the managing director at Mobil Media Institute from 2019 to 2021. In this capacity, she oversaw initiatives at the intersection of mobile content and carriage engaged in by experts from multiple academic perspectives and companies in the diverse world of mobile engagement. The Institute was a joint initiative between the University of Southern California and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and was funded by USC, CTIA, and industry sponsors.

Ms. Pearce Stenzel came to the Center for Telecommunications Management (CTM) in the Marshall School of Business at USC when she moved the secretariat for the PECC's Telecom and IT Taskforce (TIIF) to the University in 1999. The PECC-TIIF was the working group of the 24 economy grouping that addressed communication, carriage and content policy development in the Asia-Pacific region. Each PECC National Committee is a tripartite structure of government, industry, and academic expertise. Said expertise is focused on projects and policy advisements by the Taskforce of PECC and funneled into the work of APEC and other global entities. Due to the needs of her family, she succeeded her leadership of the TIIF to a Malaysian colleague and focused her time on the establishment of the Southern California Mobile Commerce Roundtable. This initiative utilized the industry and academic connections cemented by the PECC work into a series of senior executive and expert discussions on topics related to mobile commerce promotion domestically and abroad. The representation from the telecommunications, information technology, entertainment, media and gaming communities eventually led to the establishment of the MMI.

Ms. Pearce Stenzel started her work with the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, which was a precursor to, and a private sector observer body in, APEC. She started this work in the US National Committee for PECC (USNCPEC). In this position, she was the director of their Triple-T Taskforce; however, her work focused on bringing U.S. companies into the telecommunications work of PECC and APEC. Her success in the US committee translated into a request to assume the coordination of the international telecommunications taskforce. During the period between 1994 and 2001 the international taskorce was developed beyond its focus on the telecom market to include the information technology endeavors. The TIIF coordinated input from the government, industry and academic representatives from around the Asia-Pacific member economies to further policy and business initiatives.

While employed by the PECC, she chaired and moderated numerous international gatherings, attended APEC meetings and summits, was a delegate to the WTO, AIC, and UNDP forum gatherings, and was one of three individuals nominated by the U.S. Department of State to represent the country at the inaugural Asia Pacific Women Leaders Summit.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Pearce Stenzel was a research fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute from 1991 to 1993 and China programs senior analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute 1988 -1990.

Ms. Pearce Stenzel's academic background includes an associate degree in international relations and affairs from Beijing International Studies University, A dual Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts in international development, economics and dance from Washington University in Saint Louis, an associate degree in political science and government from Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, and a Master of Science in economics from a joint program between The London School of Economics and Political Science and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Active professionally, Ms. Pearce Stenzel remains an advisor to the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and is active in Women in International Trade. She is also a former vice president for both the Saint Louis and Los Angeles chapters of the Society for International Development.
Beyond her professional achievements, Ms. Pearce Stenzel is civically engaged as a member of the Native Plant Group in Virginia. She has also served on the Los Angeles Superintendent's Advisory Council on Green Initiatives, founded an elementary school Green Team chapter, and worked with a number of community support groups in Los Angeles.

Throughout her career, Ms. Pearce Stenzel has achieved several notable milestones. She was recognized as the first and youngest woman in a top-tier think tank in Washington at the Economic Strategy Institute, became the first woman to chair an international PECC task force, and was selected as the first woman sent by the U.S. government to an Asia-Pacific Leadership Council for Women. Among her most significant accomplishments, however, has been fostering collaboration among Asia Pacific economies on intellectual property rights arrangements. This effort gained momentum through Ms. Pearce Stenzel's early involvement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, where she was one of its first female representatives.

In light of her success, Ms. Stenzel was recognized with a Groundbreaking Award from Women in Technology. She is known for her abilities as a moderator and mediator who has facilitated both government,industry and academic discussions on business and policy initiatives. Eager for future opportunities, Ms. Pearce Stenzel remains passionate about environmental as well as the economic sustainability of initiatives. In line with her focus on international development, she is active in addressing the social return on investments whenever and wherever possible and welcomes opportunities to learn from experts and share this expertise with others.

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