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About SelectGlobal LLC

SelectGlobal is a jurisdictional intelligence firm founded by Michael T. Edgar in Chicago, Illinois. The firm connects allied-nation manufacturers with U.S. federal defense demand, commercial market entry, and site-selection certainty through two structured pathways: the Virtual Path for demand validation and the Physical Path for full infrastructure commitment.

Michael T. Edgar is a licensed architect (NCARB certified), a former member of the U.S. Investment Advisory Council, and a board director of the International Trade Association of Greater Chicago. His advisory work draws on 30 years of project delivery across architecture, real estate development, and international economic development, including 1,200+ completed projects and 250+ advisory engagements.

SelectGlobal is a principal-led firm. Every engagement is led by Michael T. Edgar from first call through final delivery.

 

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Michael Edgar
CEO and Founder, SelectGlobal, LLC

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Who We Are

SelectGlobal operates as a builder, not just an advisor. The firm combines international development expertise, architectural credentials, and government contracting experience, all focused on one outcome: a functioning U.S. market position for your company.

The LatticeWorks Constellation is the ecosystem that makes it possible. It is a pre-qualified network of 250+ municipalities, 68+ trade commissioners, and vetted alliance partners spanning legal, compliance, capital, site selection, and federal procurement. You are not searching a directory. SelectGlobal orchestrates the connections you need, at the moment in your journey when they are required.

The practical result is access to relationships and local knowledge that typically take 12 to 18 months to build from scratch, compressed into the early stages of your engagement.

 

For U.S. Communities, EDOs, and Trade Offices 

Municipal governments, economic development organizations, and international trade offices partner with SelectGlobal to attract established foreign manufacturers, not early-stage startups or speculative investment.

The distinction matters. SelectGlobal's client profile is a founder-led allied-nation manufacturer with proven products, validated home-market demand, and the capital to execute a structured U.S. entry. These are the companies that create durable jobs, integrate meaningfully into regional supply chains, and return for subsequent expansion cycles.

SelectGlobal provides business development and recruitment connecting communities with pre-qualified international companies, strategic facilitation matching company operational requirements with regional workforce and infrastructure strengths, and retainer partnership structures for EDOs seeking ongoing pipeline access.

If your community is positioned to support allied-nation advanced manufacturing, defense-adjacent production, or precision industry, SelectGlobal is a direct channel to that pipeline.

For Alliance Partners and Service Providers

The LatticeWorks Constellation operates as a collaborative network, not a traditional referral hierarchy. SelectGlobal works alongside legal counsel, compliance specialists, capital partners, site selection advisors, logistics experts, and sector specialists across advanced manufacturing, defense-adjacent production, and critical minerals.

The working model is flexible by design. SelectGlobal sometimes leads an engagement and brings in Constellation partners for specialized scope. Partners sometimes lead and draw on SelectGlobal for jurisdictional intelligence, site selection capability, or federal procurement navigation. The structure rewards expertise over territorial positioning.

Constellation partners who perform consistently are introduced to the broader network, referenced in client engagements, and treated as long-term collaborators rather than transactional subcontractors.

If your firm serves established international manufacturers or the communities that want to attract them, and if you operate with the same standard of accountability SelectGlobal brings to every engagement, contact michael@selectglobal.net to discuss a Constellation relationship.