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International Agribusiness Manager

Work Experience

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES


2007 - 08 AFR Manager TANGA CEMENT COMPANY LTD Tanzania, affiliated Company of HOLCIM – AFRISAM SA GROUP Switzerland / South Africa

• Business Administration: Member of the Corporate Management Team.
• Alternative Fuels and Raw Materials Management: Building up of a AFR BU, performance and result responsibility, sourcing of biomass from agricultural and forestry sectors, waste market study Tanzania
• Business Planning: Biomass producing plantation of 10’000 ha, investment volume of some USD 10 m
• Field Trial: 42 ha plus nursery of Jatropha curcas, treatments on density / weed control / irrigation / direct seeding versus cuttings and seedlings
• Project Management: Tendering phase of biomass fuelled Independent Power Plant 17.5 MW, preparation of application for CDM financing, investment volume of some USD 35 m


2005 - 2006 Managing Director TROPIFRUTAS SA Ecuador, affiliated Company of PASSINA GROUP Netherlands (responsible for 250 employees)

• General Management: Corporate performance and result responsibility for fruit processing company, consisting of two factories in Guayaquil and Quevedo, respectively
• Purchase: Production survey, quality control, and acquisition of fresh fruits, 40 – 50’000 mt per year
• Production: Processing of passion fruit, papaya, pineapple, and mango into 5 – 6’000 mt per year of fruit juices and concentrates
• Trading: Export sales worldwide USD 15 – 20 m per year


1999 - 2004 Business Consulting, independent

• Strategic and business planning, financial analysis, accounting and controlling, MIS, business process optimisation and administration, special and internal audits
• Sectors: agribusiness, commodity trading, chemical industry, waste management, hotel/restaurant/canteen, food production and commercialisation, restoring/construction, automotive industry
• Mandates, among others: business planning in meat production and commercialisation project for MEDVED OOO St. Petersburg, Russia; 4-month mandate as Business Adviser for Corporate Audit SYNGENTA INTERNATIONAL AG Basle (Customer Relationship Management Analysis in Group Companies Argentina and Brazil); Project planning in solid waste management of Beirut, Lebanon, for ECOLING PARTNER AG in Zurich, Switzerland; Product Manager France for EXCON Group Frankfurt in an audit mandate of GM Europe on After Sales Service Standards

Sabbatical
• Studies of Italian and Russian
• In 2000, 3-months stay in St. Petersburg, guest lecturer at the University of Economics & Finance (lectures/seminars in E/F/G)


1997 - 99 President Director PT VOLKOPI INDONESIA, affiliated Company of VOLCAFE GOUP Switzerland (responsible for 130 employees)

• General Management: Corporate performance and result responsibility for green coffee trading company, consisting of three operating branches in Indonesia
• Purchase: Production survey, quality control, and acquisition of raw green coffee (1998 > 30‘000 mt)
• Production: Processing raw coffee into export quality (1998 > 25’000 mt) through drying/cleaning/selection, quality monitoring, stock management
• Trading: Domestic/export sales (1998 ~ USD 40 m), shipping, position management and hedging by means of futures and options at London/New York Commodity Exchange


1995 – 97 Head F&A CIBA/NOVARTIS Nigeria (responsible for 52 employees)

• Business Administration: Member of the Corporate Management Team
• Finance: Design and implementation of updated finance policy in Group Company. Restructuring of balance sheet and optimisation of statutory profit
• Treasury: Supervision of liquidity, guidance of credit and stock management
• Controlling: Direction of accounting, controlling and reporting for the attention of the Corporate Management Team and the Finance Department Basle HQ
• Information Services: Guidance of IS, continuos upgrading of the set-up in all fields of hardware, software, and security


1993 – 95 Business Consulting, independent; mandates, among others

• Planning of business extension to Germany, wholesaler music instruments, ZENKER Ltd, Switzerland
• Sales prospects of food industry machinery in Mexico, BUHLER GROUP, Uzwil Switzerland


1992 - 93 MBA Lausanne

• Consulting project on "PRODUCT INNOVATION IN THE CEMENT INDUSTRY", mandate of CB "HOLDERBANK", Switzerland
• Financial Consulting, ZENKER Ltd, Switzerland
• Market study on the "PROSPECTS OF THE SOYA MARKET IN THE MERCOSUR", mandate of CIBA-GEIGY, Switzerland


1989 – 91 Senior Consultant HOLINGER Ltd., MOTOR COLUMBUS GROUP, Baden Switzerland (responsible/coordination of 15 employees/colleagues/ consortium partners)

• Country Representative of the company in Morocco, residence in Rabat
• General Management of the company branch in Morocco
• Consultant in agricultural and social economics of water supply masterplans
• Project Leader of masterplan river basins Souss and Massa in Morocco
• Acquisition and Tendering

1987 – 89 Consultant of SDC/CIMMYT (Swiss Development Cooperation/ International Maize and Wheat Centre Mexico) at the National Agricultural Research Program Honduras
1986 – 87 Postdoctoral Fellow at CIMMYT in Mexico
1985 – 86 Junior Consultant at the Development Centre of the OECD in Paris
1982 – 85 Doctoral Fellow at the Agricultural Economics Institute ETH Zurich
1980 – 82 Research Fellow at the Agricultural Economics Institute ETH Zurich
1976 – 80 Studies Agricultural Economics ETH Zurich
1972 - 75 Architect in Chur

Education

EDUCATION

1992 – 93 MBA Program HEC University of Lausanne
Certificate Master of Business Administration
1986 – 87 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Economics Program of CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Centre Mexico) in Central America and the Caribbean
1985 – 86 Junior Consultant at the Development Centre of the OECD in Paris, financed by the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research
1982 – 85 Dissertation (PhD) at the Agricultural Economics Institute ETH Zurich
Certificate PhD in Technical Sciences (Dr sc techn ETHZ)
1976 – 80 Studies of Agricultural Economics ETH Zurich
Certificate Master in Agricultural Economics (Dipl Ing Agr ETHZ)
1972 – 75 Matriculation / High school graduation through correspondence IPU Lucerne
Certificate Confederate Matura (A-Level Graduation)
1968 – 72 Apprenticeship as Technical Designer in Architecture, Chur
Certificate Confederate Diploma for Technical Designing in Architecture

Skills

Specific Experience

• Sector Experience Agribusiness, food industry, chemical/pharmaceutical industry,
coffee commodity trading, water/energy business, cement
industry, architecture
• Country Experience France, Mexico, Central America, Morocco, Nigeria,
Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Ecuador, Tanzania
• Multicultural competence and experience with international organisations (among others OECD Paris and CIMMYT Mexico)
• Management of Information Services in industrial companies, ie Information Technology and Reporting / MIS

Functional Know-how


• Business Administration Industry (MBA)
• Finance Management / Accounting / Controlling / Reporting
• Procurement / Sales Industry
• Commodity Trading
• Internal Audit Industry

Languages

Working languages

German / English / Spanish / French / Italian (Basics Portuguese / Russian)

Other

Personal Profile

• Leadership and determination
• Commitment and enthusiasm
• Integrity and independence
• Contact and communication oriented
• Mobile, flexible, dynamic

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