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Senior Consultant, Trainer

Work Experience

Mr. Bert is an international management consultant and trainer, focussing on development and financing of private enterprises. His services include enterprise restructuring, investment appraisal and business planning, financial analysis and ‘due diligence’, loan appraisal and development of financing programmes.

Following a participatory approach, he enables entrepreneurs to formulate their business plans. He works with bankers to assess the credit worthiness of their clients. He advises governments on development and financing of the private sector. In addition, he is training entrepreneurs, consultants and bankers in project and loan analysis. His services also extend to rural finance, micro-lending and SME development, as well as evaluation of development interventions.

Having started his professional career in international investment banking, Mr. combines financial expertise with knowledge of developing and implementing business support and financial services for the private sector in emerging markets. He has developed particular expertise in enterprise restructuring, notably in the food-processing sector, and credit appraisal. He is analytical and conceptual, yet highly practical in his recommendations.

Education

WO Economie
VBA Beleggings en Financieel Analist

Skills

• Restructuring private industry in post-privatisation environments. These were mainly medium-term projects, implementing management change following a process of diagnostic and strategic planning. Special expertise in food industries – meat, poultry, dairy, bakery products, tea and beverages (Ukraine ‘97-‘99, Kazakhstan ‘98-’99, Mongolia ‘99-’01, Bosnia ‘03).
• Financial analysis, product costing, investment / business planning, and ‘due diligence’ (Netherlands ’02-‘03, Ukraine ‘97-‘99, Kazakhstan ‘98-’99, Montenegro ’01-‘02).
• Assistance to bankers in loan formulation and credit appraisal for farm and agri-business lending. Participation in credit committees (Kazakhstan ‘00-’02, Kyrgyzstan ‘01-’02, Netherlands ‘00-‘03).
• Banking and finance studies (policy and project development). Development of financing instruments, in particular SME credit, rural credit and micro-lending programmes (short-term projects in Moldova, Armenia, Romania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Cape Verde, Lesotho, Cambodia, Kazakhstan).
• Strengthening private sector support, private sector financing institu¬tions and consulting services (institution building), includ¬ing for the rural sector (medium-term and short-term projects in Lesotho, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Cape Verde).
• Training of business advisors in enterprise financ¬ing, business planning and credit applications. Training of bankers in methodologies for farm financing and loan appraisal. MBA training in Finance and Investment (Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Romania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Bosnia, India, The Netherlands, Morocco).
• Prepara¬tion and evalua¬tion of SME support, banking, rural finance and micro-lending projects following PCM approach (Ghana, Tunisia, Cambodia, Kosovo).
• Private sector and economic studies, including industrial development, structural adjustment, SME development, restructuring (Moldova, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Tunisia, Ghana)

Languages

Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, German, Malay, some Russian

Other

Extensive knowledge of computer applications (Word-processing, spreadsheets, databases, IBM-AS, etc).



Prepared various economics publications, including studies on the Structural Adjustment Programme for Guinea-Bissau (1994 and 1996), case-studies on exchange rate forecasting in Malaysia and Zambia (1991), and an economic analysis of Zambia during its structural adjustment programme 1985 / 87 (1987).

Also prepared various papers on enterprise development and financing, including the paper ‘SME lending models’, presented during a private sector development conference in Yugoslavia (1999). Paper on ‘Post-Privatisation Enterprise Restructuring’, presented during a seminar in Mongolia (2000 – updated and published in 2001).

More than 100 technical studies and papers, and 70 training sullabi and case studies.

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