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Financial and General Manager

Financial and General Manager

Work Experience

Consultancy Services Sarbanes Oxley Controls and Procedures – Shell Exploration & Production BV
2004 – present Consultancy Services as member of the WW Core Team responsible for the coordination of the development and implementation of the control and procedural documentation to all entities (including joint-ventures) of the Shell Exploration and Production BV in the world.

Special Projects / Packaging Study
2003 – 2004: Consultant services and evaluations of the European Market for Special Packaging and Applications.
The customer is a Brazilian Consortium of 40 Packaging Manufacturers, headed by Aureole Ltda., São Paulo.

Fast & Fluid Management/IDEX Corporation
2002 till 2003: Vice President F&A International (EMEA and the Far East).
Following the liquidation of BaByXL, I became employed on project basis with Fast & Fluid Management International, an American Public company. The company manufactures equipment to the chemical, paint and food industry and has manufacturing facilities in Holland, Italy, Australia and wholly owned sales subsidiaries in 5 other European countries. Achievements: identification and clean up of overstated earnings incurred (and published) during the past 4 years. Reorganization of the administrative and finance departments and management of the implementation of the J.D.Edwards ERP system. Implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley required control procedures.

BaByXL BroadBand DSL
2000 – 2002: Chief Financial Officer of a starting company in the Broadband business in The Netherlands.
The shareholders were: ABN/AMRO, NESBIC, Crescendo and Continuum (Lehman Brothers).
Achievements: start-up and implementation of a commercially and operationally successful organization.
In the function, I prepared the business and financial plans and made presentations and road shows to the international investor community. Despite the recession in the financial markets (2nd.financing round not accomplished), a formal moratorium and bankruptcy, a successful asset deal has been achieved between a major ISP (Tiscali) and the legally assigned receiver.

Hewlett Packard
1998 – 2000: Finance Manager of the EMEA Service Division. Additionally, I was responsible for the Site
Management of the Customer Care Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Achievement: Reorganization of the European Service Division and its split into market segment focused separate divisions (3x). Upon completion of this project, I continued in the "dual" function, mentioned above.
The total cost base of the organization amounted to approx. US$ 200million, total workforce 2500 persons.

Sinalba Ltda. Salvador, Brazil
1995 – 1998: General Manager and owner of a small construction company (road construction and maintenance), North-East of Brazil. (Active Manager through 1998, owner till present)

Philips, São Paulo, Brazil
1994 – 1995: Controller and Deputy General Manager of the Lighting Division in Brazil (temporary assignment).
Achievement: restructuring / consolidation of Brazilian manufacturing operations. Consolidation of the South American Automotive Lamps production lines into 1 manufacturing facility.
Environment: annual revenues: approx. US$ 300million.

Dupont de Nemours/Berg Electronics – EMEA (1989 – 1993):

1993 – 1994: Statutory Director, responsible for the Finance, Data Processing and Administrative departments. Member of the board of directors of the Dutch and French Companies
Achievement: Sales (80%) of the Dupont Electronic Division to Hicks Muse in 1993 (company renamed: Berg Electronics).

1989 – 1993: Manager of Finance / Data-Processing and Deputy General Manager. Member of the Management Team.
Environment: Electronic Dept./Connector Systems Division - Western Europe, annual revenues US$ 500 million, 3 manufacturing plants, 13 commercial country organizations.

Shell do Brasil SA. (1975-1989):

1987 – 1989: Finance Director and Deputy General Manager of the independent Amazon basin based Oil Distribution Company, named Petróleo Sabbá.
Environment: Petróleo Sabbá is a 80% Shell owned Company that operates in the northern part of Brazil. Revenues: approx. US$ 250 million/year.

1985 – 1987: Finance Manager and member of the Management Team of a Shell/Alcoa joint venture, named Alumar. Alumar is a combined Alumina Refinery and Aluminum Smelter facility in the North of Brazil, São Luis (MA).
Total cost base: US 900million/year, 4300 employees.

1984 – 1985: Industrial Engineering Manager and member of the Management Team. Responsible for studies and optimization of operations, evaluation and development of capital investment projects, operational and capital budgets.

1981 – 1984: Project Manager assigned to the combined Alcoa/Shell team. Exercised the joint responsibility with my Alcoa colleague for the design and construction of the Alumar facilities, São Luis, Brazil (investment: US$ 1.8 billion).

1980 – 1981: Plant maintenance and project supervisor at an agro-chemical manufacturing plant of Shell Quimica in São Paulo, Brazil.

1978 – 1980: Project Engineer and Construction Office Manager of a lube oil additive manufacturing facility.
This project was a joint venture between Shell and Lubrizol Corporation.

1975-1978: Cost Engineer and assistant to the project manager at the joint venture between Shell / Petrobras.
The project comprised the construction of a polypropylene plant (Capital investment: US$ 110 million)


Education

EDUCATION: Mechanical Engineering, HTS, Groningen, The Netherlands
Business Economics (MBA) Institute for Social Sciences, The Netherlands
Other formal Shell / University courses in Business Finance and Economics.
Miscellaneous Courses:
1976 – Cost Engineering, Instituto Brasileiro de Petróleo, IBP, São Paulo, Brazil
1976 – Logistics and Industrial Projects, Montreal Engenharia, São Paulo, Brazil
1976 – Piping Layouts and Measurements, Verolme Estaleiros Reunidos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1978 – Managerial Finance, Price Waterhouse, São Paulo, Brazil
1979 – Business Management and Organization, Shell do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1982 – 1985 Business Economics, University of São Luis de Maranhão (evening courses), Brazil
1986 – Internal Controls and Procedures, Shell, Reading, London, UK
1987 – Advanced Finance for Managers, Shell, London, UK
1988 – Internal Auditing, Shell, London, UK
1990 – Quality Systems (ISO, Malcolm Baldrigde), Dupont de Nemours, Geneva, Switzerland
1993 – Just in Time Operations, Mills & Brothers, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
2002 – Six Sigma (Statistical Process Control), IDEX Corporation, Chigaco, USA


Skills

Finance and General Business Management experience in manufacturing and distribution of chemical, metal (aluminum), electronics and oil products. Business experience with IT and Telecom companies.
International experience and overseas assignments with large multinationals (Shell, Alcoa, DuPont, Philips and Hewlett Packard), joint ventures, investments, divestments, re-organizations and partnerships with other well-known enterprises.


Languages

Dutch, English, German and Portuguese (Spanish: weak).

Other

People Management, Human Skills, Team Builder

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