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PROFILE CANDIDATE Code K090354INT
Sex: m
Year of birth: 71
Education:
1989 - 1995 Masters degree in Management and Organisation
State University Groningen, the Netherlands
Subjects: Internationalization of the firm, small and medium business management, financial policy and management, production management, international management, strategic management, transfer of technology on international business level, marketing and technology, organization design and -change.
Specialization: Small business management and internationalization
1983 - 1989 VWO (Grammar School), Bogerman College, Sneek, the Netherlands
Courses:
2003 Participative methods in developing countries
1999 Investment consultancy
1998 Financial consultancy: 12 courses incl. general education banking business
Trainee experience:
1995 NOC*NSF Arnhem: Final paper "Scoring Internationally", an analysis and
design of networks in the international world of sports.
1995 Fortuna Trade International: Business plan for the restart of a trading
company mainly operating in Russia.
1994 Vrijbuiter Roden: Research on transfer of technology to the Czech Republic.
1994 KPN Groningen: research, analysis and design of the human
communication process.
1994 Diesel Marine International: research of the process of internationalisation.
Working experience:
Our candidate is an intelligent, well educated and broadly developed management professional in the international horticultural sector. He functioned as well in a wide variety of production based management positions, as in general management positions. He is able to think and act with a short term as well as a longer term focus and with a narrow or broad scope of the situation. He also likes to think in structures but without becoming too theoretical. In Africa this meant the set up of simple working structures which functioned very well.
His inventiveness, flexibility and improvisational skills have proven to be very useful during his years in Africa. He is looking for a position in General (Farm or commercial) management, or a position like Business Manager, Manager New Business or Business Development.
2005 - present: Function: Horticultural Business Consultant/owner
Company: Horticultural Consultancy organisation, Kenya
Responsibilities:
• Consultancy in starting up new business-to-business ventures in developing countries
• Specialised in funding by the Dutch government
• Developing a farm and building a house at Ntirimiti
• Fundraising for the Elephant Corridor.
2005 - 2008 Company: Holding company, the Netherlands
Activity: Flower production & Flower export
Function: Manager , the Netherlands (2008)
Company: Flower import & processing & export
Responsibilities:
• Restructuring the company
• Specific focus on Cost analysis, management & control
• Implementing new strategies
• Market development, etc.
Function: Director (2006-2008)
Company: Chrysanthemum producer, Uganda
Responsibilities:
• Start up company to be the first company to produce Chrysanthemum stems in Uganda
• Develop company strategy
• Direct, support and control the management.
Function: Director (2005 - 2008)
Company: Flower processing company, Kenya.
Activity: Processing of flowers into bouquets and sold on the international market.
Responsibilities:
• Develop company strategy
• General management
2003 - 2005 Function: Project officer
Company: PSOM at EVD (Dutch government)
Responsibilities:
• Acquisition
• Appraisal for grants
• Support and implementing of new business ventures (50) in developing countries
• Responsible for Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana.
2001 - 2003 Function: Manager
Company: 3 chrysanthemum cuttings producers, Tanzania
Responsibilities:
• Planning
• Growth and production
• Quality
• Personnel management
• Bookkeeping
• Other general management tasks
• Co-operating with a Dutch General Manager.
2000 - 2001 Function: Account manager
Company: Flower auction, Aalsmeer: products- Tulip, Lily, Lisianthus and Alstroemeria
Responsibilities:
• Account management (mainly with growers)
• Management of range
• Promotional activities
• Analysis of figures and trends
• Total annual sales of 300 Million Euro.
1997 - 2000 Function: Financial consultant private banking
Company: Bank in the Netherlands
Responsibilities:
• Analysis of customer needs regarding their actual and future financial position
• Approaching target groups based on a marketing plan
• Organisation of several projects e.g. investment courses including presentations.
1996 - 1997 Function: General manager
Company: Flower company, Kenya, 40 employees
Responsibilities:
• Financial-, strategic- and HR management
• Growing, planning, quality
• Export, bookkeeping, marketing.
Personality:
Our candidate is a friendly, intelligent and well educated personality. He is a good listener and a fast thinker with a broad interest and conversation. He created with us the impression of being a man with integrity.
He is a creative and inventive man who knows how to make something out of nothing; a skill which comes in very useful in cultures like in Africa. Our candidate tends to have a somewhat impatient character and will function best in managerially challenging situations and with challenging objectives. He is a good change-agent in a multi-cultural setting.
In the context of a group, like e.g. a management team, he will show especially the characteristics and take the role of ‘driver-pioneer-chairman’, coupled with the role of ‘organiser’ and ‘market scout’. Less prominent will be his role as ‘finisher’ and ‘teamworker’ .
Description of the new challenge: