🚚🔌📱Launching Loconav's fleet tech solutions in Francophone countries of North, West and Central Africa. Identifying, engaging and onboarding exclusive partners, system integrators and end users across industries for our comprehensive asset management services.

🛍️ Heading the organization's retail launch in online and physical stores and B2B sales

✈️🏃🗃️ Travel, freelance work in West Africa agricultural supply chain risk-return advisory, USDA/EU organic certification program consultant, financial risk-return modeling for bulk commodity shipments, facilitator for West-Africa importer-distributor relationships, family wealth manager, associate for client engagement and reports for management consulting firms

🍾 Opening export markets for ENA trades and new IMFL products (Rum, Vodka, Whisky, Brandy, Coffee Rum, Flavoured Gin etc) in West Africa and Middle East. Traveled extensively to Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo and UAEEstablished importer-distributor partnerships for the firm. Driving marketing efforts for exports, bottling opérations and exportation processes.

🌾🏭💰Paddy procurement, milling and sales operations of a refurbished parboiled rice 36,000 MT plant in Nigeria. Brownfield project commissioning, increasing output and yields from processing operations, Kick-starting paddy procurement operations and local sales of Rice and byproducts. P&L ownership, planning and budgeting, HR/IR/Legal/Taxation handling. Team leadership - leading 20-100 strength team of a mix of expatriates and domestic staff, permanent and subcontracted workers in Benue State… Show more 🌾🏭💰Paddy procurement, milling and sales operations of a refurbished parboiled rice 36,000 MT plant in Nigeria. Brownfield project commissioning, increasing output and yields from processing operations, Kick-starting paddy procurement operations and local sales of Rice and byproducts. P&L ownership, planning and budgeting, HR/IR/Legal/Taxation handling. Team leadership - leading 20-100 strength team of a mix of expatriates and domestic staff, permanent and subcontracted workers in Benue State in a General Manager role in a high visibility project for Olam Show less

🌿 Organic Certification of 5000 MT Cashew Production and Processing operations through Control Union, turning a loss making enterprise to break-even through realized sales premiums from EU/North American markets. Handled all aspects of certification process including two successful audits🚚 Raw Cashew (RCN) procurement, logistics and shipping to India/Vietnam of 60,000 MT using disruptive pre-financed buying models with appropriate risk management frameworks. Managing a 5000MT CKN… Show more 🌿 Organic Certification of 5000 MT Cashew Production and Processing operations through Control Union, turning a loss making enterprise to break-even through realized sales premiums from EU/North American markets. Handled all aspects of certification process including two successful audits🚚 Raw Cashew (RCN) procurement, logistics and shipping to India/Vietnam of 60,000 MT using disruptive pre-financed buying models with appropriate risk management frameworks. Managing a 5000MT CKN Cashew processing facility as a factory manager. Driving output/yields and worker efficiencies. 🛻 35,000 MT high quality cocoa beans procurement for Olam Cocoa using an innovative procurement model with higher risk profile. Managed end to end supply chain operations in a challenging season🪵 40,000 CBM procurement and shipping of Ivorian teak from pre-financed contracts of SODEFOR. Streamling logging and logistics/M2M and financial reporting of an opaque operation.📝 Did a market study of paddy production and local rice sales, and developed operating models for a viable participation in local rice trading for the company's Ivory Coast Rice business. Traveled to Nigeria and India for research and development work and ran a pilot to determine gross margins and viability of the business. Show less

🍺 Interned with SABMiller, India under Director, Operations on a 2-month Sales project in Karnataka state which required extensive travel and engaging with company’s distributors on identifying business drivers for company's wholesale clients and bench-marking KPIs with competition.

🛡️ Worked with Head - Corporate Operations and Technology Group on designing an MIS for tracking Group performance using Balanced Scorecard application. Learnt several life lessons from my first failed project.

🪙 Undertook a market sizing project for Delhi city under the Head of North India Operations for liabilities side banking.

💵 Updated customer files, record-keeping of customer shares trading account with depository participant, and handled digital scanning and verification of customer signatures. As my first internship, I gained some experience of the nuts and bolts of a bank’s branch operations