Strategic advisor to senior management on strategy and business development

Management consultant on strategy, business development, crisis and turnaround management

Leader in the food service industry. 200 m € revenue - 5,000 employees.Full P&L responsibility. Complete turnaround of the business with focus both on the profitability and the commercial position in the market. In this period, the organization structure was fully refurbished with a much more professional approach.• Turnaround completed in the first 12 months• Structuring of the business in several sectors (Business & Industries, Education, Healthcare, Remote, Offshore and Sports & Entertainment) with operations in more than 250 sites across Mexico.• 160+ new accounts won in the four years• Significant improvement of gross and operating margins • Renegotiation/Restructuring of key loss making contractsBased in Mexico City reporting to the Regional Managing Director for LatAm based in Sao Paolo.

Leader in the production and distribution of acoustic ceiling tiles in Spain and Portugal. 60 m € revenue – 300 employees.Full P&L responsibility. Unification of several brands/manufacturers across Spain and Portugal creating an organization for producing (3 plants) and distributing the full range of products (metal, gypsum, mineral, glass wool, etc.). Managing the business within a matrix organization. • Quick integration of different product lines that were competing before• Full synergy on a non-existing commercial coordination• Making metal ceiling profitable in less than six months through operational improvements• Turning a loss making business in a profitable one in the middle of the worst part of the construction recession in Spain and Portugal.Based in Madrid reporting to the Global Ceiling Tile Managing Director based in Paris.

Leader in the production and distribution of gypsum products worldwide. 5,000 m € revenue – 11,000 employees in 50 countries.Responsible for coordinating the worldwide supply of the two main raw materials of the process (gypsum and paper) and for balancing capacity across the 90 plants in the world. 20 people team based in Paris and in the Midlands (UK). Reducing cost by 17 m € per year though rationalization of gypsum and paper supply and loading capacity towards the most efficient plants. In parallel, planning where to build capacity for the coming years. Based in Paris reporting to Gyproc Operations Director based in Paris.

BPB, plc was adquired by Saint-Gobain in Decembre 2005Key player (number two) in the gypsum products production and distribution in Mexico. 20 m € revenue - 200 employees.Full P&L responsibility. Creating the business in Mexico from scratch. Buying a market player (family owned) in 2003, then another two (family owned) in 2004 and 2005 and building a new plant in 2005. Full organization set up starting from the existing ones in the acquired businesses. Transformation towards a professional and multinational environment organization. Number two in the market in 2007. Based in Monterrey, Mexico reporting to BPB Business Development Director based in London in a first stage and to the Saint-Gobain Construction Products Regional Managing Director based in Paris.

Leader in the production and distribution of gypsum products worldwide. 5,000 m € revenue – 11,000 employees in 50 countries.Responsible for internal control worldwide giving assurance to the Board Audit Committee of the sound internal control of the Group. Implementation of the Turnbull Code, precursor of the governance codes that were implemented across Europe and North America in the coming years. Implementation in BPB of the first system of business risk identification and mitigation. Based in London reporting to the Group Finance Director based in London.

Leader in the production and distribution of gypsum products in Spain. 70 m € revenue – 600 employees.Full responsibility for the finance function in all subsidiaries based in Spain. Complete restructuring of the corporate structure in the country merging 38 legal entities in a single one optimising taxes and minority interests in the process. Also, all minority shareholders were acquired in the 38 entities along the process. In parallel, working together with the Country MD to build a professional structure aligned with the UK Group (BPB) that bought the business in Spain in 1990. Based in Madrid reporting to the Country MD based in Madrid.

Leader in the production and distribution of gypsum products in central Spain. 6 m € revenue – 80 employees.Full responsibility for the finance function of one of the subsidiaries of the Group in Spain. Introduction of IT systems for the first time in the company. Modernising a human structure coming from a family owned business and making it work in a new multinational environment. Based in Madrid reporting to the Company MD based in Madrid.

Family owned group of travel agents (package and retail) and real estate. 6 m € - 35 employees.Full responsibility of the finance function of the company. Managing of the cash seasonality of the business optimizing the financial cost. System implementation to control the over commission system of the airlines. Reporting to the company owner.

Half-time job during the last two years of university. Support the Finance Director in administration and accounting functions. Reporting to the company FD. Taking over from him at the end of the university degree.