CEO / CFO in Retail, FMCG and Luxury, based in Dubai for 15 years and now in Kenya, I have held the positions of: Deputy-CEO of Quickmart (Kenya), CFO of Carrefour Middle-East (Majid Al Futtaim Retail, Dubai), CFO of Carrefour-Marinopoulos Group (Greece), Finance Director of Majid Al-Futtaim Holding (Dubai) and Group CFO of Damas Jewellery (Dubai). My passion and focus have enabled the successful completion of projects of implementation of category management, mergers & acquisitions, business development, growth strategy, debt restructuring and IPO preparation. My experience of 30 years in retail management and finance also includes other senior roles held in USA and Europe for home improvement and grocery retail multinationals such as Kingfisher Group / B&Q (UK), and GIB Group (Belgium - USA). My leadership skills have provided the vision and the strategy to large teams across Finance, IT, Legal, Real Estate, and more recently Operations, Commercial, Marketing and HR.My successes include:1) Completion of the acquisition of a majority stake in a large retail business with more than 14,000 staff, and of a chain of supermarkets in Eastern Europe 2) Business development and due diligence leading to the opening of the first Western-style hypermarket in Iran3) Spearheading growth strategy initiatives aiming at tripling a Luxury Retail company’s EBITDA over 4 years4) Debt restructuring: signature of a Club Deal with four major banks 5) Re-organization: head-office cost savings of more than 30%To further explore my CEO/CFO experience, please contact me on jacques.dome@hotmail.co.uk Anurag Bajpai, Partner and Head of Retail at KPMG Lower Gulf:“It has been a pleasure to work with Jacques over the past few years. He is a consummate professional with clarity of thought that helps him to come up with solutions for difficult problems at hand. He is also articulate and measured. I have also experienced his strong analytical ability first hand in my interactions with him. He also has a strong industry knowledge. I was also impressed by Jacques’ willingness to listen to different perspectives.”
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