Juan Carlos Porta Email & Phone Number

Nicaragua

Chinandega, Nicaragua

o Manage vast agribusiness activities in Nicaragua with more than 25 thousand hectares for different uses. o In charge of the cattle business with more than 12 thousand cattle heads. o Responsible of a sugar plantation of 2 thousand hectares.o Designed and developed IT Projects in order to improve operation management, cost management and productivity.o.

Nicaragua

- Consulting services to different companies and developing start-ups business modeling. - Searching for new challenging opportunities.

Chile

- In charge of financial engineering and strategic planning for the holding group’s subsidiaries. - Restructured more than US $1 billion in debt for the holding group. - Interim general manager for Potasios de Chile S.A. and Nitratos de Chile S.A.- Responsible for the IPO of Nitratos de Chile S.A. at the Santiago Stock Exchange. The process yielded a.

Chile

- Financial advisory for private banking clients with a net worth of more than a US $100 million.- Negotiated and structured a US $50 million lines of credit for an institutional client. - Designed a business model to expand private banking and institutional services to Central America.

Chile

- Chief of studies for operations at the VP Nitrato -Yodo. - Designed and implemented an initiative to reduce overtime cost by 30% in 2010.- Managed a team tasked with designing and implementing strategy to reduce outsourcing cost while improving service levels resulting in savings of more than US $1 million per year. - Implemented an operational.

Nicaragua

- Kaizen Leader - Responsible for continuous improvement activities and innovations.- Redesigned the sales process for used cars reaching sales growth of more than 50%.- Created new business units such as GPS tracking, Continental Tire and Varta batteries (Johnson Controls) with annual sales growth of more than 25%.- Designed multiple IT tools in order to.

Nicaragua

- Developed and implemented marketing and advertising campaigns with increase in sales of more than 36% from 2004 to 2005.- Designed and implemented a new inventory control model decreasing stock by more than 30%.- Led the implementation of the Microsoft Business Solution software as a RP with the integrations of new tools to increase efficiency relating.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba) / Intercambio Universidad De North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

Ingeniero Industrial

Highest score in the thesis: “Diseño del Sistema de Control de Inventario en Auto Nica S.A. en el período 2001-2002.”