Jaroslav Kramar Email & Phone Number

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Assessing the needs, coaching the business aspects, etc.

Newport Beach, California; Geneva, Switzerland; Brno, Czech Republic

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The projects consist of Building Companies’ Organizations, Sales and Marketing Management, Strategic Business Planning, Budgeting, Financial Reporting and Controls, Operations, Defining and Implementing Exit Strategies, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, companies Valuations. Initiated and / or personally implemented company-wide changes in about 300 companies going through the transition from a small privately held business into a functionally organized professionally run organization. Developed strategic planning, coaching, mentoring, and leadership skills with companies’ ownership and top management.

Business / Management Consulting.Published book on the process of business: Mega Warheads, Coffee Stands, and Off-Shore Islands (ISBN 1-4107-0351-7).

Brussels Area, Belgium

Assessing the SME needs, assisting with plan development, etc. : EASME, SME Instrument. Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe programs.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Schaumburg, Illinois

Collecting company intelligence, analyzing it, designing action plans based on itDesigning and executing fundamental organizational / personnel changes.Developing strategic / business plans, coaching and mentoring leadership skills with companies owners, management and other personnel. Changing companies practices; implementing new operating procedures and policies.Putting into practice Financial Reporting and Controls: Budgets, Cash Flows, Forecasting.Changing and training Product Marketing / Management, Sales & Sales Management.

Santa Ana, California

Launching new generation of purified drinking water coolers in Southern California. Started the Southern California Operation from ground up: office, marketing and sales, operations.

Fountain Valley, California

Fully responsible for Operations in California and Vietnam (from sourcing of raw materials, through entire manufacturing process to inventory management, warehousing, shipping, and receiving) of medical disposables (pH catheters). Company’s sales were about $40M / year. The manufacturing facilities were in Fountain Valley, California and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The manufacturing department in California had about 30 employees; the operation in Vietnam about 75 of a total of about 200 employees company / world-wide. The company‘s US entity complied with FDA (ISO 13485) requirements; was in process of implementing the Quality System in Vietnam.

Arlington Heights, Illinois

and also June 2007The projects consisted of Building Companies’ Organizations, Sales and Marketing Management, Strategic Business Planning, Budgeting, Financial Reporting and Controls, Operations, Defining and Implementing Exit Strategies, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, companies Valuations.

Buffalo Grove, Illinois

The projects consisted of Building Companies’ Organizations, Sales and Marketing Management, Strategic Business Planning, Budgeting, Financial Reporting and Controls, Operations, Defining and Implementing Exit Strategies, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, companies Valuations.

Park Ridge, Illinois

and also March 2002 and April and May 2007.The projects consisted of Building Companies’ Organizations, Sales and Marketing Management, Strategic Business Planning, Budgeting, Financial Reporting and Controls, Operations, Defining and Implementing Exit Strategies, Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, companies Valuations.

Sunnyvale, California

International Business Consulting and Business Development- Representing Skoda Export (Prague, Czech Republic) in turnkey factory project for Vietnam- Initiating a glass manufacturing project with Crystalex (Novy Bor, Czech Republic) in Vietnam- Working with Spur (Zlin, Czech Republic) on contract research projects- Member of a team (with Koreans, Chinese, and Americans) in discussions with PetroVietnam in Hanoi, Vietnam.etc.

Costa Mesa, California

Ionetics, Inc., founded in 1979 was a small company that developed, manufactured and marketed a Product Line of Electrolyte Analyzers for analyzing plasma, serum or whole blood. Company was very fast expanding internationally (over 85% of business outside the U.S. in 1994, up from 10% three years earlier, while tripling the sales. Distributors’ network covered over 35 countries on all continents. In July 1994 Ionetics introduced its fifth major generation of products. Under FDA regulations, Ionetics instruments met all FDA requirements. Vice-President of Marketing and Sales, February 1994. Product Line Management, Business Development and Worldwide Sales responsibility.

Geneva Area, Switzerland And Palo Alto, California

Scientific Instruments Division, Palo Alto, California. Product marketing / product management of multi-user multitasking mass spectrometric measure-ment systems with sales well over 20 million dollars worldwide (about 20% of the Division’s business). Developing Marketing Plans; managing new product introductions. After Marketing, was a system manager of the computer part of the system with product engineering development responsibility. Contributed to the best ever results of the former generation of systems: both growth and profitability in double digits. Originated the concept of the highly successful HP5971A Mass Spectrometer.Before that, in Geneva, Switzerland. Led field Business Development, pre-sales technical and marketing support for a ($20M) Product Line (Multi-user, multi-tasking networked Laboratory Data Acquisition and Information Management Systems) Europe-wide. Guided the Product Line’s field activities. Was personally involved in key sales. Coordinated multinational sales activities. Organized European Specialized Sales Force.

La Tour-De-Peilz, Switzerland

Assisted Professor Archer J. P. Martin (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 for Electrophoresis) in developing new separation methodology for isolation of natural products in milk. Before that studied compounds / components contributing to characteristic flavors of different types of meat.

Palo Alto, California

Contributed to identification and synthesis of marine natural compounds in Prof. Carl Djerassi’s (www.djerassi.com) group.

Mba, International Business, 3.66

http://www.thunderbird.edu/

M.Sc., Chemical Engineering; Dr. Sc. Organic Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Bridge. http://www.epfl.ch/

Baccalaureat C, Math - Physics

Activities and Societies: Judo. http://www.lyc-lakanal-sceaux.ac-versailles.fr/

Education record

http://www.gvid.cz/