Joan Soler Email & Phone Number

Barcelona, CT, ES

Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Executive Director of the Vehicle Inspection Division, reporting to the Group's CEO and Chairman:
• Managing 8 centers across Spain and leading a cross-functional team of 90 engineers, technicians and staff, with a total revenue of 9M€.
• Full ownership of the P&L, ensuring a strong financial performance, with +20% CAGR in revenue and EBITDA and a +50% net income over the last 3 years.
• Responsible for overall business areas: team and culture building, recruiting and talent retention, strategy, marketing and business development, operations and resource planning.Acting as deputy CEO of the Group for.
• IT Services: Helpdesk, Communications, Security, Software development, ERP (SAP) and BI.
• Purchasing and supplier management

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Ensuring efficient, effective and profitable company’s day-to-day operations and reporting them to the CEO, focused on the following areas:
• Business Analytics: driving performance measures using dashboards and P&Ls, monitoring KPIs and guaranteeing an effective decision-making.
• Productivity: marshaling limited resources to the most productive uses in order to maximize profit and to ensure a sustainable growth.
• IT: Development, integration, maintenance and update of the internal/own and external (SAP) software and tools.
• Purchase and procurement: supplier negotiation/bids, expense classification, cost control, price reduction and payments.

Madrid Area, Spain

• Launching a new PTI (Periodic Technical Inspection) center and developing growth opportunities in Madrid’s region. Managing all areas of the business:
• Operations: developing and monitoring business’ KPIs in order to maximize growth and profit, and report them to the CEO and the board of directors.
• Marketing & Sales: implementing and monitoring marketing strategies and closing deals with other companies and important clients.
• People management: hiring all profiles of employees and managing them efficiently in order to match resources and vehicle/customer demand.
• Business development: viability analysis and negotiating the opening/acquisition of new centers, as well as leading the launch of a low-cost gas station.

United Kingdom

• Providing consulting services and advice to private and public air transport clients: airport operators, airlines, governments and private investors:
• Public-private partnership concession advisory in Manila & Cebu Airports, Philippines (2013): Market analysis and bottom-up traffic forecast modelling.
• Technical advisory for a large German airport group interested on selling equity, Germany (2013): Benchmark and top-down passenger traffic forecast.
• Transaction advisory for a Swiss airport operator for the acquisition of ANA Airports, Portugal (2012): Traffic and financial modelling.
• Master Plan and for Kaunas and Vilnius Airports, Lithuania (2012): Infrastructure development and business planning.
• Cargo traffic consulting for Guarulhos and Brasilia airports, Brazil (2011): Air cargo data analysis and forecast.

New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)

As a Member of the Infrastructure Condition Monitoring Program team specialized in Nondestructive Evaluation of infrastructure, I was in charge of evaluating bridge deck and pavement materials using state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, working for the US Department of Transport.

Terrassa, Barcelona (Spain)

While at the university, teaching C++ programming language to aerospace and engineering students.

Vallter 2000, Girona (Spain)

During winter seasons while at the university, teaching competition ski to boys and girls from 4 to 15 years old (regional and Spanish championships).

Campdevànol, Girona (Spain)

・Summer 2007: Studying and improving the current fluid direct quenching system for the hot extrusion forging using CFD analysis.・Summer 2006: Involved in the crankshaft production for medium/heavy duty diesel engines focused on CAD drawing and updating databases for products, processes and clients.・Summer 2004: Giving support and involved in the different.

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Class President and Team Leader

Bsc. & Msc. Aerospace Engineering, Airport Infrastructures & Aviation Business Management

Activities and Societies: Aerofesta Final Degree Project: Study of the roadmap of an airport dashboard in line with the SESAR APOC/APAMS.