Senior-Level Executive – CEO, Board of DirectorsA professionally qualified Executive, offering an extensive and diversified management background based on formal training and 30+ years of detailed hands-on industry experience. Career has demonstrated leadership initiative, technical expertise, operations creativity, cost reduction and award-winning success in multi-cultural work environments. • 9+ years of grassroots upbringing including CEO level within the USA ports industry prior to working overseas. • Extensive international experience as CEO and Board Member for the development, operations and management of large-scale port infrastructure projects with capital investments exceeding US$ 1.2 billion and handling capacities ranging up to 3+ million TEUS. Including 10+ years involvement in private & public equity funds and acquisitions. • Successfully developed organizations operating under challenging commercial environments which annually achieved high revenue growth, exceeding US$ 112 million in total annual revenue while ensuring cost efficiency which generated rather consistent annual double-digit EBITDA growth percentages and reaching 50+% margins. • Experienced in overseeing large organizations consisting of upward of 800 team members including multi-disciplinary trade unions and subcontract workers. Solid reputation for motivating teams to produce record-setting results using the principle of leading by example and continuous improvement techniques.• In-depth hands-on knowledge in HSE, automation, operations, engineering, financing, negotiations, union relations, government relations, and funds/public shareholding. Experienced in handling News and Television Media. • Instrumental in developing some of the largest container ports in the world which included the transhipment hub of Gioia Tauro, Italy handling 3.4 million TEUS annually and successfully opened the 6 million TEUS green-field facility of Busan Newport located in Busan, South Korea which at the time was the largest infrastructure project in Asia. Subsequently returning to open another 3.2 million TEU phase of Busan Newport using the latest in Port Automation.