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Hong Kong

Hong Kong Sar

Partnering, creating and innovating value with customers and industry stakeholders, to support their success with services they value the most, driving sustainable profitable growth for Wallem Group.

Tokyo, Japan

Mentor, supporting career and professional development of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, under the Spanish Institute of Engineering Mentorship Programme.

Tokyo, Japan

Executive Partner for strategic key customers at Tokyo, JapanWorking as business partner, helping customers sustain their commercial success while generating growth for Lloyd's Register.Accountable for the strategic management of the selected Tokyo-based maritime strategic key customers, ensuring that investment is directed towards generating sustainable customer commercial success. Member of the Strategic Growth Team under the global Strategic Account Management initiative established at London Headquarters.Engaging Japanese Customers that operate globally with the global Lloyd's Register, in synergetic relationships, fostering partnerships, collaborations and entrepreneurial and innovation initiatives that generate differentiated value for Customers and Lloyd's Register's business growth.Connecting technology, new business models and talent with customers’ commercial, ESG related needs, supporting them to stay competitive overtime, generating competitive advantage for Customers and LR, driving LR's business growth.

Tokyo, Japan

Mentor for entrepreneurs at maritime start-ups under the LR Safetytech Accelerator Programme; delivering trusted advice to entrepreneurs that look to transform maritime industry by creating new value with the application of disruptive technologies and novel business models.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Leading the ideation, incubating and development of new businesses and business models, by fostering entrepreneurial ventures and innovation within the corporation, creating differentiated value to customers, through a combination of organic talent development, partnering and targeted acquisitions models.Significant outcome includes:- Innovation and Digital Transformation Strategy created and launched for the business division globally, triggering digitalisation global investment plan.- Created a new Digital Innovation Venture.- Board Director on new Digital Innovation Corporate Venture.- Incubating a new Digital Assurance Venture. Currently scaling up from a successful innovative minimum viable product newly innovated.- Incubating a new Autonomous Maritime Services Venture, as a scaling up investment from a new innovative minimum viable product.- New Cyber Security product launched, resulting in corporate acquisition of cyber security business and subsequent profitable divestment.- Innovation maturity scaled up, introducing ideation and management of architectural, radical and disruptive innovation and business models, creating the first Innovation Lab in the company, that applies agile and scrum methodologies in creating new models, solutions and businesses.- Experimenting and prototyping several cloud-based digital solutions, distributed ledger technology (DLT, better known as “blockchain”), and several other innovative digital technologies.- Guest speaker and thought leadership seminars at customer events, international and regional events globally; on digital transformation, disruptive technologies, autonomous systems powered by artificial intelligence and cloud-enabled solutions.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Pioneering and ideating the innovation function for Marine & Offshore Business; an agile team co-creating value in partnership with customers and industry players, creating value for customers; transforming the business to thrive under the new digitalisation industry and society trend.- Ideated and created the Innovation Function and Innovation Lab, adopting agile ways of working.- One digital solution ideated, created and launched to market- One digital product ideated, created and launched to market- Developed the Innovation Strategy for Marine & Offshore Business- Guest speaker and thought leadership seminars at customer events, international and regional events globally; themes being digital transformation, disruptive technologies autonomous systems and cloud servicing, as well as trends and future of maritime industry.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Leading the newly created Marine Business Marketing Function- Created new Customer Centric Marketing Team Structure- Created new Strategic Marketing Customer centred function and team- Retained leadership of Marine new sales global share- Guest speaker and thought leadership seminars globally, on trends and future of maritime industry and technology innovation themes.

Singapore And Southampton, United Kingdom

Leading the organisational structure design and creation of the Strategic Marketing function for Marine Business globally. - Ideated new function, created the organisational structure- Ideated and lead the development and market launch of 3 new profitable products valued by Marine customers- Achieved year on year growth of Marine Business new sales globally- Guest speaker and thought leadership seminars delivered globally, on trends and future of maritime industry, technology innovation and efficient shipping operations.Started at Singapore on April 2012, moved to Southampton on February 2014.

Busanjin-Gu, Busan, Korea

Manage operational business performance of Lloyd's Register Marine Business at Korea.- Achieved a 25.4% increase of operating profit, setting a new record- Created and implemented the Korea Marine Business Strategy-Ideated and delivered a strengths-based business management course for high potential employees. Over 75% of alumni progressed in their career as a result.- Achieved and maintained number 1 market share of core business new sales in country.- Achieved and maintained number 1 or number 2 ratings by maritime customers, as best company to do business with at Korea, in competition with 8 direct competitors.

Busanjin-Gu, Busan, Korea

Leading business development and sales performance for marine business at Korea.- Achieved 25% increase of core business new sales in volume and market share leadership within 6 months in role, maintaining number 1 position.- Personally Negotiated and won contracts valued at circa USD42.3m- Acquired 4 new customers from 4 different countries- Created and implemented the Korea Marine Business Development Strategy.

Spain (3 Locations) And Korea (3 Locations)

From surveying ships to managing shipbuilding projects to managing a site office operations.- 12 Shipbuilding Projects managed, valued at circa USD17m, for customers from 7 nationalities (Greece, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Denmark, Belgium, Nigeria and New Zealand) at 4 shipyards at Spain and 5 Shipyards at Korea.- Major Shipbuilder customers: Hyundai Heavy Industries, Samsung Heavy Industries, DSME, Hanjing Heavy Industries and INP Yard.- Major Shipbuilder customers at Spain include Astilleros Españoles (currently Navantia).- Over 200 ships surveyed in service at Spain and Korean Ports.- 4 people directly mentored.

Ingeniero Naval, Naval Architecture And Marine Engineering

Activities and Societies: XVI Century Naval Architecture research project Ship hydrodynamic Performance Research Project Ship Mooring.

Ingeniero Naval, Naval Architecture And Marine Engineering