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Subsidiary of Adama Ltd. an Israeli owned, global manufacturer of crop protection products.• Assisted CEO to grow the sales from $64M to $94M estimated this year, assuring systems and personnel in place to achieve this growth.• Implemented a structured sales management system, to co-ordinate sales efforts toward achieving a pre-determined sales targets and profitability. • Developed and installed administration system behind the management of the BNSF railway system, a $30M a year customer where Alligare is the turnkey system manager for overall vegetation control.• Responsible for global supply chain and procurement until Management team expanded this year.• Managed the development and implementation of a CRM system, enabling order input remotely at the customer, with full integration into accounting, invoicing and distribution systems.• Exceeded annual financial targets every year within the 5 year rolling forecast for the Israeli holding company.

A private equity held manufacturer and importer situated in AL.• Develop and improve site performance metrics to enable lean implementation with predictable daily results.• Capital and trading capacities within the funding limits of ABL.• Implementation of accounting procedures and reporting system on a recently installed IT system to ensure accurate and consistent management information.• Management and development of the accounting staff.• Responsible for financial accounting and reporting, insurance and all service provider contracting, payroll, raw material procurement in Asia and accounts payable.• Management of the revenue cycle and customer credit through the credit availability crisis.• Achieved insurance and material purchasing savings in excess of $1.6m.

A $50M start-up manufacturing plant supplying alloy wheels to the local US market and exporting to Mexico and Europe.• The company stabilized and was profitable at a production level of 1m wheels per annum and a staff of 250 people within 2 years.• Responsible for meeting production quality and volume targets under the technical parameters for casting, machining and painting set by German head office in order to comply with strict TS 16949 automotive quality standards.• Established end to end supply chain objectives per the company budget to achieve sourcing, manufacturing and distribution targets on cost effective basis.• Responsible for annual rolling budgets based on strategic sales plan.• Responsible for establishing and implementing local bank funding.• Installed accounting, costing and budgeting systems from scratch and implemented integrated ERP system.• Contractual responsibility for Suppliers and Customers, Banking relationships, Contractors, Utility supply, Insurance, State Tax Subsidies and Employee benefits.• GAAP and SOX conformance, Tax, Legal, HR compliance and monthly reporting to foreign head office. • Capacity ramp up to 1.5M wheels in 2006 undermined by cancellation of customer orders in a soft US market.

Tiger Wheels Limited was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and involved in Manufacture, Retail, Wholesale and the Import-Export business.• Board Director responsible for all administrative, financial and legal functions and policies within the listed group.• Responsible for annual audit of local and international operations and risk management in a multi currency environment.• Responsible for group funding, reporting within the group to the board and to shareholders.• Managed growth of infrastructure from 1991 turnover ZAR400m to 2001 turnover exceeding ZAR2 billion.• The business was international with subsidiaries in Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden and an intricate taxation structure based in the Shetland Isles.• In 1996, I managed the due diligence and acquisition of ATS in Germany. This was a DM 175m acquisition of 74% of the alloy wheel manufacturing group ATS in Germany.