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Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva, Switzerland

Lead the Strategy & Analytics group in Global Parts Pricing, driving continuous improvements in competitive pricing intelligence, development and deployment of strategic initiatives, as well as related data engineering, systems and visualization tools.

Geneva, Switzerland

Lead the Strategy group in Parts Pricing & Sales Variance, the division responsible for aftermarket parts pricing, closely partnering with stakeholders at all levels, identify cross-functional strategic initiatives, manage project prioritization, profitable growth governance, and competitive pricing intelligence.

Geneva, Switzerland (Peoria, Il, Usa 2014-17)

Led the Business Economics division of economists and machine forecasters, and supported decision making for executives, product & marketing groups, distribution, dealers and suppliers. Multi-channel internal communication and public speaking engagements.• Developed and communicated proprietary economic and sales forecast for global company segments, contributed to the monthly Sales & Operations Planning process, and provided annual long-term forecast and strategic analysis in a lean environment. • Became a trusted advisor to C-suite and key business partners by building relations, understanding their key imperatives (KPIs), and providing actionable guidance through clear communication. Briefed the CFO and Investor Relations team on economic, segment and customer trends and outlooks in preparation of quarterly releases and investors meetings.• Represented the company at conferences and meetings with central banks, international organizations, trade associations, etc.• Made the right forecast calls over the years through an increasingly volatile economic environment. After a 4-year decline, I predicted and convinced leaders to prepare for a recovery in 2017. • Pioneered Bayesian network models for probabilistic forecasting and reasoning under uncertainty. Developed novel technical back-end solutions and deployed research methodologies to improve my worldwide team’s efficiency and ensure consistent global communication; reduced cost of providing world-class economic and industry forecast by 40+% by championing automation, innovating to optimize our business processes, and nurturing people’s engagement.

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Prepared and communicated worldwide economic and industry outlooks for engines and turbines, and commodity prices. Led two groups in sales & operations planning and business analysis.• Developed new indicators for mining sector capex and profitability, as well as mining equipment utilization rate based on connected asset data, used for analysis and external communication.

Geneva, Switzerland

Prepared and communicated economic, strategic and machine industry outlooks for all countries in Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Eurasia regions. Prepared and presented strategic analyses to management and dealers. Traveled and built alignment with dealers in the region on industry outlook.• Identified correctly the turning points of the 2008-09 recession. Contributed to convincing leaders to prepare for strong customer demand in 2010. • Refined long-term industry modelling of emerging markets, helping both internal product, marketing and distribution teams as well as the dealer network to best prepare for growth.

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Prepared economic and machine industry outlooks for North America. Developed and prepared short and long-term exchange rate forecasts, globally. • Supported Chief Economist in research, modelling, and forecasting. Developed a data-driven process to disaggregate industry forecasts down to dealer territories, ensuring alignment. • Key contributor to a 6 Sigma project on exchange rate forecasting, defining the optimal FX forecast strategy for corporate investment.

Member of 6-person Board of Trustees, chairman (Jan 2011-Jan 2015), employee-elected (Feb 2009-Jan 2015), company-appointed (Jul 2015-present), jointly responsible for board organization, funding, benefits, pension rules, selection of experts and service providers, long-term stability, asset-liability management. Member of the Investment Commission, monitoring investment performance, adequacy and alternatives in collaboration with external investment adviser. Active collaboration with external partners (advisors, pension fund expert, actuaries, auditors).• Quarterly review with U.S. employer fund committee and CFO. Internal employee communication and training. • Contributed to the new pension plan design introduced in 2012, defining the plan structure, plan rules, benefits, contributions, market benchmarking, communication, as well as the transition period and conditions for existing employees. The new plan included a pure defined contribution (plan 1e) solution, one of the first in Switzerland, in addition to a cash balance as per Swiss law. • Developed and implemented optimal investment subset for index replication based on genetic algorithm optimization.

Vice Chairman (2010-14), Chairman (2014-18) of the Statistical Commission of the Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE), the European machinery trade association. Advocate for better timeliness, quality and coverage of trade association statistics.Built consensus across manufacturers to report end-user segments in Europe, and to improve data reporting timeliness and quality. Facilitated the simplification and increased transparency of intercontinental industry statistics. Contributed to significant coverage expansion of global worktools statistics. Volunteered to develop the formula to ensure the best classification of wheel loaders, used for worldwide industry reporting. CECE's Statistical Commission (SC) brings together statistical and market experts from member associations and companies in order to optimize the statistical service of CECE. The representatives of CECE's Statistical Commission together with representatives of the sister associations from Japan, Korea and North America form the Intercontinental Statistical Committee (ISC), which takes care of the worldwide statistical systems for the construction equipment industry.

Leveraging my strong entrepreneurial and innovation skills, I co-founded a financial services company, providing web-based real-time investment decision support, alerting and portfolio management systems for professional asset managers.Elaborated the digital service concept, modeled and optimized the business rules, developed the business model and the business plan, raised CHF 2.5m of private funding, negotiated contracts, ran market analysis and defined value differentiators, defined brand identity and developed marketing positioning, partnership implementation and setup of sales organization (3 independent sales managers).

Berkeley, California, United States

Research on asset allocation, portfolio management, market risk premium, stochastic processes, Parisian options, pension fund asset liability management, quantitative methods, econometrics.

Ph.D., Finance

Visiting Scholar, Finance

Ba & M.Sc., Economics & Finance