•Thirty years’ experience helping small to large companies, projects, governmental units,diplomatic missions, international financial institutions and donor organizations improvetheir performance•Detailed knowledge of the development challenges facing small to large companies andgovernment in difficult transition and post-conflict economies•Twenty-five years experience in developing economies such as Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mongolia, Caribbean Islands and Georgia•Personally created and managed new companies in difficult developing economies•One of two Certified Performance Technologists (CPTs) in the CaucasusMember of supervisory board of Georgian commercial bank•Created and grew premier commercial consulting company in Georgia with a permanentstaff of ten•Single-handedly managed two million USD World Bank sponsored enterprise restructuringproject in Georgia including hiring, managing and training a local staff of 50 consultants;significantly improved the performance of 18 private Georgian companies•Privatized or restructured a portfolio of over 40 State-Owned-Enterprises on behalf of the•Government of Poland; turned around a portfolio of ten companies with non-performingdebt in Bosnia & Herzegovina•Before moving to Europe in 1991, eight additional years experience in North America andWestern Europe helping company senior managements•Extensive experience in more than 60 sectors including business services•Extensive experience in most functional areas from general senior management downward•League sheet for advice given totaling more than 250 million USD• Four years engineering, research, development and construction experience for coal-firedand nuclear power plants, petrochemical plants and aerospace applications• M.B.A. degree in finance with honors from the University Of Chicago Graduate School OfBusiness• M.S. and B.S. degrees in materials science and engineering from Stanford University SchoolOf EngineeringSpecialties: Extensive experience in a broad range of functional areas including general senior management; State-Owned-Enterprise restructuring and privatization; financing; capacity building; strategic, tactical and financial planning; operations; performance improvement, administrative services; information systems; organizational effectiveness and design; right-sizing; cost reduction; marketing and sales; distribution and corporate governance
Listed skills include Management Consulting, Strategy, Business Planning, Management, and 3 others.