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Bogotá, Bogota, Co

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Build a leadership team with the right ethos, stamina and discipline to successfully deliver on the accelerated growth phase.Emphasis on creating long term relationships with our customers and partners by delivering superior pavement engineering quality. Performed project for over 79 different airports operatos/owners as well as road authorities and managers in the Latin America & Caribbean region.

Bogota, Colombia

Alola Connection Ltda. Established a partnership with FECOLSOG (Gynecologist organisation of Colombia) and created a book containing more than 200 pages (Mi manual del bebé) which has been distributed freely to over 500,000 pregnant women during the last 6 years. The book is paid for by advertising. The advertisers includes some of the largest companies in Colombia like GSK, Bayer, Merck, MSD, Mattel, Philips etc.Mi manual del bebé y embarazo is now the largest Facebook page in Colombia within this segment and have more than 2,200,000 fans and an engagement rate of around 50%. Created a weekly informative newsletter which we send in more than 5,100,000 copies on a yearly basis and cover the period from pregnancy until the child reaches 3 years of age.Launched the largest free sampling program within the pregnancy/baby area "Mi Cajita de Embarazo" which is distributed via the largest department store chain (Falabella) in Colombia to more than 13,200 pregnant women on a yearly basis.Freelance: During the same period sold and implemented a daily deal platform with the largest newspaper organisations in Colombia (El Tiempo), Peru (El Comercio) and Costa Rica (La Nación).

Bangkok, Thailand

Member of XPonCard’s Management team. P/L responsible for XPonCard’s Sales activities across the Asia Pacific region. Assumed responsibility for several global functions including Production Management and Data Generation. • Increased revenue by USD 30 million resulting in a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 85%.• Realigned the business and changed a zero result into a strongly positive result within a highly competitive market.• Instrumental in successfully moving several central functions, including Production Management, from Denmark to Thailand and creating a yearly cost saving of above USD 8 million. • Reduced production unit cost with 34% creating a yearly cost saving of USD 4 million in 2007.• Increased production of SIM cards in Asia Pacific from 26 million units to 120 million units with a marginal increase in production management costs.• Built and maintained a highly motivated team while substantially increasing the number of employees across the region.

Bangkok, Thailand

Member of the GF-X management team. Responsible for GF-X activities across Asia Pacific and Middle East. • Secured GF-X was selected as vendor of choice for a Chinese portal solution backed by the Chinese Civil Aviation Authorities• Expanded operations into Australia, New Zealand, Indian Sub-continent, Indonesia and the Philippines. • Increased bookings within the region with more than 250% in one year.

London, United Kingdom

Member of GF-X Management team. Responsible for all client management and prospecting within EMEA.• Acquisition of large number of new clients including South African Airways, BMI, Iberia, KLM, TNT, Maersk Logistics, Martinair, TAP Air Portugal and Kintetsu. ,

London, United Kingdom

Promoted to Vice President for EMEA region. Global Client Management responsibility for Lufthansa Cargo and senior Client Management responsibility for British Airways World Cargo, Panalpina and Danzas AEI.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for implemention of the world largest cargo carrier Lufthansa Cargo and the world largest freight forwarder Danzas AEI on the GF-X Exchange. Responsible for the launch of the GF-X Exchange on the German market.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Regional Cargo Manager for SAS Cargo in South Europe. P&L responsibility for the region. Project Management for Joint Venture project with Lufthansa Cargo and Singapore Airlines Cargo.• Successfully managed a joint venture project with participation of more than 35 employees.• Managed negotiations of new handling contracts for Spain, Switzerland and Italy and reduced handling cost by fourteen percent.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Responsibility for development of the markets in Eastern Europe for SAS Cargo. • Increased yearly revenue with USD 500K by implementing a network of General Sales Agents across the region.

Stockholm, Sweden

Enrolled in Executive Management Trainee program for experienced professionals.

Tokyo, Japan

Responsible for Management Reporting for Maersk K.K. and subsidiaries.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Responsible for producing implementation plan for Oracle Financials in Maersk affiliated companies in Sweden. Manager of four business professionals and supervisor of 15 employees from Maersk Sweden´s local implementation team.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Responsible for management reporting for the A.P. Moller Group.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Msc In Economics & Business Administration, Business/Managerial Economics, Master Of Science

Activities and Societies: 1988-1991 THE ASSOCIATION OF DANISH BUSINESS ECONOMIST-FDC-YNGRE CIVILOEKONOMER, Copenhagen, Denmark The student.

Exchange Program, Cross Cultural Business Studies

Achieved the highest grade in the MBA class Global Business Strategy.

Bsc In Economics And Business Administration, Bachelor

Graduated within the top two percent of the candidates.

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