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"I am a Belgian national (Flemish speaking) living in Asia. Perfect in Dutch and very fluent in English. Speaks French and notions of German. Over 30 years of experience in international busines (transport equipment) and 6 years in the restaurant business." Language Pairs: English-Dutch, French-Dutch |
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| CURRICULUM VITAE RUDY Director with more than 30 years wide ranging experience in the international transport equipment leasing industry. Currently active in trading of transport related equipment in the Philippines (containers, chassis, tractor heads) and…shareholder of a successful fine dining restaurant and franchise operation in Manila, Philippines, established in 1995. EXPERIENCE: September 1993 – July 2003 : Director and owner of Global Assets Investments Inc. Global assets was a BVI based company trading, managing and leasing transport related equipment. The operational head office of the group is in Hong Kong. The group has three Manila based companies “Manila Global Assets Inc.” - “MGA Forwarding Services Inc” and “Sundiro Philippines Inc.” The company traded annually for about us$ 6 million in container and other transport related assets. It managed a fleet of about 30,000 teu’s. Specific responsibilities include: @ Overall management of the group of companies together with the two other partners David Potter and Alex Chung. @ Marketing and customer contact (all levels) @ Negotiating and vetting lease and sale agreements @ Full staffing responsibility @ Full administrative and operational responsibility @ Full maintenance responsibility for the fleet @ Full responsibility for billing and collections @ Responsibility for software and database development August 1992 - August 1993 with Container Providers Asia. Managing Director. Container Providers International (Asia) Ltd. was a container trading company set up by myself and two European Partners. The company was established to investigate and build on the booming container business in Asia and is involved in buying and selling of new and used containers, repositioning of idle inventory on behalf of factories, shipping lines and leasing companies. Via the already existing offices of the other partners a worldwide network of service offices is available. Responsibilities: @ Overall responsibility for establishment of the company in Hong Kong and business development. Although the partners decided to continue the activities of the company in Asia i left the company in order to be able to fully concentrate of the management and expansion of Global Assets. 1988 - 1992 with Textainer Equipment Management March 1991 - July 1992: Regional Vice President Europe Textainer Equipment Management has for several years now been one of the fastest growing container leasing companies in the world. The fleet grew from 30,000 teu's in 1987 to over 250,000 teu’s in 1992. Reporting to the president of the company i had overall responsibility for the Europe region which covered all of Europe as well as North Africa and the Middle East. Specific responsibilities: @ Operate and supervise 4 area offices in Europe (London, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Genoa) @ Full marketing responsibility and supervision of 4 marketing directors, one in each area office. Assist the marketing directors with lease negotiations and worldwide marketing interaction. @ Full operational responsibility and supervision of one operations director in London office and 15 staff spread over the area offices. @ Responsibility for coordination of all regional activities with the other regional head offices and the corporate head office in San Francisco. @ Responsibility for staff training and appraisals. Major achievements include: @ Successful integration of an additional fleet of 10,000 teu's into the companies customer base after acquisition of a competitor. Most of the equipment was in Europe or on its way to Europe. This was done by means of quality lease outs. @ Total reorganisation and decentralisation of the regional set up which involved introduction of Tex software in the area offices, re-assessment and recruitment of staff. Staff training. @ Responsible for the major contribution the Europe region made towards employment of the Textainer's new production ( around 70,000 teu's annually) The Europe region was elected marketing team of the year by the companies directors in January 1992. @ Introduction of a new vice president America's to the company. @ Turn around in moral and performance of the Europe team and improvement of relationships with several major lessees : Nedlloyd Rotterdam, Zim Haifa, Irisl Tehran, Gem London, P & Ocl London. See attached Performance Appraisal form. August 1988 - March 1991: Marketing Director Far East Overall responsibility for marketing Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Philippines and Korea with heavy responsibilities for marketing Textainer's new containers in Korea. Originally also responsible for re-organisation of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand and recruitment of a marketing director for that area. Major achievements include : @ Finding employment for over 100,000 teu's of new equipment coming out of the factories in Korea. @ Establishing Textainer's business in China including finalising a master lease with Cosco Beijing in 1989 @ Establishing and building up business with some of the major lessors in other parts of Asia (Yang Ming line from 700 to 4000 teu's) @ Recruiting several key staff and agencies (Singapore, Korea ) 1983 - 1988 with Xtra Inc. Boston, Massachusetts. Xtra was engaged in transportation equipment leasing services, primarily leasing on an operational basis of piggy-back and over the road trailers, railroad rolling stock, maritime containers and chassis. January 1987 - March 1988: Based in Hong Kong as General Manager with overall responsibility for Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In 1987 this office secured US$ 2.5 million worth of new long term contracts. August 1983 - December 1987: Based in Brentwood, UK as General Manager (marketing) responsible for West and East Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. I established several new contacts with shipping lines in Eastern Europe, Algiers, Tunis, Morocco. I opened up Xtra's presence in India and established an agency and customer contacts. In Eastern Europe alone i secured US$ 11 million worth of new long term and finance leases in addition to the service lease contracts. Part of this amount is represented by a contract for 200 x 40' reefers with Deutsche Seerederei in Rostock. 1978 - 1983 with network Freight Agencies in Antwerp Network was a major liner agency in Rotterdam and Belgium and represented amongst others Sealand and Eal. I opened up and developed the agency for Xtra leasing in Belgium and supervised Xtra's substantial container throughput in Antwerp as well as a fleet of 300 chassis. 1977 - 1978 with Ford Motor Company in Antwerp My first job as an apprentice in Ford's production planning department. EDUCATION: 1971 - 1975 Antwerp University, Degree in Political and Social Siences 1970 - 1971 Antwerp University, Mathematics 1964 - 1970 Secondary school, Royal Atheneum, Merksem 1958 - 1964 Primary school , Royal Atheneum, Merksem 1981 Xerox Professional Selling Skills 1991 Decker Communications, Seminar in public speaking San Francisco PERSONAL DETAILS : Name : Rudolf ( Rudy) Nationality : Belgian Army Service : 1975 to 1976 - Engineers Burcht, Belgium Special training as radio operator. Languages : Dutch, English, French, German Interests : Golf, Ice Skating, Music and current affairs. | |