Company Steering and Strategy
I assist management and owners to define a “road map“ and plan, execute it, form and train the appropriate management team, monitor and control the company and develop or recover its business.
Activity examples:
- Lead the turnaround of a privately owned industrial company.
- Helped a large scale global service company, to define its future growth engines.
- Lead a down-sizing of several companies to successfully cope with a global-economy down term.
- Lead as a Chairman a global expansion of a Dutch service company, serving the private sector.
- Served as director in a board of a Kibutz owned company which went public.
- Served as director in a board of a private industrial company which went through a successful turnaround.
- Implemented a process of handing over the management of a family owned business, from 1st generation to the next.
- Recruited a CEO for an export-oriented company and helped him recover its business.
- Interim management as a VP of a large public company.
- Located interviewed selected and recruited many VPs and CEOs for my customers.
- Coached, guided, trained and offered hands-on help to new CEOs
Operations, Operations Strategy
Activity examples:
- Set and implemented an Operational Strategy for a large high-tech company.
- Audited and drafted Operational strategy for a mid-size manufacturer. Helped implementing the plan.
- Set and lead the implementation of Operational strategy for a high-tech medical company.
- Interim crisis management as a VP Operations of a mid-sized public high-tech company.
- Lead a large-scale Logistics outsourcing process for a large public company.
- Set up product costing system for several companies.
- Set up a comprehensive performance control and monitoring (KPIs) system for several companies.
- Preformed a cross organizational audit evaluation and plan, for improving key processes.
- Implemented a process, tools and control-measures for cost reduction of products in a mid-size public company.
- Defined and implemented an Inventory control system and processes for a public global company.
- Defined a comprehensive information-system solution (ERP) for a service company.
- Located interviewed selected and recruited many VP Operations for my customers.
- Coached, guided, trained and offered hands-on help to new VP Operations.
“Cost reduction”
- Lead a down-sizing of several companies to successfully cope with a global-economy down term.
- Managed two successful company turnarounds, including significant costs reduction.
- Implemented a process, tools and control-measures for cost reduction of products in a mid-size public company.
- As a VP Operations, gained extensive experience in products cost reduction and cross-prganizational cost reduction.
Crisis and interim-management, Turn-around
Activity examples:
- Managed the turnaround of a privately owned industrial company.
- Interim crisis management as a VP Operations of a mid-sized public high-tech company.
- As a CEO, lead the turnaround of a publically traded (NASDAQ) high-tech company.
- As a VP Operations played a significant role in turnaround process of a large global company.
- Took part, as an active board-member, in a successful turnaround of a private industrial company.
- Formed a turnaround plan for a family-owned manufacturing company.
Business development.
Activity examples:
- Prepared a Proposal Document for Service Company and helped win a large contract from a Fortune 500 company.
- Initiated and lead an a acquisition of synergic activity in Europe.
- Initiated and completed selling of non-core production plants of two companies
- Initiated and lead the successful penetration of a mid-size industrial company to a new strategic market niche (Defense).
- Located and evaluated several synergic companies, in Israel and abroad, for potential acquisition.
- Lead the preparation of a family owned business to be sold.
- Found buyers for a family owned business, which had no successor.
- Preformed a study, a business development process and penetration to China for a company based in Israel.
- Preformed a study, investigation and business development process and penetration to India for an Israeli manufacturer.
If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert. (David Ben-Gurion)