An aggressive multilingual healthcare executive with extensive successful experience in cross-cultural communications and managing growth in the Asian, European and US markets

Language Skills: Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Shanghai Dialect and English

Education: Central Missouri State University, MBA, February 1984
Feng Chia University, Taiwan, BS, International Trade, June 1979

Career Objective: An international sales management executive position within a Healthcare Company

Experience and Achievements:

2004 Vice President, Sales & Marketing, International, TheraSense, Inc.
Based in Alameda, California reporting to President and Vice President, Business Development. Responsible for blood glucose monitoring business in Europe, Middle-East, Canada, the U.K, and Japan. Total sales turnover projected to grow by 40% to $45 million.

Departed in October 2004 following Abbott’s acquisition of the company in April 2004.

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Jon Bown has joined Sunrise Medical in the role of European Marketing Director . Bown, comes to Sunrise from Invacare.

High energy international business professional with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills as well as extensive background in the following broad-based competencies:

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: PROJECT MANAGEMENT: QUALITY MANAGEMENT:
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: MARKETING & SALES: STRATEGIC PLANNING:
DESIGN & ENGINEERING: TECHNICAL SALES: STAFF MANAGEMENT

• Continuously demonstrated ability to compose and coach creative teams as well as to develop superior products, succeeding through innovation in design, style, and function to maximize company profits
• Proven ability to manage successfully within international markets utilizing talent to deal with cultural barriers while meeting specific national market requirements in an effort to achieve and exceed corporate goals
• Excellent qualifications in strategic planning with comprehensive knowledge of business management, organizational development, team building, and project execution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Company experience at Invacare USA and Europe - Germany (Healthcare), Hedstrom Corporation (Toys), Spectore Corporatation (Consumer)
• Positions held include R&D Director, Director Product Development, Product Manager

Executive is currently US based and has an Engineering Degree MSME and MBA from Germany, has won several design awards, created patents and is completely bilingual English, German as well as speaking intermediate Spanish.

For further information or a complete CV / Resume contact Frank Barlin at Sibaya Healthcare

Thomas Downing
(US citizen on assignment in Palestine)
Rashmawi Building, 1st Floor, Yasmine Street
Sateh Marhaba, Al Bireh, West Bank, Palestine
tom.downing@comcast.net + 972-599-433-916

Short and long - term advisor in developing countries
Municipal Finance - Private-Sector Promotion - Trade and Investment

SUMMARY

• Effective project manager on complex USAID and World Bank contracts
• Successful technical assignments in several dozen countries
• Private-sector finance experience (15 years)�CFO, controller, international finance
• Public-finance experience (10 years)�Town manager, CFO, investment promotion
• NGO strategy formulation�Turn-around of development organizations; business/NGO alliances; new funding
• Harvard MBA, Fulbright Scholar, graduate-school adjunct faculty
• Languages: Arabic (elementary), French (rusty, but once strong)

Country Experience

Middle East: West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Egypt. Central and Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia. East and Southern Africa: Uganda, South Africa. Asia: Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines. Caribbean: Barbados and OECS. Western Europe. Germany, Switzerland, France, UK, Netherlands, Ireland. North America.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Our client, an international leader in the Semiconductor Industry, is seeking a proven dynamic Manufacturing Manager for its European Wafer Fabrication Operations.

This professional will be responsible for the daily management of manufacturing activities and resources of their centrally located European facilities

Position reports to Senior Operations Management in the Region.

Excellent career opportunity offering a very competitive package including base salary, bonus, and benefits package. Relocation available.

The successful candidate will be well positioned to move up to General Management.

RESPONSIBILITIES
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Summer brings fresh crop of labor reforms to France…

France made front news (see editorial of 14 August) as the government announced that effective immediately small companies could hire staff in France on an “employment at will” principle for up to two years, or in other words to terminate without cause staff hired under such contract during this test period. Of course, there is an overall 10% tax on salaries and eligible companies need to comply with strict controls such as a notice period (15 days to 1 month), but this is already great improvement for employers. Also, though this law applies to companies of 20 employees or less, it disregards the revenue size and whether the company is part of a larger group, either in France or abroad. In practice therefore many international groups who want to enter the French market or who have operations in France but have the possibility of creating a separate entity to isolate certain activities will be able to use these arrangements.

The new laws passed in the spring and during the summer have lead to other major changes - most of which were passed unnoticed - which will undoubtedly prove making life easier for employers :

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Marketing as a philosophy and crucial function within commercial organisations was born in the 60�s, with classical consumer companies including Kellog�s, Proctor and Gamble, Unilever, and other leading consumer goods companies, who foresaw the importance of customer understanding, brand image and awareness as the crucial tool in developing and communicating their product and service benefits both nationally and internationally.

Since then, the marketing philosophy has been developed and taken up by new market sectors and industries, who initially �played� with the �fashionable� idea of marketing without fully committing to its cross functional understanding and commitment.

Retail banking, tourism, telecoms, car servicing, insurance and other industries have all gone through the painful surprise where a new player has revolutionised their market with a �disruptive� approach based on incisive customer understanding. Then on, all surviving competitors realise that marketing is an innovative strategic weapon, not a �gloss� or �status quo� item.

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