Manager Operations

PIETRO LOVISOLO

Date of birth: September **, ****

Place of birth: Genoa (Italy)

Marital Status: married, 2 kids in school age

Residence: Perroy, Vaud, Switzerland

Italian citizenships // Swiss Permit B

Mobile +41-79-800****

Email **************@*****.***

- 3 years in Great White Fleet (shipping arm of the Chiquita Group) shipping operations manager

- 12 years of experience as shipbroker in dry cargo market,

- Worked in different shipping market scenarios of the market

- Direct/practical experiences/meetings with clients and suppliers in Europe and Central America

- Highly motivated and able to work on own initiative and in group, adaptable and used to deal with deadlines, pressure. Very ambitious.

- Open to learn and to adapt the skills to other activities than shipping. Work History

05/2015 – present

Great White Fleet (CHIQUITA shipping arm), Rolle (Switzerland) Shipping operations manager

I am following day by day issues of operational management of our chartered vessels (I am responsible for 8 reefer vessels supplying European markets) and of our own cargo loaded on major container lines.

I cooperate strictly with management and operations in Central America in order to find the best logistic and strategic combination for our trading. We are constantly reacting to emergency situation that the nature of business imposes us to face.

Taking advantage from my experience and knowledge of contract and negotiations as shipbroker, I am also involved in negotiations for chartering new tonnage (reefer and/or container vessels), pricing new freights with the shipping lines and sometimes in tenders for bunker purchase.

I work constantly to produce reports and calculations for budgeting, accounting and financial purposes.

10/2005-04/2015

Burke&Novi SRL, Genoa (Italy)

Drycargo shipbroker in handy/supramax

I worked as senior shipbroker managing the day to day job as shipbroker maintaining relationships and cooperating on the day by day business with several clients mainly situated in Italy, Europe, Middle East and China with frequent business trips. During these years, I worked hardly with the property and the management of the company to grow the dry cargo department by finding new clients and businesses to develop.

Together of the other members of the team, I also formed young shipbrokers that were hired by the company with no experience.

The main action taken in the daily job were basically the one listed below:

Organization of the huge number of proposal for cargoes and vessels position that we received every day in the attempt to find good deals between company’s clients

Hard work for finding the right proposals for each client followed either shipowners and charterers in worldwide market

Negotiation of shipping contracts and terms

Cooperation with the colleagues for calculating and discussing the best proposal for the clients with frequent meetings and discussions to interpretate the actual market situation and challenges

Supervision and control of the job done by the operations / postfixtures team 03/2004 – 09/2005

Banchero&Costa, Genoa (Italy)

Junior shipbroker (Panamax dry cargo dept)

I started as an assistant to the dry cargo brokers and I did almost 1 year of training in order to learn the job under the technical and the human aspect. In the last 6 months of this job experience, I started to act more independently with some small clients that I followed and with some business develop almost in autonomy. My main tasks were the following:

Assistance to senior brokers in the negotiation and in the evaluation of businesses for their clients.

Care of the daily cargo recap for the benefit of the desk I was working with.

First approach to the foreign brokers to assist the senior brokers to find the right matching with the cargoes or the vessels controlled by the clients of the company.

09/2003- 03/2004

Hapag-Lloyd, Genoa (Italy)

Internship in the inland department

It was an internship of 6 months where I assisted the Inland Transportation Department where we took care of the planning and purchasing of services of inland container transportation related to the traffic of Hapag Lloyd’s cargo discharged in North West of Italy. We were constantly working with the major players of the inland transport of the Northern Italy.

07/2002 – 08/2002

Jacq Pierrot Jr & Sons. INC., New York,

Apprentice shipbroker

Assistance to the sale&purchase shipbrokers in a summer before concluding the University in order to understand how the job is. It was a first approach with the shipping market even if shipping is part of the tradition of my family since XIX Century. Training

Abilitation for shipbrokerage in Italy (2010)

Nautical driving licence (2009)

Education

2003 Bachelor degree in Economics at the University of Genoa

Sep 2001 – Feb 2002 Erasmus experience in Malaga University

1998 High School degree in classics at the Istituto V. da Feltre, Genoa Computer-skills

Operating systems: Strategic, Robin, JDE, ONBASE

Applications Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Languages

Italian - Native Speaker

English - Fluent

Spanish - Intermediate

French - Intermediate

The motivation and the ambition have always been a strong driver for my career, so I have no fear to approach new fields and new challenges that might help me to grow as man and as professional.

My next goal should be to live a new challenge either in the shipping/transportation world or also in a different and new field for me in order to enlarge my knowledge and my background. I am not afraid by the volume of job and I am fashioned by the challenges that make me grow in perspective.

Pietro Lovisolo

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