Manager Sales

Mr LEONS PLATACIS, **

**** ****** ** *** **, Los Angeles, CA 90008

immigrated from Latvia, EU in June 2015

Phone: 818-***-**** Email: ****.********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCI, 1218 Glendon Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024 09/2015 - present Pre-Planning Advisor for Dignity Memorial providers Responsibilities: Preneed Consulting and Contract Production California Life Insurance Producer License # 0K58348

Repharm Holding, Riga, Latvia 12/2014 – 06/2015

Professional Collaboration Program Director

Responsibilities: Creating a collaboration model with healthcare professionals for the leading Pharmacy Holding in Latvia (€200M revenue) Rautakesko Latvia (Kesko group, Finland) 03/2014 – 12/2014 B2B Sales Director Latvia

Responsibilities: In charge of over €25M Sales and B2B Sales Department (27 persons) Luranis Ltd. Sky project unit (Cyprus, Ukraine, Russia) 10/2013 – 05/2014 Business Development Manager

Responsibilities: Business Development, Marketing, launch strategy for 3 adventure tourism start-ups in Crimea (€3M investment), overseeing Operations of the development projects

Clinic Premium Medical, Riga, Latvia 05/2007 – 01/2013 Business Manager, CEO, Shareholder

Responsibilities: developing and running of the first in country up-scale medical facility, Start-up Management, attraction of VC partners and €3M investment LATTELECOM, Riga, Latvia (revenue €220M) 2000 –2007 B2B Regional Department Director (€15M revenue, 36 persons) 2003 –2007 Call Centre Manager (100 persons) 2000 –2003

REZEKNE UNIVERSTITY of Applied Sciences, Latvia 1996 –1998 EDUCATION

MBA from Riga Business School, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia 09/2006 – 06/2010 - a North American Program with English language of instruction, in collaboration with University of New York at Buffalo and Ottawa State University. Marketing concentration certificate obtained in addition to the MBA degree. Postgraduate diploma in Economics with specialization in Accounting and Financial Management from Rezekne University of Applied Sciences, Rezekne, Latvia 09/2000 – 06/2002

Engineer diploma in Radio Electronics from Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia 09/1989

– 06/1995

Bachelor degree in Electric Science (1994)

Accomplishment of 16 online courses (edx.org, coursera.org) related to Marketing and Business, provided by leading US universities in 2015 (list enclosed). LANGUAGES

English, Russian, Latvian (native language), Lithuanian (spoken), German (basic) OTHER USEFUL EXPERIENCE

Execution of 11 charity projects in the field of solving inequality problems through education, obtaining of, financial grants (1998-2003). Awarded Good Star for charity work by Latvian Ministry of Welfare, presented by the President of Latvia in 2003.

Set-up and development of 5 start-ups in different industries, such as IT product retailer, craft material distributor, business consulting, medical tourism, Internet cafe.

CONTACTS FOR REFERENCES

James Bowen, Expert in Technology Company Start-ups, University of Ottawa, Algonquin College, Startup Canada, Canada, Ph. 613-***-****, ******@***.**.**.

Marcis Esmits, Managing Director at Ticon Holdings Inc., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Ph: 519-***-****, *******@*************.***.

Dace Brencena, CEO at SEB Open Pension Fund, Riga, Latvia, formerly Chairperson of the Council at the Clinic Premium Medical. Ph. +371-********, ****.********@***.**.

Diana Otisone, Managing Director and Board Member at Latvian Medical Export Association, Riga, Latvia. Ph. +371-********, *****@*********.**.

Olli Honkasaari, B2B Sales Director at Rautakesko Oy, Helsinki, Finland. Ph. +358-**-*******, ****.**********@*****.**.

Chandrakant Pawar MD, Owner of Shashi Clinic Palus, Sangli distr. Maharashtra state India. Ph: +91-827*******, ***************@*****.**.**. December 8, 2015

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