Executive, change management, continuous improvement

Georges Berbari

**** *** ********, ******, *****, QC

Skype: georgesnberbari **************@*****.** Phone: 514-***-****

Managing Director

Accomplished, multilingual Managing Director consistently recognized for achievements and performance in the Business Management with 15 years of experience with strong skills and knowhow includes proficiency in Restructuring, Bankruptcy Turnaround, Business development, business Improvement and Strategic Change Management. Successfully managed multi-site companies and lead them to a Sustainable and Profitable Growth with a Competitive Market Positioning and global best practices implementation.

Highlights of Qualifications

Well demonstrated strategic manager for multi-site companies, with achievements in bankruptcy turnarounds to Profitable and Sustainable growth.

Experienced in Corporate change management, corporate governance, Global best practices, business modelling, restructuring, Reorganization, Investor Relations, Development Strategic Business Planning, Strategic Partnerships and Consensus Building.

Proficient in strategic finance, P&L management, Return on Investment, Cash Flow Financing, Profit Growth and Risk management.

Excellent Business development skills with Market-Driven Management and International Business Expansion, Sales Force Development, Margin Improvement, Competitive Market Positioning and Emerging Markets strong knowledge.

Proven in Business Improvement, efficiency improvement (OEE), Cross-Functional Leadership, Global Manufacturing best practices (Lean manufacturing, Kaizen…), Policy Development and business process optimization.

Offers excellent communication, interpersonal and decision-making skills together with a positive approach to problem-solving.

Languages

Fluent in English and French, written and spoken

Computer Skills

PowerPoint, MS Office, Access, BaaN, SAP, PC and MAC

Professional Experience

Managing Director Jan 2016 – Present

Lean Industrial- Canada

Lean indutriel is a consulting company specialized in change mangement, industriel performance, operations excellency, business developement, organizational and strategy management.

The mission was to Restructure an international group, put a growth strategy and reorgnize the business untis to be able to follow the group strategy.

Increased the Group profitability by 4.5% by launching a cost analysis and product contribution optimization.

Initiated the Group business process optimization and built a cross functional teams.

Group Managing Director Jan2013-Jan2016

Radece Paper Group, Radece, Slovenia

Radece Paper Group is a Vertical integrated Security Prodcut Solution provider for governements, central banks and pharmaceutical companies with an annual turnover of 72 million Euros, 300 employees and 4 prodcution sites.

Restarted the group after 3 years of bankruptcy, increased the sales from 600k euros to 6 million euros per months, and the presence was enlarged to reach Africa and the Middle East markets.

Built a global sales team, Opened 6 sales offices in the emergent markets.

Managed a profitability growth project and resulted to an EBITDA increased to 14% with maintaining a 7% of networking capital.

Conducted A business Excellency project across the group, with cross functional teams system to optimize the business process where we decreased the production cost by 5%, the OEE was increased from 42% to 63%,

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quality complaints were reduced to 0.6% and the purchase cost was reduced by 8% by implementing the best industrial practices and the Lean Manufacturing.

Developed the R&D department and in 1 year the group placed 3 new patents in the banknotes field and 1 patent in the security identity document field.

Initiated a human resources talent development to increase the management efficiency by building training system and effective incentive plan.

General Manager Jan2010-Jan2013

obeikan Investment Group, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Obeikan folding carton is a packaging provider with an annual turnover of 60 million dollars, 300 employees and 2 prodcution sites.

Conducted and interpreted market intelligence; proactively identified strategic growth opportunities for new client acquisition and managed existing client accounts.

Cultivated customer relationships to secure on-going business and expansion and drove the sales process from business opportunity to contract increasing revenue generated from service and maintenance contracts by 8%.

Managed the lean manufacturing implementation and the OEE was increased by 19%, and the sales increased by 1 million dollars per month.

Elimination of the seven deadly waste forms and reduced the defects by 85% (around 1.3M SAR) and reduced the process waste by 1.7 % (around 1.2 M SAR)

Plant Manager Jan2007-Jan2010

Inkript, Beirut/Riyadh, Lebanon/Saudi Arabia

Inkript is a security identity documents producer with a turnover of 40M dollars, 200 employees and 2 prodcution sites.

Project leader for the ISO 9000:2008, ISO 12647, OHSAS, VISA, Master card and SAS certification team

Built a New division for elections equipment supply. In 2 years the division equipped 3 elections, IRAK 2010, Congo 2011, and Mali 2011 with a turnover of $60 M.

Leading the ERP System implementation

Operations Manager Jan 2005-Jan2007

Raidy Printing Group, Beirut/DUBAI, Lebanon/UAE

Raidy is a printing company with a turnover of 25M dollars, 150 employees and 2 prodcution sites.

Leading an automation and MIS system implementation across the group business units, to improve the data workflow and automate the shop floor data collection to improve the reaction time and optimize the process.

Analyze and enhance the relation with our customers to build a trust frame. Root cause analysis, solutions proposed based on problem solving case studies.

Reduction of the net working capital from 4 to 2.5 million Euros by optimizing the purchasing process by implementing one piece flow production system. Reduction was resulted by controlling the warehousing system and negotiations with suppliers

Production Manager Jan2003-Jan2005

53 dots/ Battelier Group, Bretagne, France

53 Dots is a printing company with a turnover of 30M EUROS, 150 employees and 1 prodcution sites.

Leading and installed a quality improvement system and the production defects reduced by 56% and the customer complaints reduced to 0.6%.

Implemented a color management system based on Ugra/Fogra standard resulted in color shifting reduction and cost saving of 45% due to change over time decrease, speed increase and production waste reduction.

Built and managed a warehouse and storage automated system resulted in slow moving item reduction by 12% and storage capacity increase by 22%.

Education

Engineer, French Engineering school for Paper and Printing, Grenoble, France, 2004

B.A, Business school INSSET-, Saint Quentin, France, 2001

B.A, science school INSSET, Saint Quentin, France, 2001

Activities & Interests

Swimming, Travel, walking

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