JEAN-LUC DEJEAN
*, ***** ** ****** ***** AMMERSCHWIHR France
Téléphone : +33 3 89 47 35 42
Mobile : +33 6 42 19 17 49
E-mail : **.******@*****.***
maried, 4 children
ACCOMPLISHED MANAGING DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
International mobility
HIGHLIGHTS
Strategy - strategic analysis of companies, international development and management of objectives.
Business - development of international affairs.
Management - head-quarter departments & multi-sites management, Presidency of board Committees.
International attitude -Founding of abroad activities and international negotiations.
Industry - automotive equipment and plastics & mechanic products, electronics and telecommunications.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
From 2008 Strategic associate Strategic analysis for Industrial investments funds as Delamore & Owl for Heuliez Group
2007-2008 CEO
GRUAU GROUP: Special body Car manufacturing, N°1 in Europe / 180 m€ revenue, 1000 persons, 12 companies & sites in France, Spain, & Poland.
Missions - procurement globalisation, internationalisation, industrial standardisation.
2003-2007 Managing Director
MARKIV Air admission & Cooling: Tier 1 automotive supplier, N°3 worldwide/ 300 m$ revenue, 1200 persons, 4 plants in France & Canada, 3 tech-centres in USA, France, & Japan, 6 sales offices.
Missions – benefits growth, global worldwide organisation, sales & project expansion, efficiency & total quality improvement.
1996-2003 President & CEO Legris Autoline Inc., Managing Director Legris Autoline
LEGRIS AUTOLINE: Tier 2 Automotive supplier specialized in connecting solutions for fuel, brakes, vacuum, cooling applications, N°1 in Europe/ 45m€ revenue, 250 persons, 3 plants in France, Argentina & Mexico, 1 tech-centre, 4 sales offices.
Missions – worldwide project development, complementary heavy truck business unit expansion, innovation & quick connector’s applications growth, quick profitability.
1991-1996 Sales Director
LEGRIS SA: fittings for air & liquid connections, N°2 worldwide / 230 m€ revenue, 1800 persons, 10 manufacturing plants, 25 sales offices.
Missions - sales expansions, network distributor’s management, new generation range launching.
1988-1991 Plant Director
THOMSON
1977-1988 Purchasing Director, Planning & Control, Production & IT Manager
ALCATEL: electronic devices (radiotelephone, fax, etc…)
RELEVANT SKILLS
Company Management
Created and extended the subsidiaries forming Automotive branches of mechanical specialized groups
Defined the global strategy for becoming the world leader in a new technology business
Hired and Managed the R&D, HR, Quality, Production, international sales and finance teams
Successfully increased the companies sometimes from 0 to 45 Million Euro in a 4 years period and in other times doubled revenues in 5 years, and tripled benefits.
Organized finance and settled facilities in Europe, and North America
Sales development
Managed a distributors network for a full catalogue of industrial products
Coordinated a cosmopolitan sales team in an automotive tier-supplier business
Created a new brand image in an existing market
Organized and handled face-to-face customer relations led by mutual improvement
Production full command
Managed mass production facilities in various fields such as electronics and mechanics
Created new specialized fields in injection moulding and surface mounting components
Managed engineering of new type of high speed automatic mounting lines
Launched up-to-date management systems such as Jit, Smed, Tqm, and Spc...
Finance control
Created the finance reporting based on last moves and tendencies
Managed the budget revues for companies in Europe, North and South America
Organized the financing of new and working facilities, increased perceptibly, profitability and EBITDA up to 16%
EDUCATION
Ecole Catholique d’Arts ET Métiers Engineer Dipl. 1977
Krauthammer consulting Management 1995
ICG Finance management 1986
Languages: French (mother), English (current), Italian (conversational).
OTHERS PERSONAL ACTIVITIES
PRESIDENT of the Industrial Commission for the COLMAR INDUSTRIAL CHAMBER
PRESIDENT of the Regional TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AGENCY
Former PRESIDENT of the French Logistic Engineers University (ESLI)
Former PRESIDENT of the French Western Managers Association
Former ADMINISTRATOR & TREASURER of the Handicap Persons Association “THE ARCH of JEAN VANNIER”