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CAREER
HISTORY
Chestnut Consulting
Huddersfield and Blackpool, England
1 July 1998 - present
Owner/Consultant
Freelance activities, including the research, analysis and
reporting of investment projects in the CIS and Central Asia.
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Compiled full and partial proposals
for joint venture projects involving the production of cotton, marble,
syringes, particleboard and oil storage containers, with total value of
$120 million.
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Acted as liaison between local
partners, potential foreign investors and equipment manufacturers.
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Managed on-site investigation
of drip irrigation techniques at Israeli suppliers.
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Developed proposal and spreadsheet
templates for analysis and reporting of investment projects.
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Investigated and reported the potential of advertising on the Internet for local hotels.
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Compiled Business Plan for the foundation of a local Law Centre.
Oxiana Limited
Tashkent, Uzbekistan and London, England
1 July 1997 - 13 June 1998
Director, CIS Operations
Working on expatriate
basis for investment advisory company. Director of representative
office actively researching and progressing investment project opportunities.
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Opened and staffed multicultural,
multifunctional representative office from zero, achieving official accreditation
in remarkably quick period of three months.
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Directed investigations and
reporting of various joint venture and investment possibilities, including
brewing, medical, stock market, mining and oil projects, with a combined
value over $200 million.
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Headed local delegation at meetings
with business, governmental and investor contacts.
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Instrumental in the formation
of the Irish/Uzbek "Central Asian Decorative Stone" joint venture, with
an eventual Charter Fund of $5 million, for the extraction and processing
of marble deposits in Karakalpakstan.
Jahn International A/S
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
15 April 1996 - 30 April
1997 Project Director
Working on expatriate
basis for Danish trading company. Initially acted as co-director
in commercial section, before taking over newly-opened project department.
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Controlled the ordering, shipping,
distribution, marketing and sales of Carlsberg and other imported beers,
with monthly invoice value of up to $500,000.
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Initiated restructuring of sales,
distribution and marketing programmes, supported by rigid computerised
recording, reporting and control systems, delivering beer sales improvements
in the region of 200%.
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Managed all stages of completion
of $1 million project to export apple juice concentrate from the Namangan
Conserve Factory, in exchange for imported pressing machinery.
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Directed all local research,
analysis and reporting of project to build a Carlsberg brewery in Uzbekistan,
in a deal worth upwards of $50 million. Working closely with Danish
specialists, provided local economic, marketing, legal, financial, construction
and raw materials input to corporate feasibility study.
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Developed business plan to encourage
the cultivation of almonds in Uzbekistan, at the request of the Ferrero
company. In co-operation with the Minister of Forests and foreign
experts, published the "Almond 2000" report which envisaged dramatic crop
improvement in a 5-year, $5 million joint venture.
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Organised and controlled negotiations
between a Hong Kong buyer, the TACIS Silk Project office and relevant ministerial
representatives on a range of proposals to improve the cultivation, processing
and preparation for export of silk in a deal with a potential $10 million
annual turnover.
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