S. Ramakrishna
Academic
Experience
Associate Professor – China Europe International
Business School (CEIBS),
Assistant Professor –
Education
PhD – Entrepreneurship, Business Ethics, and Strategy,
August 2003
Dissertation title: “Corruption and
Entrepreneurship”
Committee: Professors
MBA - Bilingual Program, 1985
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com), 1983 (First class)
European Entrepreneurship Colloquium for Participant
Centered Learning (EECPCL), 2005
Awards and
Scholarships
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Winner of the 2008 EFMD Case
Competition in the category Emerging Chinese Global Competitors (2,000 Euros
prize) for the case “South Beauty: In Quest of a ‘Beautiful’ Growth Story,”
(co-authored with Xu Leiping). 2009
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IESE Alumni Association Research
Excellence Award of 10,000 Euros (one of four awardees) for “contributions made
over the last three years to academic publications with international reach,
and for consistent research trajectories.” 2005
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Fully funded doctoral scholarship
from the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business,
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Four Darden Foundation Awards for
academic articles written during the Doctoral Program. 1999-2003
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Three tuition scholarships from
Goethe Institut for excellence in German language study. 1981-1983
Refereed
Publications
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“Business Model Innovation Through
Trial and Error Learning: The Naturhouse Case” (with Rosa Nelly
Trevinyo-Rodriguez and Marc Sosna), forthcoming in Long Range Planning
special issue on Business Models
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“Parental Entrepreneurial Role
Model Influence: Is it Always Positive and When Does it Occur?” (with Edward
Mungai), forthcoming in Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice
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"States, power, legitimacy and
maintaining institutional control: The battle for private sector
telecommunication services in
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“The
Design of Member Review: Showing What to Organization Members and Why,” (with
Karen Locke), 2009. Organizational
Research Methods, 12(3): 488-509
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“Evolutionary
Processes, Moral Luck and the Ethical Responsibilities of the Manager,” (with
Nicholas Dew). 2010. Journal of Business
Ethics, 91(1): 113-126
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“The Potential for Management
Development in NGO-Private Sector Partnerships,” (with Anjaney Borwankar),
2009. Journal of Management Development,
28(4): 326-343
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“EasyFinance: Developing the
Capacities for Growth,” (with Fu Xin) forthcoming in International Review of
Entrepreneurship (formerly International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education)
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“Resisting
Corruption: Polyhydron Private Limited”, (with Marc Sosna), 2008. International Journal of Entrepreneurship
Education, 6(4): 199-216
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“South
Beauty: In Quest of a Beautiful Growth Story”, (with Xu Leiping), forthcoming
in Asian Case Research Journal.
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“Toehold
Artisans Collaborative: Building Entrepreneurial Capabilities for Poverty
Reduction,” (with Sindhu Shanmugam), 2008. Asian
Case Research Journal, 12(2): 187-213
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“Why Stakeholder and Stockholder
Theories are Not Necessarily Contradictory: A Knightian Insight,” (with
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“Dispersed Knowledge and an
Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm” (with Nicholas Dew and
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“An Empirical Study of the
Transition from Paid Work to Self-Employment,” (with
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“Entrepreneurship, Altruism, and
the Good Society,” 2002. special issue
The Ruffin Series No. 3
Book
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“Entrepreneurship
in Emerging Regions Around the World: Theory, Evidence and Implications,”
May 2008, (co-editor, with P. H. Phan and S. Venkataraman), Edward Elgar
Publishing
Book
Chapters
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“Opportunity
Recognition and Exploitation in Highly Uncertain Environments,” in C. Scholz
and J. Zentes (eds.) Strategic Management:
A European Approach,
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“Three
Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity,” (with Saras Sarasvathy, S. Venkataraman,
N. Dew) in Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch (eds.) Handbook of
Entrepreneurship, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
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“Corruption
and Moral Risk in Business Settings,” (with Patricia H. Werhane and D. Eric
Boyd) in Marc Epstein and K. Hanson (eds.) The Accountable Corporation, Volume
2 Business Ethics, Praeger
Publishing, 2005
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“A New
Approach to CSR: Company Stakeholder Responsibility,” (with R. Edward Freeman)
– in Andrew Kakabadse and Mette Morsing (eds.) Corporate Social Responsibility: Reconciling Aspiration with
Application, Palgrave MacMillan, pages 9-23. 2006
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“European
Entrepreneurship – From Deterministic Government Policy to Market
Experimentation” (with Marc Sosna) – in Strategic Management: New Rules for the
Old Europe , edited by Christian Scholz and Joachim Zentes
(Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler)
Manuscripts
under review / working papers
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“Do
Venture Capitalists Add Value to IPOs? Evidence from Listings in Mainland
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“The Salience of Ethical Values in
the Stakeholder Resource Commitments to New Ventures,” (with Karen Locke)
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“Holistic
Decision Making and Long Term Firm Performance,” (with Miguel Angel Ariño and
Juan Carlos Vázquez-Dodero)
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“Generating and Managing Growth: Two Very
Different Challenges,” (with Marc Sosna)
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“The
Role of Values in the Creation of Economic Value”
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“A
Dynamic Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation: Evidence from the Chinese
Manufacturing Sector,” (with Yuan Ding and Veronique Malleret). This paper won
an Excellent Paper award (was selected among the best three submissions out of
200) at the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship conference organized by
Oxford University and Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009.
Book
Review
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“Taking
Research to Market: How to Build and Invest in Successful University Spinouts,”
edited by Kenny Tang, Ajay Vohora and Roger Freeman. Book review (with Pere
Condom) in Universia Business Review (Spanish)
Publications in popular and business press
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“Achieving High Growth in a Mature
Market: The Naturhouse Case,” in Universia Business Review
·
Chinese version forthcoming in
CEIBS Business Review
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“European
High-Growth Technology Companies: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities For
Global Expansion,” (with Dave Darsch and Marc Sosna), Summer 2007, Market500
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“Developing Global Managers,”
(with Paddy Miller), August 1997, The Financial Times, Mastering
Management section
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“Entrepreneurship as a Core
Competence in the Large Corporation (with Michele Appendino), in The
CriticalEye Review, Spring 2006 issue
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“El Outsourcing Industrial,”
November 1993 in Actualidad Económica
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“También se puede ser feliz con el dragón,” December 19,
2004 in La Vanguardia
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“La Identificación de Oportunidades Emprendedoras,” April
12, 2005 in Diario Financiero, Chile
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“El Poder Económico,” (with Kimio Kase, Jaume Ribera, and
Pedro Videla) in La Vanguardia Dossier – Asia: El Poder del Siglo XXI,
July-September 2005
Case
studies
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Resisting
Political Corruption: Econet Wireless
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Resisting Political Corruption: Econet
Wireless
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Resisting
Bureaucratic Corruption: Alacrity Housing Chennai (Research Case Study)
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Resisting Bureaucratic Corruption:
Alacrity Housing Chennai (with Jordan Mitchell) (A) and (B)
– 2004
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Resisting
Bureaucratic Corruption: Polyhydron - 2006 (with Marc Sosna)
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Developing Business Models: Naturhouse
– 2004. Selected as one of twelve best IESE cases of
2004, published in a McGraw Hill case book
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Grafinsa – 2004
(unpublished)
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Kürt Rt.
– 2005 (with Jordan Mitchell)
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Camper: Imagination is not
Expensive – 2007 (with Jordan
Mitchell)
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N-Logue Communications: Bridging
the Digital Divide (with Indira Ananth),
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Infosys Technologies: Powered by
Intellect, Driven by Values – 2005 (with Jordan Mitchell)
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Mittal Steel: The Making of the
World’s Largest Steel Company (A) and (B) – 2005 (with
Jordan Mitchell)
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Airtel-Vodafone
(with Jordan Mitchell) - 2006
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Turnaround Management: Finanzauto
S. A. (with Paddy Miller) – 1998
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Enso Española (A) and (B), (with
Paddy Miller) – 1998
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Alois Linder at Henkel Iberica (with
Paddy Miller) – 1999, for use only in Henkel Programs
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Henkel Water Treatment (with
Jordan Mitchell) – 2006 (unpublished)
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Ericsson
Expander - 2006 (with
Anindya Ghosh)
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Claris
Life Sciences
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South
Beauty: In Quest of a Beautiful Growth Story - 2008,
(with Raymond Xu)
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EasyFinace:
Building the Capabilities for Growth
– 2008, (with Fu Xin)
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Fight for Survival:The First Year of the Hongfeng
Hanyuan Consulting Company – 2008,
(with Fu Xin)
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Qingfeng
Textile Company: The Challenges of Recruiting, Training and Retaining Talent in
SMEs - 2009, (with Fu Xin)
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Swagruha
Foods – 2008
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Ashta
Chamma: The Biggest Small Budget Movie Ever Made (A) and (B) - 2009
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Golden
Star Facilities and Services - 2009
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Conference
presentations
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“Entrepreneurship, Altruism, and
the Good Society”. Tenth Annual Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference,
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“Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Recognition, Discovery, and Creation” (with Nicholas Dew, Saras Sarasvathy and
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“The Influence of Opportunity Cost
on the Self-Employment Decision” (with
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“The Responsibilities of the
Ethical Actor under an Evolutionary Perspective.” Society for Business Ethics
Annual Meeting,
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“Dispersed Knowledge and an
Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm.” Lally-Darden Entrepreneurship Retreat,
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“The Role of the Entrepreneur’s
Ethical Values in the Stakeholder Network Emergence of New Ventures.” EISB
Conference,
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“The Role of Ethical Values in the
Stakeholder Network Emergence of Entrepreneurial Ventures.” Babson Kaufmann
Entrepreneurship Research Conference,
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“Resisting the Resistance: An
Empirical Study of Organizational
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“Member Checking: Reflections from
a Qualitative Case Study.” Paper accepted at the
Service
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Member of the Editorial Board, Journal
of Business Venturing
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Ad hoc reviewer - Management
Science, Journal of Management,
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Reviewer –
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Reviewer – Strategic Management
Society, 2004 Conference,
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Reviewer – EISB 2004 Conference,
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Executive Committee Member -
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business Network of the European Foundation
for Management Development
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Co-Chair – 35th EISB Conference,
Service to Institution
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Associate
Director, International EMBA Program, CEIBS, 2010 to date
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Co-Academic
Director, CEIBS-IESE-Wharton Global CEO Program for Latin America 2009 to date
CEIBS
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Academic
Director, Global Executive MBA Program, 2006-2007, IESE
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Academic
Director, Short Focused Program on Entrepreneurial Management (in Spanish),
2004 and 2005, IESE
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Academic
Director, Henkel Adhesives Technologies Entrepreneurship and Innovation and
Profitable Growth Programs, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (Eight editions rated 4.3 to
4.6 on a scale of 1-5), IESE
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Academic
Director, Inside India Program 2006, 2007, 2008 (Rated 4.5 - 4.7 on a scale of
1-5), IESE
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Team Leader,
First Year Section B, IESE
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Member of the
Advisory Council, Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurial Initiative,
IESE
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Member of the
IESE Steering Committee of the European Association for Business in Society
(EABIS) project on mainstreaming business ethics into the MBA curriculum
CEIBS (September 2007 to
date)
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MBA Program, Entrepreneurship –
Starting New Ventures (2nd Year Elective)
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MBA Program, European Entrepreneurship
Accelerator, in partnership with INSEAD (2nd Year Elective)
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MBA Program – Negotiation (1st
Year Core)
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Doctoral Program – One week
seminar in Entrepreneurship
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Program for Management Development
(PMD) – Negotiation
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General Management Program –
Entrepreneurship module (in Spanish)
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Focused Program on Entrepreneurial
Management – 3 days (in Spanish)
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International Faculty Development
Program – Entrepreneurship Module
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CEO Collaborative Forum (30
venture capital backed CEOs of high growth technology ventures)
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Henkel Adhesives Technologies and
Profitable Growth Programs – Entrepreneurship Module (Academic Director)
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Abbott Laboratories – Values and
Value Creation
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Comunidad de Madrid – Negotiation
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Grupo Santander – Entrepreneurship
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Grupo BBVA – Values and Value Creation
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Goodyear Dunlop – Negotiation
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Vodafone
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Visiting Professor:
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Organized a one day conference at
CEIBS titled “Possibilities for Co-operation between Chinese and Indian
Companies,” with leading speakers such as the former Ambassador of China to
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Panelist in a session on Corporate
Governance organized by the Compliance Cell, ICICI Bank, Mumbai, 2009
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Speaker on Corporate
Responsibility at Infosys
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Represented
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Participate regularly in coaching
sessions for entrepreneurs to prepare them for presentations to angel investors
and venture capitalists
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Speaker on India: Opportunities and Challenges at a number of events in Spain
organized by IESE, the Confederation of Spanish Chambers of Commerce, Spanish
Institute for Export Promotion (ICEX), CECOT, Banc Sabadell, Casa Asia, AMEC
and Tribuna Girona
Consulting
Experience (1991 – to date)
International
Finance Corporation (IFC) (2005 to date): Worked on
i) a Global Business School
Network (GBSN) project with the faculty of the
ii) a Private Enterprise
Partnership project to nurture Enterprise Development Centers (EDCs) in
World Bank
(2004): Worked with case writers in
i) Same Language
Subtitling: When a Nation Watches TV and Learns to Read a Newspaper
ii) Catalyzing Rural
Education Through Information Technology: Computer Assisted Learning Centers of
iii) Computer Education in
Schools: Case Study of Headstart Program
Management
consultant: Carried out projects for Spanish, Indian, and
American clients in the areas of market entry strategy, commercial due
diligence, and purchase management services. Industries covered included
apparels, food products, industrial batteries, and industrial fasteners and
access systems. Certified by the Confederation of Spanish Chambers of Commerce
and the Spanish Institute for Export Promotion (ICEX) to work as a consultant
in the EU funded program for the internationalization of Spanish small and
medium enterprises
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1985 – 1986: Assistant Area Manager, International
Division, based in
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1986 – 1989: General Manager of the group’s
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1989: Advisory position at the head office in
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1990 – 1991: General Manager of a newly created
division that was responsible for the group’s subsidiaries in the
Languages
English Fluent Spanish Fluent
Hindi Good Telugu Good
(spoken)
Tamil Good
(spoken) German Good
French Conversational Mandarin Basic