Frederic DEVIENNE

Establish and develop AKM's brand and product in the european automotive market

• Participate into the creation and strategy definition of the first office of Walsin in Europe (Starting with the Europe director and myself and back office in Taiwan).
• Reach budget growth ( +23% per year ) and Walsin Europe budget ($21 million).
• Establish the distribution Channel in Europe with top1 Worldwide distributor for Electronic Product
• Create sales with our main distributor in South Europe from 0 to $2,5 million in 2 years
• Get approval and shares into top 3 bluetooth Headset Maker with High-End electronic product.
• Start business with Major European OEM (Qimonda, Sagem, Siemens Fujitsu, BOSCH)
• International Key account management (Schneider, Archos, GN Netcom, BOSCH)
• Set up maketing, R&D strategy to introduce the company into automotive industry.

• Monitoring Product Line (Pricing strategy, Factory Forecasts, P&L)
• Realize Product Plan for NPI (Success product definition for APPLE IPOD)
• Supporting Sales / Customer training (Event, Marcom / Sales Event)

Acted as Sales / Product Marketing Engineer:
--> Responsible of Design In and Sales on Inductive components for the French Market: Technical and Logistic responsibilities to direct customers and Distributors.
--> Definition and follow up of the strategy with the head office to ensure the growth of Sales Turn Over.
--> Personal Investment in the resolution of the Quality problem.
--> Sales responsible for the complete Portfolio of EPCOS components to dedicated customers (Annual Negotiations for Logistic conditions and prices and Contracts)