BUDAPEST
Bertalan Zsamboki
Address: 17/b Lagymanyosi Street, H-1111 Budapest
Mobile: + (36) 309 845 466
Email: bertalanzsamboki@t-online.hu; Skype: b.zsamboki
CEO/MD/HEAD OF COMMERCE/FOREIGN TRADE ADVISOR/INVESTMENT
(Oil and Gas/Foreign Trade & Distribution)
Multilingual and results-driven professional international entrepreneur with vast experience in a wide range of businesses and markets. Visionary leader, consistently successful in translating vision into strategy and through development of structures, processes and teams, executes plans to achieve business goals. Sets clear objectives and performance metrics and empowers others to produce results. Quick to recognise business opportunities, keeping a finger on the pulse of current and future trends. Takes decisions based on market and product analysis and strong business acumen. Energetic and motivational; leads by example, drives performance and directs multi-disciplined and multi-national teams to achieve success. Exceptional ability to rapidly adapt to changing environments and cultures, engaging with all stakeholders and building strong relationships based on openness and trust. Native Hungarian and Fluent in English, Russian, German and Arabic, willing to undertake a GM/VP of Sales role in a well established or start-up venture in the Middle East and Europe.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Strategic Management – Visionary thinker who brings concepts to life and develops clear strategies and processes which transform ideas into realities. Accomplished business entrepreneur with skills to recognise rewards and risks and capitalise on market opportunities. Prepared and executed market entry strategy for a Hungarian business dealing with exporting animals to the Middle East. Effectively negotiated an export contract for 38 thousand sheep and bulks amounting to 50-70 million USD a year.
Business Development – Driven to consistently exceed targets, developing sales in new markets through diverse products and services. Utilises natural instinct and insight to identify and target sales opportunities, whilst building trusted key relationships. As A General Director of Eurohand Commercial and Investment Co successfully developed mutually advantageous foreign economic relations between Hungarian and regional Middle East companies, acting as middleman in business negotiations.
Leadership and Values – Selects and develops talent, motivating and inspiring others to follow his leadership through a naturally open, transparent and participative style. Empowers the team to succeed, supporting and encouraging their development, whilst facing issues head on and taking decisive action to manage performance. Motivates others to aspire to his own high personal standards of performance and business ethics. Driven by a desire to achieve results through honest, ethically sound and sustainable businesses. Provides thought leadership; an accomplished public speaker on an international stage.
Change Management – Adeptly achieves business turnarounds in a range of markets through managing culture change, gaining commitment to the new direction, forming result driven teams and setting clear goals and accountabilities. Leads by example, identifying and nurturing talent whilst demanding exemplary performance from the team and maintaining the highest ethical and performance standards. Whilst with Nabucco efficiently made a feasibility study of the project to deliver gas to Europe, which proved to be not viable and would lead MOL (a Hungarian partner in a project) to a loss of 3 billion Euro. As a result of analysis and negotiations with remaining partners, MOL left the project and prevented significant losses.
Operational Profitability in a Multinational and Multicultural Environment – Exemplary track record of achievement in business start-ups, turnarounds and growing organisations to the next level. Demonstrates strong cultural sensitivity, adapting to recognize other perspectives.
Mes compétences :
financial management
managed international business development
manage the international businesses
Strategic Management
Profit and Loss Accounts
Petroleum
