Experience

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  Freelance Consulting

  • Consulting Services. Latin America
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  Freelance Consulting

  • Santiago, Chile

  • Consulting Services. Latin America

    • Dec 2010 - Present
    • Santiago, Chile

    Relocated from Atlanta, USA to Santiago, Chile in 2010. Am open to a variety of consulting, advisory and mentoring projects which would leverage my extensive background in business strategy development, change management, financial management and Audit with a prominant global Fortune 500 Company,...

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  SG COSMETICS LTDA

  • Santiago, Chile

  • Co Founder

    • Sep 2014 - Jun 2016
    • Santiago, Chile

    Co founded this Company with my wife Soledad, with the initial intent to import certain natural cosmetic products from Crete. With all regulatory requirements in place and several orders received we sold our inventory to a local natural products distributor and exited the cosmetics importation bu...

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  Puerto Viejo Wines, LLC

  • Santiago, Chile

  • Remote Part-Time CFO/Consultant

    • Jan 2012 - Aug 2013
    • Santiago, Chile

    Contracted as an assignment to be fully involved in the hands-on financial transformation of this small US company, working from my base in Santiago, Chile. Following the clean-up of the financial records and accounting, I assumed full responsibility for on-going Accounting, Treasury and Finance ...

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  Wine Valley Imports, LLC

  • Founder and Owner

    • 2005 - 2010

    Created this Company in 2005 to import Chilean wine to the USA using a third-party warehouse in California. Chilean wineries were identified and Distributors were sourced in several States and the wines were sold to them for supply to the Retail trade.Business transitioned to a Chilean supplier w...

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  The Coca-Cola Company

  • United States
  • Food and Beverage Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • VP & Project Director, North America SAP Implementation

    • 1999 - 2004

    Overall responsibility for Change Management of the organization for the implementation of SAP applications throughout the North American operations of The Coca-Cola Company.

  • VP and Director Finance, On-Premise - USA

    • 1995 - 1999

    Territory: USA. Based in Atlanta

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  The Coca-Cola Company, Iberian Division, Madrid...

  • Director of Finance

    • 1993 - 1995

    Spain and Portugal.

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  The Coca-Cola Company, Andean Division, Santiag...

  • Division Finance Manager

    • 1989 - 1993

    Division Countries included Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Paraguay, Bolivia and Colombia.

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  The Coca-Cola Company, Central America & Ca...

  • Division Finance Manager

    • 1986 - 1989

    Territories: All Central American countries and the Caribbean Islands.

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  The Coca-Cola Company, Southern & Central A...

  • Assistant to the Division Finance Manager

    • 1985 - 1986
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  Amalgamated Beverage Industries, Ltd, Johannesb...

  • Finance & Administration Manager

    • 1983 - 1985

    Largest Company-owned Bottler for Coca-Cola products in Southern Africa.

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  The Coca-Cola Company

  • International Auditor

    • 1978 - 1983

    Assignments from 2 to 9 months in duration at Company operations worldwide. Continuous travel and exposure to many different cultures.

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  Standard Telephones & Cables, Ltd

  • Financial Analyst/Operational Auditor

    • 1971 - 1978

    At Operations throughout the United Kingdom.