Bertalan Zsamboki, Independent Foreign Trade Advisor

Bertalan Zsamboki

Independent Foreign Trade Advisor

Independent Foreign Trade Advisor

Lieu
Hongrie
Éducation
Master, Management, Finance and Economics
Expérience
28 years, 1 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :28 years, 1 Mois

Independent Foreign Trade Advisor à Independent Foreign Trade Advisor
  • Hongrie
  • Je travaille ici depuis février 2012

Various Companies
 Providing consultancy to the companies willing to establish their operations in Hungary or expand their operations abroad
Key Achievements
 Efficiently managed international business development for various companies and secures financing of their operations through negotiating bank loans.
 Developed an export business for a Hungarian company in the Middle East which led to a multi-million contract for animals.
 Spearheaded the relationships between OTP Bank of Hungary to widen their business activities in the emerging markets with special focus to the Middle East, North Africa.

Head of Commerce
Nov 2010 - Jan 2012

Head of Commerce à Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH,
  • Autriche
  • novembre 2010 à janvier 2012

Nabucco-West is a proposed natural pipeline from the Turkish- Bulgarian border to Austria. The project is being developed by a consortium of six national oil companies. Hungary was represented by MOL, a leading oil and gas company.
 Responsible for procurement of gas pipeline construction including project management and gas transportation-trading activity.
Key Achievements
 Managed to prepare, to negotiate and to complete the Standard Transportation Agreement and the Network Code of the gas transport-trading activity.
 Managed the preparation of tender documents for procurement from commercial aspects.
 Successfully challenged initial project costs forecasts and found out that it was not viable. Took necessary steps to convince MOL’s executive management to leave the consortium to prevent losses.

Advisor to the Chairman à Megatrend Ltd.
  • Hongrie
  • avril 2004 à octobre 2010

Company Profile: Management security processes of enterprises of public and governmental bodies. Sales of IT software products (ERP and data security systems)
 To manage the international businesses and the relationship to banks.
 Assumed responsibility for company PR and foreign trade.
 Lobbying.
Key Achievement
 Concluded service contracts totalling to about 14 million Euro mainly for Hungarian companies including Pick Szeged, Sole Mizo, Dalmand, Boly. The contract sizes were between 1, 2 - 3, 2 million Euro each.

Deputy Managing Director à Hungarian Privatization and State Holding Company
  • Hongrie
  • août 2002 à avril 2004

 To collect the overdue national outstanding debts from companies by applying special financial methods.
 Financial Advisor to the CEO.
Key Achievement
 With his team, efficiently collected debts from the countries including Russia, Nigeria, Libya, Ethiopia and Syria, which totalled to 1, 75 billion USD.

Managing Director à Green Network Ltd.
  • Hongrie
  • janvier 2001 à août 2002

Company profile: Technical solutions provider in the field of recycling of building materials and civil engineering.
 Full P&L and financial management of the company.
Key Achievements
 Fully reorganized the financial, accounting and operational system of the company to fit the international standards.
 Restructured the procurement, bought new machinery and acquired large size of project orders.
 Increased the turnover by 300% in 18 month’ time. Net sales of the company was about 11 million Euro

General Director à Eurohand Commercial and Investment Company
  • Hongrie
  • août 1998 à décembre 2000

Company profile: Business development of mutually advantageous foreign economic relations between Hungarian and regional Middle East companies, acting as middleman in business negotiations
 Full P&L. Development of the foreign trade relationships, with special emphasize to the investigation of exceptional investment opportunities.
Key Achievements
 Pivotal in negotiating crude oil purchasing deals between MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company and the Iraq National Oil Company within the program of oil for food from the allocation of Jordan, which amounted to 2x app. 74 million USD.
 Secured a Consultancy Service Agreement between MECEA, Lebanon and Eurohand totalling to about 4 million USD.
 Exported tomato paste cannery to Lebanon by Limpex, using the famous brand Golden Phasan.
 Concluded an Agreement for the reconstruction of the Ikarus bus factory in Iskandirija, Iraq. Investment totalled to 14 million USD.

Finance Manager à MOL Syria Oil & Gas Ltd.
  • Syrie - Damas
  • avril 1997 à août 1998

MOL Syria Oil & Gas Company BV - A subsidiary of the daughter company of MOL Hungarian Oil & Gas Plc in the Netherlands.
Company profile: MOL won an international tender in Syria in 1997. According to the contract with the Syrian Government, MOL acquired the rights to explore oil and gas for an initial period of five years.
 Financial management of the company

Commercial Counsellor - Member of the Corp of Diplomats à Hungarian Embassy - Commercial Section
  • Syrie - Damas
  • avril 1996 à avril 1997

 Promotion of the Hungarian-Syrian trade relationships, monitoring the commercial development of the country and to prepare reports on economic trends.
Key Achievements
 Identified market opportunities for Hungarian companies including exporting power stations and canned food.
 Successfully won an international tender for the delivery of dry cooling system Heller-Forgó to the Tishrin Power Station.
 The contract size was 42 million USD. In addition, won the tender for the building of a fruit processing plant totalling to 5 million USD.
 Established a new agent network for the sales of Hungarian agricultural and industrial products and efficiently increased Hungarian export between the second half of 1996 and the first half of 1997 by 82%, up to 62 million USD.

Éducation

Master, Management, Finance and Economics
  • à Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • mai 2005

MBA - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest

Diplôme, Foreign Trade
  • à Foreign Trade - College for Foreign Trade
  • juin 1984

Postgraduate diploma in Foreign Trade - College for Foreign Trade, Budapest

Master, Economist-Mathematician
  • à State University of St. Petersburg
  • juillet 1977

MSc Economist - Mathematician - State University of St. Petersburg, Russia

Specialties & Skills

Leadership
Strategic Management
Change Management
Business Development
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
International Trade
P&L Management
Strategic Management
Project Management
Leadership
Change Management
Start-Up Management
Investor Relationships
Operational Profitability in a Multinational and Multicultural Environment

Langues

Arabe
Moyen
Anglais
Expert
Allemand
Expert
Hongrois
Expert
Russe
Expert

Adhésions

Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
  • Knight of Malta
  • May 2008

Formation et Diplômes

Accountant (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 1993
Valide jusqu'à:
June 1994

Loisirs

  • long distance running
    I am a long distance runner in my spare time collected a shoebox of medals in the recent years.