Ms Faraj BSc – Associate Consultant
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Ms Faraj is an approved Associate Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in marketing, management and customer service. She has achieved a Bachelor of Science in Economics. She has industry experience within the following sectors: FMCG; Franchise; Food & Beverage; Non-Profit & Charities and Banking & Financial Services. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: Lebanon; United Arab Emirates; Kuwait; Qatar and Pakistan, or more specifically within the following cities: Beirut; Dubai; Kuwait City; Doha and Islamabad. Her personal achievements include: awarded as The Most Improved Team Member 2012 from Subway International. Her service skills incorporate: customer service; marketing; project management; teamwork and sales management.

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Mr Santamaria MBA BS – Executive Consultant
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Mr Santamaria is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management, globalization and finance. He has achieved a Master in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Electronics; Logistics; Healthcare and Consumer Goods. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: Philippines; China; Singapore and United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: Manila; Hong Kong; Beijing; Singapore and Los Angeles. His personal achievements include: consistent year over year historical best logistics performance with EC&P over the last 4 years – last achievement was a reduction in global logistics spend by 13% or $2.6M in 2013; reduced procurement cycle times by 23%; worked with various suppliers to set up VMI programs out of the box airfreight solutions which led to over USD 800K in savings and consistently exceeded sales and financial targets with various sales and commercial roles in LEP, TNT, Exel, and Agility. His service skills incorporate: supply chain management; budgeting and forecasting; strategic planning; project management & solutions design and global logistics operations.

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Ms Kawasaki BA – Executive Consultant
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Ms Kawasaki is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in management, information technology and globalization. She has achieved a Bachelor of Art in Behavioral Science, Child Development and Psychology. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Technology; Healthcare; Manufacturing; Retail and Education. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America; United Kingdom; China; Singapore and Netherlands, or more specifically within the following cities: Longmont CO; San Jose CA; Louisville KY; Portsmouth and Venray. Her personal achievements include: transitioned a team within Vemma from one internet model another, providing an affordable, sustainable solution to attract, train and retain long-term teams, resulting in residual income; streamlined communication between Cabela’s supply chain, retail, legal, finance and merchandising teams by arbitrating, tracking and prioritizing projects by ROI and resource availability – resulted in 65% reduction of projects by collaborating across multiple cross-functional teams to identify true cost and labor savings; initiated a Product Safety Council Kaizen within Cabela’s to implement policies, procedures and training for an emergency response team to determine immediate course of action for recalled products; after identifying source of inventory loss and locating $1.2 million dollars of inventory at Flextronics, Louisville, re-engineered process flow and incorporated automated scanning – resulted in 76% reduction in labor management with redundant tasks and produced and conducted all Maxtor world-wide training for SD module in during a global SAP implementation that was implemented ahead of schedule and under budget. Her service skills incorporate: change management; process engineering; training development and system implementation; supply chain audits and project management.

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Mr Zuidema BB MDCP CMPC 
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Mr Zuidema is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management, customer service and human resources. He has achieved a Bachelor of Business in Accounting & Economics and is a Meta Dynamics Level 2 Consultant and a Credentialled Master Practitioner of Coaching. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Automotive; Food & Beverage; Franchise; Manufacturing and Restaurants. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: Australia, or more specifically within the following cities: Melbourne; Sydney; Adelaide; Brisbane and Canberra. His personal achievements include: consolidated 5 competing entities; built 5 award winning franchises; facilitated customer service excellence and created an optimum workplace environment. His service skills incorporate: culture change; behaviour change; leadership development; conflict management and change management.

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Mr Lee MS BS – Executive Consultant
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Mr Lee is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in management and human resources. He has achieved a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Social Work and Public Administration. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Retail; Insurance; Technology; Manufacturing and Healthcare. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: Los Angeles CA; Chicago IL; Atlanta GA; Philadelphia PA and Minneapolis MN. His personal achievements include: implemented succession planning – The GE Philosophy of the “9 Box Grid” for Home Depot and Cigna; facilitated the merger and acquisition for NDC Health and McKesson; created a mentoring program for sales professionals at Nike called “Future All Star Mentoring Program” and for sales professionals at Cigna called B.L.A.S.T. – Business Leadership And Sales Training and created a strategic staffing plan for 85 FTE’s after being awarded the State of New Mexico’s EAP/Medicare and Medicaid program. His service skills incorporate: talent management; change management; organizational design; succession planning and performance management.

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Mr Gudym MBA BA – Associate Consultant
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Mr Gudym is an approved Associate Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in marketing, management and human resources. He has achieved a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. He has industry experience within the following sectors: FMCG; Franchise; Consumer Goods; Retail and Advertising. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: Ukraine; Russia; Poland; Romania and Hungary, or more specifically within the following cities: Kiev; Moscow; Warsaw; Bucharest and Budapest. His personal achievements include: fast growth of GSK CH business in Ukraine despite economy crisis in 2009-10 – that was thanks to proper strategic focus on Oral Health Care and outstanding media deal; breakthrough results of Oral Health Care in Ukraine behind strong TV and massive promotion through other channels including sampling to consumers; maintained pain management business in Central and Eastern Europe despite issues with one of the two main brands in GSK portfolio in 2012 – Solpadeine was switched from OTC to Rx and I coordinated a program to mitigate negative impact of this move while increasing investment to Panadol; 50% growth of Reckitt Benckiser business in 2007 via impeccable execution of NPD initiative across all brands including Vanish, Calgon, Strepsils and Nurofen – that was supported by new structure of marketing department and achieved 60% of Duracell in 2005 via holistic exploitation of Football World Cup partnership and batteries promotion to the new Supermarket channel in Ukraine. His service skills incorporate: brand management; new product development; project management; category development and people management.

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Mr. Sloop MBA BBA – Senior Consultant
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Mr. Sloop is an approved Senior Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in finance, information technology and human resources. He has achieved a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Business Administration. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Restaurants; Food & Beverage; Hospitality; Hotel and Franchise. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: New York NY; Miami FL; Houston TX; Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA. His personal achievements include: increase profit by 8.4%; raise 30M in equity capital; integrated systems implementations; multi-unit systems training and support and S1 IPO registration. His service skills incorporate: performance optimization; systems implementation; accounting & bookkeeping; private equity advisory and strategic planning.

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Mr Valentini BS Dip – Executive Consultant
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Mr Valentini is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in marketing, management and production. He has achieved a Degree in Civil Engineering and a Diploma in Maturità Scientifica. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Manufacturing; Hypermarkets & Supermarkets; Food & Beverages; Consumer Goods and Franchise. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America; Italy and France, or more specifically within the following cities: Atlanta GA; Charlotte NC; Parma; Le Havre and Conegliano. His service skills incorporate: project management; lean management; business restructuring; performance improvement and business planning.

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Mr Obileye MBA BSc ACA Dip – Executive Consultant
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Mr Obileye is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and he has experience in marketing, management and finance. He has achieved an Master of Business Administration, a Bachelor of Science in Economics, an ACA and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management. He has industry experience within the following sectors: Accountancy; Pharmaceuticals; FMCG; Biotechnology and Consultancy. He has had commercial experience within the following countries: United Kingdom; United Arab Emirates; Greece; Africa and Turkey, or more specifically within the following cities: London; Athens, Greece; Lagos; Cambridge and Istanbul. His personal achievements include: financial planning and modelling for €4 billion funding and capital restructuring; led the valuation modelling and financial due diligence on company, portfolio and product acquisitions; implementation and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Sec. in Europe and India; project-managed and implemented Oracle financials from business case to going live in Europe and led all aspects of financial integration following the merger of Novartis and Chiron. His service skills incorporate: financial management; strategy and planning; mergers and acquisitions; financial control and project management.

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Mr DiDonato MBA BS – Senior Consultant