Rafael Romero Gonzalez

- Established the company's Global Sales Office in Germany - Responsible for Sales Business Plan Development, Sales Processes Definition and Standardization, Pricing & Cost modeling, and Strategic Sales Systems reporting to Global VP of Sales. - Managed strategic projects including competitive assessments, processes development, strategic planning and process optimization; corporate reporting, KPI development & systematization. - Internal Key Note speaker on Industry Trends Seminars to the HR community.

• Established the cost analysis and cost engineering practice in Nemak establishing pricing calculation procedures improving financial profitability evaluation on new programs being quoted. • Managed the Pricing analysis of strategic Global & Regional new programs in the sourcing stage to ensure consistency among all Nemak's operations in North America, Europe, Asia and South America.

• Managed our areas reorganization identifying the pillars required to improve our efficiency, marketing and delivery. • Optimized Inter-company loan structure to improve the company's liquidity. • Managed equity reductions, dividends and loan capitalization initiatives. • Generated the company's Tax Financial Projections. • Reviewed and strengthened Global cash pooling structures • Managed corporate visits and presentations to third parties.

• Improved outsourcing logistics by standardizing shipping procedures and establishing control points, reducing lost parts in transit and enabling the logistics department pass the annual corporate audit. • Increased productivity in the operations by conducting lean manufacturing assessments and training industrial engineers in breaking bottlenecks.

• Developed a monthly net working capital forecasting model • Managed corporate debt covenants and relationships with financial institutions • Evaluated hedging opportunities identified at a corporate level in natural gas

• Generated the rolling volume sales forecast - basis for the company's financial projections. • Generated sales budget & business plan • Developed the South American rolling volume sales Forecast. (@ Belo Horizonte, Brazil) • Deployed a Business Intelligence project to improve the market intelligence information accessibility in the company.

• Participated in the coordination of the 29 plant-integration of the acquired companies supporting synergy identification during the Post Merger Integration. •Performed business assessments in Nemak Poland (Bielsko Biala) and NK Slovakia (Ziar) identifying opportunities for $20MUSD in sales increase. • Kicked off the strategic divestment process of the Swedish Operations of the company

•Managed the development of the GM V8 engine block that represents 10% of Nemak Mexico's Block business and the BRP Rotax 800cc Cylinder Head that represents $5MUSD in sales. •Developed and patented automatic soothing method for block liners that allowed Nemak to produce engine blocks with less than 0.05 scrap crack incidence.

• Conducted a manpower optimization initiative saving Nemak more than $100K a year. • Increased productivity of machining lines by 15% by reducing bottlenecks • Performed cost reduction initiatives and benchmark practices along the productive process and plants • Led a consumables cost reduction initiative resulting in a $115K savings per year. •Value stream mapping on critical products increasing productivity in production lines by 15%

Marketing & Strategy

- Universidad Pontificia de Comillas 05.2001 - 08.2001 Spain; Michigan State University 01.2003 - 07.2003 USA