Dr. Raul Linares

• Global oversight and co-decision making on 9 coffee and 6 grain operations. Managing finance directors based in EUR, US, LATAM and ASIA (Grain). • Member of HQ committees, local subsidiary boards. • Special projects’ lead: start-up of new business lines, transfer pricing, international IT, CAPEX, etc. • Driving financial performance, including commercial, trading, and risk insight. • International teams’ management, mentoring, leadership of outsourced service providers.

• Planning, directing, and coordinating international and domestic special projects: M&A, restructuring, process optimization; ERP-selection deployed in +30 countries (+50 countries in 2nd phase). Leading diverse work-streams and managing the relationship with stakeholders and outsourced service providers.

• Global oversight and financial supervision of the LATAM business managing finance directors based in BRA, COL, PER, CRC, HON, GUA, and MEX. Member of the risk-committee. Launching risk-management system (deployed in 23 countries), CAPEX evaluation, developing and promoting consistent standards. HR-development, coaching and mentoring.

• Restructuring the Colombian business in collaboration with C-Suite Executives. Month-end closing, budgeting, position control, planning, and cost controlling. Creation of valuation models for commodities, futures and options. Defining policies and procedures for key areas: Finance, Trading, and Operation. Supporting the ERP-system implementation.

• Conducting operations, financial, IT, and compliance audits. Providing advice on process changes and new business initiatives; group projects and corporate M&A.

• Delivering presentations to governmental institutions, NGOs and private companies. Preparing budgets, cash flows, leading projects, funding rising, coaching non-finance professionals. Reporting to Board of Directors. • Company closed.

Coordinated and serviced audits of companies in multiple industries, including technology, e-commerce, financial services, entertainment and manufacturing. • Multi-sector experience: Honeywell, Capital Markets, Telvent (Schneider Electric), John Crane, Elizabeth Arden, Svenson, etc.

Summa Cum Laude

Emphasis on advance finance, negotiation, M&A and other complex corporate restructuring.

Philosophy and Social Studies in addition to the standard Finance curriculum