Stefan Baran

• Global responsibility over all key suppliers of Acetate Tow to the Imperial Tobacco Group. Estimated budget for mentioned suplier is 120M EUR. • Facilitation responsibility between Central Operational Functions and Manufacturing units located in Australasia. • Continuous Evaluation of Supplier Pool, and Define Purchasing Strategy of assigned area. • Conduct Quality Audits to suppliers based on ISO and ITG Quality Standards

• Regional responsibility over multinational tobacco companies in the world. Combined accounts represent total revenue of approximately £45m per year. • Periodic interaction with Senior Commercial, R&D and Operations Managers at customer base. • Responsibility over Key Account operations in Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa. • Active participant of Filtrona’s global capacity board, to align Global manufacturing capabilities with customer demands. • Responsability over global negotiations

•Regional responsibility over multinational and independent customers located in designated region: Latin America and Caribbean. •Provide market intelligence to R&D and Marketing departments, including senior management team within Filtrona. •Provide technical support to customers, including filters design and filters costings in order to generate commercial offers. •Development of sales strategy plan for the region, including value proposition for each customer, and product positioning.

•Supervise the performance of all areas depending to the Distilling department (storage, fermentation, aging, effluents treatment, etc) •Design and construct budgets of expenses, investments, production programme, maintenance, etc, for the Distillery and Blending departments. •Coordinate activities and factory shut down for general periodic maintenance. •Responsibility over negotiation of Key Raw materials: Molasses, Nitric Acid, Caustic Soda and Raw Alcohol •Certified as expert alcohol taster

•Plan and coordinate all Preventive and Corrective maintenance programs on equipments and Plant installations. •Guarantee on time supply of required spare parts and tools for preventive maintenance programs. •Contribute to generate corrective action plans as a result of the follow up and failure report of equipment and machinery. •Lead and coordinate projects associated with installation of new machinery and production layout changes in Danaven. •Supervisory responsibility over a crew of 24 people