Wolfgang Shih | |
MBA Student, University of Liverpool | |
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For the last 18 years I have been working for the Columbus McKinnon Corp. (NASDAQ 'CMCO'), one of the market leaders in hoisting and materials handling, in various functions like President, Product & Materials Manager and Managing Director Asian Operations. The main part of my activity was to set up the two Chinese manufacturing facilities, the Hong Kong branch and the distribution operation in Thailand. In the first 12 years we achieved an aggregate average annual growth of 47% with a net profit before tax between 18%-23%. During this time I used my entrepreneurial spirit and corporate freedom to introduce six entire new lines of products while implementing all the additional (and completely different) manufacturing processes and technology to the factories. In 2004 I restructured the entire management and implemented LEAN, SOX compliance and SAP in the company.
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Current Experience:
MBA Student, University of Liverpool
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18.0 Years
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*Manufacturing, designing, selling and marketing of hoists, stackers, industrial textiles and divers ...
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Contribution score:(79 points)
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MBA Student, University of Liverpool |
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Working from 2009 | ||
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Brief summary :
I resigned and took some time off to do my (online) MBA in Finance & Accounting and will finish a good degree in 2011. (I enjoy it very much!) For the last 18 years I have been working for Columbus McKinnon Corp. (CMCO) in various functions like President, Product & Materials Manager and Managing Director Asian Operations. During the entire time I set up the two Chinese manufacturing facilities, the Hong Kong branch and the distribution operation in Thailand. The initial investment was very small (4 x 100K US$) and I had 8 employees in 1992. During the first 12 years we achieved an aggregate average annual growth of 47% with a net profit before tax between 18%-23%. During this time I used my entrepreneurial spirit and corporate freedom to introduce six entire new lines of products while implementing all the additional (and completely different) manufacturing processes and technology to the factories with 350 co-workers. | ||
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