EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY:

B.E. (Eng.), MS Univ, India
M.S. (Eng), Uni. Of Akron, Ohio
M.B.A. RPI, New York
Licensed P. E.

CAREER:

• DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIER QUALITY ASSURANCE, COLLINS & AIKMAN
• SENIOR APQP MANAGER, TEXTRON
• SUPERVISORY / APQ / QUALITY EXPERIENCE, ARVIN INDUSTRIES,
• TECHNICAL SPECIALIST / PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, FORD MOTOR
• PRODUCT DESIGN / MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE, ALLIED-SIGNA
• ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE, EPA - KY

SPECIFIC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Professionally Certified Engineer and creative quality professional with over 22 years experience in management, procurement, global sourcing, quality systems, project management, engineering, process improvement, , OEM customer interaction, supplier management, and personnel development. 
• Introduced several business initiatives, reliability indicators, creative cost savings, and, productivity improvement alternatives. Assertive, inquisitive, results oriented, innovative & highly motivated self starter. 
• Trained in Six Sigma with demonstrated strengths in quality management, planning, written & oral communications, and presentation skills. Proven working skills with both executive management and union employees.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• QUALITY SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT, SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT, PROGRAM MANAGER, TEAM LEADER, COMPLEX PROBLEM SOLVING
• SIX SIGMA, RESULT ORIENTED, SELF STARTER, CHASSIS, SUSPENSION, DRIVELINE
• BUDGET MANAGEMENT, EXPERT IN ASIAN SUPPLIRES, PROCESS IMPROVEMENT, CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP, NEW BUSINESS INITIATIVES INITIATE COST REDUCTION IDEAS FLEXIBLE, EXCELLENT COMMUNICATOR EXPERIENCE FROM US, ASIA, EUROPE AND SOUTH AMERICA

Language skills:

English, Hindi, Gujrati

EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY:

Professionally Certified Office Manager
Undergraduate Uni. Of Illinois Associate Sociology

SPECIFIC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Creative quality professional with over 7 years experience in management, procurement, manpower management, and personnel development. 
• Introduced several business initiatives, reliability indicators, creative cost savings, and, productivity improvement alternatives.
• Assertive, inquisitive, results oriented, innovative & highly motivated self-starter. 
• Trained to demonstrated strengths in management, planning, written & oral communications, and presentation skills. Proven working skills with both executive management and union employees. 

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Responsible for all hiring of contract and permanent personnel.
• Responsible for all account payable and receivable.
• Manage all taxation aspects of AMBE Engineering, LLC
• Hire and fire responsibility for all AMBE Engineering personnel.
• Represent AMBE Engineering to clients as required.
• Arrange and manage employee travel arrangements, time cards and all other expenses.
• Provided hands on training to engineers in the travel, time cards and all other aspects.
• Handle all procurement aspects

Language skills:

English, Hindi, Gujarati.

EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY:

MBA in International Management
BS in Mechanical Engineering

CAREER:

• SAE International, General Manager, Asia-Pacific, Shanghai/China
• General Motors, Truck Engineering Resident Manager, Mesa, Arizona

SPECIFIC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Mr. Schkade has extensive technology-based product development and international experience in the automotive industry. At General Motors for 19 years, he started in product research and progressed through management of product development operations. A cornerstone of his assignments has been the strategic use of objective, systems-based approaches to achieve real world positive business impact.
• At SAE International for 12 years, he founded their first international subsidiary in China and was responsible for their Asia-Pacific operations. He worked with numerous OEMs and suppliers for consulting and training projects and technical standards development.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Developing strategic insights using voice of the customer, scanning and analysis
• Product and business development using systems-based approaches
• Results-based multi-cultural relationship building.
• Technology scouting and strategic roadmapping
• Team member coaching and development

Language skills:

English

EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY:

Bachelor in International Business Administration, Technical University Nuremberg, Germany

CAREER:

• Daimler AG, Head of Procurement Daimler Trucks & Busses Mexico, Monterrey, Mexico
• Daimler AG, Head of Procurement and Supplier Quality Mercedes-Benz Cars Mexico, Monterrey, Mexico
• Daimler AG, Strategic Project Manager “Sprinter” China, Fuzhou, China
• MBtech Consulting, Senior Associate Procurement and Supply Chain, Stuttgart, Germany

SPECIFIC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Mr. Stadelmeyer was born and educated in Germany. He started his career Volkswagen Procurement in Germany and China. For the past 12 years he worked for Daimler AG in different functions.
• Starting at Mbtech Consulting as a Senior Associate on projects in Beijing, Detroit and Stuttgart mainly focused on Localization projects in China.
• Followed by four years in contributing to the greenfield plant set-up for MB Vans in Fuzhou China. Functions during that time included Localization Director, Strategic project lead for the “Sprinter” in China as well as Turnaround Management.
• Next he took an assignment in Monterrey, Mexico to increase the Supplier Quality, Logistics and Procurement operations of Mercedes-Benz Cars in Mexico from 5 to 25 employees and establishing a new business model with clear supply chain responsibility for the local staff.
• His last assignment before joining AMBE Engineering as Managing Director Mexico was to lead Procurement of Daimler Trucks and Bus Mexico.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Project Management (planning, budgeting, risk analysis, multi- site project communication, task tracking)
• Procurement (Setting up und running a world class team, establishing powerful commodity strategies, reducing overall cost to the company)
• Supplier Quality (Setting up und running a world class team, achieving measurable quality improvements)

Language skills:

English, Spanish, German, Mandarin

EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY:

Master of Science in Management, Stanford University (California, USA)
Public Accountant, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Santa Fe, Argentina)

CAREER & SPECIFIC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

• Jerónimo has more than 20 years of experience in the steel, automotive, and manufacturing industry. He is currently Managing Director & Partner of AMBE Engineering, an on-site advisory, and services firm focused on operations for the manufacturing industry.
• Before, he held the position of CEO at Tenigal, a Joint Venture between Nippon Steel Corporation (JP: 5401) and Ternium (NYSE: TX). His career started at Ternium in Argentina in the strategic planning area and involved international experience in several countries. In 2007, he was selected to move to Venezuela to be in charge of marketing in the Andean region.
• Jerónimo next held key positions in Mexico. He was in charge of strategic planning for the international business unit; then he was promoted to marketing senior manager and after that to head of the automotive business unit.
• Recently, his responsibilities included leading the activity in the automotive business unit, the most dynamic and fastest-growing segment in Mexico, and consolidating the commercial operations of new investments in these markets. Throughout his career, he has been actively involved in successful M&A processes representing the most significant milestones in the company’s growth in recent years.
• Jerónimo is a Public Accountant graduated from Universidad Nacional del Litoral (U.N.L., Santa Fe, Argentina) and holds a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University (California, USA).

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Self-starting professional with effective communication and negotiation skills having wide international experience in Commercial, Marketing, Strategic Planning and M&A processes.
  Always seeking for continuous development and improvement in personal and professional aspects; striving for excellence and building long-term relationships.

EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY:

Business Diploma at Vanderbilt University USA, TN
Business Diploma at IPADE, Mexico
Bachelor in Industrial Engineering, IPN Mexico

CAREER:

• Horacio counts with over 20 years of working experience at Nissan in the Alliance Purchasing Organization, he performed important Global leadership roles along with 3 overseas assignments in USA, Japan, Brazil; leading cost reduction activities for Vehicle Parts and Services, as well as New Models Sourcing and compliance on QCDDM of all vehicles, Commodity Strategy and optimizing value in the Supply Chain.
• His last role before joining AMBE was Local Purchasing Head and Purchasing Program Management Director, Nissan Mexico.
• Regional Supplier Account Manager, Interiors and Cockpit, Nissan Mexico, USA
• Subdirector Purchasing Program Management, Nissan Mexico
• Manager Purchasing Program Management, Nissan do Brazil
• Regional Supplier Manager, Nissan Motor, Japan
• Regional Supplier Manager, Nissan North America, MI-USA
• Manager Interiors/Exterior Trim, Nissan Mexico

SPECIFIC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Horacio is native from Mexico City and educated as Industrial Engineer at Instituto Politecnico Nacional. Started his early career as Jr Buyer at a Tier1 supplier in San Luis Potosi Mexico; followed by a Purchasing career at Nissan.
• Experienced Purchasing Program Management skills with proven success on several platforms launched in USA, Mexico, Brazil and Japan.
• Financial risk and Supplier Crisis Management.
• Among his major contributions to Nissan are several Purchasing Strategies, i.e. Joint Venture Daimler-Nissan at COMPAS Common manufacturing plant, Depth Localization Tier1/N Midd Term Plan for Mexico operations and his last project related to New Free Trade Agreement (USMCA).

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Program Management (New Model Launch, Commodity strategy).
• Negotiation, Cost Analysis, Benchmarking, Talent retention.
• Supplier Capacity /Crisis Management, Supplier Performance QCDDM.

Language skills:

Fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese, Japanese (Basic).

EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY:

University: B.E. Chemical, Bangalore University

CAREER:

• 1997-2017 Harsh & Vardhan Impex Pvt Ltd, Managing Director, Mumbai, India
• 1991-1996 Pentokey Organy (India) Ltd, Executive – Business Development, Mumbai India
• 1985-1991 Rallis India Ltd, Manager Production, Thane, India.

SPECIFIC INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• Currently, Exclusive Petrochemicals Product / Project development work is on with Global Fortune 500 Co based in India, for local market. Also Clean Energy Project including Fuel from Bagasse and Solar energy Development project is being explored with Global and Indian Partners for local market.
• Successfully promoted Ambe Eng. project with RANE India – TRW JV partner during 2014.
• Since 1997 Imports & Exports of Chemicals, Exclusive Product / Project Development with Global Fortune 500 Companies AND Distribution – Local & International. Ongoing business with reputed Companies located at Germany, UK, Spain, Netherland, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, South Africa & Malaysia.
• Mr. Shah was born and educated in India. He worked for 7 years in Rallis India Ltd (Agrochemical) as Manager Production & Formulation before moving to Pentokey Organy (India) Ltd, in 1991as part of promoter group. He has been in leadership roles since then focusing on Project Execution, Erection, Commissioning, Commercial Production and Raw-Material sourcing of Acetic Acid and Ethyl Acetate. He successfully handled company’s legal matters and revival of company’s operations.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Project Management (planning, budgeting, risk analysis, multi- site project communication, task tracking ...)
• Product and process design, production concept, layout Industrialization, process design, production concept

Language skills:

English, Hindi, Gujarati