Avi E. Ram

Current

Director at BIC - Business Improvement Consulting

Past

Freelance programme / project manager at Scottish & Newcastle
Director and Shareholder at Executives Online Change Management
European Programme Manager at Manugistics

Managing Director at Tefen Ltd.
Freelance Project Manager at Alpha Systems International

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Education

Tel-Aviv University/School of Business
Tel-Aviv University/School of Engineering

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Avi E. Ram’s Summary

RECENTLY RELOCATED TO GENEVA SWITZERLAND AFTER 10 YEARS IN LONDON

BUILD COMPANIES. enjoy networking, helping, connecting, matchmaking and meeting other people, identifying opportunities and help developing them from visionary stage to successful implementation, deployment and roll-out.

Particularly enjoy helping and working with exceptional people who have elegantly solved a valuable customer pain and now need top class management expertise to realise their full commercial potential.

I am an energetic and change orientated executive, with an excellent record of achieving bottom line results through both strategic business development and cost reduction.
My recent posts include company and board directorships. I also managed large projects and provided programme management services to achieve major strategic goals.

A proven leader with full P&L responsibility, with a track record of delivering strategy ensuring profit and growth.
An experienced International Business Programme Director and Change Manager with a proven track record of success and expert knowledge of system analysis, IT selection and Implementation.
Experience in recruiting, developing & motivating project teams, strategic project planning, business consultancy initiatives, resource management & profitability initiatives.

Dynamic and hard working individual with demonstrated high level of commitment and professionalism. I love to be challenged and I relish achieving the impossible.

Objective:
Looking for interesting and challenging business opportunities; happy to partner with larger consultancy practices to enhance their service to clients.

Or Senior management opportunities where my dynamic career, leadership skills and my diverse and successful General Management and Change Management skills and experience are appropriate.

Avi E. Ram’s Specialties:

Can-do, leading by example, making things happen, achieving results, attention to details, commitment and professionalism, team-player, entrepreneur, international, Geneva, Switzerland, London, Weybridge, Israel, leadership, presence, influence, perceptive, observant, intuitive, motivation, start-up, innovation, NESTA, Programme / Project manager, COO, CEO, MBA, Business development, Change management, BPR, networking, coaching, cigars, Ski, Mountain biking, Shotokan, Motorcycle, SCUBA, Rich Dad

Avi E. Ram’s Experience

Director

BIC - Business Improvement Consulting

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

We partner with talented entrepreneurs to build successful companies. Our mission is to prepare early-stage companies to become global market leaders.

To this end, we provide capital, expertise, training and access to take the companies with whom we work from start-up to lift-off.

We begin from the recognition of three fundamental principals:

1. people -- not technology or money -- build companies
2. the company must have a Solution to a customer Pain
3. establishing a world-class business means getting it right the first time

We prepare the teams with whom we work to develop themselves and their companies for the next step. Our process integrates investment and business development, technology and market development, people, and processes to get it right the first time.

We call this process TeroVenturing.
Freelance programme / project manager

Scottish & Newcastle

(Management Consulting industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year)
Director and Shareholder

Executives Online Change Management

(Management Consulting industry)

September 2002 — June 2003 (10 months)

Leading UK Interim Management company.
- Set-up and lead a management consulting practice adjunct to the interim management agency, specialising in performance enhancement, introducing World-class, Lean, Change management and Six Sigma methodologies.
Clients: BMW Mini, Marks & Spencer, Utility providers, Biotech …
- Developed partnerships with management consulting service providers and self-employed consultants.
- Successfully exited the company and sold my shares due to poor interim management results.
European Programme Manager

Manugistics

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Manu; Computer Software industry)

March 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 7 months)

Leading specialised supply chain and optimisation company (Nasdaq: MANU, $300 million)
- Managed large-scale projects, implemented state-of-the-art supply chain computerised solutions.
- Rescued a £12M programme at Woolworths, managed a team of more than 50 IT and supply chain professionals and external sub-contractors, introduced new management structure and operational changes with major positive impact on bottom-line results, while ensuring end-users buy-in and overcoming technology barriers.
Managing Director

Tefen Ltd.

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

November 1998 — February 2001 (2 years 4 months)

Performance enhancement management consulting company, implementing: Lean, Kaizen, OEE, TPM, Benchmarking, Change management, World-class manufacturing …
- Managing Director and CEO, based in London UK, with operations all over Europe.
- Full P&L, Cash flow, Sales and Marketing, Recruitment, Training and Execution responsibilities.
- Introduced and implemented aggressive growth strategy that lead to a 200% increase in annual turnover and over 1,500% in profit.
- Sold and secured operational management consulting projects to world leading blue-chip clients.
Semiconductors and Electronics: Siemens Infineon, IBM, Altis, ABB, Atmel, HP Agilent, Mitel, Nortel, Marconi, Multek Dii, Philips, Lucent, Seagate …
Pharmaceuticals: Johnson & Johnson, Astra Zeneka, Pharmacia & Upjohn, RP Scherer, Aventis, Elan …
Others: Heineken …
- Lead large scale world-class productivity improvement and operational performance enhancement programmes.
Freelance Project Manager

Alpha Systems International

(Management Consulting industry)

June 1995 — October 1998 (3 years 5 months)

- Business coaching (IT company, Telecom company, Performance improvement consulting company).
- Business mentor for NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts).
- Business plans (Importers of Swiss watches, Importers of cosmetic products).
- Business development consulting to healthcare software firm.

Avi E. Ram’s Education

Tel-Aviv University/School of Business

MBA , Management of Marketing, Management of Technology , 1987 — 1990
Tel-Aviv University/School of Engineering

B.Sc. , Industrial Engineering and System Analysis , 1981 — 1985

Selected among top 0.1% of candidates for the academic reserve program

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Avi E. Ram’s Interests:

Enjoy skiing, mountain biking, martial arts (Karate-do black belt), motorcycling and scuba diving.

Avi E. Ram’s Groups:

Enjoy networking and meeting new people; active member of the London & South East Committee of the Institute of Management Consultancy (IMC) and organise networking events for regional members.

IMC = Institute of Management Consultancy

IoD = Institute of Directors

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