Alexander Valle Burkert
Industrial Operations Executive
Thirty-five years · Asia Pacific and Latin America
I take manufacturing businesses that are underperforming and make them worth something. Plants, product, people and the number at the bottom of the page. Three of the businesses I rebuilt were subsequently acquired.
The record
Took over a plant running at twenty per cent of capacity and rebuilt it as the business grew, through two plant constructions and a decade of expansion.
Recruited by the founder to turn round three plants across Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Productivity up fifty per cent, cost down eight.
Throughput up fivefold on the same assets. Quality compliance from sixty-five per cent to ninety-eight. Key member of the management buyout team.
Where
Brazil · Malaysia · Indonesia · Thailand · Mexico. Before all of it, one of Procter & Gamble Brazil's first seventy employees, and the only Brazilian on its global start-up team, commissioning plants across four countries.
Credentials
Chartered Engineer, Institution of Engineering and Technology · MBA, Lincoln University · Lean Six Sigma Black Belt · Five granted patents · English and Portuguese native, Spanish proficient.