I spent my entire professional abroad: starting in Vietnam, then on to Indonesia where I was in charge of the entire ASEAN region later expanded to include South Asia where I eventually relocated following a promising career opportunity. Then on to the Middle east for a career change move; here I also was responsible for the entire region spanning 14 countries. This exposure has given me significant and invaluable insights into how business is conducted, relationships developed and maintained and ultimately allowed me to experience diversity and similarities between people, countries and cultures: I try to understand them and always respect them.
Between business and pleasure I have traveled to over 50 countries and though it is difficult to quantify the learnings from all the traveling, I certainly know I have been enriched by it; I also know that this wealth of knowledge acquired in bits and pieces here and there, constitutes a significant advantage when facing a new challenge or being in unfamiliar territory and it opens up the mind to new ways of thinking, lateral, creative or out of the box, it goes by many names: the fact is that it is not something that can be learnt from a book, a seminar or in a limited amount of time, so here is a skill that sets me a part from many at least in my age group.
My objective is to grow professionally, nurture those elusive leadership qualities I feel to already have in me, and do so in a way that allows my specific functional expertise to be put at work: my ability and willingness to relocate worldwide, my passion for, and understanding of, Asia as a whole; my diversified experiences in Sales and Marketing built over 10 years of professional self development with leading multinational companies leaders in their respective fields, and proficiency in 4 languages including Bahasa Indonesia.