About me
Damien LEGAVE
Born in France in 1984
Master degree from Epitech Paris
In China since october 2005
I speak French, English and Chinese fluently
Contact
Phone: 0086 - 15804264605
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Since Sept. 2010
Investment Banking, China's Director consultant
BNP PARIBAS Consultant
BNP PARIBAS Investment Banking Risk Analyst Consultant
China general manager assistant
Investment & Buy of government assets
Identify government bad assets
Explain to local administration why they should sell some of their assets
Identity new business model for those assets
Follow meetings and lobbying events through the whole buying process
TIAN DE TAI G.M. Trading Dept
Import and distribution of medical devices in China
Refer to DL INTERNATIONAL TRADING Import and Distribution
Since March 2007
Trading department (~50 persons)
Since March 2007
Associate & G.M (~6 persons)
DL INTERNATIONAL TRADING
Import / Export: subsidiary of TiandeTai group
(Import and Distribution all over China)
Company creation
Import and Distribution
Identify new products / Suppliers in Europe
Exclusivity rights negotiation for China
Administrative and Government licenses preparation
Market and competition analysis
Sales and distribution strategy (Marketing, Price policies, etc)
HR (Sales Team building, Motivation, Formation)
Sourcing & Export, Projects Outsourcing
HR (Recruitment, Formation)
Activity Development (ERP, Strategy, Budget, Marketing) short and middle terms
Business Activity
Reporting (for my associate, customers)
Management (Project flowcharts, Team leading and motivating, Work policies)
Project management (Coordination of the actors of the project, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Logistic, etc)
Financial (Cost killing, P&L, Forex)
Engineering (Problem analysis, Problem solving, Prototype Design and Redesign, Materials, etc)
Networking (Business diners and events with Chinese partners and customers, Exhibition, etc)
Someflu IT Regional Manager
Analyze and audit the IT infrastructure (software and hardware) of the company: 2 plants / 4 agencies
Improve and harmonize the hardware & software infrastructure
Technology scouting
Audit and update the internal security
Prepare the migration to VOIP
Analyze and budget the IBM OS/400 server migration possibilities
08.2006 - 08.2007
IT Regional Manager
2005 - 2006 (6months)
Paris (Palais Brognart)
GL TRADE IT Engineer
Entire production of automatic tests platform for GL MESSENGER product
(Financial electronics flux protocols real time conversion)
Project Architecture Design
Technologies choices
Tests protocols definition
Project development
Documentation writing
Quality inspection and Production
ACCOR CASINOS IT Engineer
Entire production of a daily report management center for the direction board
(to analyze and manage the daily reports from all the casinos of the group)
Schedule meetings to define the needs with the head of departments (Financial, Operation, Marketing, …)
Specification book writing
Project architecture design
Project development
Documentations writing
Tests, Quality inspection
Set up in production
2003 - 2004
6 months
Paris (Montparnasse Tower, 36th floor, headquarter of the group)
2005 - 2007
Epitech Master degree
EPITECH, Paris, European Insitute of Technology
Management & Business - Master degree
(4th year in China 2005 - 2006)
(Excellence award and best analysis & business proposition of the promotion for real case study: Strategy / Financial / Marketing)
Jury composed of senior consultants from private industry
Epitech Bachelor degree
EPITECH, Paris, European Institute of Technology
IT Engineering - Bachelor degree
2002 - 2005