Curriculum Vitae English

Jan Jonckheere
Carrer Pintor Marià Carbonellopis, 12, 3o 3a- 08870 Sitges (Barcelona) - Spain
Mobile phone (+34) 628 056 562 - jan_jonckheere@yahoo.es
Age :42 – Civil status: single



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cartamundi España, Barcelona, Spain:
July 2002 – January 2008: General Manager / Country Manager of Cartamundi España, SL., responsible for Spain and Portugal, and Coordination Manager for Casino playing cards for the international Casino market.
Creation of the subsidiary after market studies and consumer panels studies; strategical planning, product development, budgeting and planning, hiring of personnel, commercial tasks with key accounts, participation in trade shows.


Cartamundi, Turnhout, Belgium:
July 2000 - June 2002: Business Development Manager for playing cards in Asia Pacific and Spain; Production and Coordination Manager for Casino playing cards.
Development after market study of the Asia Pacific market; installing of local distributors, Key Account Management, budgeting and planning, participation in trade shows. Finally initiating the subsidiary of Cartamundi Asia Pacific.

January 1997 - June 2000: Production, Sales and Coordination Manager for Casino playing cards with worldwide responsibility.
Product development, marketing, PR, market studies, installing of local distributors, Key Account Management, participation in trade shows, budgeting and planning, on Cartamundi group level.

February 1994 - December 1996: Junior Export Manager for playing cards in Europe. Follow up of local distributors in North and Central Europe; Key Account Management, participation in trade shows.


Seat, Barcelona, Spain:
October 1989 - September 1993: Area Manager for the export of accessories and exchange parts for cars in the following consecutive markets: Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, Mediterranean, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria. Follow-up of local importers, budgeting and planning, marketing. Start-up of the activities in Egypt and Turkey.


Other activities:

June 2000 – June 2002: Member of the Board of Administration of Export Kempen

September 1999 – June 2000: Export Coaching Kempen – participation through Cartamundi as Support Company

July 1989 - September 1989: Constitution of the “Junior Enterprise Belgium vzw.”, member of the board of administration, and participation in a study on accessories and exchange parts in the Benelux-market.



EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

University Degrees:

1988 – 1989: “Licentiaat-Doctorandus” (similar to MBA) in Business Economics, with distinction, major in Marketing. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University Louvain), Belgium

1983 – 1988: Master of Business Economics, major in International Business, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

October 1986: Certificat de Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris (commercial French), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris, Belgium and France


Other studies:

- Training course on Middle Management: Responsibility to lead and motivate a team - Tea Cegos, Madrid, Spain
- Commercial negotiation (how to close profitable operations) – Tea Cegos, Barcelona, Spain
- Techniques of International Business “From market prospection to payments”, Chamber of Commerce, Mechelen, Belgium
- Training course on Banks and Export, Federación de Importadores y Exportadores de Cataluña, Barcelona, España


KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS:

- Dutch: mother tongue
- English: excellent
- Spanish: excellent
- French: excellent
- German: very good
- Portuguese: very good
- Catalan: basic knowledge

- Computer Skills: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Internet