I am a proactive and achievement-oriented professional offering 27 years of impressive success in consistently achieving revenue, profit, & business growth objectives within start-up, turnaround, and rapid-change environments across cross-functional industries. Currently associated with Sumitomo Rubbers South Africa Pty Ltd. as Country Manager and achieving sales targets through getting regular orders month-on-month from in country distributors, following up completion of required import documents, ensuring timely shipment of orders and clearing of the same after the shipments arrive in the port. I am a forward thinking person with proficiency in launching new business lines, establishing division from scratch, increasing sales by multi-folds and growing top line & bottom line, retail operations, adeptly managing diverse functions, including inventory control, visual merchandising, and customer service, to drive operational efficiency and business growth, securing new business from new channels, driving revenue growth, channel development and key account management in the B2B sector and conducting TNA (Training Needs Analysis)