Louis Cazaubon
Consultant (Free Lance), L-C Consulting (Paris, France)
Change Management:
> International ventures,
> Europe, Arabic Countries,
> Member of "Managers en Mission" network of independant experts;
Consultancy:
> Project Management,
> Venture Capital,
> Member of Didaxis network of independant experts;
French citizen:
> available for expatriation (Europe, Arabic Gulf Countries),
> if and when required by business/project.
Profile
> Senior executive with strong operational background and proven experience in complex and large scale international military programmes (Defense & Homeland Security):
• Project Management,
• Complex System Engineering (IT),
• Large Scale Industrial Projects (up to $5B),
• Change Management.
> Turnaround architect bringing critical change and restructure (as a CEO or a COO) to challenged organizations, in order to boost them into successful leaders, bridging and federating pluridisciplinary teams, and fostering operational efficiency and accomplishment.
> Entrepreneurial leader heading and finalizing long term vision and investments to develop on the edge permanent capacities, technologies and processes. Offers pioneering industry success through international start up ventures, outsourcing, best practices, consultancy and change management.
> Excels in multicultural (Europe, Middle-East) enterprises and projects with:
• a proven expertise in strategic planning, operations leadership, system engineering and development, process optimization (ISO 9001), and P&L,
• a deep knowledge of the recent developments and strategic trends in the Gulf Countries local industry and university,
• and a solid set of personal ethics, profoundly respectful of the Gulf Countries local values.
48 contacts=> Bringing from France, strategic and commercial assistance to innovative French and European SME’s, ready to transfer their know-how and eager to develop and implement their business in the Arabic Gulf area, through local joint venture projects.
=> Providing, from France, advisory studies for G.C.C. (Gulf Countries Council) local authorities and investors, in charge of establishing local empowered innovative organizations (R&D laboratories, universities, SME’s, clusters).
2009 - 2011* Founder and owner of L-C Consulting FZE, a fully independent company, incorporated as an establishment on the Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone, with offices located in Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.),
* Specializing in project management and venture capital consultancy:
=> Bringing from the UAE, strategic and commercial assistance to innovative French and European SME’s, ready to transfer their know-how and eager to develop and implement their business in the UAE and the Middle East, through local joint venture projects.
=> Providing, from the UAE, advisory studies to the benefit of local authorities and investors, in charge of establishing local empowered innovative organizations (R&D laboratories, universities, SME’s, clusters), in line with the Abu Dhabi 2030 Strategic Vision.
Chief Operations Officer (Change Management), GCSS, a subsidiary of Emirates Advanced Investments (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
2007 - 2009In charge to create from scratch, and develop the Company ('09 workforce: 120p. including 60 graduate UAE engineeers and managers), then handle smoothly the management of the company to a local CEO.
CEO & Programme Director (Change Management), MOPA2, a joint venture of DCNS and THALES (Paris, France)
2004 - 2007Programme Director of the 2nd French Aircraft Carrier (PA2, a $3.5B programme), and, as such, CEO of the MOPA2, a prime contractor joint-venture ('06 workforce: 50p.) established by DCNS (65%) and THALES (35%) to manage the Risk Reduction Phase of the programme.
1999 - 2004In charge of the Armored Systems Division ('03 workforce: 1250 p., revenue: $800M)
1996 - 1999CEO in charge of the company ('99 workforce: 450 p., revenue: $100M)
1989 - 1996In charge of the Naval Communications Systems activity, then of the Naval Combat Systems activity ('96 workforce: 120 p., revenue: $280M).