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Benoît Perdu

SME CEO with a solid background in engineering and economics, 13 years experience in Vietnam

Contact

97/10 Ngô Quyên
An Cu, TP Can Tho
SR Viet Nam

E-mail: benoit@transmekong.com

A Frenchman, born in 1968 (38 years old)

Married, three children

Tel: +84 (91) 313 6024
Tel France: +33 (0)6 7263 1678

Core competences
 
  • Hardworking, autonomous, an articulate speaker, team builder & achiever.
  • Mastery of cross-cultural asian contexts, company set-up and management.
  • Strong technical background: mechanical & electrical engineering.

Languages

Fluently spoken, read and written French, Vietnamese, English.
TOEFL 293 out of 300 in Singapore, 2001

Computer

Computer literate, master of office applications and 3D design on AutoCAD; Formally trained in C, ForTran; fluent in PHP/MySQL and internationalized web design; Debian / GNU Linux administration.

Interested

History of economic thought, economics of sustainability,
Science & Technology, quality time.

References

References are available upon request at benoit@transmekong.com.

Experience

2003-present

TransMekong

Can Tho, Vietnam

A family company

  • Cruises on the Mekong Delta on board wooden cabin cruisers. (operational since 2003)
  • Redesigned and overhauled a 24m (80') wooden boat with all amenities on board (2003).
  • Designed from the start, built and tuned a 32m (105') wooden cruiser for parties of up to 24 passengers (2006)
  • Developped the routes and stop-overs, in relation with the tour-operators
  • Developped the marketing tools and web site, transmekong.com.

 

2001-2003

Groupama Vietnam

Can Tho, Vietnam

Managing Director

Purpose: to take a role in stabilizing the rural population of the Mekong Delta.

  • Established and organized a US$ 5 million agricultural insurance company, a 100%-owned affiliate of Groupama operating in the South of Vietnam.
  • Rewrote and adapted the products to the local economic and social context.
  • Specified the underwriting standards and organised the training of the agents and experts.
  • Recruited and organised the agents' network, set up a responsible sales incentive policy.
  • Started sales within 4 months of taking the position.

Chief Representative

  • Chief representative of Groupama-GAN in S.R. Vietnam

 

1997-2001

Total Gas Can Tho JV

Can Tho, Vietnam

General Manager then Managing Director

  • Established and organized a US$ 5 million LPG terminal and filling plant, a joint-venture company of Total with the 9th Army of Vietnam.
  • Supervised in the name of Total the basic and detailed design and construction of the plant; managed its operation.
  • Managed a team of 55 to develop the distribution network and industrial services under the brand name TOTALGAZ, reaching 4,000 mt (over 15% market share) within the first year of operation.
  • Balanced the Gross Operating Income and cash-flow 3 months after start-up.

 

1996-1997

GEC ALSTHOM International

Hanoi, Vietnam

Sector Manager

  • Coordinated and followed-up the commercial relations of the Group in Vietnam
  • Took part in the upstream development of railway, industrial equipment sales

 

1994-1996

GEC ALSTHOM SDEM

Vietnam

Project Manager

1996
Sold and Managed a FRF 4 million-over LPG pressure storage construction project in Dong Nai. Organised the team, managed the quality of the works.
1995
Developed the sales in Vietnam; acted as the country manager for SDEM and managed the partnership with the local industry, Cam Pha, Quang Ninh.
1994
Supervised the erection and commissioning of a 1,200 mt hydropower penstock, Vinh Son, Binh Dinh.

 

1993-1994

Franco Pacific Vietnam

Hanoi, Vietnam

Business Developer

  • Covered the industrial equipment and consumables sector in Northern Vietnam
  • Developed institutional relations to bid for power plant projects (GEC ALSTHOM)

Education & Training

1986-1992

ESME Sudria, Engineering School
a five year engineering curriculum with competitive entrance examination

Paris, France

Electrical & Mechanical Engineer (5 years)
Graduated among the top 10 students.

  • Energy conversion, thermodynamics, fluids mechanics
  • industrial data processing.

 

2001-2003

Murdoch University

Perth, Australia

Graduate Certificate in Economics (GradCertEcon)

  • Macroeconomics, Public Sector Economics, Economics of Social Policy

 

1997-2000

TotalFinaElf

France, SE Asia

Management & Finance Training

  • Finance, accounting as a management tool (TOTAL, France, 1997)
  • LPG: distribution, management, technical aspects (TOTAL, Germany, 1997)
  • Team leading & people management (TOTAL, Indonesia, 1999, 2000)
  • Finance & management control (HEC course, TotalFina, Singapore, 1999)