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ORGANIZER;CN=John Koutras:MAILTO:jskoutras@gmail.com
SUMMARY:THE FENG: Digital Nomad – Working Remotely
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DESCRIPTION:Topic: Digital Nomad – Working RemotelySpeaker: Juan-Carlos Cerda and John Koutras, LATAM SIG Co-ChairsPresentation: The discussion will touch on three areas on the current working environment:- The scenarios of 100% work from home, hybrid and 100% back to the office will be discussed.&nbsp; The challenges that are faced by the organizations and how the needs and evolving cultures/demands of the collaborators.&nbsp;- The impacts of how the local perspectives of business practices across Latin America and the origins of multinationals play a role.&nbsp;- Interesting scenarios where leadership is based in one country and the function is in several locations or in predominantly one. This scenario is a step beyond the common share services or regional role setup.&nbsp;Speakers' bios:Juan-Carlos Cerda has an MBA from the Adolfo Ibanez University in Chile and a Bachelor&nbsp;Degree in Accounting/Finance.&nbsp;He has spent his entire professional career working for various multinational companies. As a student, he started his career at NCR Corporation (a technology company) as an accounting analyst, performing different functions, including purchasing manager, controller and financial director. In 2004, he led the centralization of accounting and financial planning functions for Flink Ink Latin America (industrial company). At Merck Sharp Dohme (pharmaceutical laboratory) as Controller, he organized and updated the accounting and tax function. At ITT (industrial pumps), as LATAM regional controller, he supervised and directed the controlling and finance function for this industrial conglomerate for 7 countries. As LATAM Regional CFO for Boart Longyear, he led the implementation of Oracle ERP for the region. He organized the Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA). In addition, he improved the working capital position due to the global mining recession (2008/2009). Finally, he worked for Stericycle (global waste company), as country finance director in Chile and country manager in Brazil. He returned to Chile to support the spin-off of the Chilean unit before joining Imdex. As Regional CFO for South America, IMDEX is a leading global mining technology company that enables drilling contractors and resource companies to safely find, define and mine orebodies with precision and at speed.&nbsp;Juan-Carlos is married with 4 children between 17 and 25 years old. His favorite sports are soccer, cycling and running. His hobbies include collecting watches, traveling and movies.John S. Koutras has over 30 years of financial and general management experience in Brazilian subsidiaries of foreign multinationals, Latin America regional organizations, and local firms.&nbsp; He is also an active investor in startups and acts as an advisor/mentor to same.His experience spans over various industries such as auto parts, sugar and ethanol, energy distribution, petroleum, and consumer products. He has held C-Level positions in companies such as Zanini Industrial, Mangels, Clean Energy Brazil, CMS Energy, Sherwin-Williams, DIAGEO Latin America, Quaker Oats and ExxonMobil.Mr. Koutras earned a bachelor's degree in Administration and in Economics from the City College – CUNY. He holds an MBA degree in International Business from the Baruch College – CUNY in which he also acts as a mentor to undergraduate senior management projects. In addition, he has attended several executive education courses, including at The Wharton School, Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School. He is fluent in English, Portuguese and Greek.An active member of the local chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) in which he is a member of the Committee in Distressed M&amp;A and Workouts. He is also a member of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC) by whom he is certified as a Corporate Director. He leads the São Paulo Chapter of The FENG (The Financial Executives Networking Group) and is a board member of the LATAM Special Interest Group.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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