Rygane Manuel

Accomplished Executive Director with over 10 years of demonstrated ability in delivering mission-critical results. Who leverages entrepreneurial vision and broad-based business acumen to identify and capitalize on both internal and external opportunities. Delivers strong contributions to market position, revenue, margins and ROI. Highly respected, trusted advisor and business leader who is deliberate in listing, intentional in coaching and excellent in performing.

Team builder and mentor with a passion for instilling cultures of collaboration and engagement by applying servant leadership principles. Outstanding relationship building and communication skills amongst all levels and constituencies. Fluent in both writing and speaking in 4 different languages, to be an ambassador to bring large continents together in business acquisitions, mergers or market expansions abroad continental borders.

Possesses start-up, turnaround and high-growth experience ranging from large corporations to small, privately held organizations spanning diverse industries, including information technology, telecommunication, banking, corporate lending, human resource management, consulting, software development, product and market development and service industries.

Possesses also the unique experience in successfully managing the structural winding down of large to small organizations.

Unique personal added value to any organization is being a multi-functional professional and talented senior executive, able to quickly adapt to any environment within any complex society and cultural surrounding.

Business turnarounds – Transformed a cost-based department into a profit-making self-supporting new business to reach breakeven within 18 months. Recovered a non-performing credit card department into a profit-making business, with a customer’s base growth of more that 40% in one year.

Merger and Acquisition \ Structural winding down (very specialized and unique skillset) – Played key roles in acquisitions, mergers and integrations of companies and synergistic product portfolio, including conducting due diligence, participating in negotiations and executing change management. Acquisition and integration of loans portfolio of bank in Bonaire, Curacao to GSH. Possess a very specialized skill in the successful winding down of a financial organization which entails closure of all contracts, effectively executed personnel layoff plan from 200 to 15, concluding all business and customers accounts with zero litigation’s and or financial impact for the outgoing business.

Business start-up/ Corporate Governance / Operating infrastructure (Operation transformation) – Joined start-up organization in film production and also information technology and established operating infrastructure policies and procedures, secured financing and drove operational success that delivered ˜5x growth in employees, 2x expansion in facilities (clients) and 45% revenue improvement within year two.

Professional recognition – Forming part of the Innovation team Curacao; Supervisory board member, Curacao champion table topics ToastMasters, University teacher at ICUC. Degree: MBA, BSs, PhD in progress.

Personal motivation - To always have a clear vision of the future and with a positive attitude towards opportunities and challenges; Like to function in multi-cultural environments and to be exposed to people with broad experience and knowledge. One strongest attribute include working with teams. Work well in a high-pressured environment and with a personality that enables the ability to motivate and lead others while striving for excellence with a high standard of integrity.

PRINCEII Project Management