RE: Dr. Douglas Boateng - Expanded BioHere's a bio a fellow investor sent me when Douglas joined the BOD of DLKM. Pretty impressive. Please excuse my formatting, as I just cut and pasted it from a PDF document.
DR DOUGLAS BOATENG
Dip. M.Sc. Eng.D FIBC FCMI FIOD 1 FIOM)
HEAD COMMERCIALAFFAIRS, STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCE
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
DrBoateng’s has over 18 year’s extensive multi-sector international experience.His career includes positions as a CEO, Director and Senior level consultingspanning the following industries: - Technology (ICT) Chemicals/Pharma-chemicalPharmaceutical and Biotechnology, Aviation, Engineering Business management,Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic alliances and partnerships, Logistics andSupply Chain Management, Media, Consulting, Corporate and Strategic BusinessDevelopment, Corporate Governance and Advisory services to selected Governmentministries. Dr Boateng has also successfully worked and consulted for some ofthe world’s leading corporations in Europe, USA and Africa.
Annual revenues of companies that Dr Boateng has directly andindirectly assist range between 2M USD* 40 Billion USD with the relativelysmall revenue targets companies with strong growth potential.
Prior tojoining IPP Resources, Dr Boateng founded PanAvest International anorganization with a vision is to assist companies profitably extend theirmarket reach through the application of innovative Business DevelopmentLogistics and Supply Chain Management solutions. He acts(ed) as an independentadvisor and consultant to one of Scandinavia’ largest Generic Pharmaceuticalcompanies (Revenues 1.6 BILLION EUROS) on logistics, supply chain and businessdevelopment and strategies and one of Africa’s leading healthcare distributors
He is also visiting post graduate visiting professor* on logisticsand supply chain management and a Masters and Doctoral project supervisor atone of Africa’s largest and most respected business schools. He currently sitson the editorial board of Smart Procurement, the largest supplychain related portal in Africa and Middle East. In addition he is the Presidentof:
• WestAfrican Institute for Supply chain leadership. KNUST Business School GHANA.
• UK’sInstitute of Operations Management Africa for the Africa region
• International Supply Chain Leadership Forum
Dr Boateng has over 40 published and unpublished industrialaction and supply chain related research articles and internationalpresentations to his name:
In 2008 Dr Boateng was officially inducted into the
Institute of Directors Southern Africa’ Wall of Fame
for contribution to vertical specific initiative and tointernational logistics and supply chain management.
INSTITUTIONAL &CHARTERED
MEMBERSHIPS:
• Instituteof Directors
• Fellow-United Kingdom
• CharteredInstitute of Logistics and Transport
• Chartered Fellow-United Kingdom
• The Chartered Management Institute
• Chartered Fellow-United Kingdom
• Institute of Operations Management
• Fellow-United Kingdom
• Institute of Business Consulting
• Fellow-United Kingdom
• Institute of Directors
• Fellow SouthernAfrica
• Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
• Chartered Fellow Southern Africa
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Instituteof Directors (IOD) Graduate Diploma in Company Direction (GIMT, 2002)
Doctoratein Engineering Business Management (University of Warwick-UK 1998) Focus: -Industrial Engineering, International Logistics and Supply Chain Management
MScIndustrial Logistics (University of Central England-UK, 1991)
PostGraduate Diploma in Transport and Logistics (Cranfield Institute of Technology,UK, 1990)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS &RECOGNITION
?Induction into the South AfricanInstitute of Directors Wall of Fame for sector specific industrial contributionin South Africa
?Yearly recognition by WHO’S WHO ofSouth Africa since 2000
?One of the Youngest professionalsto be admitted for membership into the United Kingdom’s Institute ofDirectors(1994)
?Among a handful of global sectorspecific professionals to concurrently hold elected FELLOWSHIPs in 5 leading international professionalinstitutions
?1st student in the United Kingdom to graduate with an EngineeringManagement Doctorate(EngD) in 1998focusing on selected aspects ofinternational Pharmaceutical/Pharma-chemical logistics and supply chainmanagement
?One of a handful of professionals outside the United Kingdom to beelected (by invitation) a FELLOW of the powerful United Kingdom’s Institute ofDirectors; a highly influentialbody consisting of UK top CEO and Directors( Also an electedFELLOW of the Institute of Directors South Africa) .
EXPERIENCE
• Over 18 years focused expertise and global experience in:
• Corporate Governance and DirectorDevelopment
• Business strategy
• International logistics and supply chain management
• Commodity logistics
• Strategic planning and business development
• Alliance creation
• Operations development and business process improvement
• Strategic sourcing
• Business-to-business electronic commerce
• Human capital development, training and mentoring
?Sectorexperience include:
• Specialty chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, IT and ecommerce, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Exploration and Mining, • Petrochemicals, Governmentand sub vented agencies, Strategy and Management consulting, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
?• ExCEO of Izodia Africa, a subsidiary of Izodia PLC, a leading global electronicbusiness to business company
?• Ex Principal consultant Ernst and YoungInternational
?• Exglobal logistics and supply chain analyst for MSD/Merck (a $23B USD company)
?• Exproject evaluator for The National Research Foundation and the Innovation Fund ?Previous Group Executive '• Committee member of a FTSE listed company
?• Past company representative on POPI-Massachusetts Institute of Technology-USA
?• Previous member of Worldwide Strategic Team for a FTSE listed company, countriesrepresented: UK, USA, Sweden,Holland, Norway, Italy and South Africa
?• Exsteering committee Member of MerckEuropean Logistics Council(logistics spend was in excess of USD300m)
?• Past product specific steering committee member of Merck Global Supply Chain andlogistics Team. Product value ranged between $100-$600m USD
?Exsteering committee member-Commonwealth Business Council IT & EcommerceWorking Group
STRENGTHS
?• Corporate/Business Strategy ?
• Corporate Governance ?
• International business development ?
• Electronic commerce and e-supply chain management ?
• International logistics and supplychain management ?
• Business networking and relationship management
• ?Management consulting and business advisory services
• ?Strong Government relations ?
• Engineering business management ?
• Operations, process and performance development and management ?
• Industrial Engineering and management