Frank Davidson

Departamento: Dirección, Entrepreneurship experience starting an online pan-European travel agency specially designed for independent travellers I developed a business plan, designed and implemented a web based platform with a state of the art reservation system, obtained the pertinent government licenses, hired and trained an operations team and launched a pilot test to prove the concept. After operating 6 months I went to the capital markets and raised enough capital to fund the expansion of the busin

Departamento: Dirección, Led 32 financial services professionals in the Sales & Marketing teams during the post start-up phase of the GE Captital Bank Residential Mortages division. The team financed over $150MM (35% above target estimates) in residential mortgages, increasing our wallet share with our largest intermediaries from 2-5% to 10-25%. We managed to accomplish this by implementing measurement systems and feedback loops with our main customers.

Departamento: Dirección, Member of the Board in GE Capital Bank Spain. Led the start-up phase of the Equipment Finance platform in Spain Drove the development of the platform to functionally support GE Equipment Finance needs in terms of Sales, Risk, Operations, Finance Reporting, Pricing and IT. Within 2 years the team grew to 24 financial services professionals as outlined in the Operating Plan. The Sales & Marketing team exceeded targets by 60% financing the purchase of $80MM in industrial equipme

Departamento: Producción - Calidad, In 1997, GE Power Controls acquired a US$60 Million annual revenue business with a negative 12% net profit and offered me the job of Plant Manager. I became the youngest Plant Manager in Europe leading 140 employees attain Operating Plan business objectives in the production of low voltage electrical protection equipment. Within the first 12 months of operations the newly appointed management team successfully turned around the business into a positive 6% net profit op

Departamento: Producción - Calidad, Reporting to the Vice Presidents of several GE Industrial businesses in Europe I led a variety of teams implement pan-European process improvement projects in areas such as Manufacturing, Logistics, and Sales. Our team focused on turnaround projects which would deliver significant business performance improvements. We worked on location in France, Germany, The Netherlands and Portugal.

Executive MBA designed for a select number of successful Senior Managers worldwide interested in obtaining additional skills in order to accelerate their careers. Courses included: Financial Reporting & Analysis, Advanced Corporate Finance, Managing Corporate Turnarounds.

Completed 5 out of 8 courses with a 3.8 GPA out of 4.0

Graduated with honours & nominated for Senior Award for Extra-Curricular Activities.