Frans Spijker

Faro Area, Portugal Portugal

SME Mentor

Apparel / Fashion

After more than 30 years with Shell and 13 managerial & staff positions across most of the Shell chain ( Exploration/Production , Manufacturing, Projects ,Commercial, Trading, Marine) in 8 different countries worldwide I felt it was time for a change of direction. Consequently I left Shell in August 2012 and took an early retirement in order to fulfill a longstanding wish to leverage the vast knowledge gained in a world class multinational like Shell into small and medium size manufacturing companies ( < 250 employees) in order to help them sustainably improve their performance and competitiveness. We selected Portugal to bring this into practice , because we have a long standing re...