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Warren Man
Multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural energetic 39 years old British professional. With sound
academic & 17 years of international career experiences, offering versatile yet focused skill-sets &
expertise.
British (UK), Age : 39 (Year of Birth : 1976)
CONTACT :
Email : man.warren@live.com
Mobile : +971 – 56 115 4485
Skype : man.warren
http://ae.linkedin.com/in/warrenman
PROFILE :
- High interest & awareness in the Middle East and Asia affairs.
- English & Cantonese language (Fluent), Portuguese & Mandarin language (Basic Conversational).
- Seagram Scholarship for “Academic Excellence” (USA).
- Bronze Certificate in the “National UK Mathematics Contest”.
- Possess vast international networks & connections.
AREAS WORKED :
- Private Investment
- Multinational
- Military, Defense & Government
- Supply Chain
- Physical Oil & Commodities Trade
- Minerals & Mining
- General Trade; Import & Export
- Advertising & Media
- Corporate Branding
- Engineering Design Consultancy
- Special Purpose Machining Maker
- Industrial Manufacturer & Fabricator
- FMCG (e.g. Procter & Gamble, P&G)
SKILLS SETS :
- Business Development
- Supply Chain Management
- Inventory & Stock Management
- Warehouse Control
- Purchasing & Sales, Procurement
- Strategy & Planning
- Physical Oil & Commodities Trading
- General Trading & Sourcing
- Oil Tank Farm Storage Connection
- Importation, Exportation & Shipping
- Contract Management
- Cost Assessment & Negotiation
- Investment Projects & Proposals
- Banking Instruments
- Financial Modeling
- CAD Engineering Design
- Project Management
- Hands-on Manufacturing & Fabrication

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- Risk Analysis & Management
- Graphics & Presentation
- Advertising Creative Director
- Branding Management
- Guidelines Construction
COUNTRIES WORKED :
- England (UK)
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- China
- Brazil
- Dubai, UAE
EDUCATION SUMMARY:
(2015) - Cert. “The Emergence of the Modern Middle East” – Political Certificated Studies
(2012) - Cert. “Oil Markets & Recent Trends in China”
(2012) - Cert. “Oil Trader Development Program”
(1997-2001) - BSc (Honored) “Industrial Design Engineering”
(1995-1997) - BTECH “Engineering Foundation
WORK EXPERIENCE :
Cypher Group of Companies
“A private investment & diversified company with prestige Emirati Arab families shareholders. Focus in Private
Investment, Advisory & Trading”
May 2013 – Current
Dubai, UAE
VP – Supply Chain & Procurement (+ Business Development)
Report to : SVP
Employee : Under 20
Achievements :
- Participated in various energy & mining investment projects, which are semi-government & government related in
the MENA regions.
- Establish strong connection with Azerbaijan, Black Sea, Persia, Central Asia & local Middle East regions with oil
traders.
- Establish key point of contacts for fuel ethanol manufacturer for gasoline blending.
- Formed strong relationships for oil tank farm storage construction and leasing in the local UAE region.
- Built strong local UAE contacts for Gasoil, Diesel, Fuel Oil, Lubricants & petrochemical blenders &
manufacturers.
- Establish point of contacts & relationships with Japanese fund managers, Japanese conglomerates & potential
investors as well as Japanese companies that wish to franchise in the MENA region.
- Completed financial modeling & initial stage planning for F&B & Retail sectors as private investment.
- Successfully presented the MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) & re-manufacturing spare parts businesses
for the military sector in the Middle East region.
- Expanded commodities & food trading, shippers, suppliers, distribution networks.
Duties :
- Serve as a key member of the executive team that sets the group's strategic direction under well known &
prestige Emirati Arab families as shareholders.
- Manage multiple business initiatives in a start-up environment.
- Responsible for initiating, analyzing, negotiating & implementing new business opportunities & partnerships,
including potential strategic investments & acquisitions.
- Responsible for building & evaluating key business growth strategies, partnerships, & identifying & developing
new business opportunities.
- Responsible for taking potential opportunities from concept through to negotiation & implementation of which
working closely with CEO & senior management throughout the organization to help map out opportunities that the
group should be pursuing.

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- Source, analyze, negotiate & execute new business, suppliers, distributors, shipping lines & partnership
opportunities.
- Lead the due diligence process & preparation of business documents.
- Manage Contracts, Terms & Conditions negotiation & work with corporate lawyers.
- Act as point person with external parties & evaluate & summarize proposals presented to the group by outside
parties.
- Communicate with senior level executives internally, externally & outside advisers.
- Stock, logistic, inventory, Storage & warehouse management.
- Cost comparison & procurement strategy. Issue Invoices, Release Orders & Receipts & assign transporters for
product pickup and delivery.
- Procurement for group of companies related products & businesses.
- Examine & navigate strategic issues facing the targeted industries to expand options to support group's short-
range to long-range business plans.
- Prepare presentations & executive summaries for group executives.
- Participate in corporate meetings, presenting potential business opportunities.
- Evaluate, execute potential partnership prospect across targeted sectors & divisions.
- Complete periodic review of business plans against objectives.
- P&L (Profit & Lost), CapEx & OpEx (Capital Expenditure & Operation Expenditure) financial modeling &
evaluation.
- Compile investment proposal literatures & presentations for investors.
Supreme Group
“A US$6 billion turnover with an over 5000 staffedintegrated supply chain group to defense, government &
commercialclients in challenging environments globally”
December 2011 – April 2013
Dubai, UAE
Fuel Procurement Manager (+ Business Development)
Report to : Supply Chain Division Director
Employee : Over 5000 Worldwide
Achievements :
- Reduced cost for Gasoil/Diesel supply for UNSOA (The United Nations for AMISOM) in East Africa through price,
benchmark & fuel grade studies & arbitration with supplier.
- Establish Chinese military & non-military connected companies relationship for fuel oil, M100 & crude oil
business.
- Establish key point of contacts for potential LNG/LPG, Natural Gas, jet fuel supply for airports in Asia region &
diesel supply for consortium & government in South America & West Africa.
- Establish key clients list for marine/bunker fuel potential business opportunities in Asia.
- Establish point of contacts & relationship with Petronas (PETCO) as well as trade desk in TOTAL Singapore &
P66 etc.
- Identify opportunities to expand current oil business for East Africa.
- Introduced OTRM Software & Technology system in order to track, monitor, forecast & hence enable better
planning, inventory & stock controlling for company products in transit & in storage as well as identify exposures &
risks.
- Established motor oil & hydraulics lubricants buying contact in China.
Duties :
- Provide best procurement solutions base on top business practices vs cost & quality.
- Implementing strategies to procure & deliver the lowest cost of fuel & fuel products. Negotiation of prices, terms
& conditions to ensure the company’s best contractual & commercial position is maintained.
- Coordinate with Senior Supply Chain Manager in planning & execution of global purchase of fuel, through
managing & leading negotiation, pricing feasibility, analysis, logistics, shipping & contracting for all petroleum
supply arrangements (& associated products).
- Providing market intelligence knowledge through working with Thomson Reuters, Navitas, Triple Point, Brady
Plc, Allegro, ICIS (C1 Energy) etc & advice in development of fuel price forecasts, inventory/stock management,
market trends, supply alternatives, international supply issues & other budgeting & planning.
- Analyzing of fuel usage trends within sales regions with an aim to shaping storage, infrastructure, & s upply
planning.

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- Undertaking procurement financial analysis/evaluations, reports & documents all cost savings & reviews
significant cost escalations to management & procurement.
- Participate & provide input into Demand & Supply planning for Gasoil/Diesel, Jet A1, JP8, Gasoline, MOGAS,
AVGAS, Additives, Oil & Lubricants.
- Liaison with account payable to assure accurate POs are issued, prompt payment to suppliers.
- Liaise & maintain key suppliers relationships & 3rd party to ensure integrity of process & cargoes. (incl. oil majors
such as Shell, TOTAL, BP) & other oil traders.
- Work within Supply Chain team for light & middle distillates products across Europe, Middle East, Central Asia &
East Africa.
- Business Development for commercial market in Asia Pacific Region.
- Exposures to known global military, defense & peace-making forces clients (incl. UN, UNSOA, MoD, DLA-E, US
& British Army, NATO, ISAF), & also civilian clients such as airlines, consortium & traders.
- Confirm product loading dates, payment, track & monitor cargo along with Scheduler staff, assure shipping
documents in place (B/L, release note, packing list etc)
H.K.Y.S. Group Ltd.
“A Chinese & Singaporean Oil & Commodities trading which also heavily involved in investment & financial
instruments monetization”
September 2010 – November 2011
Hong Kong & Singapore
Business Development & Trade Manager
Report to : CEO
Employee : Under 150
Achievements :
- Promoted to oversee international physical trading for gasoil, D2, fuel oil, M100, jet aviation fuel, crude, iron ore,
coal & marine fuel for Hong Kong & Singapore office.
- Assist sales & other office staff in all aspects of their work developing new supply & purchasing sources, new
customer accounts & further penetrating business with existing customers & suppliers.
- Input fuel oil, gasoil, crude, ore, coal & marine fuel transactions into co. systems.
- Assisting group company to establish & structure new branch office in Singapore.
- Assisting account department in the areas of banking & financial instruments (such as LC, BG, SBLC,
performance bond, SWIFT matters) for company's operation.
- Assisting company to locate & liaise with investors, SBLC/BG providers for the purpose of financial instruments
discounting & monetization (as well as developing sales & purchase of SBLC/BG relations).
- Involve in upstream & downstream investment projects for oil refinery.
Duties :
- Supervise junior sales team staff. Support admin department & Team Management.
- Liaise with customers for business development.
- Research, opportunity analysis & relationship management.
- Cultivation of new & existing suppliers & customers (customer-facing environment).
- Team playing with excellent communication, organizational & analytical skills.
- Responsible in risk management, commercial (pricing & contracts etc) negotiation & market analysis.
MX Company Ltd.
”A General Trading with operations in Asia & Brazil. Product include oil, commodities, solar, minerals,
electronics, F&B & solar technology”
January 2006 – August 2010
Hong Kong & Brazil
Business Development & Trade Manager
Report to : CEO
Employee : Under 20
Achievements :
- Define & implement global & regional business development strategies that maximize the profit growth in Asia in
both short & long term.

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- Assist “Commercial Director” & “Sales & Marketing Director” to establish product-pricing policy. Recommend
pricing strategy & direction with Regional Sales Teams.
- Locate & coordinate with investors for oil blocks projects, oil extraction projects & minerals mines in Far East &
Latin America.
- Locate & coordinate with exit end buyers with a refinery in North America region.
- Built contacts, networks in mining & food commodities – S. America & West Africa.
Duties :
- Explore & develop commodities supplying leads for Asia & global markets.
- Business development in petroleum - oil & gas trading. Global sourcing.
- Develop business in solar powered products, electronics & garment trade in Brazil.
- Commodities trading such as sugar & iron ore, coal, sulphur, minerals, rice, meat & food product as well as
alcoholic / non-alcoholic beverages from Brazil, West Africa, Europe & Asia. Establish pricing, procedures
guidelines & all related documentation.
- Exposure to Chinese clients for oil & minerals.
- Product & businesses-marketing globally & regionally.
- Exposure to shipping, LC issuance / documentation, SWIFT related subjects.
- Bringing in new clients, suppliers, resellers, allocation-holders, mandates liaison.
SDS Media
“A leading company in providing in-hotel tourism channel in Singapore. A channel devoted to keep Singaporean
tourism industry strong & vibrant”
August 2006 – December 2006 (Short Term Project)
Singapore
Advertising Creative Director
Report to : MD
Employee : Under 20
Duties :
- Usage of Adobe PhotoShop & Adobe Illustrator for presentation & concepts layout.
- Advertising design and marketing through tourism related sectors & media.
- Webpage layout design
- Art directing.
- Sourcing and sub-contracting out selected concepts & ideas to freelance visualizers.
- Liaise with clients to sell design ideas within their given budgets.
- Working closely with other team members to set charge rate & profit margin
JCDecaux Group
“A multinational & largest outdoor advertising corp. in the world. Currently operates in more than 54 countries,
165 airports”
June 2006 – July 2006 (Short Term Project)
Singapore
Advertising Creative Director
Report to : MD
Employee : Over 9500 Worldwide
Duties :
- Advertising design for local outdoor media, street furniture, billboards, flagship bus-shelters, 12 & 6-sheets street
panels, shopping malls, underpass etc.
- Advertising (2D & 3D) design for companies HSBC, SAMSUNG, SONY, Panasonic, FedEx, BMW, TOYOTA,
Chives, Citibank, SK-II, Nokia, Courts, Motorola etc.
- Sourcing & sub-contracting out selected concepts & ideas to freelance visualizers.
- Over-seeing advertising design over all clients.
- Working closely with account directors, producing design briefs.
- Coaching and managing junior designer.

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Pulse 3-D
“Carries out shop fitting services, undertake retail re-fit for units & chain of stores.Design, project management,
CNC, joinery, surfacing, metal, electrical & spray work”
October 2004 – April 2006
Midlands, UK
POS Designer & Project Manager
Report to : MD
Employee : Under 20
Duties :
- Exhibition, Roadshows, Display & shop fitting modification / manufacturing / design.
- POS design, interior, graphic and e-catalogue design for blue chip companies.
- POS modification / manufacturing / design.
- In-house designer exclusively for Procter & Gamble (P&G).
- Conceptual design & development from briefs for P&G brands such as Hugo Boss, Valentino, Lacoste, Gucci,
Escada, Estee Lauder, Clarins, Clinique, AVEDA, Elizabeth Arden etc.
- Perfume counters, back wall unit, gondolas / merchandising units design, promotions etc.
- Stores & footprint layout & design. Branding management & guidelines construction.
- Project management.
- Wood, acrylic & aluminum exhibition display units knowledge.
- Sheet Metal manufacturing / fabrication knowledge.
- Laser cutting, folding & bending for sheet metal hands-on knowledge.
MAS Engineering Ltd.
“Design, manufacture portfolio incl. control equipment & ranges of special purpose equipment for vast
industrial sectors. With expertise to produce bespoke solutions”
November 2002 – September 2004
Midlands, UK
Design Engineer & Project Manager
Report to : MD
Employee : Under 15
Achievements :
- In charge of a handheld leather test & measurement equipment 3D design for “NIKE” (high-pressure die-cast)
- Completed full range of 3D polypropylene product design for electro-fusion plastic pipes.
- Completed full range of 2D assembly / detailed drawing & design for thermoplastic pipes.
- Part of the tooling design team for designing state-of-the-art wire-laying tools.
- Manual & parts list creation (B.O.M building) for wire-laying C.N.C. machines.
- 2D drafting & modification for VOLVO truck parts.
Duties :
- Project management & conceptual product design.
- Graphic design for product range & standards.
- Taking projects through concepts design & manufacture stage for special purpose machines
- Existed product development.
- Design to determine components concept & feasibility.
- Technical management of projects from quotation to production phase.
- Frequent workshop & warehouse environment.
- Design products to specifications & cost.
- Supplier & manufacturer liaison.
EPSEL Engineering Design Consultancy
“Provide complete bespoke system solutions detailed drawings, bills of material, prototyping, engineering
manuals & manufacturing”
July 1999 – July 2002
Midlands, UK

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Design Engineer & Project Manager
Report to : MD
Employee : Under 15
Achievements :
- By using 3D solid modeling to build prototype
- Drafting & updating 2D engineering drawing
- Electro-mechanical parts design for roller-shutter industrial doors & gates
- Prototyping / Model making for the self designed product
- Component manuals & catalogues designing for the full range of designed products
Duties :
- Conceptual components design
- BOM creation & maintenance
- R & D for new product range
- Supplier liaison
- Projects management
- Product development
- I.T. support
- Promotional & advertising
- Sheet metalling fabrication environment exposure.
- Laser cutting nesting.
EDUCATION :
BSc. (Honored) Industrial Design Engineering
“PracticalMix of Traditional Engineering, Design & Business Management. Course is accredited for Incorp.
Engineer (IEng) status by the Institution of Engineering Designers. Work with companies such as Jaguar Cars,
Dyson & BMW”
September 1997 – June 2001
Midlands, UK
De Montfort University
Accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) under license from the UK regulator, the Engineering
Council.
Core Subjects Include :
- CAD/CAM
- Design Process & technology
- Rapid Prototyping
- Electronic Engineering
- Engineering materials
- Quality Assurance
- Information Technology
- Engineering Physics & Mathematics
- FEA
- Product visualization & presentation
- Measurement & Testing
- Business & Management
- Models making
- Product design
- Ergonomics
- Mechanical engineering design
BTEC. Engineering Foundation
“Develop manufacturing skills from design to production using modern engineering tools & equipment in
dedicated workshops. Ensures students develop knowledge theory from experienced& qualified Engineers”
September 1995 – June 1997

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Midlands, UK
Boston College
Further education college. Centre of (CoVE) Vocational Excellence for Early Year Care
Key Subjects Results :
- Mathematics : A+
- Electronic & Electrical Engineering : A+
- Physics : A+
- Business Studies : A-
- Information Technology : B+
AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS :
Cert. “The Emergence of the Modern Middle East”
“Part I - The emergence of modern Middle East from 19th century to end of 1st World War; Ottoman legacy; rise
of nationalism in M.E. & Westernimperial impact on creation of Arab state system; Islamic reform, religion, state
& state cohesion”. Part II - M.E. Developments from early 20th century to present; Islamist politics evolution;
Arab-Israeli conflict & impact on the region; deep analysis of revolutionary events in their historical context in
“Arab Spring”
March 2015 – May 2015
T.A. University
(Dubai, UAE)
Will Received certification to certify that the course was successfully completed for “The Emergence of the Modern
Middle East – Part I & Part II”.
Cert. “Oil Markets & Recent Trends in China”
“World's largest petrochemical market info. provider & has fast-growing energy & fertilizer divisions. Delivering
trusted pricing data, high-value news, analysis & independent consulting. Over 30 years’ experience with global
staff of more than 800”
December 2012
ICIS
(Beijing, China)
Received certification to certify that the course was successfully completed for “Oil Markets & Recent Trends in
China”.
Cert. “Oil Trader Development Program
“An American network of exchanges and clearing houses for financial & commodity markets.ICE owns &
operates 23 regulated exchanges & marketplaces;ICE futures exchanges in the US, Canada & Europe. Owns &
operates 5 central clearing houses”
December 2012
ICE Education Inter-Continental Exchange Inc.
(Dubai, UAE)
Received certification to certify that the course was successfully completed for “Oil Trader Development Program”.
Bronze Certificate in the “National Mathematics Contest”
“A professional society concerned with mathematics education in the UK founded in 1871. It was the first
teachers' subject organization formed in England. It hosts the British Congress of Mathematics Education
conference each year at different universities”
1994
MathematicalAssociation
(UK)
Awarded in 1994 a Bronze Certificate in the “National Mathematics Contest”, one year before Boston College.
Seagram Scholarship for “Academic Excellence”

9. 09
“A large corp. headquarteredin Canada. Toward the end of its independent existence it also controlled various
entertainment & other business ventures. Assets have since been acquired by others, notably Coca-Cola Co.,
Diageo & Pernod Ricard”
September 1997 – June 2001
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.
USA
Awarded the “Seagram Scholarship for Academic Excellence”, for the duration of the degree course, 1997 – 2001.