David Millner — résumé |
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| 2010 - | Co-founder of Boldset, a communication agency: designing and developing visual identities, printed and digital media, and custom dynamic websites; providing also communication consulting and information technology services. DESIGN — CONTENT — TECHNOLOGY. |
| 2002 - | Independent communication consultant and designer, in Paris, providing communication and content design. |
| 1998 - 2002 | MSM FININCO (now absorbed into the MSM GROUP), a financial and consulting services company in Winterthur, Switzerland. From 1999 Director and Partner responsible for private equity. Built up a private equity activity from scratch. The MSM Group is now a value adding venture capital broker and also provides finance and consulting services to startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). |
| 1994 - 1997 | M-TEC HOLDING (then including PORTEC), in Winterthur, Switzerland. Managing Director of a holding company and its small subsidiaries. Conceived, raised finance, and lead the management buy-out (MBO) of two new materials technology groups from Sulzer. Consolidated these ventures, furthered applications, and put new products onto the world market, thus establishing a sound and growing business. |
| 1990 - 1994 | SULZER, World Headquarters, in Winterthur, Switzerland. Development Manager in the group Corporate Market Development. Managed the development and divestitures of proprietary inventions and groups (corporate innovation prize); involved in various corporate strategic initiatives, typically in recruiting new business alliances and exploiting young technologies; composed and implemented corporate communication pieces. |
| 1989 - 1990 | "Sabbatical": drove a Citroën 2CV alone from Geneva to Cape Town. |
| 1984 - 1989 | HEWLETT–PACKARD, European Headquarters, in Geneva. Product Manager responsible for the introduction, marketing, and development of consulting and custom project services in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. |
| 1981 - 1982 | RADICON – HLW, managing supervision contracts for turn-key construction projects, at the company headquarters, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Aide-de-camp to chief executive, for project mobilisation and administration. |
| 1979 - 1981 | WILLIAM J. MARSHALL, a consulting practice specialising in the investigation of engineering failures and professional negligence, in London. Investigative Expert investigating failed structures in preparation for litigation. |
| 1977 - 1979 | HAWKINS, HAWKINS AND OSBORN, a civil/structural engineering design consultancy specialising in transportation, in Cape Town. Design Engineer, then Computer Manager. |
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| 1983 - 1984 | MBA, International Management Institute (now IMD Lausanne), Geneva. |
| 1973 - 1976 | B.Sc. Civil Engineering (first class honours), University of Cape Town. |
Personal English — mother tongue, German and French — notion. Street/postal address: 8 rue St-Luc, 75018 Paris — location map |
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