Improver

Carmelo Ferlito

Director - Petersime Southeast Asia Sdn Bhd

Subang Jaya, Selangor

I have been working in the Poultry Industry dealing with Asian countries since 2009. So far, I established subsidiaries in Malaysia and business opportunities in Asia for three European companies, two from the USA and one from Canada.

After ten years of strong engagement with the international sales process, in the more recent past I focused on general management and business and operation development, with a peculiar focus in development and rationalization of activities related to service, supply chain, logistics and finance.

In the past decade, I sold and established projects with farming equipment and incubation machines in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and China.
I coordinated distributor activities and direct sales, providing quotations and acting during all the sales process. Moreover I coordinate marketing activities such as industry exhibitions.
At the same time, I drove the process to establish and grow Malaysian subsidiaries for European firms.

At the same time I maintain a focus on economic research, education and policy advocacy.

I published 5 books as author and 2 as editor. I contributed with papers in 5 books and I published several articles in academic journals and 180 articles for magazines and newspapers.

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Experience:

• Research Advisor (PT Provalindo Nusa)
• Adjunct Professor (Taylor's University)
• Fellow (IDEAS The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs )
• Commercial Director Southeast Asia (Petersime)
• Senior Fellow (IDEAS The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs )
• Director Petersime Southeast Asia Sdn Bhd (Petersime)
• Chief Executive Officer (Center for Market Education)

Skills:

• Project Management
• Microsoft Office
• Sales Management
• Negotiation
• Public Speaking
• Editing
• Analysis
• Management
• Business Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Microsoft Excel
• Marketing Communications
• Economics
• Leadership
• Sales
• Product Development
• Public Relations
• Teamwork
• Teaching
• English
• Business Strategy
• Microsoft Word
• Analytical Skills
• PowerPoint
• Marketing Strategy
• Business plan
• Budgets
• Business Development
• Agriculture
• Customer Service
• Research
• Social Media