Carlos Enrique Pappalardo

Tel.: +56 2 245 91 47 Cel. +56 9 88 27 44 16

Summary

Result Driven Senior Management Executive with an extensive international experience and success in driving operational growth, leading change management programs as transformer, maximizing business opportunities and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Excellent team player with demonstrated commitment to achieve group objectives. Special ability to energize people around a shared vision to coach and guide them to reach ambitious targets that fulfilled strategic objectives. With knowledge and working experience with World-Class tools like 5S, TPM and LEAN Thinking.Proficient in English language with also some command in French and Italian.

Professional Experience

NESTLE CHILE S.A. 2006 - 2011

Leadingfood CompanyinChile,withbusinesses inconfectionary, coffee,ice cream, yoghurt, infant cereals, baby foods and milks with sales aroundU.S.$1000 MM,7factoriesandover4’500staff.

Factory Manager at Graneros Factory (VI Region) 2009 – 2011

Day to day Management of operations responsible for 5 productions streams (Soluble Coffee, Coffee Mixes, Agglomerated Powder Beverages, Infant Cereals and a Centralized Filling Center), > 850 blue collars and 18 white collars working 24/7 for 360 days/years, delivering > 35’000 Tons of Finished Products with a production cost of ~ U.S.$ 150 MM. Direct contact with 4 Business Executive Managers, 3 Technical Directors and 1 Supply Chain Manager.

  • Lead Cost Reduction Projects initiatives to deliver savings approximately of 1% of the factory Production Cost that represents around U.S.$ 1,5 MM every year.
  • Manage the implementations of different operational Improving Programs/Projects like 5S, TPM and Lean Thinking within the Company Continuous Improvement Program, aimed at systematic improvement of key operational indicators, obtaining a 25% improvement in performance of production lines, a 30% reduction in non-quality costs and a 20% reduction in consumer complaints.
  • Conduct the successfully certification of the factory under norms ISO 22’000 (Food Safety), ISO 14’001 (environment) and OSHAS 18’001 (safety and occupational health).
  • Implementation of the Operational Master Planning that improved the integration of the factory activities with the business operation in order to align the entire value chain (Businesses, Operation, Supply Chain and People) being able to obtain improvements in production indicators such as increasing the service level to clients / customers over 95%.
  • Lead the re-construction of several areas within the factory, severely affected by the earthquake of 27th February in order to minimize, as much as possible, the product breakdown maintaining Market Share while incorporating new procedures for delivering finished goods (direct dispatch to costumers/consumers and port).

Regional Engineering Manager - Santiago Headquarter 2006 – 2009

Technical and administrative Management of Investment Projects, maintenance budget, asset management and preserving environment. Engineering staff was composed with 9 professional direct reports and 19 professional indirect reports as Factory Technical Managers and Project Leaders. Given technical assistance to 6 countries, Chile, Argentina, Peru,Uruguay, ParaguayandBolivia, with 11 factories.

  • Lead the implementation of the annual Regional Capital Investment Projects Budget that for 2008 reached ~ U.S.$ 80 MM. and for the annual Regional Maintenance & Improvements Budget that for 2008 reached ~ U.S.$ 10 MM.
  • Lead the process approval for obtaining the major investment at the Nestle Austral American Region for the construction of a new Milk Processing Plant at the Osorno area in Chile involving a budget of ~ U.S.$ 80 MM (in 3 years) and ~30’000 Tons/year capacity.

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NESTLE DOMINICANA S.A. and NESTLE CARIBE S.A. 1996 - 2006

Leading food companies in the Caribbean, with businesses in Dehydrated foods, Ice cream and Milks. Sales around U.S.$ 700 MM. 5 factories and over 2’000 staff.

Factory Manager at San Francisco de Macoris Factory 2003 – 2006

Day to day Management of operations, responsible for 1 production stream (Evaporated and Sweetened Condensed Milks) > 200 blue collars and 12 white collars and relationship with more than 1’500 farmers, working 24/7 for 360 days/years, delivering > 25’000 Tons of Finished Products with a production cost of ~ U.S.$ 70 MM. Direct contact with 2 Business Executive Managers, 1 Technical Director and 1 Supply Chain Manager.

  • Savings over $ 0.5 MM per year in the production cost through the successful implementation of savings initiatives.
  • Successful implementation of a re-engineering project that involved changes at plant lay-out and process equipment replacement that improved the quality of products and expand production capacity by 30%.

Regional Engineering Manager – Santo Domingo Headquarter 1999 – 2003

Technical and administrative Management of Investment Projects, maintenance budget, asset management and preserving environment. Engineering staff was composed with 3 professional direct reports and 7 professional indirect reports as Factory Technical Managers and Project Leaders. Given technical assistance to 5 countries, Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Cuba, with 7 factories.

  • Lead the implementation of the annual Regional Capital Investment Projects Budget that for 2002 reached ~ U.S.$ 30 MM. and for the annual Regional Maintenance & Improvements Budget that for 2002 reached ~ U.S.$ 5 MM.
  • Systematic, 5% annual reduction in energy and water per tons of finished goods produced at the regionalfactories.
  • Successfully assured that all the industrial fixed assets were properly installed and maintained in order to meet most economic production requirement and to foster improvement of the industrial facilities in order to minimize operating costs.

NESTEC S.A. – Vevey, Switzerland 1996 - 1999

Technical AdviserEngineering for Milk Products

  • Active participation and organization of different seminars and training courses at the InternationalTrainingCenter in Switzerland and UK covering Milk processing matters.
  • Liaison Engineer for Central America, Caribbean and Mexico markets with the headquarters in Switzerland, for technical and financial evaluation of investment projects related to the production of dairy products.

NESTLE ARGENTINA S.A. 1987 - 1996

Project Coordinator at Buenos Aires Headquarter 1992 – 1996

Project Engineer at Buenos Aires Headquarter 1987 – 1992

Education

Diploma in Enterprise Management, Universidad de Chile 2009

MBA, Austral University, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1994 – 1995

Electro-mechanical EngineerUniversity of Moron, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1975 – 1983

Personal

Argentinean and Italian nationality, Married, 1 daughter