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Yuriy Alatortsev

Objective / To find use of my previous experience in the agricultural sector or agribusiness related community doing business in Ukraine, CIS and/or Eastern Europe
Experience / Present – July 2005 D’Artur TransConsult LLC Kyiv, Ukraine
CEO
  • General Management
  • Consulting on arable land leasing and acquisition
  • Consulting on establishing a legal presence in Ukraine
  • Consulting on grains and oilseeds markets in the Black Sea region
  • Certified translations from and into a number of European languages
  • Organizing tours across Ukraine for potential foreign investors
  • EBA (European Business Association) membership

July 2005 – March 2004UMECOS B.V, the Dutch international grain n trading group, location Kyiv, Ukraine
Senior Commodity Trader
  • Grains and oilseeds origination and procurement in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania
  • Making daily reports on the local grains and oilseeds market situation for the head office
  • Resolving logistical and technical issues in the Black Sea ports
  • Developing logistics delivery chain from the Danube ports and Black Sea ports within the Black Sea and Mediterranean area
  • Doing market research for specific grains and oilseeds in Ukraine
  • Participation in Ukrainian Grains Association meetings, numerous grains conferences, meeting analytical groups dealing with grains and oilseeds markets

Feb 2004 –May 2002Marsh Europe S.A. (MMC)Kyiv, Ukraine
Business Development Manager/Agriculture Food and related industries
  • Agricultural commodities, crop and livestock insurance and reinsurance on A+ western markets
  • Developing specific insurance products for foreign investors involved in Ukraine's agribusiness
  • Developing state-of-the-art presentations
  • Organising tenders and market research in terms of crop and livestock, PD, TPL, Cargo, etc. insurance/reinsurance
  • Doubled sales per representative from $5 million to $10 million.
  • Developed new crop insurance/reinsurance products
  • Serving western banks and Clients for collaterized grain loans
Member of the AmCham Ag and Customs and Transport committees
December 2001–May 2002 APK-Inform Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
International Projects Manager/ Agricultural Commodities Analyst
  • Writing weekly English language grains and oilseeds reports
  • Preparing tailored agricultural commodities market information for western grain traders
  • Developing informational projects
  • Preparing English-language agricultural news digest
  • Participation in numerous conferences, trade shows for grain traders

June 2000- December –2001 TerraServ Srl. Romania
Executive Director
  • Managing custom farming operations + own crop production
  • Acreage above 1,000ha.
  • Custom farming operations include:
  • Export /Import of inputs for agricultural [production and ag machinery
  • Free Zone accreditation in Romanian Danube ports
  • Grain trading (sunflower seeds, wheat, corn, coriander, milo)

March 1999- June 2000 AgroTrack Ltd. Kakhovka, Ukraine
Executive Director
  • Managing custom farming operations in southern Ukraine - Kakhovka
  • Custom farming for Chumak, the biggest Swedish Agriproducer
and processor in Ukraine.
  • Joint crop production on irrigated land 10,000ha
  • Grains trading included sunflowers, wheat, sunflower meal, soybeans, animal feed)
  • awarded with a trip to the USA (Millennium celebration)
Nov. 1996-March 1999 Global Ag Ukraine Kyiv,Sumy Ukraine
Executive Director
  • Managing farm operations at 7000 ha of leased land
  • Maintaining business contacts
  • Managing leased grain storage facilities
  • Grains and oilseeds trading (1,000t annually of each commodity)
  • Imports of inputs (seeds, chemicals) and machinery
  • Taking a training course in Hiawatha KS, White Cloud Grain Inc.
Mar.1996-Nov. 1996 Oleksandriya Farm Center Kirovohrad,Ukraine
Coordinator
  • Assisting US executive director in managing customs harvesting operations at 5000 ha (Centre, North of Ukraine)
  • Managing grain transportation to the Black Sea ports
  • Accounting of grain at the grain storage facilities (third party warehouse)
  • Grain trading
  • Importing agricultural machinery and parts
Jan.1996-Mar.1996 Academy of Educational Development Kyiv
Coordinator
  • Coordinating meetings and lectures for administrative level of agricultural business.
  • Interpreting of agricultural economics lectures of American professors
  • Written and oral translation of scientific agricultural literature
  • Writing follow-on reports on Ukrainian leaders studied overseas
Dec.1994-Dec.1996Eastern Economist – US-UA publication Kyiv
Senior Translator
  • Translator/Customer Service Representative at EE weekly magazine
  • Creating and maintaining statistical database
  • Operating Macintosh computer system and IBM-Compatible software
  • Providing courteous customer service during peak periods
  • Sales person
Sep.1994-Dec.1994 CNFA-Citizens' Network for Foreign
Affairs. Kyiv
Interpreter
  • Simultaneous oral translation at meetings with Ukraine's ag leaders
  • Developing business route schedules for volunteer groups
  • Translating and typesetting various documentation, business plans, etc.
  • Compiling reports on agricultural tours of volunteers
  • Documentary film making on Ukrainian farming
  • Travelling across Ukraine on various business trips with foreign delegations
May 1994-Sep.1994 Vidicon - Satellite & Cable TV Station Sumy,
Translator & announcer
  • Simultaneous dubbing of feature films, documentaries, programs, and educational telecasts from English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian.
  • Sound mixing, operating VCR equipment
  • Interviewing foreign delegations
Dec.1992-May.1994 Selmi - Sumy Electron Microscope
Production Amalgamation.
Translator
  • Translating and typesetting advertising leaflets into English, German, and Russian
  • Electron Microscopy TEM/SEM
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Electron beam welding
  • Gas inlet systems
  • Operating Hewlett-Packard desk-top publisher and correspondent software
  • Printing and distributing ads
  • Sales person

Education /
  • 2004 Training course on international grain trading in head office, Holland: (Rotterdam, den Haag, Brielle)
  • 2003 Marsh CEE and CIS Business Forum Bucuresti, Romania
  • 2001 Grain market analytics training: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
  • 1999-2000 Kansas (KCBT), DC, Chicago. Training program on boards of trade. Grain trading, warehouse receipts
  • 1997 Kansas custom farming operations training project. CNFA. CNFF.
  • 1986-1993Undergraduate Degree in English and German at Sumy State University
  • 1987-1989Served in the Armed Forces, Missile Base, Rank: Sergeant.
  • Driver's licence available.

Interests / Foreign languages, Travelling, Running, Canoeing, Football, Collectibles

Summary of Qualifications
As an executive director of US owned custom farming business, I managed numerous export>import projects including but not limited to agricultural equipment, spare parts, agricultural inputs, grain (wheat, sunflower, barley, soybeans, by-products). I also managed custom farming production operations, agricultural equipment monitoring, database maintaining. During the last two years, I have been involved in export>import issues between Ukraine and Romania. Previous 5 years were devoted to importing equipment and inputs into Ukraine from USA, Germany, France, Italy and exporting various kinds of grain to Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus', Turkey, where I acted as project manager, freight broker, and logistics manager.

Skills

· / Export/Import Issues
· / Legalising business documents
· / Certified translation En/Ger/Ukr/Rus
· / Grain marketing/trading
· / Customs brokerage
· / Freight brokerage
· / Logistics of doing business/transport across Eastern Europe
· / Large travelling experience within Eastern Europe
· / Large database of contracts in Eastern and Southern Europe
· / Experience in exporting/importing Commodity from/into Turkey, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary.
· / Experience in cargo insurance issues CIF, DDP, DDP, C&F, other
Languageskills:
1)Ukrainian (fluent, native)
2)Russian(fluent, native)
3)English(fluent, close to native)
4)German(good written and oral)
5)Romanian(fluent)
6)French(basic)

References: references available upon request.