Raf Cools

Background

About Raf Cools

As an entrepreneur, I provide businesses with branded lubricants. We focus on export towards Africa, Middle- East, Asia, South-America and Europe. For Belgium, we are a distributor for WD-40 and North Sea Lubricants. As a consultant, establishing and implementing value creating strategies and improvement initiatives, I focus on midsize companies, making them performing, growing and more profitable again. Throughout my missions, I have consistently demonstrated the ability to create substantial value for a company intelligently implementing structural change- Repositioning the organisation, product/services offering to restart growth momentum - Integration of acquired companies /departments into the existing company/department- Turnaround of a department/ company from a loss making situation back to profitable results - Reorganization of departments : Operations, Sales, Marketing, Finance, HSSEQ, etc;Key competencies include:Entrepreneurial, leadership, customer oriented, results-driven, fosters teamwork, relationship builder, people developer and team builder, analytical and conceptual thinker, quadrilingual (Dutch, French, English and German. Basic Spanish) Other people describe me as responsible and reliable, focused, pragmatic with a can do mentality, balanced and realistic, ethical, trustworthy and passionate. If your business needs a breakthrough to establish better performance, more growth and profitability, I will be able to accompany you during a short or longterm mission. Contact details:+32/474 84 20 52; rafcools@telenet.be;