Ntinda, Kampala - Ug
Cell : - - E-mail :-
David Gerard
15 years management – 10 years internationally
C o m p e t e n c i e s
Intercultural management & Leadership
Market research
Interpersonal skills
S k i l l s :
Financial management
Strategic management
Statistical analysis
Foreign languages
French: Native
English: fluent
&
Computer skills
German: intermed
Spanish: fluent
PowerApps – Power Automate – Ms Office –
QuickBooks – Power BI – Database – SQL – HTML –
CSS – DAX – M – VBA – Azure – IBM cloud
P r o f e s s i o n a l
e x p e r i e n c e s :
Entrepreneur - Business Intelligence Consultant
April 2018 – Present
Kampala – Uganda
Data analytics and visualization
Data modeling, Dynamic dashboards and reports
Dynamics 365
Ms BI stack (T-SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power Query, Power BI)
PowerPlatform (PowerApps and Power Automate - Flow)
Ms Office expertize (Advance Excel, Advance Word)
Microsoft Azure Cloud, IBM Cloud
VBA, M query language, and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions)
Notions: IBM DB2, IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM Whatson, Python, HTML,
CSS, mySQL, PostgreSQL
Entrepreneur, co-founder, and Managing Director
January 2014 – December 2017
Kampala – Uganda
Management (110 employees)
Entrepreneurship
Fundraising, grant application, relation with investors
o Management of 3 grants (total value 1M USD)
Corporate strategy planification and implementation
Writing business plans and preparing financial models
Key accounts,partnership, and strategic alliances management
Working with government and key stakeholders
Communication and reporting to board of directors
Ensuring performance goals are set and met
Overseeing operations of organization
Financial and physical resources management
Market, clients and competition overview
Awards and recognitions: GSBI Alumni 2014 – Unreasonable EA fellow 2014 –
SEED Award winner 2014 – CTI-PFAN Africef-3 Finalist 2014 – Invited to the UN
Global Entrepreneurs Council 2014 – SOCAP Social Entrepreneurs 2014 – GACC
SparkFund grantee 2015 – EEP S&EA grantee 2015 – Sankalp Africa Summit
Finalist 2016 – EEP S&EA Project of the year 2017
Since 2014, the company’s turnover tripled, the equity doubled, the investment
in assets tripled, and the company gained international recognition.
GBE is known to be the leader in its sector in East Africa.
Entrepreneur, co-founder, and Business Development Manager
October 2012 – Dec. 2013
Kampala – Uganda
Supervising, managing staff
Following up new business opportunities
Managing partner relationship
Planning and preparing presentations to clients and partners
Communicating new product developments to prospective clients
Overseeing the development of marketing material
Reporting on activity
Office Manager – 7 years
November 2006 – July 2012
Strasbourg – France
April 2005 – October 2006
Strasbourg – France
Managing staff (10 employees)
Liaising with other agencies, organizations and groups
Scheduling events and projects
Initiating, coordinating marketing actions, (op. marketing and com. team)
Data analysis and monitoring data feeds from marketing campaigns, web
site
Generating and reviewing weekly custom Excel reports
Managing staff (10 employees)
Monitoring customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts
Initiating and coordinating marketing actions with partners in Europe
Organizing shipping operations of a fleet of 600 camper-vans in Europe
Elaborating market watch and competition analysis
Closely following activity to improve and optimize partnership efficiency
Participating in the strategic selection of new partnerships
Analyzing market
Presenting and selling company services
Following up on orders and customers
Participating in commercial and marketing strategy
Following up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity
Destination Manager – 6 years
February 2003 – May 2004
Vosges Mountains – France
August 1997 –October 2002
Malta, Greece, Andorra,
Egypt, Spain
Managing a portfolio of partners and their contracts
Closely following activity to improve and optimize partnership efficiency
Organizing meetings, presenting and selling services to groups of 50
people
Elaborating market watch and competition analysis on related segment
Participating in the strategic selection of new partnerships
E d u c a t i o n
&
C r e d e n t i a l s :
Forecasted 2019
Data Science Professional Certificate
(IBM - Coursera)
Python for Data Science and AI - Data Science Methodology Databases and SQL for Data Science - Data Analysis with
Python -Data Visualization with Python - Machine Learning
with Python
MBA – Corporate Management
(University of Nicosia)
Corporate finance, corporate strategy, organizations & HR
management, organizational behavior, decision making
methods & tools, enterprise information systems
Forecasted 2020
2014
Certificate in Corporate Finance
(University of Michigan through
Coursera)
Time Value of Money, NPV and IRR, bonds and stocks, risk
and return, cost of capital
2010 -2012
Master in Marketing & International
Management
(International Management School
Strasbourg – Fr.)
Management, business communication, intercultural management,
negotiation techniques, marketing techniques and strategies,
international law, world economy
6 months of tra in Cyprus as Destination Manager for a Dutch
tour operator, an Israeli tour operator and a travel agency
specialized in deluxe kosher holiday
1997
Bachelor Tourism Management
4 months of traineeship (1 month in France and 3 in Egypt)
H o b b i e s :
Tennis | Swimming | Sailing | Hiking | Biking | Badminton
