Michael Ifrah

• An innovative, intuitive, and experienced team-oriented, results-driven professional with more than 28 years of experience in the business sector, both as an owner and team contributor. Recognized as a key player on diverse management and finance projects and multiple sales operations within highly competitive, foreign, and domestic product markets, developing businesses, and designing corporate structures that meet client demands in a cost/time efficient fashion. Demonstrated advanced ability to oversee geographically-dispersed groups, teams, and projects in high-volume trading environments, and innately capable of creating, adapting, developing and executing short-, and long-term financial strategies, customized to meet client needs in profit-driven, customer-focused environments. Seeking new opportunities in Business Management, International Latin American Sales, or in Oil and Gas Equipment Sales.
• Business development and account management working with high net worth individuals, providing investment advisory and other financial services in LATAM and the United States. Negotiated and managed financing opportunities providing professional services for private clients and companies cross-border, leading to successful investments/transactions in domestic and foreign markets. Conducted in-depth reviews of clients financial circumstances and future goals. Assist clients in making informed decisions. Coordinated joint ventures between foreign investors. Successfully reached highly positioned officials in the public and the private sector to establish business relationships with them as well as the entities they represent. Successfully established alliance with outsourced parties to exploit different market opportunities in various countries simultaneously. Created, implemented and continually reviewed strategies designed to help clients pursue their long-term goals. Devised and executed business development strategies to attract and acquire new clients.

Areas of Expertise

• Financial Structures
• Marketing and Sales Plans
• Competitive Intelligence
• Conceptual Designs
• Project Reporting
• Business Ownership
• Human Resources
• Corporate Finances
• Sales Management

§Team Management/Development

§Designing Market Strategies

§Strategic Analysis and Planning