Arin Cazgir

Vice President of International Sales & Business Development HUB-C International Energy Equipment Trading (Offshore / Onshore Oil&Gas Equipment / Mining Equipment/ Oil&gas Production) Istanbul – Turkey 11/2016 – Present International Trading Company for Offshore/Onshore Oil and gas Industry and Mining Industry • Developed new businesses in existing markets and opened three entirely new regions in addition to Turkey (Peru, Brazil,, Australia, USA, Canada, South/Mid Africa, Russian Territory in general) • Structured and monitored new business formations in Turkey, Australia and the North America • Built and managed a team of sales and account managers. • Developed relationships with existing client base from the past at all levels of the hierarchy, establishing brand awareness. • Develop relationships with existing provider’s base from the past to establish a procurement base for international sales of the company.

CAZGIR INS ISI SIST TIC VE SAN A.S. Corum Turkey – Houston Texas USA 8/2014 – 11/2016 Cryogenic tank manufacturing company, Corum. Turkey • Re-structured and monitored new business formations in the US, UAE and Australia (Distributor formations, negotiations, organizational and bonus structures amongst all 4 formations including the organizational formation in Turkey.) • Monitored the business environment through various strategic analysis including scenario planning in identifying new business development opportunities. • Conducted preliminary evaluation of potential merger and acquisition opportunities, presented recommendations to senior management on investment targets (USA, Canada, Spain, UAE, Sweden and Australia) • Took part in every aspect of potential mergers, collaborations and acquisitions, and organic business development efforts; personally carried out the negotiations. • Prepared detailed business plans and feasibility studies for new growth initiatives • Advised the board of directors on potential considerations both from the strategic and financial angles during projects. • Contributing to the design phases of the new potential products and introducing them to CAZGIR and the local and global markets. • Contributing to the planning of the new investment strategies. • Formation of the international operations out of the US base (Formation of US entity, formation of domestic alliances in different states in the US)

Structured and monitored new business formations in the US, UAE and Australia (Distributor formations, negotiations, long term agreements, etc.) o Finding new customers and developing relationships with them. o Developing after sales support systems according to applicable laws and industry standards. • Searching new markets and partners worldwide and conducting business transactions with them • Conducts internal and external analyses and assessment of a variety of markets, industries, competitive landscape, etc. to formulate strategies in alignment with corporate goals & aspirations & growth targets • Finding new products lines, and communicating them to the upper management and R&D – Production departments. • Contract negotiations, distributer negotiations • The company expanded in more than 20 countries during this period of time (Including Europe, Latin America, North America, Russia, Australia and the Middle East) • Quadrupled the sales of the company the first year and 6 times in the second year.

• Overviewing and managing the production, quality and procurement operations for the operations of the facility • Timely reporting the production flow to the board of directors in the US and Turkey • Ensuring the production flow meets with the budget numbers • Liaison in between the company and its international customers • Supervising the investment operations / year • Contributed to corporate budgeting in terms of yearly/quarterly operational budgeting and yearly investment opportunities • Developing expansion strategies in terms of manufacturing. • Supervising the investment operations / year • Supervising the government incentive applications for the corporate investments (Both international and domestic)

• Main onsite inspector on the small tank hall • Main inspector of the subcontractors that were manufacturing for small tank production line • Ensuring compliance with national and international standards and legislations; DOT (Transportable Pressure Equipment Directive for USA roads). • Liaison in behalf of the company with the inspectors and other 3rd parties • Liaison in behalf of the company with the clients and the sales team • -To be explained more in detail. This was an international job which allowed me to work in various different countries, doing various different jobs during this period of time ( Including partial sales and marketing support, and after sales support.)

• Main onsite supervisor for the whole equipment / tank manufacturing line. • Following the bill of materials in communication with the procurement and the storage keeping departments to ensure flawless production. • Liaison in between the production and the quality control to get the timely inspections done on each unit. • Supervising the NDT operations. • Final inspections of the units with and reporting to the customer directly on the currently manufactured products.

• Inspection of the incoming material • Following up the minimal stocks and placing the orders for necessary materials for the production • Procurement & contract negotiations with the main vendors • Time to time inspections of the vendors on their site

• Direct interaction with government and local offices from different states for putting financial plans on specific industries to framework new investments. • Act as liaison mode between international customers and technical departments to establish a congruent understanding of technical by the stakeholders of trading processes. • Preparing reports based on financial, social, demographic structures of different states and specific industries and present it to the financial investment companies in order to give them ideas about the market opportunities and to assist them developing market entrance / growth strategies.