Charles Laarhuis

Hands-on entrepreneurial executive with 25 years of experience managing manufacturing and service operations, business development and sales in a global environment. Pleasant and highly driven management style with a solid record of exceeding goals. The career path reaches from large corporations to start-up companies. Key strengths are the ability to build high performance teams in multiple countries to deliver strategies from concept to execution. Ability to create a safe and healthy work environment as well as creating a continuously learning organization through lean engineering processes. Market focused individual with strong experience in the renewable Energy, Oil and Gas, Maritime, TICC and food safety markets. International experience comes from having worked in a global environment with multi –site responsibilities in a wide spread of countries, including the US, Canada, Europe, middle East, Asia and Africa. Well versed in M&A. Specialties: Highly experienced and well grounded Executive having held management positions in all continents. Strategic thinker while capable of understanding the (technical) detail Focussed and task driven, constantly looking for improvements and will push boundaries and targets. An effective communicator. Leads with a combination of values and business expectations that brings loyalty and respect from peers and subordinates – a powerful and rare combination.