Previous Experience
Michael Roth is a business and technical professional with more than 25 years of international experience in network management and control, automation technology and information technology industries who has held executive positions in general management, sales and marketing, business development and project management, in leading multinational corporations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
As a senior executive, Michael has managed new business startups in Asia Pacific, turning losses into operating profits in short periods of time. He is a results-oriented strategist with a proven track record of excellent performance in managing business operations. A highly skilled negotiator, Michael has successfully concluded and managed the implementation of turnkey infrastructure projects in difficult multinational and multicultural environments.
As a consultant, Michael has provided consultancy, information technology project design and project implementation services for enterprise applications for global business corporations and national government-owned companies.
Michael holds a university degree in solid state physics. He has delivered lectures, led workshops and been keynote speaker at international conferences such as DistribuTech, CIGRE and CEPSI. Michael is fluent in three languages (English, German, French) and has been based in Switzerland for almost twenty years and in Asia for ten years.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- International Business Plan Generation and Implementation
- Startups, Turnarounds, Joint Ventures, Acquisitions
- Contract Negotiations and Conclusion
- International Sales Channel Development
- Turnkey Project Management
- Market Evaluation and Development
- Automation, Utilities and Industrial Markets
- North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific
BIO
- 1990 – Relocated from Switzerland to Singapore as General Manager Asia Pacific for Landis & Gyr Systems Inc;
- 1990 - Market analysis and evaluation of infrastructure projects for electrical, water and transportation utilities in Asia Pacific;
- 1991 – Concluded and implemented three large turnkey Substation Automation projects for EGAT Thailand;
- 1992 – Concluded and implemented large turnkey energy management project for the National Power Corporation of the Philippines;
- 1993 – Concluded and implemented turnkey energy management projects in China in the provinces of Hunan, Sichuan and the City of Szenzhen;
- 1993 – Concluded and implemented large turnkey projects for high-speed rail management for the Korean National Railways, South Korea;
- 1993 – Relocated to Hong Kong as Asia Pacific General Manager of Infrastructure Business Unit for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC);
- 1994 – Relocated to Singapore as Asia Pacific Global Account Manager for Infrastructure and Utilities for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), later HP Asia Pacific www.hp.com
- 1995 – Generated large IT turnkey consultancy projects for Global Accounts in Malaysia, India, Thailand and Indonesia, in cooperation with SAP Germany;
- 1998 – Relocated to San Jose, California, as Director of International Sales for Telegyr Systems Inc, later Siemens Power T&D Inc www.siemensptd.com
- 2003 – Relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Director, Strategic Business Development, Europe and Asia Pacific, for Open Systems International Inc www.osii.com
- 2005 – Relocated to Florida as Vice President of Sales Western U.S. for Survalent Technology Corporation
FAMILY
- Married – spouse Simone Roth, works as a loan consultant for a large Bank.
- Son, Michael (Mickey) Roth, goes to school and loves to travel to Europe on summer vacations.