I am

Yves Executive with 20+ years of diverse experiences ranging from Finance to IT

to Sales Operations and Sales Compensation. Strong customer focus, strategic agility, people management

skills and drive for results.

High-performing operations-management executive with expertise in building/optimizing organizational

processes, measurement systems, and infrastructure to maximize business

results in any business environment.

Skilled strategist who transforms strategic plans into workable solutions and benchmarks performance against

key operational targets/goals.

I was born in Lyon, France on April 10th, 1967. Even though I am not the type of guy who relishes spending 8 hours a day in a schoolroom, I managed to get a degree in Accounting and Finance.

I have 3 girls (7, 9 and 12). I enjoy running (Marathon), all mountain sports and photography. I am living today close to Grenoble – France after having lived in various places (Newcastle, Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Geneva, Grenoble).

I currently work for HP since 13 years and held several director positions within IT, Sales Operations, Supply chain and Compensation. I have been part of several key talents programs and get a strong leadership reputation.

I am ready to have another abroad experience in EMEA, US, Canada, or Asia Pacific region

Who am I ?

Languages : French & English fluent / German : School level (7 years)

International experiences:

US : 1 year in New York & Minneapolis

Netherlands : >12 months in Amsterdam

England : >8 months in Sunderland (Newcastle).

Job overall experiences :

Finance : Financial Analyst, Audit

IT : IT Director and Several IT manager positions such as managing large ERP deployment (SAP/JDE), IT operations, and Business Intelligence.

Sales Operations : HP France Sales Operations Director (Quote to cash up to Compensation)

Compensation : HP EMEA Sales Compensation Senior Director

Quick CV (Part 1)

Functional skills :

Compensation, Finance, Reporting, Sales Operations and Supply Chain

Business environment :

High Tech Industry, Printing and Paper Industry, Financial Holding.

Additional skills :

MBA Teacher since 5 years (Strategy and Scorecard)

Specific know-how in merger and acquisitions due to several years of experiences in financial holding acquiring more than 20 companies.

Good understanding of most common IT technical foundations.

Quick CV (Part 2)

Companies I worked for :

• Sopexa : French Government Company

promoting French Wine and Cheese (HQ :New York)

•Holding Soleil Monceau :• 40 companies combined

under a Holding umbrella (Financial Holding) - mid

size. (HQ : Paris)

• Moore Paragon :• Canadian printing

company - mid size – (WW HQ : Toronto - EMEA HQ :

Paris)• HP :

• US High tech industry -- large size (WW HQ : Palo

Alto)

Management

• Youngest nominated Director in Moore paragon

• At 30, has managed one the first large deployment of an ERP in the

printing industry • Often reward for management

skills and team leadership • Part of the HP Top Talent

executive program• Have managed organizations up

to direct 350 employees and 20M$ budget

• Best Voice of the Workforce results for HP France in 2008

• Was under retention till recently as part of HP top growing talent

to retain.• Have a broad set of business

references (VP, SVP, EVP) being the best voice to talk about me

(just ask names and contact details)

Strengths in leadership

• Taking programs / organizations with high risk, in bad shape or

tough/risky challenges• Driving implementation of new compensation framework (Sales

compensation, variable pay bonus…)

• Combining organizations / structure (Merger background)

• Management by influence in large organization

• Re-skill people to bring them to next step. Reshape an

organization, Put a vision in place.

• Design governance to secure decision making process and

communication• Able to drive team in a virtual

environnement through clear objectives, vision and Strategy

Other Strengths / Values

• Strong Team spirit believer. Work for the success of an

organization• Committed to results and

success. • Always positive and motivated• Learn from mistakes • Very fast learner • Direct but respectful• Strong engagement • Listener, but decision maker• Like ‘simple approach’ • Ability to drill down from

strategy to single day to day detail or escalation

• Due to various different experiences, bring often ideas

under a different angle• Multi-skills profile (Finance, IT,

Sales Operations, Compensation)

And More …

My LinkedIn profile :

http://ch.linkedin.com/pub/yves-cabanac/0/614/6b9Twitter : @cabanac

My Contact card :

Home Office : +33476463802Mobile : +33672991264Office : +33476149354 Email : yves_cabanac@orange.fr

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