William Billeaud HULT IB Presentation FINAL social media

 Dealing with Unforeseen Issues, Emergencies
and Drama Overseas

 Early Life and Education
 Work Experience
 Investment Brokerage
 International Business Internships
 International Business Career with Challenges
(Case Studies)
 What I’ve Learned-MyAdvice
 Questions
www.lombardglobal.com

 Born in Denver, CO in 1963
 Grew up mostly in Illinois, near St. Louis
 Also lived for 4Years in New Orleans, 1 yr. in Philadelphia, 1 yr. in Mexico
 Lived last 24 years in Dallas,Texas area
 Parents: From Southwestern Louisiana or Acadiana.They knew each
other at LSU; connected again in New Orleans. Father a Lawyer and FBI
prior; mother an English and Speech teacher with Masters in Mass
Communications.
 Ancestors on Billeaud side built a steam powered sugar factory in 1889.
Came fromWestern France. Father’s maternal grandfather, Irish from
Wisconsin, built national railroads in Jamaica
 Ancestors from Mother’s side French, English,German. Mother is
Daughter of American Revolution through Chief Procurement Officer for
GeorgeWashington in RevolutionaryWar
 Grandfathers were small town businessmen (one owned Pharmacy and
one Cotton Broker and real estate)

 Graduated from UIUC with a BA in Political
Science and Economics in 1985
 After investment brokerage career,
graduated from SLU with MBA in 1992
International Business or EMIB Program
 Post MBA work atThunderbird, 2008-2012
 Licenses past or present in real estate,
investment banking, investments (stocks and
bonds), health and life insurance.

 Investment Brokerage 1986-1990. Branch
Manager (15 brokers and analysts) and Financial
Consultant. Philadelphia and St. Louis.
 Intern during IB School (Regional Bank-Glass
Stiegel report), global manufacturer of beverage
dispensing equip, world’s largest uniform mfr. in
international department, entrepreneur-Mexico
market entry for ADM’s retail products),
manufacturing outsource services.

 Corporativo Sucrum (Mexico City)-Global
Agribusiness JV between Pepsi de Mexico,
Industrias Bachoco, and spinoff of Hanson PLC,
now Heidelburg Cement.
 Provide modern services to recently privatized
sugar mills in Mexico as a result of NAFTA.
 Establish distribution throughout Latin America
 Provide Mexico education and market entry to
general corporate market .
 Also EMEA business

 Sales process and events in Mexico,
Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
▪ Nicaragua trip: Client partner needed to see modern
irrigation work in Latin America. Most concentrated
center pivot operations implemented by Communist
Sandinistas in early 1993.
▪ After fiasco, deal won: landmark deal.Work to
commence on two plots of land between the cities of
Mazatlan and Culiacan, Sinaloa in late 1993.
▪ Background of geographic region and events of project.
▪ WHATWOULDYOU DO ANDWHAT HAPPENED?

 Background of Short line Mfr and bankruptcy
Ch. 11 status
 Rapid promotion toVP of Operations for all
corporate holdings
 Discovery of financial irregularities
 Internal complications with cash flow.
 WHATWOULDYOU DO andWHAT
HAPPENED?

 The Highland Group (300 management
consultants)-led them into Latin America
 RPM, LLC and Wireless Dimensions-
entrepreneurial and startup ventures in
management consulting and the wireless
internet software development. Clients included
Wal-Mart, National Foods, Anderson
Merchandisers, Hastings Entertainment.
 Technologent-Regional Sales management in
business technology, data warehousing and
systems integration.Work mostly regional
(South Central USA)

 Staff
 Senior consultants
 Financiers
 Attorneys
 Operations & Focus

IB and Consulting firm: similar to a boutique Big 4 or
FTI Consulting
1. Globalization
 Research: Primary & Secondary
 Strategy
 Execution includes:
 Entity setup and establishment
 Innovation & Web globalization

2. Investment Banking
 Capital raise
 Cross-border M&A advisory and transaction;
mainly mid-market.

3.Turnaround and Productivity
 Financial restructuring
 Operational improvement
 Global supply chain

4.Technology
 After business drivers established
 Used for breakthrough cost reduction
 Used for growth
 Big Data and Analytics current focus

5. Real Estate
 Component when expanding

 Objective
 50 stores in Italy. Expand to USA viaTexas
 Our Job
 Real Estate
▪ Site Election
▪ Execution of high-end space and lease
 Executive Relocation
 Expansion Research
 Outbound Relocation Support
 StrategicAdvice for Operations in Asia and EU
 Employee and key partner acquisition:
▪ Attorneys, bankers, shipping, advertising, IT POS
 Results
 Interim CEO Services
 Moved manufacturing to Asia.
 Profit increase from global manufacturing relocation is funding growth

 Asia Manufacturing, IB and RE- multiple trips.
 Select manufacturing partners and due
diligence
 Manufacturing set up; processes and
procedures
 Implementation; communication between
EU andAPAC
 1st Shipment. Multiple containers was failure.
 WHATWOULDYOU DO?

 Why Dubai? Fastest growing and most
interesting city in terms of real estate
development and capital formation.
 What happened?
 Details and final results.

 Client provided international business
services mainly to well-funded tech firms
expanding overseas.
 Big business-grew from $10 million to $75
million revenues in 4 years.
 Hired (contractor) to ownTexas operations
 Quickest client acquisition in their history.
 2 owners (husband and wife) sold to big PE
firm for $100-$150 million USD.

 Get familiar with www.globalmindset.com.To
be successful in IB, must be PASSIONATE about
diversity, adventure, culture: should be open-
minded.
 Small tip: Enroll in USA State Department App
called SMARTTRAVELER.
 With IB experience, you will have another layer
of differentiation which will make you more
innovative and wiser than your peers.
 Don’t forget to be technically sound in
something.

 Be exceptionally polite to ALL your business
and travel hosts because you never know
what can happen to you.
 Know their history, respect their culture and
try to speak a little of their language.
 PREGUNTAS?

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