ANDRES AGOSTINI BIO
Published on November 03, 2007
Arlington, Virginia 22222, USA
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ANDRES AGOSTINI, Andres E. Agostini, is Executive Associate for Global Markets at Omega Systems Group Incorporated (Arlington, Virginia, U.S.). He is also Charter Member of the Advisory Board of ACC Group Worldwide (New York, Miami, London, Caracas), who reports chiefly to the board he serves. He has 28 years of applied, professional experience regarding the corporate world and beyond. He has two majors on insurance from the Broward Community College (US). Previously, he took some courses on "Mechanical Engineering Technology" at Montreal's Dawson College (Canada).
Over fourteen years—that included operations in Europe, North and South America—he was highly committed to PDVSA (CITGO’s parent company) in many consulting and managing initiatives/responsibilities, involving corporate security, systems safety (industrial), advanced enterprise risk management and other related lines of practices of his expertise, especially related with risk control and corporate strategy. Relevant developments include the development of major employee benefits plans.
Mr. Agostini is a corporate, cross-functional strategy consultant/analyst/researcher/thinker and manager with a multidimensional vista of the realm of RISK/STRATEGY and its concurrent administration based on Systems Approach.
Given the fact that change has changed—so its properties—efficacious risk manager must envision future problems now (in advance). So they must always be prepared to keep this in mind to respond appropriately and timely. Because of the latter, Mr. Agostini has embarked a crusade on analyzing and applying Professional Scenarios (“practicing plausible scenarios”) so that his Preparedness and Readiness Strategies are even more robust. As an amplification of this effort, he has over sixteen years committed to Professional Futurology (never Futurism).
As per the request of Windham/General Motors Acceptance Corporation, he has addressed major business advisory services to high-ranking executives from GE (General Electrics) and Abbot Laboratories in the U.S. In a persistent, recursive search for cutting-edge, applied knowledge—consistent with this new epoch of swirling change (chaos), researching (ongoing-ly and progressively), these topics has been a major, prevalent endeavor of his everyday study activities.
He has also been engaged in independent consultancy/management services pertaining to (i) business innovation, (ii) management transformation, (iii) performance enhancement, (iv) organizational strategies, (v) systems thinking, (vi) outsourcing, (vii) transformational risk management, (viii) change stewardship (impact management), (ix) crisis and emergency administration, (x) scenario planning, (xi) organizational effectiveness, (xii) healthcare systems (delivery), and (xiii) intercultural counseling for top executives.
In addition to those aforementioned, Mr. Agostini has had institutional/corporate clients such as the World Bank, Toyota, and Mitsubishi Motors plus Lloyd's of London (London, U.K.), Williams & Company (U.S.).
Some of Mr. Agostini’s business allies involve MINET/St. Paul Final Group of Companies (London, U.K.) and LDG Management/HCC Benefits Group (Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S.).
Other clients include, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA, CITGO’s parent company), and its subsidiary companies. It can too be cited LAGOVEN (formerly EXXON in Venezuela), MARAVEN (formerly SHELL in Venezuela), CORPOVEN (a fully integrated petroleum company, stemming from the merger of several American and British oil producers), INTEVEP (PDVSA's R&D), BARIVEN (PDVSA's trader, based in Caracas and Houston, U.S.), CARBOZULIA (PDVSA's coal company), PALMAVEN (PDVSA's agribusiness company), INTERVEN (PDVSA's division for the internationalization expansion of the group of companies), and PEQUIVEN (PDVSA's petrochemical operation).
His relationship with PDVSA (CITGO's parent company), not only in Venezuela, also extends to London (formerly PDV Europe), the trader unit of PDVSA in Houston, and some U.S.-wide executive and operational units/divisions that were all merged into CITGO. Andres Agostini has worked with clients from nearly all fields.
His professional experience has been mainly gained within the U.S. and the U.K. and through American, British, Japanese, Canadian, Spanish, Brazilian and Venezuelan corporations. He has devoted himself to the advancement in new practices of management per se and holistic, especially concerning “transformative risk management” (TRM). He has published many of his works on the World Wide Web.
He is dedicated to developing and constantly enhancing many "knowledge/skill transfers" events as per his lines of practice and specialized experience. To Mr. Agostini, a "solution" is in no way a "quick fix," but a "fundamental, continuing, evolutionary, optimum solution." By means of using breakthrough ideas and parathinking processes, he envisions challenge solutions with the “evolution under revolution mode” mindset.
A more fundamental solution is even a more holistic one, especially when it is practiced/rendered/sustained systematically and systematically. Some people mistakenly associate "solutions" (optimum and on-going) to "quick fixes" (sub-optimum and always discontinued).
His global sophistication has allowed him to walk across several complex frameworks (clients, industries, allies, disciplines, practices, methods, approaches, techniques, conceptions, teams, cultures, dynamics, worldviews) to get the client a set of unique, effective solutions adequate to his/her highest expectations.
Beyond methodologies such as Total Quality Assurance (Deeming, Juran), Kaisen (Toyota), Six Sigma (Motorola), and other Multidimensional, [omni-mode] Cross-Functional methodologies compiled into one multi-procedure tool, Mr. Agostini believes that corporate strategies must be reinforced―at all times―with applied, evolutionary "Systems Thinking," and other novelties from the utmost determined "organizational learning" and “learning self” stance as well as the institution of new practices to maximize the development of human intelligence.
In 1991 Mr. Agostini was appointed as Chairman of The Presidential Council on Healthcare by the then President of Venezuela. This endeavor had as main objective how to organize and streamline ―with best management practices―the business processes of public healthcare centers at the national, regional and local level.
In 1990 Mr. Agostini rendered consultancy services to a Senator of the U.S. Congress.
He was indoctrinated by (a) OMEGA SYSTEMS GROUP INCORPORATED (Arlington, Virginia, U.S.), (b) SEDGWICK Group (London, U.K.), (c) MINET Risk Services (London, U.K.), (d) MARSH & MCLENNAN (New York City, U.S.), (e) HOGG Insurance Brokers Ltd. (London, U.K.), (f) JENNER FENTON SLADE Insurance Brokers (London, U.K.), (g) JARDINE Insurance Brokers (London, U.K.), (h) AON Reinsurance Brokers Group (London, U.K.), (i) JOHNSON & HIGGINS Brokers (Caracas, Venezuela). At LLOYD’S OF LONDON (London, U.K.), was given a (j) Lloyd’s internship with based insurance brokerage/advisory firms, having access to some special underwriting “syndicates,” mostly those of special risks, (k) U.K. PANDI CLUB, mutual organization—in the mode of “reciprocal exchange”—to provide financial coverage for petroleum (and oil derivatives) tankers (vessels).
In 1987 was invited to participate in a Swiss Re Seminar on How To Manage Insurance and Reinsurance Markets. The 5-day long event had Mr. Agostini’s team wining over seven other groups that were competing against his.
Nota Bene: In Mr. Agostini’s case, his does not address the RISK factor through the insurance/coinsurance/reinsurance standpoint. He manages Upside Risk and Downside Risk with an extremely thorough multi-methodology, one chapter including the Systems Approach. His own designed method is termed "Transformative Risk Management."
Published on November 03, 2007
Arlington, Virginia 22222, USA
For more information on Andres Agostini,
please log onto:
www.AndresAgostini.blogspot.com
© 2007 Andres Agostini. All Rights Reserved.
