Hippolyte Aka
Abidjan,Cote D'Ivoire
Summary
Strategic Executive Managing Director with background in strategic planning, operations management, and team leadership. Experience includes driving organizational growth through innovative business initiatives and effective team collaboration. Strengths include decision-making skills, financial acumen, and ability to cultivate fruitful partnerships. Have brought transformative change in previous roles by aligning vision, strategy and execution.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Managing DirectorSouthern, Central and Eastern Africa
GE Gas Power Sub-Sahara Africa
Cote d’Ivoire, Angola
2020.08 - Current
- Prepare annual sales and operation plan based on company business strategies and monitor progress against these plans to ensure that the company attains its objectives as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible
- Report the quarterly results to business leaders and Europe Middle East CEO on business plan vs actual and strategize on how to improve future performance
- Manage a team of 70+ employees that include Sales, operations and a $150M P&L Portfolio
- Establish and maintain effective formal and informal links with major customers, relevant government departments and agencies, local authorities, key decision-makers and other stakeholders generally
- Lead new units gas turbines (500MW) Project development in Angola and south Africa as per decarbonization policies
- Implement and lead a more unified wing-to-wing ownership of processes, tools and systems that enable planning, selling, and fulfilment delivery.
- Created and managed budgets for multiple departments, ensuring the organization operated within financial parameters.
Senior Services and Operations Director
GE Gas Power Sub-Sahara Africa
Cote d’Ivoire-South Africa
2014.01 - 2020.08
- Managed projects and portfolio Profit and Loss including all financial aspects of projects sales, cost/scope management, cash collections for 20+ countries in Africa improving op profit from $15M to $125M
- Evaluated the business operations and develops relevant, cost saving, control and process improvement ideas to assist the organization in meeting its goals
- Opened up the first GE office in Cote D’Ivoire
- Recruited and built a strong local team of 30 professional engineers, commercials and finance to support our regional customers such as Azito, Ciprel
- Scheduled and coordinated services activities between customers and fulfillment centers (Field Services, Parts, Asset Management, etc.), coordinate with all teams to provide the highest level of service and in compliance with contracted Terms & Conditions and GE financial requirements
- Directed and administered operations activities to ensure that projects are completed on-time, within internal and external requirements
- Strategized and led $400M Angola Power Services operations execution team in from 01/2017 to 11/2019
- Managed contracts, project/ outages risk issues including receivables, payable, claims and contract changes
- Led the first full MXL2 upgrade in SSA $60M turnkey project gas turbine upgrade MXL2 in Azito Cote d’Ivoire to add 30MW on the grid on 10/2019
- Managed sites and executed complex outages in more than 20 African countries and power generation sites in cote d’Ivoire in Azito, CIPREL in South Africa (Sasol and Eskom) and in Angola (Soyo and Cabinda).
Systems Engineering Manager
Siemens Energy, Power Generation
Houston , Texas
2007.02 - 2014.01
- Designed the definition of complex projects, select resources and monitor results
- Led engineering teams for $70M pipeline gas turbines pump stations 2000km pipeline Keystone pipeline from Hardisty Canada to Houston Texas
- Gathered customer needs back to internal resources to facilitate continuous improvement of products
- Commissioned gas turbines SGT200 to SGT600
- Guided projects and developed project organization, definition, planning, implementation and control
- Performed staff management and administrative responsibilities of recruitment, performance evaluation, mentoring, skills development.
Systems Engineer
Stewart & Stevenson LLC
Houston, Texas
2003.08 - 2007.02
- Reviewed, designed and tested customer specification in terms of software and electrical design
- Provided the highest customer technical support
- Provided field technical services on fracking operations and commissioning of oil field equipment’s in South Asia, South America, Russia and USA
- Provide guidance on Capital Projects to ensure that engineering contractors meet established standards for instrument and electrical design and installation refinery.
Education
Master of Business Administration (Finance and General Management Option) -
University of Houston
Houston, Texas05.2011
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering -
University of Houston
Houston, Texas08.2003
Skills
- Budget Elaboration
- Profit Generation
- Government Relationship
- Team Leadership
- Commercial strategy
- Employee Motivation
- Business Development
- Multi-site Operations
- Power Generation
- Budget Development
- Organizational Development
- Partnership Development
- Negotiation
Certification
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, 06/2013
- Certified GE Customer Contract Performance Manager, GE leadership programs-Crotonville New York, 01/2019
Job Profile
- Managing Director
- Systems Engineering Director
- Customer Services Leader
- Services Director—Operation and Maintenance Leader
Annualreviews
Exceeded expectation from 2014 to 2022. Exceeded operation profit plan over those years
Awards
- Delivering results in uncertain world
- Customer determines our success award for wining and delivering
Training
- Executive Leadership Development
- Course and Advanced Strategic and Culture
- Customer contract Manager training certification
Languages
French
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Executive Managing DirectorSouthern, Central and Eastern Africa
GE Gas Power Sub-Sahara Africa
2020.08 - Current
Senior Services and Operations Director
GE Gas Power Sub-Sahara Africa
2014.01 - 2020.08
Systems Engineering Manager
Siemens Energy, Power Generation
2007.02 - 2014.01
Systems Engineer
Stewart & Stevenson LLC
2003.08 - 2007.02
Master of Business Administration (Finance and General Management Option) -
University of Houston
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering -
University of Houston
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, 06/2013
- Certified GE Customer Contract Performance Manager, GE leadership programs-Crotonville New York, 01/2019
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