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Mike Andrade
Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development
Celestica Inc. 

  


POSITION
Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development

LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

EDUCATION

  • Masters of Business Administration, York University,1992
  • Bachelor of Engineering Science, University of WesternOntario, 1986

CELESTICA EXPERIENCE/ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Appointed Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Development in May, 2005, recently added responsibility for Marketing and Communications and Corporate Development.
  • Achieved significant wins in 2005/06 in particular creating a new solutions development method leading to breakthroughs at IBM and EMC
  • Prior to current role had been General Manager of the Lucent and Avaya Account (since August 1999) and in 2004 took on responsibility for all Communication accounts
  • Appointed Senior Vice President in 2003
  • From 1997 to 1999 was responsible for the Sun Microsystems account

EXTERNAL EXPERIENCE/ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Joined IBM Canada in 1986. Has held a variety of roles including mergers and acquisitions, SCM operational management and sales

COMPETENCY STRENGTHS
Customer relationships, strategist, ‘big picture’ thinker, team builder

  • Global Account Management
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Operations Management
  • Mergers and Acquisitions


 

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