Jon Rav Gagan S

Jon Rav Gagan is an executive with over 15yrs international business experience of which 14yrs are within business and IT consulting. He has worked within the Oil & Gas and Telecom before Internet & IT security services. During his career,he managed a combined $50 million in revenues,with work from Asia,India and the Americas. Jon-Rav has a track record of understanding business needs impacting results;he understands cultural diversity and is comfortable at the board level. Skilled at building teams of top 1% performers as well as displaying a versatility for the strategic, tactical & management aspects of technology; Jon-Rav managed a team of professionals noted for integrity & competency, maintaining less than 1% turnover. At 29 after successfully turning around a division which ran red for over 3 yrs, he was promoted to VP for a multinational headquartered in the US.Here he engineered M&A talks with a beverage manufacturing subsidiary of a major sugar producer with net worth exceeding $500 mil. With his track record for growth and innovation he was offered the post of GM of a chemical manufacturing company by Ernst & Young's executive search division in the Caribbean. Jon Rav has implemented 6 sigma tools to decrease unnecessary expenses & increase revenues by 63 % within one year for a former employer, improving on product management & support services. From 2001,his career focused more on IT,with responsibilities for web-services,portal design,remote tool tests & implementation projects. He is familiar with Linux systems, and has worked with blade servers, Z/OS & Windows. Jon-Rav is considered an IT Security,BR & DR Specialist,& has conducted research in several IT areas.The most recent being Cloud Computing as part of his current job responsibilities as well as externally as a post graduate researcher. In his spare time he is an amateur stock trader as well as a gourmet vegetarian chef.