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Edmund Konjedic has about 30 years of experience in International Trade with highlights in Marketing and Sales Management with entrepreneurship. From 2000 to present, Edmund Konjedic has been involved in the preparation of a sizable industrial project related to the natural gas sector in Brazil.
Currently, he is Managing Director of Intermach Ltda, a company he established to act as Sole Agent and Importer/Distributor in Brazil of natural gas related products such as high pressure cylinders, valves and kits for the conversion of vehicles from gasoline and diesel to natural gas, etc.
Early in his career, Mr. Konjedic, through his own trading company Overtech Ltda in Rio de Janeiro, took over the representation of Speedqueen, a major U.S. manufacturer of coin operated laundry machines, previously represented by Laverap, the company that he had been working for previously, but which was subsequently terminated by Speedqueen for breach of contract. During his tenure with Speedqueen, Mr. Konjedic was able to secure several new franchise customers.
In 1987, Edmund Konjedic worked for Laverap do Brazil and was entrusted with establishing the first franchise enterprise in Brazil, a chain of Self Service Laundromat stores that, under his management, grew, at the yearly rate of 300%, to 250 units all over the country. In 1996, he became partner with the company. Prior to this position, Mr. Konjedic was hired by Suticom Suturas Industria e Comercio for setting up their Import-Export Division.
Earlier, Mr. Konjedic worked for BrasPetro, the International arm of Petrobras, the Brazilian Government Energy Institution, where he helped to establish a support Division for the Export subsidiary companies in Angola, Libya and Yemen.
Mr. Konjedic’s previous occupation was with Industria de Cintos e Calçados where, from 1980 through 1985, he established a Department for the Research and Development of new markets, aiming at the optimization of the machinery and the restructuring of the sales network.
Mr. Konjedic began his career at Forlab-Kelrio e As Industrias Reunidas Oca, a company importing chemicals and exporting furniture and food, first as Assistant Office Manager and, after two years, as Manager of the Import Department.
Mr. Konjedic has a Bachelor Degree in Marketing from the University of Rio de Janeiro and Business Administration. Besides Portuguese, his mother tongue, he is also fluent in French and has notions of Italian and Spanish.
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