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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1448531249497{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 110px !important;background-color: #f1f1f1 !important;}”][vc_column][st_customheading heading=”Executive Board” content_align=”text-default”][carousel_all xsmall_items=”1″ small_items=”2″ medium_items=”3″ large_items=”3″ loop=”false” nav=”false” dots=”true” autoplay=”false”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][st_team st_template=”layout2″ content_align=”text-left” class=”smaller-lineheight” title=”Michel DOUMONT” position=”Owner of C&M Ltd, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of TIEG” description=”Michel Doumont, holder of Master\u2019s degrees in Economics and in Social Sciences, has 48 years\u2019 experience, most of which is in management positions (since 1984). He started his career in Belgium as the University assistant (1976-1980), dealing with the first research programme in waste management policy, funded by the scientific Policy Programming Services (SPPS) of the Belgian Prime Minister.
\nAs Secretary General of the Belgian Banker\u2019s Association (1980-1995), he was an actor on the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in the financial sector. During his time as Director of the external relations at Bank Brussels Lambert (1995-1998) the merger of the Belgian bank into the ING Group was successfully concluded. Michel was actively involved in the ITC expansion in Europe and was the shareholder and Board Member of the first free internet provider in Belgium (1999-2001).
\nThrough his work as EU Advisor in Bank and Finance (1998-2000) and Deputy Head of Operations at the EC Delegation in Slovakia (2001-2005), Michel actively participated in and acquired in-depth knowledge of the EU enlargement processes and overall development aid. He decided to use his expertise and a strong network developed over the years to create C&M Ltd in 2005 and in 2012 two EEIGs, TIEG and NOOKOM where he acts as the Executive Director. In parallel, he became a founding Managing Co-Director of the GoConsultancy Database.
\nAs a visiting Professor in International Relations at Comenius University Bratislava (2002-2007), he produced a number of academic papers. Through the Board he is chairing, Michel conducts the strategy and the financial control of C&M Group. He is fluent in both English and French.” image=”1054″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][st_team st_template=”layout2″ content_align=”text-left” class=”smaller-lineheight” title=”Jaime BERNIS” position=”Managing Director of TAS Europrojects Ltd, TIEG Board Member” description=”Jaime Bernis holds a Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Since obtaining his diploma in 1975, Jaime has accumulated more than 46 years of professional experience, including more than 20 years dedicated to controlling and ensuring the quality of services delivered within EU international cooperation. After establishing himself in the European quarter of Brussels in 1987, Jaime founded and managed TAS Europrojects, a consultancy company created to work directly with the European institutions. His responsibilities included technical, operational and financial control and quality assurance of the EU-funded projects. Jaime is currently Cluster Advisor in the FWC SIEA 2018, responsible for ensuring the quality of services provided under the Lot 2: Infrastructure, sustainable growth and jobs, as well as quality controller under the FWC EIBAS for Lots 3: Transport and Lot 4: Innovation. Since 2005, as the General Secretariat Director of FERRMED, he has been coordinating development of the association\u2019s Global Study, including technical regulatory and financial frameworks of the studies in 13 EU countries promoting EU rail freight transport. Earlier, Jaime worked as an engineer and project manager for a large variety of social and professional urban infrastructures, designing architectural construction plans and monitoring construction sites. Overall, Jaime has more than 11 years in the field of sustainable transport and 19 years in the field urban development and cities. Jaime was, among others, the Project Manager for the development of the European quarter Urban Master Plan in 2003.
\nJaime is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in French and English.” image=”1055″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][st_team st_template=”layout2″ content_align=”text-left” class=”smaller-lineheight” title=”Marika KANATOVA” position=”Managing Director of C&M Ltd, TIEG Board Member” description=”Marika Kanatova with an Engineer in Economics Degree has over 25 years of professional experience in the development consultancy working mainly on the projects funded by the European Commission. She has over 20 years of experience with the EU Framework Contracts (implemented across 19 lots: AMS 451, BENEF 2005; BENEF 2009, BENEF 2013, COM 2007, COM Lot 1 2011, SIEA 2018 and COM Lot 1 2015). Marika worked in FWC Management teams, including in a position as a Frameworks Deputy Project Director and Operational Quality Controller for over 19 years (combined). She has managed over 150 assignments, covering over 30 evaluations managed directly and over 130 evaluation assignments in her position of Deputy FWC Director and Quality Controller. She is highly skilled and fully familiar with the evaluation methodologies, overall FWC rules, regulations and procedures relating both to the request of services and implementation of specific contracts. She has extended insight and experience with other donors and was responsible for winning and managing Aid Advisory Services Standing Offer AusAID (DFAT) Panels in the context of which she implemented 7 assignments. Marika is the Managing Director of C&M since 2021. She is a native Slovak speaker and is fluent in English and French.” image=”1056″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][st_team st_template=”layout2″ content_align=”text-left” class=”smaller-lineheight” title=”Hugo RUIZ TABOADA” position=”Managing Partner of TAS Europrojects Ltd, TIEG Board Member” description=”Hugo Ruiz with a Bachelor and Master\u2019s in Engineering has over 35 years of professional experience in development cooperation with particular experience in infrastructure planning, financial instruments, and evaluations in the fields of infrastructure, investment facilities, energy, and energy-related global partnerships. He has been working in the context of the EU development cooperation for over 30 years and is fully familiar with the international cooperation procedures, project cycle management and EU institutional processes and policies. Hugo has more than 25 years of experience focusing on projects and programmes implemented in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Caribbeans.
\nHugo is an experienced team leader, having implemented for instance the Mid-term evaluation of the EU-Africa Infrastructure Support Mechanism programme, which provided support to policy dialogue with the AU in the infrastructure field, via organisation of the Reference Group of Infrastructure (RGI) annual meeting, the dialogue platform of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP).
\nHugo is currently a Deputy Framework Contract Project Director and Quality Manager of the FWC SIEA 2018, Lot 2: Infrastructure, sustainable growth and jobs.
\nHe is a Spanish native speaker and is fluent in French and English. He has a good level of Portuguese.” image=”1058″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][st_team st_template=”layout2″ content_align=”text-left” class=”smaller-lineheight” title=”Nicolas SANSON” position=”Head of Operations of C&M Ltd, Secretary of the Board of TIEG” description=”With a Master\u2019s Degree in Civil Engineering, Nicolas Sanson has over 25 years professional experience, responsible for project management, decision-making, leading teams, control of financial and human resources within worldwide companies, and 9 years professional experience as Framework Contractor Operation Manager on EC FWC Contracts (FWC BENEF and SIEA 2018). He is experienced in implementing, managing, supervising and delivering FWC projects: he managed and monitored more than 100 specific Framework contracts implemented in more than 60 countries (contractual, financial and operational management) with multinational teams of experts.
\nNicolas was responsible for the operation, backstopping and quality assurance of the FWC BENEF 2013 lot 2: Transport and Infrastructure, and had the overall responsibility for daily management and operation of the Framework Contract SIEA 2018 lot 2: Infrastructure, sustainable growth and jobs. He has specific experience across various sectors relating to sustainable transport, urban development and cities and rural infrastructure, digital technologies and telecommunications. Prior to joining C&M, Nicolas, served as Attach\u00e9 at the French Embassy in Slovakia and was responsible for the management of Scientific and Technical Cooperation Department (bilateral and multilateral cooperation). Nicolas is a native French speaker and is fluent in Slovak and English.”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/carousel_all][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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