Johnny B. Rossi

“Spearheading startups and developing companies into the future in temporary and high impact projects”

J O H N N Y B. R O S S I operations manager | general manager | business development

“Spearheading startups and developing companies into the future in temporary and high impact projects”

Canadian / Italian Citizen | Born in Toronto, Canada family in Supino (FR) Italy

Profile

Accomplished General Manager with a successful track record overseeing Business Development & Business localization in Romania, Italy, Spain, Poland and Slovakia. Proven expertise and successes in delivering significant operational improvements and cost- effective strategies, improving customer satisfaction by:

➢ Implementing best practices in department and process

➢ Leveraging operational expertise in manufacturing, assembly, planning, supply chain, and maintenance

➢ Implementing of robust actions plans (rolling), maintenance of client-oriented processes

➢ Continuing organisational enhancement and review through procedural & ERP excellence

➢ Creating a quality culture and growing a skilled, healthy and motivated workforce

➢ Analyzing multi-million €uro monthly P&L

Personality: committed, hands-on executive capable of leading the trail of innovation and corporate's expansion'.

Ambitions: Join the leadership team of a company to drive its journey towards operational excellence by shaping the organization and business processes and energize leaders and teams to deliver continuously improving results.

Special interest in sustainability-driven products.

professional skills

Executive Team Leadership | Cost controlling & supply chain | Production & distribution site development | Client/vendor & public authority relations | | Market/production line development.

ERP and HR implementations | Staff training policy implementation | Lean and Six Sigma

| ERP, SAP, ORACLE | Continuous process and structure improvements

Expertise areas and Key results

Business Development, guided the business grow with success over the years

● From an average of €. 200,000/month to max €. 6.000.000/month

● From 1 client to >10 clients

● From 48 workers to approx. 480 workers

Facility

● Created a culture from rent to building and full utilization of many industrial buildings

Production Complicity

● Starting point mid 2008 (opening of the company)

● Press department, 3 mechanical presses (with transfer system) + 1 hydraulic press

● Tube processing department

Developed departments and involved processes

● Muffler Assembly Department;

● Metal Painting / Powder Coating Process Line;

● Pad printing & silk-screening Department;

● Gasketing Department;

● CNC Departments (6 specialties);

● Grinding / surface finishing departments;

● Metal Press departments (steel & aluminium);

● Tube Processing Department;

● Tooling Department;

● Injection Molding Plastic Department;

● Assembly lines Department;

● Manual welding Department;

● Robotic welding Department;

● Production Laboratories;

● Metrology Department;

● All structural Office & Engineering Departments

● Defined the Protype Line, produced the all Product PreSeries, and launched the first Mass Production

Customer Satisfaction and identification of opportunities

● Improved clients through product and internal process auditing, transversal group bench marketing for best practice

● Implemented robust actions plans (rolling), maintenance of client-oriented processes (APQP Development, Management of All aspects such as Product, client, Market and Quality, sustain FMEA and PFMEA, ….

● Opened to receive, and promote, those Procurement Scouters with intentions to explore the Romania Supplier Base in order to mutually explore new business opportunities.

Plant Profitability

● Controlled activity starting from a day to day basis; month controlling activity though correct P&L reading; monthly BRM; quarterly steering verification

● Productivity: OEE; complete overview of all material flow activities from system set-up to frame-agreement, procurement, incoming, invoice controlling, inventory control, reject and scrap control.

● Layout management of processes, material flows, emphasis on Warehouses and ERP data accuracy and simplicity “friendly” workers applicability.

● Controlled architecture implementation at Business unit level

● Implemented Cost controlling, analysis and monthly steering corrections.

Workers formation, prosperity & overall welfare

● Grown the company day-after-day to maturing and mastering over 14 departments and over 500 employees

● Created a skilled, healthy and motivated workforce and robust overall organization means.

● Planned organization structure, skills matrix, training, personnel valuation process, accurate incentive assignment, encouragement of the weak, discourage of the not-willing

● Introduced a positive process that was central to the measurement and maintaining of personal individual performance, team performance, department performance, shift performance, business performance.

● Built a great place to work in: to be working for the BEST ORGANIZATION, for a BEST IN CLASS COMPANY, to feel SUPPORTED, to be PART OF and the company is part of HER/HIM.

To do this you must be among your workers and staff, as I was, because this is my belief (and proven achievement).

ERP excellence

Continued organizational enhancement and review through procedural & ERP excellence

● ERP implementation (business module after business module)

● Bar code implementation

● s/n implementation, traceability

● FiCo / implementation to ERP

● SAP, Oracle and other ERPs

Sustainability

Environmental Enforcement Activities

● “GREEN MIND” – my attitude and deep belief Example: get Corporate Governance to finance the switch to geo-water heating (local resource)

● Prepared the organization to ISO 14001:2015

Implementation of Strong Local Relations and Partnerships,

● City hall

● Local environmental authority

● Regional environmental authority

● Fire department authority

● Local and City Police Department

● Local Health and Safety office and authorities

● Local Work Department

● Local construction office and authorities

● Public utilities (water, thermal geo-water, electricity distribution)

Development of a Local Supplier Base

● Raw material supply base

● Powder painting

● Sheet steel bending

● Laser cutting

● Mechanical constructions

Ad hoc packaging

Professional Experience

Actual

GENERAL MANAGER

Facility in North Mississippi, United States of America

Details : Totally in line with my profile;

01.2019 – 09.2022

SOLAREDGE – ITALY & HUNGARY

GENERAL MANAGER (ex S.M.R.E. S.p.A.)

In January 2019 Internet.solaredge.c/us/SolarEdge-to-enter-e-mobility-market-with-acquisition-of-smre-Spa

At the time of the acquisition, I was the General Manager of S.M.R.E.. In May 2019 I was assigned back to the Electric Vehicle Battery Team (ex. TAWAKI activity).

Major activities: defined the Protype Line, produced the all Product PreSeries, and launched the first Mass Production Activity in October of the same year in Italy. Immediately after started the set-up of Production in Eastern European, of the same product, with a Contract Manufacture. My contribution to this activity ended in April 2022.

12.2017 – 01.2019

S.M.R.E. SPA – UMBERTIDE

GENERAL MANAGER

S.M.R.E. SPA was a partner of the joint-venture that controlled TAWAKI (company that I was working for). The CEO of S.M.R.E. asked me to assist him as GM with the major activity to “bring the company back to profit” Major tasks: Inventory – define and restructure with external advisors.

Defined and accomplished - Cost controlling implementation, analysis and monthly steering corrections. Defined and accomplished – New Business introduction: accomplished with over 20% of the 2018 turnover in new business where I personally developed the Supply Chain.

06.2016 – 11.2017

TAWAKI – UMBERTIDE

SUPPLY CHAIN DIRECTOR

Assignment: Business and production Start-up of “lithium ion (nmc) battery application systems”:

Storage systems – Lithium-ion battery packs e-commerce – Development, production & distribution

Lithium-ion battery packs for small trucks and recreational vehicles - Development, production

Global supply chain development and set-up of above including power train conversions to EV

06.2008 – 06.2016

FAISTMETAL WORKING – ROMANIA

GENERAL MANAGER

Business growth in Romania

From a single 2000sm facility ( mono client, 2 departments, 49 Associates) to 12000sm facility, a dozen clients, 14 departments, approx. 500 associates languages

Italian / English: bilingual

Hobbies

Comfortable hiking, gardening, restoration of objects and VESPAs with my son

Education and Training

Lean six sigma training & projects

Lean production training & projects

1987 - Università “La Sapienza” - Rome – Italy (under graduate)