Consultant Profile Summary

Fuente: Antonio Lagarto Services.
11 del 10 de 2011

I was born in Portugal and grew up in Lisbon. I enjoy tennis, golf and swimming. I also read and listen to music as well. I hold a Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering and in Business Administration and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Sciences.

In 1978 I was engaged by a large international consulting group as a senior international management consultant, in the field of business and political strategy consulting. Consulting projects were conducted in global terms with the emphasis on managing the African and South American markets. I undertook a variety of consulting work in several areas. These ranges from formulation and development of business and political strategies, advanced scenario planning, multilateral planning programs for human development, streamlining organizational operations and lessening the social impact of structural adjustment, economical and social development, to organizational restructuring, organizational and operational effectiveness and organizational development. 

Since 1992 I served clients as an independent management consultant-adviser, specializing in the areas of business and political strategies, business analysis, economical viabilities, profitability studies, resource’s optimization, business simplification, merges-acquisitions, and privatization. 

In early of 1994 I was appointed as the Executive Director and Senior Partner of one South Africa Group companies, an international management and business consulting firm focusing on organization strategy, restructuring and project funding, specializing in assisting clients locally and internationally to expand effectively their business operations and investments into new markets on the African continent.

End of 1998 I was appointed by one of the largest finance trusts within the South East Asian Pacific Rim, as their funding adviser for the Africa and South America. My appointment carried full authority and empowerment of attorney from the trustees and principals, to arrange and negotiate major financial loans and international transactions with government authorities for major projects. 

In 1999 I focused my international consulting and advising in the Asian region and within Singapore in particular. Acting as an independent, my professional services was primarily to assist and facilitate the development of bilateral international business opportunities and strategic trade relations, between the countries of South East Asia and those within Africa.
At the end of 2004 I was offered a partnership position to develop, establish, implement and manage a unique on-line business module concept in Asia being the central base in Singapore. 

Since 2005 I am the CEO, founder and senior partner of Enterprise Support Asia Pte Ltd, an innovative on-line business management service designed for corporate and SME clients to access direct to a pool of local professional expertise covering a full spectrum of business disciplines. Furthermore, I am also a Senior ESA Service Provider specializing in management and business consulting and advising.

http://www.enterprisesa.com/singapore
http://www.facebook.com/EnterpriseSupportAsia
http://www.linkedin.com/in/antoniolagarto

I have over 27 years of international consulting experience and exposure in diversified project-assignments, client-sectors, including countries and global locations. I have been providing business solutions to several clients locally and internationally. My consulting work has assisted many companies, businesses and organizations, in various industries and sectors of economy, to effective restructuring, to grow their market share position, to sustain their competitive edge and increase their performance and profitability.

Singapore - October 28, 2009 - Revised October 12, 2011

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