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Paul Bergé provides services to manufacturers and
resellers in the Automatic Identification and Data
Capture industry and other technology companies. The
primary focus of these consulting services is in
international business development and
mergers &
acquisitions. Prior to starting his own company, Paul Bergé worked in several prominent companies in automatic
identification, electronics manufacturing and telecom.
He has held several positions at Symbol Technologies
over a fifteen year period, including Vice President
International Marketing and Managing Director of Symbol
Technologies International based in Brussels, Belgium.
He has been instrumental in the development of Symbol's
international business in Europe, Latin America,
Australia, Asia and the Pacific Rim. In Japan he worked
for three years as Executive Vice President of Olympus
Symbol, Inc., a joint venture company between Olympus
Optical Co. of Japan and Symbol Technologies, Inc. of
Long Island, NY. His involvement with the Automatic Data
Capture industry started in 1975 when he joined the
Plessey Company, a European pioneer in bar coding
systems, in the capacity of Sales Executive Europe.
Paul Bergé was the founding chairman of AIM Europe, the
trade association, in 1985 and of Scan Tech Europe, the
conference and tradeshow, in 1984. He was invited by the
United Nations to lecture on bar coding in China in
1988, in support of UN efforts to help China become a
better exporting country by improving the quality of
packaging and by implementing bar code systems. He was
also invited by the Vietnamese government to provide
AIDC training services.
Paul Bergé was Vice President Business Strategy at
Flextronics International where he was responsible for
strategy development and mergers and acquisitions. He
was Vice President International Operations at Paxar/Monarch,
in Miamisburg, Ohio. Paxar/Monarch is a company
providing bar code printing solutions to a wide variety
of industries, as well as traditional price labeling
machines for retail and other industries. Paxar
Corporation is the world leader in woven and printed
labels for the apparel industry.
Paul Bergé was born in the Netherlands, became US
citizen in 2001. He graduated from Nijenrode University
in the Netherlands with an MBA in International
Business. He speaks Dutch, English, French and German
fluently and has a working understanding of Italian and
Spanish. He is a frequent lecturer on international
business cultures at universities in the greater
Cincinnati area and teaches international business
strategy as adjunct professor at Xavier University in
Cincinnati. |
