Biography of Andres Agostini
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ANDRES AGOSTINI, Andres E. Agostini, is Executive Associate for Global Markets at Omega Systems Group Incorporated (
He has 28 years of applied, professional experience regarding the corporate world and beyond. He has two majors on insurance from the
Over fourteen years—that included operations in Europe, North and South America—he was highly committed to PDVSA (CITGO’s parent company) in many consulting and managing initiatives/responsibilities, involving corporate security, systems safety (industrial), advanced enterprise risk management and other related lines of practices of his expertise, especially related with risk control and corporate strategy.
Relevant developments include the institution of major employee benefits plans (for up to 210,000 beneficiaries).
Mr. Agostini is a corporate, cross-functional strategy consultant/analyst/researcher/thinker and manager with a multidimensional vista of the realm of RISK/STRATEGY and its concurrent administration based on Systems Approach.
Given the fact that change has changed—so its properties—efficacious risk managers must envision future problems now (in advance), quickly. So they must always be prepared to keep this in mind to respond appropriately and timely.
Because of the latter, Mr. Agostini has embarked a crusade on analyzing and applying Professional Scenarios (“practicing plausible scenarios”), so that his Preparedness and Readiness Strategies are even more robust. As an amplification of this effort, he has over sixteen years committed to Professional Futurology (never Futurism). He is highly into the corporate strategy effort.
As per the request of Windham/General Motors Acceptance Corporation, he has addressed major business advisory services to high-ranking executives from GE (General Electrics) and Abbot Laboratories in the U.S.
In a persistent, recursive search for cutting-edge, applied knowledge—consistent with this new epoch of swirling change (chaos), researching (ongoing-ly and progressively), these topics has been a major, prevalent endeavor of his everyday study activities.
He has also been engaged in independent consultancy/management services pertaining to (i) business innovation, (ii) management transformation, (iii) performance enhancement, (iv) organizational strategies, (v) systems thinking, (vi) outsourcing, (vii) transformational risk management, (viii) change stewardship (impact management), (ix) crisis and emergency preparedness/administration, (x) scenario planning, (xi) organizational effectiveness, (xii) healthcare systems (delivery), (xiii) corporate governance and due diligence and (xiv) intercultural counseling for top executives/entrepreneurs, globally.
In addition to those aforementioned, Mr. Agostini has had institutional/corporate clients such as the World Bank,
Some of Mr. Agostini’s business allies involve MINET/St. Paul Final Group of Companies (
Other clients include, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA, CITGO’s parent company), and its subsidiary companies. It can too be cited LAGOVEN (formerly EXXON in Venezuela), MARAVEN (formerly SHELL in Venezuela), CORPOVEN (a fully integrated petroleum company, stemming from the merger of several American and British oil producers), INTEVEP (PDVSA's R&D), BARIVEN (PDVSA's trader, based in Caracas and Houston, U.S.), CARBOZULIA (PDVSA's coal company), PALMAVEN (PDVSA's agribusiness company), INTERVEN (PDVSA's division for the internationalization expansion of the group of companies), and PEQUIVEN (PDVSA's petrochemical operation).
His relationship with PDVSA (CITGO's parent company), not only in Venezuela, also extends to London (formerly PDV Europe), the trader unit of PDVSA in Houston, and some U.S.-wide executive and operational units/divisions that were all merged into CITGO. Andres Agostini has worked with clients from nearly all industries.
His professional experience has been mainly gained within the
He is dedicated to developing and constantly enhancing many "knowledge/skill transfers as well as new modes of counterintuitive thinking" events as per his lines of practice and specialized experience. To Mr. Agostini, a "solution" is in no way a "quick fix," (static) but a "fundamental, continuing, evolutionary, optimum solution (dynamic)." By means of using breakthrough ideas and parathinking processes, he envisions challenge solutions in advance with the “evolution under revolution mode” mindset.
His worldwide sophistication allows him to walk across several complex frameworks (clients, industries, allies, disciplines, practices, methods, approaches, techniques, conceptions, teams, cultures, dynamics, worldviews) to get the client a set of unique, effective solutions adequate to his/her highest expectations.
Beyond methodologies such as Total Quality Assurance (Deeming, Juran), Kaisen (Toyota), Six Sigma (Motorola), and other Multidimensional, [omni-mode] Cross-Functional methodologies compiled into one multi-procedure approach, Mr. Agostini believes that corporate strategies must be reinforced―at all times―with applied, evolutionary "Systems Thinking," and other novelties from the utmost determined "organizational learning" and “learning self” stance as well as the institution of new practices to maximize the development of human intelligence.
In 1991 Mr. Agostini was appointed as Chairman of The Presidential Council on Healthcare by the then President of
In 1990 Mr. Agostini rendered consultancy services to a Senator of the
He was indoctrinated by (a) OMEGA SYSTEMS GROUP INCORPORATED (Arlington, Virginia, U.S.), (b) SEDGWICK Group (London, U.K.), (c) MINET Risk Services (London, U.K.), (d) MARSH & MCLENNAN (New York City, U.S.), (e) HOGG Insurance Brokers Ltd. (London, U.K.), (f) JENNER FENTON SLADE Insurance Brokers (London, U.K.), (g) JARDINE Insurance Brokers (London, U.K.), (h) AON Reinsurance Brokers Group (London, U.K.), (i) JOHNSON & HIGGINS Brokers (Caracas, Venezuela).
At LLOYD’S OF LONDON (London, U.K.), was given a (j) Lloyd’s internship with based insurance brokerage/advisory firms, having access to some special underwriting “syndicates,” mostly those of special risks, (k) U.K. PANDI CLUB, mutual organization—in the mode of “reciprocal exchange”—to provide financial coverage for petroleum (and oil derivatives) tankers (vessels).
In 1987 was invited to participate in a Swiss Re Seminar on How To Manage Insurance and Reinsurance Markets. The 5-day long event had Mr. Agostini’s team wining over seven other groups that were competing against his.
Nota Bene: In Mr. Agostini’s case, his does not address the RISK factor through the insurance/coinsurance/reinsurance standpoint (one of many sub-optimal loss-financial resources.) He manages Upside Risk and Downside Risk with an extremely thorough multi-methodology, one chapter including the Systems Approach. His own designed method is termed "Transformative Risk Management."
Published on February 22, 2008
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