Thursday, March 27, 2014

Michael DELVAUX

Biography:

Michaël Delvaux was born on 12 February 1967 in Etterbeek, Belgium. Graduated in Commercial and Financial Sciences from Ichec in 1991, Michaël Delvaux started his career in a company auditor office. After two years he joined the Belgian Banque Paribas where he worked as internal auditor (three years), internal auditor manager for the market room (two years) and manager of the IPO files for the "Investment Banking" department of the Artesia bank. He joined Demimpex in 2000 as Chief Financial Officer. Along with Philippe de Moerloose, he developed and managed the significant growth in the accounting, administrative, financial, strategic and human resources aspects. He has been the right-hand of Philippe de Moerloose for more than 10 years and manages the SDA-SDAI Consortium together with him.

Introduction.:

2000 Creation of a bonded logistics centre (Pre Delivery Organisation) in Anvers with a capacity of 2,500 vehicles.

2001 Acquisition of "Auto Transport Company" (ATC) from the Belgian group Chanic . This acquisition allowed the Group to officially distribute the Nissan brand in the DRC.

2004 Joint venture ATC Comafrique with the SIFCOM group to allow the distribution of the Nissan, Volkswagen, Audi and Budget Rent A Car brands in the Ivory Coast.

Creation of a shared Belgian-Algerian company, Demdistral, for the distribution of the Hitachi and John Deere brands in Algeria.

2005 Creation of Demimpex Middle East in the free zone of Dubai.

2008 Creation of the Belgian law Holding "Société de Distribution Africaine" (SDA), which now incorporates all the previous participations.

2010 Inauguration of SDA Asia, anchor point for the Group in China

2011 Development of the SMT network (Swedish Machinery & Trucks), official distributor for Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Trucks and Volvo Penta, in Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and DRC.

Separation of Demimpex into 2 companies: Demimpex Motors and Demimpex Equipment.

Creation of DEM Equipment in DRC.

Creation of SDIAG for the distribution of John Deere Agriculture equipment.

Addition of automobile activities to the Joint Venture TRACTAFRIC MOTORS CORPORATION. This company is the second-largest entity in Sub-Saharan Africa in the automobile sector and is 60% owned by the Optorg Group and 40% by the SDA Group.

Purchase and integration of the Multitech group (official distribution of Volvo in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin and Liberia) into the SMT network.

2012 Founding of the Management Committees at SDA, Demimpex Equipment and SMT Europe.

Creation of the Luxembourgian holding company SDAI, including the SDIAG and CBA Trading (previously SDA Asia) participations.

2013 Creation of the sub-holding SMT Group by addition of the SMT subsidiaries in Africa.

Creation of the sub-holding DEM Group by addition of the DEM Equipment subsidiaries in Africa.

Reinforcement of the DEM Group network by the creation of the DEM Ghana, DEM Mauritania, DEM Morocco, DEM Nigeria and DEM Senegal subsidiaries.

Hobbies:

Michaël loves travelling, nature, sport (cycling, jogging and skiing) and spends most of his free time with family and friends whenever he can.

External links:

www.philippedemoerloose.com

www.consortium-sda-sdai.com

www.sdaworldwide.com

www.dem-group.com

www.smt-group.be

www.sdiag-group.com

www.cba-trading.com

www.tractafrictmc.com

www.ichec.be( Brussels Management School)

Contact Presse :

Mister Frederic Corbiere

press@sdaworldwide.com

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