HCI Who We Are
HCI Global Team
Hugh Henderson has 34 years of global industry experience working
with over 1,000 manufacturers and service providers, as well as
more than 450 foreign agents and distributors in 49 countries.
He has started and operated offices in Australia, Kuwait, Mexico,
Peru, Taiwan, the U.S. and Venezuela and managed a leading distribution
company in Peru, developing over 60% market share.
Henderson has been the president of HCI Corp., 1986 to present,
acting as "Consulting Director - International Marketing" to over
fifty leading manufacturers, both large and small, including General
Electric, W.R. Grace, Southern States, Clean Water Engineers and
Graham-White Machinery. His industry experience includes industrial
equipment, environmental services, scientific and medical equipment,
chemicals, plastics, food and beverage, and biotechnology.
As President of Henderson Chemicals Inc., 1979-1986, the company
was selected in 1980 by the world's largest oil company (ARAMCO)
as the exclusive purchasing agent for LDV contracts for Chemicals
and Scientific Equipment. Mr. Henderson also served other oil
companies including Shell Oil, Bariven, YPF Argentina, YPF Bolivia,
Petroleos Del Peru, Kuwait Oil Company and others.
He has acted as Project Manager, Agent or Export Manager for over
thirty other leading U.S. and multinational companies, from 1978
to the present, including Airco, Akzo Chemie, Bayer, Exxon, Harshaw,
ICI-Brazil, Monsanto, National Medical Enterprises and Sherwin
Williams. Mr. Henderson focused primarily on import-export markets
and/or operations in nineteen countries including Mexico, Argentina
and Venezuela.
Ms. Yatsko is a client-oriented marketing and research professional
with ten years experience in the Microfinance, Information Technology
(IT), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and healthcare industries.
Mr. Anderson was the General Manager for Schlumberger GECO-Prakla
from 1990 until 1992 in Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay,
responsible for the southern tier countries of Latin America with
over 600 employees. Previously, he led a project implementing
technical monitoring systems for both operation and asset control,
doing extensive international travel to oversee implementation
and development of systems.
He acted as the General Manager of Schlumberger Ltd., South Aftica,
1988-1989, and held full profit and loss authority with over 200
employees.
In Paris, France from 1987 to 1988, Mr. Anderson provided operations,
financial, and technical consulting services to Schlumberger subsidiaries
located in Europe and Africa. He is proficient in both French
and Spanish.
From 1979-1988 Mr. Davalos-Sotelo worked with the National Institute
or Research on Biotical Resources (INIREB) in research, analysis
and design of wood structures, and general wood science in the
technology laboratory. From 1990-2003 he acted as Project Leader
and Researcher in the Technological Characterization of Mexican
Woods and Forest Products in the Forest Conservation Department,
Instituto de Ecología, A.C. From 1998-2003 he was the Head of
the Natural Resources Division.
Mr. Davalos-Sotelo has written twenty-six papers for various periodicals
and journals on topics including stress grading, physical and
mechanical properties of wood, standardization, building codes,
design of timber structures and technological characterization
of woods. His expertise has also gone into thirty-two papers for
national and international meetings of Congress. He is the author
of five national standards on stress grading, standard sizes,
performance standards, plywood grading, mechanical properties
of plywood, the coauthor of the Mexican Building Code for Timber
Structures (LRFD Method), versions 1987 and 2003, and has participated
in the writing of nine more national standards and one draft of
an American pre-standard.
Mr. Wershoffen has been in the wood-construction industry since
1967 when he started work as a draftsman specializing in Prefabricated
Building Systems. After receiving his BS in Architecture at the
National University of Mexico in 1971, he supervised the construction
of New Population Centers for the Angostura Program. From 1973-1977
he was the Chief of Architectural Department, Fideicomiso Cdad,
and from 1977-1992 he worked in research, analysis and design
with wood, housing and characteristics of different kinds of woods
and wood Products at the National Forest Research Institute. From
1986-2004 he also acted as General Manager in the National Council
for Wood Construction.
Mr. Wershoffen joined HCI in 2003 as the Director of wood construction
technology in our Mexico office. He has also taught Architecture
for thirty years at the National University of Mexico and has
also given seminars in Havana, Cuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Quito,
Ecuador, Alberta, Canada and at various Universities in Mexico.
Dr. Riddle is an experienced international certified management
consultant, and Registered ISO 9000 Specialist. Over the past
22 years, she has worked in over 30 developed and developing countries.
Dr. Riddle has had twenty years of professional experience in
the area of health care delivery. She has served as President
of Group Health of Arizona (a health maintenance organization)
and as Chief Psychologist at Marana Community Clinic. She has
assisted at the management level with the integration of services
from disparate specialties (medicine, radiology, pathology, pharmacy,
mental health), including the design of supporting information
systems to provide "seamless service" to the client.
Dr. Riddle is one of Canada's three private sector representatives
to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and Co-Chaired ABAC
for 1996. She is the founding Chair of the Services' Exporters
Committee of the Canadian Exporters' Association, and has chaired
the Working Group on Exporter Competitiveness of DFAIT's Task
Force on International Business Development (International Trade
Advisory Committee). She has been appointed to the Business Services
SAGIT (Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade).
Dr. Riddle serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute of
Certified Management Consultants of Canada (ICMCC) and chairs
its ISO 9000 Standing Committee. She also serves on the Governing
Board of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of
British Columbia. She has served on the editorial boards of Journal
of Services Marketing and International Journal of Service Industries
Management, and is a member of Statistic Canada's Advisory Committee
on Services Statistics.
Dr. Riddle holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from University of Colorado,
an M.B.A. from University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. from Duke University.
Mr. Emiroğlu started his career as an economist at the Is Bank
of Turkey. Moving into the international trade business, he worked
as area manager for starting commercial activities with Eastern
Europe at Tekfen Group of Turkey in the early 1980s and continued
with the Dutch multinational corporation Van Ommeren/Ceteco in
early 1990s as the trade manager responsible for establishing
their trade department in Turkey.
Mr. Emiroğlu most recently worked as the General Manager of Foreign
Trade at the Turkish joint venture of U.K. wholesale leader Booker
PLC.
Continuing his career of 30 years of international trade, Mr.
Emiroğlu joins our team as HCI’s Director of European Trade through
our partnership with LIBRA International Business Consultants
in Istanbul.
Mr. Hacıoğlu graduated from Ankara University BA and started working
1978 at TC Ziraat Bankası.
After 6 years, he moved into the international trading business,
working in TEKFEN Holding, TOPRAK Holding and ERSU Holding’s İnternational
Trading Companies.
In the early 1990s, Mr. Hacıoğlu decided to establish a manufacturing
textile institution, producing ready-wear garments which were
exported to European markets for almost 10 years.
After, Mr. Hacıoğlu has joined GİSAD Group as an establishing
member and taken the responsibility as FEO (CFO) of the company.
With more than 30 years of experience accumulated as banker, manufacturer
and international businessman, Mr. Hacıoğlu now, acts as HCI’s
Director of Middle-Eastern trade at HCI-Istanbul.
• David Henderson – V.P. of Australian Operations
• Monica Garcia Padilla – V.P. of Mexican Operations
• Lic. Jose Antonio Sanchez Moros - Director of Manufacturing
• Amit Mehta - Director of Global Chemicals
• Bryan Barnett - Director of Agriculture Commodities
• Rudolfo Loiaza - V.P. of Government Affairs, Mexico
• Guillermo Echaniz - V.P. Engineering
• Nicholas D. Lanoue – Project Coordinator, U.S. Operations
• Herman Molzahn
• Ghassan Ghazal
• John Price
• Harley Coombs
• Jorge Ramirez
• Jose Manuel Lopez
• Brad Burman
• Randolph Rhett
• Sean Coppedge
• Adrianna Torres
• Dr. Eduardo Fajardo
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"NextLinx believes that HCI has conducted itself and
in a professional manner and has continual
demonstrated deep knowledge of the international
supply chain"
James Schwab, Vice President, Nextlinx Corporation
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