Trilingual finance executive, MBA from MIT, with expertise leading teams and projects in a multinational environment. Proven success in strategy definition, project management and reengineering of organizations. Track record of reducing costs, increasing profitability and streamlining processes within complex finance scenarios in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

CFO - Director Finance & IT - Saint-Gobain Ceramics Materials @ Led Finance & IT of a €300M business with manufacturing locations in 10 countries serving Refractory systems, Engineered Ceramics and Crystals to a broad diversity of end customers and applications. - Analyzed and defined business strategic action plan to regain profitability - Re-engineered and rejuvenated Admin and Finance organization worldwide with double digit reduction target: from 40 down to 28. - Created and expedited Worldwide Finance Community holding yearly worldwide meeting and regional quarterly meetings - Defined and implemented internal control processes and tools to help entities understand and find risk as well to mitigate potential issues. - Managed and negotiated M&A operations for the Business with on-going deals in Brazil, China and India. Conducted SPA negotiations with potential external business partners - Designed and Executed US SAP implementation project and led IT team in charge of SAP worldwide implementation and business related tools including CRM, BI, etc. From November 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) Greater Boston AreaDirector of Controlling and Consolidation - Construction Products Sector @ Managed a team of 12 people, in charge of management control and consolidation of financial statements of 250+ entities spread worldwide in 5 BU. Turnover around €12Billions Prepared and presented yearly budget to Group CEO and Sector President. - Built a team combining internal and external resources with different profiles and backgrounds. - Reviewed and organized several finance organizations on each BU into one single and common team, achieving 30% yearly savings with a more efficient professional and reliable business partnership highly skilled, professional and reliable. - Improved number of exceptions raised by external auditors firms on consolidated accounts and reach better internal audit grades by developing a self-auditing tool to help entities on internal control and audit policies and issues. - Streamlined reporting process, reducing volume of information required while defining and focusing on new key KPIs From August 2010 to October 2013 (3 years 3 months) Paris Area, FranceFinance Shared Service Center Corporate Project Manager @ Led reengineering of entire Group Finance organization by creating and coordinating Shared Service Centers (SSC) globally. From August 2007 to August 2010 (3 years 1 month) Paris Area, FranceFinance Director @ From January 2004 to August 2007 (3 years 8 months) Paris Area, FranceController @ From February 1998 to January 2004 (6 years) Barcelona Area, Spain

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management From 2014 to 2016 ADE @ IQS From 1992 to 1996 ADE @ Universitat Ramon Llull From 1992 to 1996 Lycee Français Barcelona From 1980 to 1992 Xavier Sagués is skilled in: Estrategia empresarial, Cambio organizacional, Administración y dirección de empresas, Financial Management, Financial Analysis, SAP ERP, Diversidad cultural, Auditorías internas, Consolidation, Internal Controls, M&A experience, Shared Services Implementation, Working Capital Management, Controlling, Corporate Finance