Christelle Damiens
Managing Director

Christelle turned her back to a successful career as a sales representative in the corporate world. As she moved to Australia in 2006, she created Exportia straight away, having accumulated a wealth sales experiences Europe-wide both for a small business as an Export Manager and as a Sales Representative at IBM in Paris.

“Having taken dozens of Australian businesses to Europe, I personally know the difficulty for a small business to significantly grow their sales in the European market. It is a very diverse market and small businesses often don’t know where to start. Small business owners are often caught up with running their business and with their domestic market to be able to allocate enough time to the European market. Lowering the risk for small businesses and guiding them to maximise the export sales results are what drives our outsourced European sales & marketing team at Exportia.”

French native speaker, fluent in German and English, with Basic Italian and Hindi

She is also an award-winning author and a business speaker.Her second book “The four steps to generate your first million euros in sales’ won the Australian Business Book Award 2020 in the Communications and Sales category and was a finalist in the Entrepreneurship & Small Business Category, as well as an Amazon best seller.

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Isabell Muehlberger
Sales Manager

As a German living in France for nine years and for one year in Italy, Isabell has a passion for languages and international business.

Lived and traveled abroad, she has cultivated positive relationships with customers, distributors and colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds. Her combination of professional experience and education has given her valuable insight. She has been working as an Export Sales Manager for a French manufacturer in the PPE sector by setting up the European distributor network.

German native speaker, fluent in English, French and Italian

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Thomas Leprince
Sales Manager

Born in Paris, Thomas has spent half his life abroad, mostly in Switzerland, Russia and Germany.
He has developed a keen interest in cultural exchanges, international business and of course languages.

He started working for French diplomatic and financial institutions in Geneva and Moscow before joining the private sector.
In Berlin, he helped German business to export before moving back to France where he worked as a sales representative in the field of cybersecurity and consultancy business.
He joined Exportia to cover Europe from Paris.

French native speaker, fluent in English, Russian and German.

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Jalil Mekouane
Project Manager

Born and raised in France, Jalil grew up in a multilingual and bicultural environment.He made his first experience abroad during his studies in UK in 2008, before moving to Germany then Austria, where he spent 6 years working for one of the European Leader in road transportation.

As a Sales Manager, he was responsible for the development of the North African Market.He implemented different networks for the automotive industry in particular (Renault, PSA, Volvo, Land Rover…) in Morocco, Tunisia and France. Prior to that, he also worked for Daimler Benz. With his great interpersonal skills, he is the key liaison between European customers/distributors and Australian customers, ensuring fast response, sharing regular market updates and project progress.

Qualifications: Master in International Business & Logistics, University of Nantes. Languages: French native speaker, fluent in English and German, very good Spanish skills, basic Arabic skills.

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Carmen Schneider
Project & Customer Service Manager

Born and raised in Germany, Carmen is living in Portugal for 15 years and is passionate about
international business development.

As Sales Coordinator for a Portuguese brand & manufacturer taking care of clients around the globe she gained valuable insights on how to grow and cultivate positive relationships with customers and distributors from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Qualifications: Master’s degree in Business Management/ Marketing
German native speaker, fluent in English and Portuguese.

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