Agust Beaumont

Agust Beaumont currently oversees the daily operations at UPL Distribution, a leading provider of outsourcing services based out of Barr, Switzerland. With offices in three continents, Beaumont holds responsibility for managing communications between offices, directing daily operations, and overseeing finances of the company. In addition, Agust Beaumont also heads the Licensing and Legal Department. He started with UPL Distribution in 2005 as the Chief Operating Officer of the Asian division in Bangkok, Thailand, managing all of the day-to-day business activities in the region. Agust Beaumont received a promotion to the corporate headquarters when UPL Distribution relocated in Switzerland in the late 2000s.

Hailing from Iceland, Agust Beaumont gleaned his first exposure to business management as the Chairman of the Board for Estate Committee Bolholti 6, a residential building in Reykjavik. In this position, Beaumont maintained responsibility for supervising the six-story structure with an estimated worth of more than $100 million. Agust Beaumont held this post for three years before turning his attention to the retail industry as an Overseas Operations Manager for the Icelandic seller AVK ehf.

Maintaining an interest in the retail sector, Agust Beaumont spends his free time researching e-commerce and Internet sales. To help make online information readily available to all, Agust Beaumont regularly contributes to the Wikimedia Foundation.