Michelle Wienburg was born in Cape Town, South Africa.  She has been working in the export profession in the UK since 1986.  She joined the Alperton group at its inception in 1990 and has been part of the management team which conceived and established a private distribution network in Libya on behalf of companies such as Land Rover, BMW, MG Rover, JCB and Hyster forklift trucks.  Michelle is involved in all the commercial, legal and financial aspects of the Group’s activities.  She emphasises the role that the exporter plays in the overseas marketing function and creation of business for British manufacturing, achieving sales that might otherwise be placed with international competitors.  The Group focuses on British and local job creation and technology transfer.  The Alperton Group has offices and workshops in Tripoli, Benghazi and Tehran, and procurement and logistics offices in London, Durham and Geneva servicing primarily Libya and Iran, but also exporting to other Middle East and sub-Saharan markets.