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Executive MBA Talent Book 2023
For the Change Makers
Executive MBA
Our vision is to be Europe’s leading University-based business school, developing transformational ideas and people that shape how we do business. With our innovative learning culture, world-class teaching, practical skill development, and personalised careers support, we challenge and motivate all of our students to unlock their full potential and achieve their goals for the greater good.
Creating future leaders We’re one of the few institutions to offer an assessed module in Leadership, designed to help our students develop the all-important skills required in today’s challenging business environment. Our Executive MBAs are required to undertake one overseas module, providing them with international business exposure and perspectives and the study programme introduces cutting- edge theories that can be applied directly from the classroom into the workplace.
Our Executive MBA students Warwick Executive MBA students are ready for personal and professional transformation and come to study with us from all over the world. They’re Change Makers who live and breathe our CORE values of Curiosity, Openness, Restlessness and Excellence. Our students are taught by some of the world’s leading academics alongside senior business people who join us as Professors of Practice and share their knowledge from years of board- level experience. Our real world knowledge is paired with our transformative research that seeks to lead debate, create impact, and build valuable links with international organisations. This research underpins our teaching, helping to develop inquisitive and entrepreneurial minds.
My cohort consists of interesting people from various industries and nationalities. This diversity provides a richness to the classroom discussions and group work exercises, as everyone has a unique perspective and a wealth of professional experience from their respective fields. I have been using the Executive MBA modules to perform deep dives into the various parts of the business I am now managing. The Executive MBA covers all the core topics a manager needs to understand and deal with on a
daily basis. Hannes Snyman Executive MBA (current participant)
Executive MBA connections
Whether you’re an Executive MBA student at WBS, or an employer looking to recruit our top talent, there are a number of ways you can connect.
Professional networks You can join one of our professional networks, which bring together students, alumni and staff who all share a common interest in a specific industry or sector. Popular events include keynote lectures from inspirational leaders, panel discussions focused on sharing industry insights, and social events to broaden your professional network. wbs.ac.uk/alumni/professional-networks W Award-winning mentoring programme Our award-winning, Investors in People (IIP) accredited Global Mentoring Programme allows you to explore career options, workplace dilemmas and professional development challenges with someone who has already experienced similar situations. If you’re successful in gaining a place on the programme you’ll be mentored by a WBS alum for a period of two years, either during or beyond your studies. The programme costs £345 for two years. wbs.ac.uk/alumni/mentoring-programme
Recruiting our Executive MBAs If you’re looking to recruit one of our talented and ambitious Executive MBA students into a permanent position in your organisation, contact our Employer Relations team:
wbs.ac.uk/working-with-wbs +44 (0)24 7657 4862 EmployerRelations@wbs.ac.uk
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Global community A valuable career asset open to you as an Executive MBA are the connections you’ll make during and beyond your studies. On completion of your degree, you’ll join the WBS global community of more than 56,000 alumni from over 167 countries. You’ll be able to join one of our Global Alumni Networks which host a number of professional and social events each year, as well as Warwick’s alumni groups.
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Jide Adejumo linkedin.com/in/jide-adejumo
■ Career history: Senior Manager, KPMG LLP, UK Senior Manager, KPMG Professional Services, Nigeria ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BSc, Accounting, Bowen University, Nigeria Chartered Accountant (ACA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, Nigeria
■ Nationality: Nigerian
■ Languages:
Yoruba (native) English (fluent)
■ Career achievements: Successfully led the business development team within the performance group for 18 months, resulting in significant new work and a gross addition of circa 200 million Naira. One of the first auditors to enter the new privatised power sector in Nigeria. Helped new owners navigate relationships with stakeholders (regulators, government and end user), becoming a subject matter expert in the generation and distribution aspect of the power value chain. Led a pricing strategy review for the audit division of KPMG which resulted in overall engagement profitability of the division’s client portfolio.
Bolanle Adekoya linkedin.com/in/bolanle-adekoya
Francesca Ahern linkedin.com/in/francesca-ahern-1484b312 ■ Career history: Business Partner for Audience and Portfolio, LEGO, UK Senior Manager for Global Insights, LEGO, UK Commercial Bank Insights Manager, HSBC, UK Strategic Insights and Planning Manager, NatWest, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Bachelor’s Degree, Communications, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
■ Career history: Partner, PwC Nigeria, Nigeria Director, PwC Nigeria, Nigeria Senior Manager, PwC Nigeria, Nigeria Associate Director, GlobeOp Financial Services Ltd (now known as SS&C GlobeOp Technologies), UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BSc (Hons), Business Economics, University of Wales Swansea, UK Chartered Accountant (CA), Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland, UK
■ Nationality: Australian British
■ Nationality: British Nigerian
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Languages:
■ Career achievements: Developed a global research programme for LEGO to co- create a new brand platform, supporting the launch and benchmarking the impact. Achieved remarkable cut-through (using Kantar) with consumers. Part of an internal start-up at LEGO, looking to revolutionise digital advertising with audience-first, agile content development. Personal insight skills directed the creation, deployment and success measurement of the work and laid the foundation for always-on marketing. Part of a team tasked with regenerating the working environment at RBS (now NatWest), which had significant cultural issues during the 2008 banking crisis. Insight-based, strategic guidance led to 99% employee awareness, and three in four indicating they had seen a shift in colleague behaviour.
English (native) Spanish (intermediate)
■ Career achievements: Recognised for transforming PwC West Market’s staff experience and people scores through various initiatives in the role of People Partner for WMA. Started PwC West Market’s Capital Market Accounting Advisory team and grew it to a multi-million-dollar business unit with consistent double digit yearly growth. Grew from a team of two individuals to about 70, covering seven countries. Identified as top performer enrolled into Ernst & Young’s UK Accelerated Leadership/Partnership Programme for those who could become Partner in three years.
Ade Ahmadu linkedin.com/in/adeahmadu
Aqsa Ahmed linkedin.com/in/aqsa-ahmed
■ Career history: Legal Project Manager, Meta, UK Finance Transformation Programme Manager, GSK, UK Project Manager, Anglo American, UK Project Manager, Barclays, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, International Banking and Finance, London Metropolitan University, UK BA (Hons), Media and Cultural Studies & Business, Kingston University, UK
■ Career history: Senior Global FP&A Specialist, Collins Aerospace, UK Operational Finance Business Partner, Collins Aerospace, UK Qualified Financial Accountant, Collins Aerospace, UK Financial Reporting and Tax Analyst, Collins Aerospace, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
ACCA, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting and Finance, Coventry University, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
English (native) Urdu (native) French (basic)
English (native) Yoruba (intermediate)
■ Career achievements: Delivered and implemented a centralisation project, worth more than £40 million, to move Sarbanes-Oxley controls testing from over 75 local markets to the Finance Risk Management & Controls (FRMC) Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the UK, outsourcing the testing to a third party. Programme managed a change and finance transformation portfolio (more than £50 million) to centralise all financial services, including P2P, O2C and R2R. Performed activities from local markets to a central hub for three regions: APAC, LATAM, and the Americas during a demerger. Project managed a project (worth more than £120 million) for over 120,000 accounts within the ‘Collections & Recoveries’ department that incorrectly kept a credit balance. Corrected the business-wide error to remediate customers back to the correct position.
■ Career achievements: Initiated ERG programmes across the business to encourage diversity and raise awareness of cultural differences. The innovation was implemented to further foster an inclusive work environment and build a support system that aligns company goals with wider culture. Co-ordinated cost reduction programmes across multiple departments within the business unit to further sustain and support reduction in overhead expenses. Succeeded in exceeding targets with costs being cut by over 10% for a US$26 billion revenue generating organisation. Redesigned cash forecasting models to further enhance effective financial performance against budget. The initiative improved financial results, consistently closing out variance between actual and forecast data by only 10%, comparative to large fluctuations previously recorded.
Joel Allred linkedin.com/in/joel-allred
Katie Alpin linkedin.com/in/katiealpin
■ Career history: Engineering Manager, Anaplan, UK Engineering Manager, Diffblue, UK Formal Methods Engineer, Systerel, France Research Assistant, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
■ Career history: Head of Strategic Insight, Which?, UK Interim Chief Executive, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, UK Head of Research and Policy, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, UK Economist, Social Market Foundation, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, International Political Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK BA (Hons), Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
PhD, Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Diploma of Advanced Studies, Higher-level Education, University of Fribourg, Switzerland MSc, Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
■ Nationality:
New Zealander Swiss
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
French (native) English (native) German (intermediate)
English (native) French (intermediate)
■ Career achievements: Twice winner of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation’s ‘Consumer Campaign of the Year’ award, for securing a government policy change to protect those suffering a mental health crisis from being pursued for debt collection, and for securing legislative changes to stop threatening letters being sent to those in problem debt. Established an accreditation programme, helping major financial services firms including Lloyds Banking Group to improve the service offered to customers experiencing mental health problems. Provided a new revenue stream for the charity, reducing reliance on grants. Built a multi-stakeholder partnership including NHS services, prestigious academics, and local debt advice charities, to trial embedding debt advice in NHS talking therapy services. Secured over £200,000 of grant funding.
■ Career achievements: Led the development of the core of an AI engine for unit test generation at Diffblue, a University of Oxford spin-out that raised US$32 million in venture financing. Developed a scrum method called PowerPlay that increased feature delivery predictability by focusing on implementing full-stack vertical slices. Worked at the Foundations of Dependability and Security research group at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. As part of PhD studies, developed the most efficient direct complementation algorithm for Büchi automata. Co-founded the Innovation Club Fribourg, to promote innovation by connecting students and scientists from the University of Fribourg, engineers from the HEIA-FR, researchers from the Adolph Merkle Institute, and business actors in Switzerland.
Simone Ambrogio linkedin.com/in/simone-ambrogio-b108591b7 ■ Career history: Senior Medical Physicist - Digital Transformation, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK Medical Physicist - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ultrasound, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK R&D Engineer, Leeds Test Objects Ltd, UK
Rafaela Araujo linkedin.com/in/rafaelamoraesaraujo
■ Career history: Commercial Project Manager, GRIDSERVE, UK
Commercial Lead - Global, Seadrill Management, UK Finance Business Partner - Transformation Programme, Seadrill Management, UK Senior Commercial Analyst, Seadrill Management, UK and Brazil ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Valuation Programme, London Business School, UK BEng, Materials Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Specialisation Programme, Project Management, Dinsmore Compass, Brazil
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
PhD, Health/Medical Physics, University of Sheffield, UK MSc, Biomedical Engineering, Universita’ di Pisa, Italy BSc, Biomedical Engineering, Universita’ di Pisa, Italy
■ Nationality: Italian
■ Nationality: Brazilian
■ Languages:
Italian (native) English (fluent)
■ Languages:
Portuguese (native) English (fluent)
■ Career achievements: Conducted regular audits on the device management system database, identifying and solving issues to achieve a 46% increase in service activities. Developed automated KPIs and spreadsheets, improving traceability and processes, and reducing the time of planned maintenance activities by 54%. Developed automated software for Ultrasound QA, allowing remote image analysis and reducing staff time spent in the clinic by 50%.
■ Career achievements: Key player in the development of bid strategies. Led financial modelling and commercial analysis to support decisions for worldwide tender submission, focused on achieving optimal drilling unit utilisation at a maximum profit to the company. Led performance management and business planning for Seadrill’s Transformation Programme. Partnered with senior management, bringing visibility to costs and capital investment appraisals for faster decision-making, ensuring over £100 million in cash savings. Designed and implemented processes into the CRM system (Salesforce) that resulted in visibility and informed decisions for pricing strategy approvals for global tender submissions.
Jake Ardley linkedin.com/in/jakeardley
Cat Askew linkedin.com/in/catherine-askew
■ Career history: Implementation and Transformation Manager, McKinsey & Company, UK Strategy Manager and Project Lead, Zapp, UK Regional Manager, EVRi, UK Corps Adjutant, The Royal Logistic Corps (British Army), UK
■ Career history: Manager - Aftersales Digital Marketing, AGCO Corporation, UK Customer Loyalty and CRM Manager, AGCO Corporation, UK Merchandising Specialist, AGCO Corporation, UK Account Manager & System Development, Abstract Design, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Level 4 Certificate, Professional Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK BA (Hons), Graphic Design and Illustration, Coventry University, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
BSc (Hons), Logistics Management, University of Lincoln, UK Regular Commissioning Course, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Oversaw the project for a new workforce management system implementation (circa £500,000). Required data gathering, development of APIs, training requirements, and change management across the organisation of more than 1,000 staff. Reduced salary costs by 20%. Developed the process to assure technical documentation for over 1,000 newly procured medical devices during Covid for the NHS. Managed an inter-organisational team of consultants and government regulators to free over 3,000 pallet locations, increasing ‘assured’ medical devices by circa 12%. Led the redesign of the Army Training Centre’s rehabilitation training plan, focusing on delivery of clinical and soft skills, resulting in over £1 million saved in Ministry of Defence training costs and increased recruit retention by 8%.
■ Career achievements: Restructured an established team to allow for inline
promotions that supported corporate employee retention goals and improved team motivation. Secured the first Digital Marketing Analyst role in the region to expand the team’s skillset and improve the service to stakeholders. Nominated by popular vote by senior management to lead a global strategic initiative, leveraging telematics data to improve customer loyalty and take rate of connected solutions. Four use cases were piloted in 2022, with continued sponsorship from senior management in 2023. Redesigned analysis and KPI measurements that better aligned with business objectives and assured transparency around ROI. Click-through rate on campaigns more than doubled and internal PR for the team vastly improved, resulting in a budget increase of 450% over 18 months.
Mohamed Ayeldeen linkedin.com/in/mohamed-ayeldeen ■ Career history: Associate Director, Arcadis, UK Technical Manager, Bachy Soletanche Ltd, UK Technical Director, Keller Grundbau - Middle East, UAE Senior Researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK PhD, Geoenvironmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan MSc, Structural Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt BSc, Structural Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt
Sylwester Babiarz linkedin.com/in/sylwester-babiarz
■ Career history: Head of FMCG Bureau, Bank Pekao SA, Poland
Head of Large Corporates Department, Bank BPH SA, Poland Head of Large Corporates Department, Polbank EFG SA, Poland Management Trainee Programme, Aldi Nord, Germany ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MA, International Economic and Political Relations, Cracow University of Economics, Poland Short Programme, Business Administration, Fachhochschule Muenster, Germany
■ Nationality: Egyptian
■ Nationality: Polish
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
Arabic (native) English (fluent) Japanese (basic)
Polish (native) English (fluent) German (fluent) Russian (basic)
■ Career achievements: Publisher author of more than 20 scientific publications in international journals and conferences with around 450 citations. Successfully participated in and delivered a number of major infrastructure projects worldwide, with combined budget in excess of £2 billion. Build and led the technical team in international construction companies around the globe in 23 countries, to deliver projects with annual turnover of more than £100 million.
■ Career achievements: Managed a corporate banking team comprising six account managers and six supporting staff that regularly achieved MBO targets by acquisition of new customers and active cross- selling. Budget responsibility was 200 million Polish zloty. Managed acquisition, structuring, negotiation and execution of dozens of bespoke multi-million Polish zloty loans for some of the largest companies within the Polish Consumer Goods and Retail sectors. Initiated and managed sales of non-credit related products such as card acquiring for some of the biggest Polish retailers and expanded sales of factoring products by 2 billion Polish zloty. This was possible due to excellent relationships with customers and tailor made offers.
Mahes Balasubramanian linkedin.com/in/mahesbalasubramanian
Nikolaos Barboudakis linkedin.com/in/nikos-barboudakis ■ Career history: Property Accountant, GCP Investment Management Ltd, UK Client Accountant, Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd, UK Financial Analyst, Bertram Group Ltd, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, Finance and Economics, Warwick Business School, UK BSc, Economic Science, University of Piraeus, Greece
■ Career history: Growth Leader for Europe & Africa, GE Vernova, UK Senior Business Development Leader for Europe & Africa, GE, UK Engineering Manager for UK, RoI & Nordics, GE, UK Team Lead, ABB, Chile ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BEng, Electrical & Electronics, Madurai Kamaraj University, India Certified Senior Technical Expert, GE Vernova, UK
■ Nationality: Greek
■ Languages:
Greek (native) English (fluent)
■ Nationality: British
■ Career achievements: Governed the transition and consolidation process of 40 companies along with the reimplementation of incomplete records which resulted, after extensive research, in mitigating millions worth of potential compliance risks. Performed portfolio risk management by identifying operational and security risks, avoiding any further future liabilities. This formed a leading accounts team both internally and externally, which in turn triggered an outstanding performance of the entire portfolio. Formulated incisive data analysis and identified trends to ensure operational improvement plans, which led to an 83% reduction of Amazon’s operational penalties.
■ Languages:
Tamil (native) English (fluent) Spanish (intermediate) Telugu (basic) Hindi (basic)
■ Career achievements: Founded a new country business for GE in Finland (€15 million) and developed the business in Ireland, the Nordic countries, Croatia, and Sub-Saharan Africa (achieving between three to four times growth). Converted four teams into a single Engineering team, developing them to be multi-functional engineers. Also founded a new Services team to achieve positive margins from projects after a long period (from -200% and -100% margins to positive single-digit margins). Supported exponential growth of the business in Chile by implementing new engineering methods and tools, back-office establishment, converting time zone risk into opportunity, and capturing competitor installed bases.
Sai Pavan Kumar Bhamidipati linkedin.com/in/sai-pavan-kumar-bhamidipati ■ Career history: Senior Data Scientist, Optum - United Health Group, Ireland Data Scientist, ESB, Ireland
Danny Bosch linkedin.com/in/dannybosch
■ Career history: Associate Director of Business Development and Commercial, Imperial College Health Partners, UK Head of Commercialisation, LGC Ltd, UK Consultant, Caliba Group, Australia Commercialisation and Business Development Consultant, TeSci CONSULTANCY, Australia ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK PhD, Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia MSc, Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Leiden University, Netherlands PRINCE 2 Practitioner, AXELOS, Australia
Manager - Data Analytics, Cognizant, India Team Lead - Data Analytics, Cognizant, India
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Postgraduate Diploma, Business Analytics, Great Lakes Institute of Management, India BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India
■ Nationality: Indian
■ Nationality: Dutch
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
Telugu (native) English (fluent) Hindi (intermediate) Tamil (basic)
Dutch (native) English (fluent)
■ Career achievements: Established business development and commercial units in two businesses. Provided leadership on income generation, including development of a commercial strategy with cost models, value propositions and commercialisation plans. Secured over £3 million in contracts and strategic partnerships. Established a whole-of-health framework panel contract (45 million Australian dollars in annual value) to enable streamlined procurement of medical equipment across all hospitals in the state, with over 100 suppliers contracted. Provided commercialisation services to more than 10 founders and early-stage ventures, resulting in more than 135,000 Australian dollars’ worth of service contracts to support innovative research into impact. One client completed an IPO with a market cap of 123 million Australian dollars.
■ Career achievements: Developed a probability-based solution to solve the problem of slow recoveries of overpayments made to healthcare providers. This solution identifies the best alternate point to recover overpayments and is projected to improve overpayment recoveries by US$4 million in 2023. Designed and developed an analytics solution to forecast the power generated at one of the key hydro-power generation facilities. This solution will help the energy trading teams with better decision capability and improve the trading margins by €500,000 per year. Developed an analytics-based proof of concept for addressing a specific type of credit card fraud for a major US credit card. This POC is projected to reduce credit card fraud by US$800,000 per year.
Scott Brookes linkedin.com/in/sdlbrookes
David Brown linkedin.com/in/david-i-brown
■ Career history:
■ Career history: Chief Information Officer, Integrated Care 24, UK Managing Director, CLEO Systems 24 Ltd, UK Director of Digital Technology & Performance, South East Health Ltd, UK Director of Strategic Development, StourCare CIC, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Top Managers Programme, The Kings Fund, UK Postgraduate Diploma, Management Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Director, Ramboll, UK Associate, Meinhardt, Australia Principal Engineer, Alan Conisbee & Associates, UK Engineer, Mott MacDonald, Australia
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Conservation Accredited Engineer (CARE), Institute of Civil Engineers, UK Chartered Member (CEng MIStructE), Institute of Structural Engineers, UK BEng, Civil Engineering, University of Bath, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Nationality: British Australian
■ Languages:
English (native) German (basic) Spanish (basic)
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Ramboll UK’s technical and strategic lead for existing
■ Career achievements: Founded CLEO Systems 24, a healthtech start-up providing clinical software solutions to health and social care markets. Successful in delivering three rounds of seed investment, achieving demonstrable market disruption and 400% first year growth. Led the successful delivery of an ambitious three-year strategy for IT operations, data and cyber security, business intelligence and analytics, and systems and solutions development across a cross-disciplinary, cross-organisational matrix team within a £5 million annual budget. Established relationships and partnerships with national NHS leads, informing national policy and interoperability standards, leading to the implementation of market leading digital technology capabilities that underpin healthcare service provision today.
building retention and reinvention - setting direction, driving implementation, and increasing visibility and volume of this critical growth sector. Win and execute a variety of diagnostic, alteration and building upgrade works. Head of International Development and member of Ramboll’s ‘Making a Difference’ charitable network panel, bringing employees together to work with humanitarian organisations and communities on critical projects in demanding environments. Project lead on works to buildings of the highest cultural and social value – from national landmarks to significant health, arts, community and industrial structures throughout the UK, Australia, and Nepal. Held technical positions such as site engineer, design engineer, project manager and conservation consultant.
Ryan Buchanan linkedin.com/in/ryan-buchanan-0677a1bb
Tom Burley linkedin.com/in/tlburley
■ Career history: Account Director, Coca Cola Europacific Partners, UK Associate Director - Strategic Projects, Coca Cola Europacific Partners, UK Field Sales Director, Coca Cola Europacific Partners, UK
■ Career history: Senior Business Development Manager - Global, Eurofins Genomics, UK Business Development Manager - EMEA, Eurofins Genomics, UK Account Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MRes, Structural Molecular Biology, Imperial College London, UK BSc, Biomedical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
■ Nationality: British
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Negotiated and won the first ever multi-year retail partnership with the UK’s largest retailer, developing a three-year £1 billion retail sales value proposition and roadmap to success for both organisations. Developed a five-step programme as CCEPs strategic response to government legislation. Combined sustainability initiative ambitions with profit and revenue ambitions. 10 year journey from sales representative to sales director. Now lead a team of 360 people, harnessing the creative culture born out of a diverse workforce, to drive sustainable growth and propel the future talent of CCEP.
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Initiated and led the Thermo Fisher-Public Health England Covid qPCR validation. This enabled Thermo Fisher to agree the first Covid testing contract (more than £400 million) with the UK Government. Created a consumer-oriented epigenetics array, in partnership with Illumina and leading BioIT providers. Achieved a 52% price reduction to accelerate the commercialisation of the technology, resulting in a more than 82% increase in revenue and tripling the epigenetics pipeline. Expanded global sequencing and logistics infrastructure for Eurofins Consumer and Population Genomics division by establishing intercompany agreements with US labs, generating more than US$5 million ARR.
Rachel Calovich linkedin.com/in/rachelcalovich
Ana Campo Paul linkedin.com/in/anacampopaul
■ Career history: Global Director - Deal Desk, ThoughtSpot, UK Global Director - GTM for Deal Strategy & Operations, AppDynamics Ltd, UK Director - Deal Strategy & Operations for EMEAR, AppDynamics Ltd, UK Manager - Deal Strategy & Operations for EMEAR, AppDynamics Ltd, UK
■ Career history: Commercial Finance Director - VMLY&R Commerce, WPP Group Plc, UK Senior Finance Business Partner, McCann - IPG Group Plc, UK Financial Controller, Omnicom Media Group Plc, Spain Senior Auditor, KPMG Plc, Spain ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Professional Coaching Qualification (CIT), Coaching Training Institute, UK Member, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK Master’s Degree, Executive Finance, ESADE Business School, Spain
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
Securities License, Series 63, FINRA, USA Securities License, Series 7, FINRA, USA BSc, Business Administration, Financial Controllership, Kansas State University, USA
■ Nationality: American
■ Nationality: Spanish
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
English (native)
Spanish (native) English (fluent) Catalan (fluent)
■ Career achievements: Five promotions within eight years. Started out as a junior analyst coming into the company and progressed up to Director level for EMEA and Global, as function and requirements in the business grew over the five years. Built and developed new functions, driving operational efficiency and scalable revenue generation. Core operational expert within corporate strategic initiatives, executing on four strategic transformative project releases through product innovation and integration of acquisition. Turnaround of operational function to improve operational efficiency, policies, and data integrity to ensure IPO readiness. Development of auditable policies and processes, improving turnaround time by 44% and reportability by 23%.
■ Career achievements: Leading the commercial department for the largest advertising and media client spend in the UK, with improvements in fee negotiations, team structures and cost efficiency. Created project performance controls and reports with KPIs to manage projects costs. Resulted in a 30% reduction in overspend for the project between 2019 and 2020. Significant improvement of client fees and contractual terms by identifying key drivers to manage fees, proposing different assumptions to re-negotiate future SOW with clients.
Loukiana Chatzinasiou linkedin.com/in/loukiana-chatzinasiou
Chloe Chilver linkedin.com/in/chloerchilver
■ Career history: Functional Manager Systems Engineering, Ultra Maritime SONAR Systems, UK Senior Systems Engineer, Ultra Maritime SONAR Systems, UK Senior Systems Engineer, MBDA Ltd, UK Systems Engineer, MBDA Ltd, UK
■ Career history: Scientific Marketing Associate, Pharmaron, UK Senior Product Manager - Europe Business Development & Marketing, Sibelius Natural Products, UK Product Manager, Sibelius Natural Products, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BSc (Hons), Mathematics, Swansea University, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
MSc, Medicinal Natural Products and Phytochemistry (Pharmacognosy), University College London, UK BSc, Chemistry, Aristotle University, Greece
■ Nationality: British
■ Nationality: Greek
■ Languages:
English (native) French (basic)
■ Languages:
Greek (native) English (fluent) French (intermediate)
■ Career achievements: Delivered a £1.5 million programme to completion, on time, on cost and to quality as Project Engineering Lead at Ultra Maritime SONAR Systems. Due to the success of this delivery, there are follow on programmes and a product strategy around the development of this system. Led, managed and won a £10 million bid for the Technology Demonstrator Programme. Involved co-ordinating with a sub-system supplier who was also a shareholder. Ensuring that the end-customer achieved value for money was key to the success of this bid. Delivered numerous work packages for the Technology Demonstrator Programme. These included safety, security proving, risk management, reliability and compatibility. This project was challenging as it was developing a variant of a project due to limited funds.
■ Career achievements: Led the development of four site tour videos to promote the company’s UK facilities and service capabilities. Inspired more than 100 colleagues from different backgrounds and seniority to collaborate effectively and the project was successfully launched ahead of the deadline. Managed the development and launch of a new, modern website, incorporating the company’s end-to-end global services and liaising with multiple vendors and stakeholders. Developed seven branded ingredients for the product portfolio of Sibelius and launched them globally. Grew the customer base by 17% within three months and helped the company expand into the European market.
Harshal Cholake linkedin.com/in/harshal-cholake
Yawar Choudhry linkedin.com/in/ychoudhry
■ Career history: Project Director, Atkins, UK Group Manager, WSP, UK Team Leader, Sweco, UK Group Engineer, Atkins, UK
■ Career history: Head of Client Services Proposition - Pension Risk Transfer, Legal and General, UK Head of Product Development - L&G Home Finance, Legal and General, UK
Product Consultant, Commercial GI, Aviva, UK Proposition Consultant, UK and Europe, RAC, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, Construction Management, Loughborough University, UK BEng, Civil Engineering, University of Pune, India
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Master’s Degree, Public Administration, University of the Punjab, Pakistan BSc, Mathematics, Statistics and Economics, University of the Punjab, Pakistan
■ Nationality: British
Indian (overseas citizen)
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
Marathi (native) English (fluent) Hindi (fluent)
■ Languages: Urdu (native)
English (native) Punjabi (fluent)
■ Career achievements: Successfully directed the design programme of works for infrastructure projects in excess of £600 million over four years for local authority clients in South West England, delivering efficiencies of £70 million. Led highly complex infrastructure projects in the UK and Europe, involving multidisciplinary teams of around 200 employees from the UK, Europe, and India. Led a strategic initiative for operational excellence and design automation for a major projects programme, achieving a consistent delivery approach, and overall reduction in delivery cost by 10%.
■ Career achievements: Led operational transformation through online services and back-office automation for the institutional retirement business. Launched a lifetime mortgage business through M&A and led the rebrand, new product development and distribution strategy. Exceeded £1 billion of lending within two years. Launched a new range of commercial general insurance products, covering property, liability and indemnity for businesses in environmental goods and services sector. More than £1 million premium written within the first month, increasing to over £10 million in six months. Chair of the Board of Trustees for Age UK Lambeth, working with the Chief Executive to steer the charity through Covid-19. Recruited two CEOs and charity has grown from 40 people to over 70 people, providing new services with annual turnover increasing to more than £1.5 million.
Natalia L. Condoluci Santa Maria linkedin.com/in/nataliacondoluci ■ Career history: Manager, Accenture UK Ltd, UK Associate Manager, Orbium - Part of Accenture Wealth Management, UK Senior Project Manager, Banco Hipotecario, Argentina Senior Consultant, EDS, Argentina ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, Strategic Management Information (CIO), UADE Business School, Argentina Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, USA BSc, Information Systems Engineer, Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Argentina
Jon Coningham linkedin.com/in/jon-coningham
■ Career history: Business Transformation Consultant - Army Advanced Development Programme, Headquarters of the British Army, UK Lead Land Logistic Planner - Standing Joint Force Logistic Component, Permanent Joint Headquarters of the British Army, UK Executive Officer - British Army Intermediate Staff College, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, UK Assistant Head of the NATO Embedded Training and Advisory Team, Iraqi Army Bomb Disposal School, Iraq ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MBA, Northampton University, UK Level 7 Diploma, Strategic Leadership and Management, Chartered Management Institute, UK BSc (Hons), Management and Logistics, Cranfield University, UK
■ Nationality: Argentinian Italian
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
Spanish (native) English (fluent)
Italian (fluent) French (intermediate)
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Reviewed logistic support functions in British Forces Cyprus, identifying non-core functions that could be outsourced to the selected logistic support contractor, saving Defence circa £1 million per annum and receiving a four-star commendation. Worked with the Welsh Government to establish their National Covid Track and Trace Office, conducting national Test and Trace planning, contributing to the Welsh Government’s Covid-19 response plan. One of the lead logistic planners in the Standing Joint Force Logistic HQ, responsible for coordinating the Kabul airlift and redeploying British Forces from Mali.
■ Career achievements: Managed the regulatory reporting (MiFID II), financial crime, tax and compliance streams. Engaged stakeholders as part of a programme to deploy a wealth platform to accelerate the digital transformation in a recognised UK wealth manager. Implemented liquidity coverage ratio and net stable funding ratio systems and accelerated cross functional team efficiency by implementing agile methodologies. Allowed the bank to operate with no sanctions or disruptions. Conducted the regulatory programme including FATCA design and development, and anti-money laundering reengineering, achieving a high score in the CAMELBIG auditing process which allowed the bank to keep its high operating standards and to expand its market opportunities.
Adam Connolly linkedin.com/in/adam-connolly-acca
Paul Cottam linkedin.com/in/paulcottam
■ Career history: Global Business Development Analyst, Ontic Engineering and Manufacturing Ltd, UK Engineering Finance Business Partner, GE Aviation, UK Commercial Finance Analyst, RWE Generation UK, UK FP&A Analyst, RWE Generation UK, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK ACCA, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK
■ Career history: Vice President - Human Resources, Meggitt Plc, UK
Chief People Officer, Fintyre Group, UK HR Director - Europe, Essentra Plc, UK Divisional HR Director, Essentra Plc, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BA (Hons), Human Resource Management, University of Teesside, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
English (native)
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Active involvement in acquisitions, adding over US$28 million of EBTIDA to a business within a 12-month period. This helped the board deliver on its commitments for growth. Redeveloped the cash forecasting process for the Engineering segment within the UK and improved accuracy to within 4%. Successfully managed and led a team through a transition to a shared service centre in Poland from the UK. Managed to keep operational standards and team morale high during a difficult period of change, whilst ensuring all project milestones were met.
■ Career achievements: Led HR workstream activities for 15 separate M&A projects including due diligence and post-acquisition integration, delivering cultural harmonisation and synergy savings totalling in excess of £100 million. Drove operational management improvements with full P&L responsibility, to deliver a turnaround of a manufacturing and distribution business. Resulted in a 93% increase in on-time delivery performance and reduced production over dues by 78%. Led the business agenda on culture, engagement and diversity and inclusivity. Drove the deployment of a high performance culture, delivering year-on-year improvements in engagement with 43% increase in participation levels and 21% improvement in engagement metrics.
Tarquin Daftari Clarke linkedin.com/in/tarquin-clarke ■ Career history: Head of Business Intelligence and Optimisation, 4most Analytics Consulting, UK Head of Project Governance, 4most Analytics Consulting, UK Senior Credit Model Analyst, Bank of Ireland, UK Credit Decision Analyst, Nationwide Building Society, UK
Armel Dalli linkedin.com/in/armeldalli
■ Career history: Head of Treasury, Touton SA, France Financial Controller, Touton SA, France Deputy CFO, Touton USA, USA Junior Trader, Mekatrade, Switzerland
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Executive Certificate, Big Data and Artificial intelligence, ESSEC, France MSc, Audit and Financial Control, INSEEC, France BSc, Accounting and Financial Management, National School of Trade and Management, Morrocco
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
MSc, Finance, London School of Business and Finance, UK BSc, Mathematics and Sociology, University of the West of England, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Nationality: Ivorian
■ Languages:
French Resident
English (native) French (intermediate)
■ Languages:
French (native) English (fluent) Dida (intermediate)
■ Career achievements: Built a high-performing business intelligence function and analytics team that includes development of an internal SQL database, dashboarding to support self-serve analytics, bespoke tooling to interrogate the data, and automated processes to execute rule-based operations. Successfully delivered a full end-to-end Internal Ratings Based capital programme from design through to delivery of a suite of models. This involved leading a hybrid team of client and consultant resources and providing technical and regulatory guidance. Built a second line project delivery risk function and supporting team, including processes and frameworks, to ensure robust project delivery across the organisation and to minimise instances of project risk.
■ Career achievements: Supervised the treasury department and managed a team of seven, lines of credit and the associated collateral. Oversaw about €1.2 billion in bank credit lines for soft commodities financing. Led the digital transformation and successfully deployed the Kyriba Treasury Management System. Managed to avert a huge loss by carefully managing the company’s foreign exchange position and reducing the sterling position a week before the Brexit declaration, leading to the head of treasury position. Advised the board on investing in a start-up that rose from a valuation of €500,000 to €40 million in less than two years while serving as a strategic adviser to subsidiary ResiliAnce (capital venture company). A €200 million Series B is anticipated to follow.
Rajdeep Datta linkedin.com/in/rajdeepdatta82
Simone David linkedin.com/in/simone-david
■ Career history: Project Manager, SMC Automation Ltd, UK Quality Manager, Pankl Drivetrain Systems Ltd, UK Production Engineer, Renishaw Plc, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, RF Communications, University of Southampton, UK BEng, Applied Physics, University of Calcutta, India
■ Career history: Associate Banker, Barclays Corporate Investment Bank, UK Premier Relationship Manager, Barclays Customer Care Channels, UK Business Relationship Manager, Barclays Business and Retail Channels, UK Town Branch Manager, Barclays, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK
BA (Hons), Business and Finance, University of Sussex, UK Certificate, Business Banking and Conduct, Institute of Financial Services, UK
■ Nationality: British
Indian (overseas citizen)
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
Bengali (native) English (fluent) Hindi (fluent)
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Career achievements: Implemented a top-level process change and defined process layout to upgrade the production line to meet global automotive standards, therefore securing Tier 1 supplier status for brands such as Audi, BMW and McLaren. Initiated and led a project to implement a zero-waste initiative in the production line, therefore saving 70% of non- value-added times in the manufacturing cycle. Introduced a zero-point clamping system which reduced manufacturing cells operating cost by 60%.
■ Career achievements: Successfully managed a corporate portfolio of Barclays clients with annual turnovers of between £6 million and £65 million. Maintained a consistent level of support to enable corporate clients to achieve their business key performance indicators. Successfully maintained a portfolio of high net-worth clients in Barclays Bank Premier. Achieved a year-on-year growth in portfolio turnover of 5%. Implemented the Diversity and Inclusion Cultural Awareness Days initiative at the area level within Barclays Bank South London Customer Case Channels. The initiative was subsequently embedded as an ongoing activity by the Barclays Diversity and Inclusion Colleague Pillar.
Chris Davidson linkedin.com/in/chris-davidson-uk
Cristiana Dos Santos Trigo linkedin.com/in/cristianatrigo ■ Career history: Consultant - Financial Crimes Compliance, Wells Fargo, UK Assistant Vice-President - Reputation Risk Governance, Barclays Bank, UK Team Lead - Anti-money Laundering & Reputation Risk Compliance, JP Morgan, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK International Diploma, Anti-Money Laundering, International Compliance Association, UK BA, Modern Languages - French & Spanish, Birkbeck University of London, UK
■ Career history: Head of Operations and Programme Delivery, David Brown Santasalo, UK Engineering Manager, David Brown Santasalo, UK Development Engineer, Ricardo plc, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Newcastle University, UK
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
English (native)
■ Nationality: British Portuguese
■ Career achievements: Led the £120 million multi-year programme for the supply of gear systems (gearboxes, lubrication skids and control systems) to the UK, Australian and Canadian Navies for the new T26 frigates. Each ship set consists of 200 tons of precision heavy engineered hardware. Took two new buildings to fully operational with cutting- edge assembly and test facilities. Defined an organisational structure and built a team of 50 people across different roles. Delivered continuous improvement projects to reduce lead time and increase quality, through design and process improvements. Saved six weeks from a 12 month build phase and removed 5km of unnecessary hardware movement around the factory.
■ Languages:
Portuguese (native) English (fluent) Spanish (intermediate) French (intermediate) Italian (basic)
■ Career achievements: Regional team lead for an organisation-wide project to implement a new system for tracking and reporting anti- money laundering and reputation risk compliance data. Trained a newly established anti-money laundering compliance function on anti-money laundering governance and internal and regulatory compliance requirements. Led a team of analysts at a global investment bank, who were responsible for monitoring and reporting anti-money laundering and reputation risk incidents. As part of the role, was responsible for providing monthly updates to the bank’s internal committee, chaired by the CEO.
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