WBS Executive MBA Talent Profiles 2023

Linda Rogers linkedin.com/in/linda-rogers-nwokobia-b063519 ■ Career history: Chief Information Officer - International, Life Healthcare Group, UK Portfolio Chief Information Officer, Virgin Media O2, UK Global Head of IT Delivery and Portfolio Management Office (PMO), Reckitt, UK Head of IT - West Africa & East Central Africa, British American Tobacco (BAT), Nigeria and Kenya ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BSc, Applied Computing and Business Information Systems, Middlesex University, UK Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, USA

Andrea Ruggieri linkedin.com/in/ruggieri-andrea

■ Career history: Senior Strategic Consultant, Angel Group, Italy (Remote) Director - Design & Product, Peugeot Motorcycles, France Section Manager - Product Marketing, Honda Motor Europe, UK Senior Product Planner, Honda Motor Company, Japan ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Certification, Business & Climate Change, CISL Cambridge, UK Certification, Managerial Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK BSc, International Business Economics, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy

■ Nationality: Italian

■ Nationality: British Nigerian

■ Languages:

Italian (native) English (fluent) French (fluent) Spanish (fluent) Japanese (basic)

■ Languages:

English (native)

■ Career achievements: Nominated as a role model at the annual UK diversity and inclusion awards in 2019, for being founder of the Women Leadership and Empowerment Network UK. The Network’s mission is to elevate the voices of women for leadership in STEM and Africa. First female Head of IT for the British American Tobacco West African area. Changed the game for the IT function by stabilising the technology landscape. Demonstrated resilience and political savviness through a transition from working in the UK Government public sector to the FMCG private sector.

■ Career achievements: Managed many strategic programmes and corporate business plans worldwide, leading and connecting global teams, innovating, developing products with high complexity and technicality contents, and establishing upstream and downstream partnership integration. Successfully completed part of a major turnaround, from long- standing red-ink, to an efficient, analytical, customer focused, profit-driven team, by leveraging change management, restructuring and people upskilling. Cut expenditure and delivered over 25,000 units of top selling models. Represented the Pan-European business in a secondment at Honda. Triggered workplace cultural change at the R&D centre, broadening global strategies and team integration, to realise economies of scale, while delivering new profitable models (€10 million gross profit).

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