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Josephine Thurston linkedin.com/in/josie-thurston ■ Career history: Associate Director Online - Strategic Operations and Commercial Planning, Saïd Business School, UK Head of Online, Saïd Business School, UK Business Excellence Manager, Saïd Business School, UK Senior Programme Manager - Executive Education, Saïd Business School, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BSc (Hons), Biology, University of Sussex, UK Oxford Enterprise Leadership Programme, Saïd Business School, UK PRINCE2 Practitioner, APMG, UK
■ Career history:
Fintech Advisor, BCG, UK Global Head of Fintech, Ashmore Group, UK
Head of UK and South Europe - EMEA, Aliay & Ant Group, UK General Manager GKA - Europe, Huawei Technologies, UK
■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK Short Programme, Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies, University of California Berkeley, USA Short Programme, Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, Harvard Business School, USA BSc, Computer Science & Technology, East China Normal University, China
■ Nationality: British Chinese
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
■ Languages:
English (native)
Chinese (native) English (fluent)
■ Career achievements: Built a multi-million-pound business area from the ground up. Set up strategic operations, partnerships and commercials, across a global matrix team, leading multiple digital change and transformation programmes to drive revenue and growth while enhancing quality. Developed a strategy to increase equality, diversity and inclusion on multiple dimensions from curriculum, faculty, clients, and partnerships, to create a community that serves over 200 nationalities. Gender equality across online executive education increased from 11% to 50% women. Won the ‘Excellence Award’ which recognises the top 3% of performance for four consecutive years, most recently for significant and transformative income generation and exemplary leadership through strategic delivery of transformation projects.
■ Career achievements: More than 15 years of international business development experience in the Fintech and TMT industries across EMEA and APAC regions, and fortunate angel investor in one unicorn cross-border payment fintech. Led Alipay of Alibaba Fintech business, one of the biggest eWallets, and successfully achieved rollout in 35 markets. Generated over US$1 billion profitable revenue in Huawei UK and Europe by leading global teams across 15 countries to achieve targets.
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