WBS Executive MBA Talent Profiles 2023

Asha Vasu linkedin.com/in/asha-vasu

Rose Whelan linkedin.com/in/rose-whelan

■ Career history: IT Portfolio Lead, BSI Group, UK Interim Head of Project Management/Deputy Delivery Director, BSI Group, UK Senior Project Manager, SS&C, UK Senior Manager, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anna University, India BEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bharathiar University, India

■ Career history: Senior Technology Project Manager, Evonik Operations GmbH, UK Senior Manager Technical Support, Evonik Operations GmbH, UK Senior Research Manager, Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH, Germany Research Manager, Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH, Germany

■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK

PhD, Biomedical Science, Free University Berlin, Germany MSc, Animal Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada BSc, Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

■ Nationality: British

■ Nationality: Canadian

Indian (overseas citizen)

■ Languages:

■ Languages:

Tamil (native) English (fluent)

English (native) German (intermediate)

■ Career achievements: Delivered the first phase of a complex £10 million business transformation programme (cloud-based PSA, integration to CRM, workflow and complex resource scheduling) for BSI’s regulatory services business, with benefits of £45 million forecast over three years. Established and led the first professional project management practice and Programme/Portfolio Management Office (PMO) at BSI. Awarded the CEO’s ‘Mission Impossible’ award for achieving 50% improvement in delivery KPIs and accelerating growth and delivery of benefits of £35 million over five years. Delivered a managed services portfolio of more than US$2.5 million with 85% profitability for Cognizant Technology Solution’s largest health insurance/healthcare customer, Healthnet Inc. Enabled delivery of health insurance services to more than 10 million customers in the USA.

■ Career achievements: Designed and implemented an applied technology

development strategy and an IP strategy for a pre-launch proprietary molecular analytic tool. Created and secured opportunities for future business in multiple industries globally. Developed and implemented an immunology research programme to support a new strategic direction for an existing business line, including the creation and delivery of a training programme for global technical sales teams. Successfully tested and launched a new product and in turn received the company’s ‘Innovation of the Year’ award in 2017.

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