WBS Executive MBA Talent Profiles 2023

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.

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