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.
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