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Programme summary ■ The Careers and Professional Business network Our one-year intensive Full-time MBA is Development team provide workshops The skills learnt and the qualification itself designed to develop your business skills and services aimed at developing vital are just one part of the Full-time MBA; the and experience, providing you with the soft skills such as networking, contacts students make and the network confidence, knowledge and networks to interviewing techniques, negotiation, built is the other. At Cass , achieve your career ambitions. On this advanced presentation and leadership we provide our students with the journey, you will be studying and transition. Students come away from opportunity to build an effective business collaborating alongside a talented these sessions better equipped to meet network that will continue to prove its value international cohort of business the challenges of business in a global long after the programme is completed. professionals, each with their own fields of economy. expertise. The Cass MBA is a journey of Programme start date exploration and professional Programme delivery September transformation. Students’ understanding of theory is developed through a combination of case More information The Full-time MBA has four major teaching, formal lectures, collaborative components: group work, seminars, discussions, Speak to our team for further information workshops, self-study and projects. about the Full-time MBA, the admission ■ Core modules are taken by all students process, scholarships and funding. and cover fundamental areas of business. Professional skills modules typically As students progress through the MBA, involve experiential and immersive Email: [email protected] they build up knowledge and skills that learning. In addition to this, students have Tel: +44(0) 20 7040 0286 will be used throughout the programme access to a customised virtual learning www.cassmbalondon.com and beyond. environment. This includes interactive learning materials, academic support via ■ Our elective portfolio gives students the Q&A and discussion forums. opportunity to tailor their MBA and focus on specific areas of business. The international electives build an understanding of global business through projects undertaken in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the USA. ■ The Business Mastery Project is the final major project for the Full-time MBA. Students put into practice what they have learned on the programme by completing an extensive piece of consultative work for a company and provide recommendations or solutions to organisational challenges. 4 5

Class profile 2019

Top Key stats Female Industries represented

year 1 Cohort size: Average age: 39% 64 32

Average GMAT

Avg. work exp. Nationalities: (years): 29 8 653

Agriculture 2% Nationalities represented by region Consulting 5% Education/Not For Profit8 % Europe Energy 6% 15% Engineering/Manufacturing 5% 30% UK North Hospitality/Tourism 6% America 16% HR 2% 5% 52% IT/Telecoms 9% Media 3% Asia Military 2% 9% Pharma/Healthcare 3% Middle East Professional Services 2% Latin and Africa America Real Estate 6% 2% Retail/FMCG 6% 1% Sport 2% Supply Chain 3% Australasia 6 7

Student profiles2019 Jannat Ara Athina Shaolin Audity Richard Baillie Business Risk Manager, Retail Banking & Manager, Credit Risk Control, Corporate & Associate International Consultant, Mercer, Wealth , HSBC, Dhaka Commercial Banking, Standard Chartered Bangladeshi , Dhaka British Bangladeshi Six years' experience in financial crime risk Six years’ experience in industry risk analysis, business Part-qualified actuarial consultant with five years' management, business transformation, strategy valuation and risk control mechanism of large corporate experience devising, implementing and managing global implementation, and governance oversight management clients in emerging markets. pensions and benefits solutions for multi-nationals in financial services industry. across multiple sectors. ■■ Led global business process automation project, ■■ Led transformation project in retail banking standardised credit applications, improved annual ■■ Managed pensions process across multiple department to achieve agreed business results by capacity by 13% and maintained zero operational loss. countries, working with local teams and client HQ to decreasing 50% of customers and branch network in ■■ Nominated "Future-Leader" by CEO, collaborated with ensure timely delivery. two years. country management team to develop franchise growth ■■ Led on a large project for a key "at-risk" client ensuring ■■ Acted as department coordinator during specialised strategies, recognised for outstanding stakeholder delivery within the tight deadline and improving our financial crime risk review to facilitate Deferred management skills. client relationship. Prosecution Agreement with US Department of Justice. ■■ Managed credit administration process of USD $600m ■■ Developed programmes to automate a regular non- ■■ Implemented and managed customer due diligence portfolio in credit exposure, facilitated country's billable client process saving team time to re-focus on programme within commercial banking department largest FX derivative transaction worth USD $18m. billable client work. resulting in 70% portfolio remediation in one year.

Niyaz Ahmed Shruti Ahuja Saud Al-Henaki Ankita Banerjee Naina Bhargava Duong Thuy Bui Managing Director, Geometrix Laser IT Procurement Analyst, A.T. Kearney, Business Analyst, ARASCO, Team Leader, Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd, Owner, Ibakeit Bakery, Jaipur Financial Markets Sales Manager, Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad Haryana Riyadh Bangalore Indian Vietnam Prosperity Bank, Ho Chi Minh City Indian Indian Saudi Arabian Indian Vietnamese

Extensive experience as managing director in a Four years' cross industry experience in asset Three years' experience as a business process analyst. Eight years' experience in information technology in Entrepreneur with four years' experience in business Ten years' experience in banking ranging from retail, manufacturing startup in avant-garde technology. Two management. Won several awards and played a Enhanced the company's internal processes. telecommunications industry across six countries. formation, operations, finance and management in the finance, financial institutions and treasury. Worked years in consulting as a business analyst. leadership role. Managed project worth USD $1.5m. food and beverage industry. with global and non-banks. ■■ Managed multiple projects in finance, sales, ■■ Raised a debt of GBP £500K to setup a laser processing ■■ Framed operational workflow for asset management of production and procurement and enhanced the ■■ Led delivery of corporate payroll for 200,000+ ■■ Expanded from a small home kitchen to a successful ■■ Promoted and run an active trade financing portfolio unit in India using avant-garde R&D technology a large multi-national client's APAC region. company's internal processes. employees for largest telecommunications company retail café through strategic planning and omni channel valued at USD $180m with global banks. imported from Germany. ■■ Managed 18,000 assets across EMEA and APAC regions ■■ Led company wide processes documentation project with revenue of USD $160bn. marketing leading to increase in sales. ■■ Established money market lines and managed a fixed ■■ Led the first global commercialisation of “Laser individually completing 78% workload expected from and participated in successful ERP implementation of ■■ Implemented new working process by upskilling ■■ Led and managed a small team to create an efficient income portfolio of 20 active non-banks customers Stelliting” of engine valves and earned distinction of a team of four, communicated directly and submitted the company, incorporating six independent business engineers through collaboration with 12 managers, functioning business across all functions. worth USD $50m in term and certificate of deposit, manufacturing 30mm two wheeler valves in five years. regular reports to senior stakeholders globally. units. which led to 20% reduction in client costs. ■■ Increased brand awareness by collaborating with social corporate bonds, foreign exchanges. ■■ Executed market segmentation due diligence, ■■ Provided orientation to and trained new employees ■■ Successfully established a logistics company ■■ Spearheaded operations readiness for 18 customers in media platforms and online discount portals which led ■■ Senior expert in international banking and financial established product portfolio, market roll out strategy who joined team. transporting goods across Saudi Arabia. London and coached the support team of 22 agents in to increase in sales. institutions. and oversaw the bid process management for a real Rotherham prior to product launch. estate company.

Sarkhan Aliyev Ahmad AlSardi Mohammad Ansari Filippo Maria Capirone Rohan Mahmood Chaudhry Lewis Chong Group Strategy Manager, Head of PMO, Internal Auditor, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran Senior Operations Manager, Product Marketing Manager, Fastweb, Manager, Social & Environmental Risk, Associate, Goldman Sachs, Salt Lake City Pasha Holding LLC, Baku Saudi Deltaban Travel, Tehran Milan Khushhali Microfinance Bank Ltd, Islamabad Canadian Azerbaijani Iranian Italian Pakistani

Over six years' experience in the financial services sector Certified internal auditor with extensive and diverse Ten years' experience in the travel and tourism industry Renewable energy entrepreneur with more than 10 years' Six years' experience working primarily in financial Five years' experience in finance and focusing on large transformation and cross-border experience in HR, procurement and mega projects. as product manager and senior operations manager. experience in telecommunication companies focusing on services such as development, finance, corporate and assessing credit risk across a USD $150bn portfolio of expansion programmes. Providing value-adding solutions for organisations. engineering, project management and marketing. microfinance banking with over four years experience in public and private counterparties. ■■ Designed and established the first online booking risk management. ■■ Implemented the centralisation of projects portfolio ■■ Performed company-wide risk assessments to risk-rank engine for tour operators in the Iranian market. ■■ Designed a new mobile service resulting in 1m new ■■ Validated internal credit ratings and developed management which contributed to doubling the net critical areas contributing to financial recoveries and ■■ Developed and implemented new quality service customers eight months post launch. ■■ Designed and implemented the social and proposals to improve risk management framework and income of the group in three years. improvements. strategies which led to being awarded the 'best quality ■■ Founded an engineering firm with the aim of offering environmental risk management framework for the ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. ■■ Successfully reorganised the credit underwriting ■■ Analysed financial and operational data during audits, of service award' by the Iranian tourism organisation. renewable energy systems (PV systems, wind turbines, bank which included training network associations and ■■ Reviewed investment bank deal proposals worth USD process which resulted in an average of three days designed effective audit strategies in order to optimise ■■ Developed six new products which increased the heat pumps) from design to deployment, gaining more industry peers. $25m-$30bn to protect firm capital and approve risk decrease in application processing. audit tests. number of customers by approximately 20%. than 20 customers per year. ■■ Introduced a board level Social & Environmental exposure limits. ■■ Successfully launched MIS reporting which ■■ Led the implementation of AutoAudit, an automated ■■ Negotiated with over 10 different stakeholders to Committee in the institution and served as secretary to ■■ Selected to Risk Junior Board, a leadership committee considerably reduced the time and effort of the solution for audit companies resulting in a systematic increase quality standards which led to a reduction of the committee for over three years. that established initiatives to improve the work reporting team and led to an upgrade of the financial way of documenting and reviewing audit work. 10% for order management time and a 20% reduction of ■■ Introduced the institution to Client Protection environment for new and junior employees. maturity score. activation time. Principles (CPP) and was awarded with the SMART Campaign's CPP Certification. 8 9

Jamie Coughlan Nikesh Kumar Das Rutvik Deepak Amar Nath Gupta Khawaja Zafar Hassan Harish Jani Curriculum Coordinator, Cardinal Wiseman Senior Manager Product Development, Strategic Marketing Specialist, GO plc, Project Manager, IBM India Pvt. Ltd, Noida Relationship Manager, Habib Bank UK, Head of Finance, Crystal Palace Football Catholic School, London Aegon Life Ltd, Mumbai Malta Indian London Club, London Irish Indian Indian German British

Six years' leadership experience in the education sector, Nine years' experience in the financial services and Seven years' technology experience in process, Extensive global experience in managing medium-to- Experience in front-office marketing and relationship Experienced finance professional with diverse sector specialising in change management, staff development social and development sector. Developed insurance marketing, business development and strategy, through large sized IT infrastructure and application transition management of HNWIs financing for prime London real experience from automative to healthcare and most and project coordination. products and delivered rural projects. various business stages from startup to publicly traded. and transformation projects and programmes. estate investment. recent Head of Finance at Crystal Palace Football Club. ■■ Implemented a strategic plan to reinvigorate a failing ■■ Managed complete product life-cycle and developed ■■ Converted a telecommunications business into an ■■ Improved project financial health by uncovering gaps ■■ Collaborated with Head of Commercial and Retail to ■■ Transformed and implemented innovative financial department resulting in 200% increase in extra- innovative profitability model that resulted in 10% end-to-end technology service provider, increased and missed opportunities worth 500 working hours. create residential property-backed lending product and accounting systems, such as going paperless, to curricular participation and 30% increase in exam growth of product sales. technological competitiveness and created new ■■ Awarded 'Certificate of Appreciation - Excellent targeting HNWIs incorporating risk, liquidity and credit increase efficiency and operational performance. performance. ■■ Analysed customer data to understand demographic ventures, through projects valued at EUR €14m. Contribution' for on-time delivery of a strategic assessment. ■■ Accountable for treasury, budgetary and financial ■■ Established efficient line management procedures with movements that aided the design of profitable product ■■ Transformed a legacy system into a device agnostic transition and transformation project. Managed ■■ Cross-departmental liaising with private banking team projections and reported to Main Board and Chairman a focus on staff development leading to colleagues portfolio and increased the product listing on web Cloud storage service focused on Europe and GDPR. project risk successfully and avoided company to leverage the bank's customer base, facilitating for time critical and strategic financial decisions. successfully gaining promotions. aggregators. ■■ Launched the first locally hosted, on-demand Cloud penalties on missing go-live milestone. business development and marketing, growing GBP ■■ Led and completed several due diligence processes as ■■ Coordinated with 15 schools to develop a student ■■ Spearheaded digital innovation models to accelerate services platform in Cyprus. ■■ Streamlined a troubled project by restructuring and £13m new portfolio across 10 clients. a result of changes to ownerships. leadership academy, attracting over 2,000 young digital growth and created a strong partnership with implementing Agile methodology and delivered with ■■ Led various stakeholders in streamlining credit and people per year. India’s leading e-commerce company. 30% profit margin. risk approval procedures to ensure efficient and expedient workflow.

Charles Dike Omri Farber Marcello Forcellini Ria Kalantzis Haris Khawaja Siddharth Khowala Senior Project Management Consultant, Chef de Partie, JKS Restaurant Group, Risk and Financial Analyst, Bank Cassa di CFO, Metric Electric Contractors Ltd, Toronto Investment Manager, The Upmarden Group, Product Quality Manager, Schlumberger Financial Conduct Authority, London London Risparmio di San Marino, San Marino Canadian London Oilfield UK PLC, Belfast British Israeli/Polish Sammarinese British Indian

Experienced programme manager / senior project Six years' experience as a project manager and Six years' international experience in risk management, Five years experience in financial services with strong Ten years’ experience in managing UK commercial and Nine years' experience in product quality and manager focused in delivering business transformation instruction officer in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), financial analysis and business planning for banking expertise in customer relations, business development residential real estate investments and formulating exit engineering project management for a global multi- programmes and projects in international organisations. followed by five years as a chef at a Michelin starred groups, public administrations and private companies. and strategic planning. strategies to generate value. national organisation in the oil and gas industry. restaurant. ■■ Led turnaround of the failing GBP £8m digital ■■ Responsible for annually writing over 20 business ■■ Developed and implemented a corporate strategic ■■ Identified real estate acquisition targets which resulted ■■ Developed product quality management systems and transformation programme for a multinational ■■ Developed and led all of the departmental training plans and 30 technical opinions and valuations on planning methodology which improved client in investments of GBP £32m in UK real estate from 2014 led cross functional teams creating improvements on information and analytics company. programmes and courses, as well as the restructuring supervisory regulations. relationships and increased revenue by 15%. to 2018. the six highest risk products per quarter achieving ■■ Delivered projects for MVP including new online of the department's instruction sector. ■■ Delivered assistance to banks in selling NPL portfolios ■■ Collaborated with a team of consultants to develop and ■■ Progressed disposal strategies to close, achieving a yearly savings of GBP £800K. products, leading a team of 50. ■■ Tracked and analysed IDF investigations, contributing worth EUR €2bn and acquiring target financial test ways to digitalise banking resulting in five new yield of 12-15% on real estate investments, generating ■■ Investigated customer claims and implemented ■■ Delivered a USD $1.4m business process re- to a structural change in the medical law institution. intermediaries in the region of EUR €400m of AuM by digital branches. an average annual income of GBP £1.07m from 2014 to appropriate preventive actions; lowest defect by engineering programme to provide breakdown cover ■■ Led the opening of a high-end restaurant, a role implementing restructuring plans. ■■ Led a team of 14 members to manage and operate 2018. revenue across four product manufacturing centres. for networking equipment for a leading IT technology that consisted of hiring and training chefs, menu ■■ Executed and managed international projects, directed financial planning software to create comprehensive ■■ Managed relationships with 15+ co-investor clients ■■ Established a recognition programme to reward organisation's largest European accounts, increasing development and budget management. a team of eight individuals and oversaw administrative retirement plans. resulting in retention rate of 88%. technicians for safe working practices, effective revenue from USD $2m to USD $54m in first year. processes to launch financial entities in Asia. reporting, sharing best practices and peer-to-peer coaching.

Billy Fox Bo (Belinda) Gong Nathan Griffiths Steve Le Phonvithkrid Lertsiriamorn Qian Li Directeur D'agence, Fortis Logistique, Vice President, Strategic & External Project Lead, Micro Focus, London Commercial Manager, Turner & Townsend Division Manager, Central Group, Bangkok Trade & Investment Manager, Brazzaville Relations, HSBC China, Beijing British/Australian Pte Ltd, Singapore Thai British Embassy Beijing, Beijing British Chinese Vietnamese Chinese

Four years’ experience in business development, Ten years' experience in relationship building and Ten years' experience successfully delivering global Five years' experience in providing commercial and Four years' experience in investment banking and Ten years' experience in strategy consulting for British business management and African operations for a maintenance with internal and external customer change management and transformation projects within programme management services focusing on corporate M&A, specifically in the retail sector. Provided financial companies to prosper in China and Chinese companies to Congolese logistics company. groups including banking regulators and government multi-national information solutions and technology real estate. recommendations for domestic and international invest in the UK. organisations. organisations. transactions. ■■ Led over 75 employees during a period of company ■■ Developed and implemented reporting requirements ■■ Delivered strategic consultancy to a UK automotive redundancies and national recession. ■■ Led 15+ applications’ processes for branch network ■■ Delivered a new organisational structure in that formed part of the governance process across ■■ Advised a large energy company on an IPO transaction SME to win six deals in China over a two-year period ■■ Sourced and managed a contract that became the expansion and licenses of new financial services and collaboration with the executive team, removing USD APAC region. valued over USD $300m listed on Thai Stock Exchange. worth GBP £10m. company's second largest client; revenue exceeded products; obtained regulators’ approvals or achieved $80m of annualised costs. ■■ Successfully consolidated the annual global budget ■■ Designed valuation models and recommended the ■■ Provided strategic consultancy to a Chinese investor to USD $1m after 12 months. progress. ■■ Established and led a global department within a for the retail branch portfolio of a major financial company to acquire Torino Lagrange Property, a establish R&D facilities and incubators in the UK with ■■ Bought equity in the company and aided a debt ■■ Managed communications between the bank's key matrixed organisation, managing complex stakeholder institution demonstrating great stakeholder location of la Rinascente (Turin). investment of GBP £15m. restructuring that led to a rights issue. stakeholders and regulators to track progress of relationships to deliver a USD $4m cost saving. management and analytical skills. ■■ Performed due diligence and financial analysis ■■ Managed GBP £1.2m government fund per year and business applications. ■■ Established a UK HR shared service centre, delivering ■■ Simultaneously managed projects ranging from including preparation of financial models for valuation organised the 1st UK-China Electric Vehicle Innovation ■■ Provided consultancy to senior executives on updated an 8% cost and 15% FTE reduction for the UK HR GBP £1m to GBP £30m with internal and external and business plan purpose. Programme. policy and strategy planning in banking sector. function. stakeholders from different functions including finance, procurement and legal. 10 11

Lynal Low Chang Lu Yunjie Wunkit Lu Vineeta Mittal Nasibeh Mollazadeh Jennifer O'Neill Director and Owner, Professional Incentives, Project Manager, CMB Financial Leasing, QHSE System Consultant, DNV GL, Credit Risk Consultant, 4-Most Europe, Chief Executive Officer, Persian Gulf Vice President, Global Marketing Manager, Singapore Shanghai Stavanger London Investment Ltd, Tehran State Street Corporation, Boston Singaporean Chinese Chinese/Norwegian Indian Iranian British

Entrepreneur with seven years' experience in finance, Expert in ship leasing with substantial experience in Six years' experience in the software industry. Provided Eight years' diverse experience across credit risk A driven, result-oriented business leader in the financial Strategic marketing and communications professional real estate, client relationship, operations and event financial leasing business. Provides financial service to customised safety management consultancy services to consulting, credit ratings, equity-fixed income research services industry, with a background in investment, with over eight years' global experience in financial management within the tourism and hospitality industry. domestic and international ship-owners. energy clients in the EMEA region. and (M&A, project financing). investor relations, equity financing and management services. consulting. ■■ Analysed the hotel real estate investment market in ■■ Expanded the market to Greece, Norway and UK. ■■ Established and maintained strong client relationships, ■■ Created an asset recovery model for a UK-based retail ■■ Developed and executed a global marketing strategy Africa, Europe and the Middle East, generating revenue Increased the asset value in the area to USD $400m in leading to the retention of four annual software bank that resulted in a provision release of GBP £2m. ■■ Led and revitalised, as CEO, an investment firm through featuring multiple marketing channels to raise product with investment research publications. two years. consultancy contracts exceeding GBP £6.4m. ■■ Managed an IFRS9 and IRB model validation project negotiating new contracts, re-negotiating existing awareness and increase client engagement. ■■ Managed stakeholder relationships and developed ■■ Led a deal involving multi-national parties from five ■■ Provided best practice advice to three energy clients involving multiple stakeholders in order to comply with contracts with key partners, raising £3m worth of ■■ Established a strong relationship with a key industry networks in more than 10 key cities in Asia, achieving countries which was shortlisted for Marine Money Deal exceeding 100,000 users, in order to improve safety regulatory standards. funds, and hitting the target ROI. association that resulted in collaborating on year-on-year growth in scale and revenue. of the Year. cultures and accelerate digital transformation. ■■ Successfully developed a credit model and report for a ■■ Organised AGMs, built and maintained relationships research papers and an executive placement on the ■■ Led an international team working across different ■■ Liaised between several departments to improve the ■■ Analysed safety performance reports in order to review competitive trial which resulted in additional revenue with existing and new investors and led equity association's board. regions, handling project management and logistics internal working flow and reduced the processing time current operational safety levels leading to developing of USD $300K annually. financing as Head of Investor Relations. ■■ Led an integrated marketing campaign, focusing on planning for conferences and events. from six months to five weeks. dashboards and e-learning programmes to improve ■■ Advised on key investment decisions as Vice Chairman industry challenges, to grow existing business and safety awareness of over 20,000 users. of the Board. drive new opportunities.

Rhiannon Ludlow Garyfalia Magdalinos Umar Mahmood Xinya Ong Abhay Raheja Lina Rahmanian Market Intelligence Associate, Schroders Process Optimisation Team Lead, Ecolab, Assistant Brand Manager, Mobil Lubricants, Brand Planner, Williams Sonoma, Singapore Founder & Managing Director, Finance Analyst, Expedia Group, Bellevue, , London Johannesburg Karachi Singaporean Avant Solutions, New Delhi Washington British Greek/South African Pakistani Indian Iranian

Five years' experience in asset management, including Chartered accountant and certified forensic examiner Marketing professional with experience in brand Six years' experience in retail and inventory Entrepreneur with rich experience in technology and Five years' experience in hospitality and tourism across product strategy and leading projects impacting assets experienced in financial reporting, external and internal management and digital strategy. Strong background management. Achieved global acumen through product development. Conceptualised, built and various roles and departments such as HR, operations, under management over EUR €43bn. audit, statutory account preparation and accounting. in project execution, stakeholder management and collaboration with cross-functional partners and developed companies in consumer markets. consulting, account management and finance. business development. stakeholders internationally. ■■ Recommended products and produced research ■■ Led teams and client audit engagements, analysis ■■ Built and led teams of 50+ people across various ■■ Managed forecasting, ongoing data analysis, ad-hoc into opportunities for business expansion and of sales and margins, cash flow forecast and ■■ Developed and implemented the digital strategy of an ■■ Achieved revenue target by ensuring consistency disciplines, managing 100+ partnerships with 1,000+ reporting, competitive reporting and business development, to strengthen the company's product recoverability as an external auditor at a global international oil lubricant brand by overhauling the in order management process and driving systems products. performance measurements. offering, coordinating with investment teams. company. brand's social media platform and introduced the first improvement. ■■ Collaborated with top real estate developers to target ■■ Supported hotel acquisition and account management ■■ Supported the acquisition of Advance Emerging ■■ Performed investigations into disputes involving online store for oil lubricants in Pakistan. ■■ Collaborated and corresponded with global sourcing 10,000+ home owners. for seven different markets in Pacific Northwest Region; Capital, GBP £409m assets under management, quantifying and verification of fraud, theft and crimes ■■ Increased brand competitiveness and market share to aid franchise expansion with order acceptance and ■■ Reshaped market strategy and business model in order achieved largest growth in Oregon Coast of 15%, including valuation and due diligence, through to of financial dishonesty. through the introduction of a new locally blended shipping procedures. to gain consumer and investor interest. markets of USD $2.5m - $5m. migration and integration. ■■ Developed and implemented business processes for product line. ■■ Recruited and fully trained order management ■■ Lead the company's rate and availability ■■ Led product pricing review across multiple fund a multi-national, improving operational efficiency and ■■ Awarded best marketing initiative by the world's specialists and assistant brand planners to streamline competitiveness pillar against other channels; ranges with assets over EUR €43bn to improve led to company increasing profitability. largest publicly traded international oil and gas workload and increase efficiency. resulting in beating KPIs in three consecutive quarters competitiveness. company specifically for consumer promotion. and awarded ‘Market Associate of the Quarter’.

Siobhan McElligott Bilal Ahmad Memon Daniel Mesa Borripun Ritthagol Alex Short Kadri Siff GIS Business Partner, The Crown Estate, Business Editor, The Express Tribune, Treasury Director, Grupo SURA, Medellin Dentist, Baan Rak Fun Dental Clinic, Digital Media Specialist, John Good Ltd., Senior Research Analyst, Darktrace, London London Karachi Colombian Bangkok London Estonian Irish Pakistani Thai British

Business partner with five years' spatial data analysis Business Editor for online and print editions of The Seven years' experience in the financial services sector Extensive experience primarily providing dental care Four years' experience in media and publishing, Experienced professional in UK and Estonian enterprises experience in commercial real estate, focusing on Express Tribune, one of the leading and widely followed in multiple areas, including asset management, investor with cross industry experience in stock investing and as responsible for marketing, client engagement and focusing on research, analysis, operations and development optimisation and stakeholder engagement. news platforms in Pakistan. relations and treasury. an entrepreneur. project management of significant projects. marketing of new technologies. ■■ Redesigned business processes introducing a ■■ Led a team of 15 to rebrand business section, to become ■■ Executed financing for merger and acquisition projects ■■ Founded and managed a successful dental business ■■ Conducted market research, wire framing and digital ■■ Drove thought leadership on global industry trends and streamlined digital solution which led to a 70% primary news source for policymakers and financial exceeding USD $1.5bn including local and international with IRR at 32.78%. publishing of 20+ apps and website projects for clients threats at a leading AI and cybersecurity startup now efficiency increase. market. bond offerings for USD $750m. ■■ Re-designed business and marketing strategy including large British theatre companies. valued at over GBP £1bn. ■■ Established strong partnerships with stakeholders ■■ Produced in-depth reports across several sectors, ■■ Managed a corporate hedging programme amounting which raised revenue more than 20% each year and ■■ Successfully acquired two businesses into the group by ■■ Developed on-message content with the international and customers to identify opportunities, resulting in highlighting overlooked economic issues to initiate to USD $2bn in derivatives. maintained profit margin between 20-30%. working directly with the Managing Director. business and technology press. an increase in value-add projects and 100% customer debate and influence government decision making. ■■ Created Grupo Sura Investors' day and implemented ■■ Analysed and invested in stock market giving 26.7% ■■ Managed the implementation of a new CRM system, ■■ Led negotiations and successful application for satisfaction. ■■ Won the Citi Journalistic Excellence Award 2018 for improved reporting standards for investors under IFRS. annual return. streamlining workflows and training 10+ staff. European Commission funding for three-year oil spill ■■ Managed the spatial data record for GBP £11bn property Pakistan and represented The Express Tribune at monitoring project. portfolio and supported business critical transactions Columbia Journalism School. including estate sales worth GBP £45m.

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Bheemawat Sirichongkolthong Cai Ling Soh Henrik Sundvik Ying (Stella) Yan Oliver Yogananthan Zihao Zeng Credit Risk Management Analyst, Kiatnakin Senior Associate, Sea Pte Ltd, Singapore Associate, Private Capital Advisory, Lazard, Chief Business Officer, Shanghai Arocolor Amphibious Ship Lead, United States Navy, Strategy Director, Oubo Management Bank, Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group, Singaporean London Creative Design Co., Shanghai COMNAVSURFLANT, Norfolk, Virginia Software & Technology Ltd, Cambridge Bangkok British/Finnish Chinese American Chinese Thai Substantial experience in risk management and big Five years experience in e-commerce and business Four years' experience in investment banking and private Successful startup experience with eight years' Four years' experience as a US Navy Officer. Managed Ten years' experience in consulting and manufacturing data analysis, particularly in credit risk evaluation and development identifying opportunities in new and equity across a variety of investment and capital raising managerial experience and skills in architectural design, material logistics for the US Navy from shipboard and industry. Led a company to provide production business strategy for banking industry. existing markets, industries and partnerships. roles. project management and leadership. strategic levels. management consulting service to Chinese manufacturing firms. ■■ Restructured reserve setup practice and asset ■■ Spearheaded growth of the toys, kids and babies ■■ Successfully managed seven capital raising ■■ Led six different residential design projects ■■ Led a team in tracking and successfully rectifying over classification to comply with global regulations, IFRS9 category on the company’s e-commerce platform transactions across private equity, venture capital simultaneously, liaising with five professional teams of 600 high level casualty reports. ■■ Co-project managed a change programme within a and Basel IRB. resulting in 200% increase in sales and 150% in orders. and real estate investment funds in a Private Capital 40+ architects and engineers in each project. ■■ Procured and on-loaded more than USD $250K of food factory which led to profits returning within three ■■ Initiated accurate financial models to estimate loss ■■ Managed and nurtured client relationships and Advisory team. ■■ Secured two critical clients by negotiating and signing and medical aid to assist civilians affected by Hurricane months following a three year period of losses. for two portfolios, resulting in a decrease in bank's optimised their long-term growth on the online site. ■■ Analysed investment opportunities across sectors, two residential design contracts worth GBP £2.7m Matthew in Haiti. ■■ Established a new Supervision Department to monitor required reserve over GBP £10m. ■■ Led the newly restructured team and established a including two businesses which were ultimately including 600,000m2 projects of residential area within ■■ Analysed financial data for the FY14/15 US defence the progress of projects and reduced the project ■■ Managed project for credit cost and industry analysis, strategic workflow to increase team productivity and acquired. four months. budget for all communities of the US Navy. suspension rate from 20% to 12%. led to correct interest rate and effective business efficiency. ■■ Covered 25-30 asset management/hedge fund clients ■■ Founded and managed an online jewellery business, ■■ Previously led own company, as managing director, to direction. in fixed income and credit derivative products, offering providing customised service, achieving 80% repeat deliver the highest revenue in the company's history. and executing trade recommendations. customer ratio and considerable profit margin.

Viktoriia Trukhanovich Yenlik Turmukhambetova Pratik Omprakash Upadhyay Tingting Zhang Head of Financial Execution PPP Projects, Managing Director, Almuar LLP, Almaty Director, OM Pharmaceutical Industries, Independent Consultant, International State Company Russian Highways, Moscow Kazakhstani Mumbai Education Cooperation, Guangzhou Russian Indian Chinese

Eleven years' experience in corporate banking Entrepreneur, managing director at a family-owned Three years' experience in handling complete operations Ten years’ experience in project management, sales and and infrastructure finance for major public private business and strong finance professional with diverse and business development of a pharmaceutical consulting in global organisations and startups across partnership projects. experience in investments. manufacturing unit. the educational and chemical industries. ■■ Negotiated restructuring terms for a concession project ■■ Managed a family-owned import-export company; ■■ Developed and launched four new products increasing ■■ Implemented account plans and established strong achieving decrease in costs for the public partner of made key strategic decisions in business development, annual sales by 200% in three years. partnerships with key decision makers within customer 665 bps/p.a. improved operational efficiency and increased ■■ Directed and represented the company for international organisations which led to a 25% sales growth. ■■ Negotiated finance-related lawsuit issues on USD $50m revenues. audits in Europe to achieve written confirmation ■■ Managed large-scale international education PPP compensation claims successfully defending the ■■ Performed valuation of companies in various sectors, accreditation allowing export of products to the projects involving over 1,000 practitioners to improve case in both appeal and reviewing courts. including oil and gas, mining, logistics, financial continent. curriculums, teaching methods and principal’s ■■ Mitigated USD $200m in tax risks imposed by new services at EY’s transaction advisory services ■■ Enhanced effluent treatment plant to ensure zero leadership of over 50 Chinese polytechnics. legislation on concession contracts advocating public department. pollution at manufacturing units. ■■ Led on national online marketing campaigns partner position to the Ministry of Transport. ■■ Implemented sourcing, analysis and execution of deals through innovative restructuring of the website and at a private equity fund and the largest oil and gas e-newsletter which led to a 20% growth in click company in Kazakhstan. through rate.

Tejasvini Viraj Kenny Wang Tom Wooltorton Research Associate, Central Electricity Senior Project Manager, Topview Optronics Senior Geoscientist, GeoTeric, Houston, Regulatory Commission, New Delhi Corporation, Taipei Texas Indian Taiwanese British

Five years' experience in policy analysis, research, Four years' experience in OEM/ODM project management Seven years' international experience in customer ministerial aid and project management largely for working with global multi-national corporations in the relationship management, technical sales, and energy focused public sector organisations. technology manufacturing industry. geophysical software consulting in upstream oil and gas. ■■ Effectively led team to convert policy guidelines into ■■ Delivered 12 original design manufacturer projects for regulations to enable international trade of electricity multi-national clients across Europe, Japan and North ■■ Managed relationships with supermajor and for SAARC countries. America contributing to 30% of the company’s annual international oil companies, generating repeat sales ■■ Redesigned IT infrastructure to enhance awareness revenue. and multiplying software user bases at key accounts. and outreach of the organisation and successfully led a ■■ Led and delivered the first joint design manufacturing ■■ Delivering technical guidance globally to new staff team to complete country wide digital consultations. project in company history, managing both internal and and resellers, improving technical proficiency and ■■ Created and launched framework for facilitating external project teams. execution of services, and developing regional transaction of renewable energy contracts through ■■ Managed an average of five project teams relationships. power exchanges without altering the existing trade simultaneously and budgets in excess of USD $500K. ■■ Developed sales strategies through analysing patterns. client feedback and market research to create new opportunities leading to increased sales. 14 15

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