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San Francisco Bay Area

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Took on an expanded strategic role for the Chief Communications Officer (CCO) – serving as Chief of Staff / Director of Strategy while continuing to lead financial and business operations. Oversaw business operations.
• Identified $50M in annual savings by developing an end-to-end analysis and business case for digitally transforming HP’s events capability.
• Consistently ranked in the top 10% of leaders with the highest team engagement scores.
• Shortlisted KPIs – achieving 40% reduction by orchestrating a performance measurement transformation, and implemented real-time analytics for optimizing investments across paid, earned, shared & owned media.
• Built a diverse candidate internship program that supported HP’s goal to become an employer of choice for underrepresented groups.
• Led organizational alignment efforts for an acquisition. Rationalized vendors and tools, took on $50M in new program budgets and aligned to financial hierarchy.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Pivoted to the newly formed Global Communications & Events organization to oversee planning and development and manage financial operating and labor budgets totaling $100M. Built a global team of 11 direct-report.
• Boosted fiscal year exit forecast accuracy from 75% to 99% and achieved 98% budget utilization; achieved by introducing a rigorous management cadence and exception-based operational reporting in key expense areas.
• Pioneered a “virtual Chief of Staff’ model, providing an incremental $2M of investment capacity by increasing use of self-service tools and automated workflows and decreasing administrative support staff.
• Gained five additional days per quarter of budgetary spending capability for teams by implementing a new budget hierarchy and automating workflows.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Successfully led global marketing financial planning, delivering a $240M combined budget across all geographies and marketing business units. Also introduced a wide range of program solutions designed to increase.
• Generated $60M in new investment capacity by strategically restructuring Marketing Operations, eliminating overlaps, streamlining reporting structures and delivering improved operating level agreements.
• Redesigned the annual financial planning process in partnership with multiple internal stakeholders for use by all corporate, business unit and regional marketing teams, resulting in streamlined bottom-up plan.
• Recognized with the “HP Reinventor” award for efforts in introducing process improvements and operational efficiencies across the marketing function.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Joined HP’s global marketing and talent engagement team, accountable for employee demographics, engagement analytics and the programs that tracked, developed and advanced marketing’s ability to deliver against.
• Developed a high-impact human capital strategy and defined the initiatives that enabled the strategy to unfold over a three-year period.
• Delivered $100M in savings and efficiencies over two years, spearheading the transformation of HP’s marketing resource management through initiatives in process optimization, technology and tools integrations and.

Dublin 2, IE

• Worked with global consulting clients of this professional services / consulting organization in delivering wide-range strategic solutions for change management, training, business process design and project.
• Delivered $150M in business benefits by identifying critical gaps in capital budgeting processes and defining management incentive program payout targets for a financial services provider.
• Identified $60M in cost reductions after conducting a full-scale organization capability assessment that led to rebalancing staffing ratios, reallocating workforce mixes and simplifying operational procedures for a.
• Boosted a retail client’s bottom-line margin by $7M after delivering a training program on procedural improvements to 9K store associates across 3.6K stores in just six weeks.
• Architected a three-year, multi-country change management system for an SAP Retail / Oracle ERP implementation that supported an international expansion into three new markets for a home improvement retailer.
• Awarded Accenture’s “People Developer” award for inspiring leadership, one of the organization’s highest internal honors.