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Global AMBAssadors Programme
The Programme
The Association of MBAs' Global AMBAssadors are the future of MBA leadership, coming from all regions of the
world and representing the pinnacle of management education internationally. Each AMBAssador chosen ismotivated by personal commitment, energy and the opportunity to contribute ideas to the future of management
education and the quality of business leadership.
The fundamental role of a Global AMBAssador is to champion a global MBA alumni network to support their
peers' engagement and participation. The Global AMBAssadors inspire others to become active in the network.
They are an integral part of promoting accredited MBAs to employers and MBA seekers.
The Independent described the 2012 Global AMBAssador Programme as 'a network to reshapethe world of
business'. Read the full article here (/articles/2012/04/a-network-to-reshape-the-world-of-business/).
Global Leadership Conference 2013
Collaboration and responsible leadership were the themes to emerge from the Association of MBAs' (AMBA)
Global Leadership Conference held at the University of Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa between 21
and 24 February 2013.
Speakers from NASA, CNN and the Distill Foundation alongside social entrepreneurs and business school Deans
demonstrated and discussed the role MBAs and management education can play in changing the world ofbusiness.
View the highlights and footage from the Global Leadership Conference(http://www.youtube.com/playlist?
list=PLyTEvlK4hKh8TEi6DrVDPr9qo_VegOnfZ)
Read the press release (http://www.mbaworld.com/News/Press-releases/2013/February/Network-of-MBAs-light-
the-path-to-values-based-leadership.aspx)
The AMBAssadors
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Nausherwan Akram
Ashridge Business School, UK
Nausherwan completed an MBA at Ashridge in 2009 and has since
been working with ESAB Holdings Ltd, a global leader in welding and
cutting, based in London. In his current role, he works in the area of
Business Transformation which involves working with "people",
"processes" and "principles of change management" across borders
and cultures to drive tangible improvements in the company's bottom
line performance. Nausherwan is also an alumnus of Cranfield
Business School and holds a first degree in Electronic Engineering,
having previously worked for Alstom in the UK. Nausherwan has more
than twelve years' of experience in the areas of business
development, strategic planning and project/change management,
and led numerous global projects and initiatives. He also founded and
managed a professional education consultancy in Pakistan and has
strong links with some of the elite UK universities. Nausherwan is
passionate about coaching and mentoring people to help fast track
their development and enable them to be the best they can be.
Read Naush's views on the MBA and accreditation here >>(/the-
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Jonas Abraham Akuffo
Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France
Jonas graduated from Grenoble Graduate School of Business in 2009
with distinction for his MBA in Finance. Prior to his MBA study,
Jonas was awarded a BA degree in Economics and a postgraduateMasters degree in Business Economics, Finance and Banking.
Jonas is now studying for the Joint Doctorate of Business
Administration at Grenoble Ecole De Management and Newcastle
University Business School. He works as Business and Performance
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Manager at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
He is responsible for designing an appropriate business and
performance management system to benchmark, manage and report
on quality delivery of healthcare. Jonas is also an associate lecturer
at a London business school, where he lectures and supervises MBA
and MSC Finance thesis students. Jonas has considerable business
experience within his home country of Ghana, and the UK, in both
the private and public sector and has held a number of key positions
for various organisations such as Zurich Financial Services, CITI S &
L Bank, Kier Group, AIESEC and GGSB/LSBF.
Gretchen Arangies
University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), South Africa
Gretchen graduated from the Executive MBA programme at
Stellenbosch Business School in 2008. She has over 26 years'experience in Human Resources, 23 years of which in Higher
Education. She is the Director of Human Resources at Stellenbosch
University (SU).
Gretchen has a passion for learning and is regularly involved in
seeking new opportunities and taking interventions to utilize systems
to its full capacity and continuously improve the processes around
that. This motivates her continuous endeavour to make her
organization a success through collaboration and teamwork. She
also has a strong passion for developing the best potential of her staffas well as other people within her sphere and as such has mentored
a number of people. Being a dynamic go-getter, Gretchen is
constantly looking for ways in which to enhance her experience and
continue to be of service to her organization and fellow man. For her
it is all about adding value to people's lives by developing and
transforming them.
Her winning submission to the Global AMBAssador Challenge
awarded her the opportunity to represent AMBA at the Global
Compact (PRME) conference in Rio in June 2012.
Read Gretchen's views on the MBA and accreditation here >>(/the-
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Ian Brydson
Strathclyde Business School, UK
Ian completed the full time MBA programme at Strathclyde in 2013.
He completed his thesis on social media channel strategy for an
organisation, achieving a distinct ion award. Following from this Ian
founded Brydson Ltd, specialis ing in digital strategy development for
SME's. Ian is a farmer's son and held a 12 year long career in
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agriculture. This began with leaving school at 16 to feed cattle,
progressing 7 years later to product manager for Claas, who are a
market leader in harvesting equipment. He has also completed a
Bachelors degree in Engineering with Marketing & Management and
worked in Australia and Germany. At Claas Ian led many initiatives
including generating a training programme which contributed to a
1.2 million increase in UK turnover. Along with growing his
business, Ian is very interested in how agriculture will meet the
challenge of feeding a rising global population, and aims to raise
public awareness of farming through social media.
Hemant Chandran
Strathclyde Business School, UK
Hemant Chandran is an MBA candidate at the Strathclyde Business
School. A finance professional with over 5 years of experience in
U.S. real estate and securitisation, Hemant has gained experiencein a gamut of areas such as leases, real estate valuation, mortgage
underwriting and CDO payment date verification. He has also gained
hands-on experience in training development and delivery,
mentoring, team-building, quality control, project management as
well as client relationship and development. In his last role as Senior
Associate for CrownBridge Legal India Pvt Ltd, he worked closely
with the US and India management teams in conceptualising and
implementing new business functions. Hemant has wide-ranging
interests such as investing in the stock markets, professional
networking, leading and participating in community serviceinitiatives, among others. As a Global AMBAssador, Hemant hopes
to be a point of contact for pre-MBA enquiries and network amongst
the MBA community.
Bruce Cooper
EM Lyon Business School, France
Bruce completed a full-time MBA at EM Lyon, France. During his
MBA Bruce was involved in successful business plan competitions inthe US and UK, and was accepted to an academic exchange in
Brazil. Since 2001, Bruce has been working as a consultant in
France for the steel, gas, energy, petro-chemicals and aviation
industries, assisting foreign companies with the securing of contracts
in the French marketplace. His services range from technical
translating, interpreting, and technical training to assist in responding
to calls for tender, contract negotiation and project co-ordination on
behalf of foreign partners working in France. Bruce has an
international background: academically he was educated in the UK,
Germany, France, and Brazil; he has worked in Australia, Germany,France and the UK and he speaks English, French, and German.
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Kim Dienhoff
Monash University Faculty of Business and Economics, Australia
Kim Dienhoff works in communications and stakeholder relations at
IDP Education as a result of her love for working with people who are
interested in the bigger picture of education and her passion for
helping to improve the world around us. She completed a full time
MBA at Monash University in 2012 during which she completed
projects in the tourism and mining industries. With a career that
started in radiation oncology, Kim's ability to manage people,
technology, expectations, and complexity whilst growing the
business saw her rise to senior management of a large international
healthcare software provider. Although born in Australia, Kim has
lived in several countries and travelled extensively.
Diane Drummond
University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand
Diane has enjoyed an extensive background within New Zealand's
tourism industry. Having started her career working within sales and
marketing in the passenger transportation industry, she has
progressed her career into management roles, including the YMCA,
Comvita New Zealand, Tourism Bay of Plenty and as a general
manager for Shore Trips and Tours. Currently she works within the
tertiary education sector passing her knowledge of management and
tourism onto the next generation. She is skilled in offshore trade
marketing. After completing an MBA with Distinct ion in 2011, she
is now also a of Director of Med Horizonz, a company which
specialises in Medical Tourism bringing Americans into New
Zealand for medical intervention, runs a start-up business called
ManukaMoon which focusses on the the New Zealand honeymoon
market. In addition she also runs an importing business, bringing
goods from the USA into New Zealand. Diane is currently the Chair
of the Corporate Executive and Education Alumni Group at the
University of Waikato.
Carl Fransman
Solvay Brussels School
Carl graduated from the Solvay Brussels School MBA programme in
2004. He spent nine years in the graphic arts industry before
returning to his engineering subject: ICT. Carl has led production,
sales and services teams. Most recently, he was active as the
Managing Director EMEA for MCA Solutions.
Carl believes the value of an MBA relies as much in acquiring soft
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skills as in learning the specifics of business economics, especially
in today's global, multi-cultural environment. Carl is the president of
the MBA Solvay Advisory Board. He is also a board member of
Hinicio, a consult ing company focusing on renewable energies and of
the Friends of the Royal Museums of Art and History in
Brussels. here >>(/the-mba-experience/global-ambassadors-
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Hana Grant
University of Waik ato Management School, New Zealand
Hana graduated from Waikato Management School with her MBA in
2010 and is now working as the Service Development Manager for the
Maori Organisation, Poutiri Trust. Her role is to build the capability
and capacity of the eighteen managers who provide health contracts
to their small communities within the Bay of Plenty region. She
began her career at the age of eighteen with a local government
organisation, where she stayed for sixteen years in many different
roles. It was her next role in a private company as a vocational
practitioner that inspired her to apply for an MBA. At the end of 2011,
she was invited by a professor from the University of Waikato to co-
author a Maori organisation case study book with him and two other
prominent Maori role models within New Zealand. The title of the
book is "Te Rau Huia - Pakihi Maaori" which means "Excellence in
Maori Businesses." Hana's role is to connect with Maori business
leaders and allow them to tell their story, to hopefully influence and
motivate other aspiring Maori business men and women.
Rozenn Herviou
Rozenn is a full-time MBA in Responsible Management student at
Audencia Nantes School of Management. For the past ten years,
Rozenn has focused her career in Marketing and Retail on various
brands in the French Luxury Industry, specialising in the Customer
Relationship Management. In 2007 Rozenn started her own business
in France in the field of Interior Decoration. She got motivated to
study an MBA after measuring the consequences of the financial
crisis of 2007/2008 and the impact which it had on the challenged
business managers who had to face the globalization. During her
MBA Rozenn was accepted to an academic exchange with the
Politecnico di Milano in Italy related to her thesis topic "Luxury and
Digital". Rozenn also holds a Bachelors Degree in Business
(distinction) with majors in Marketing and Management. She plans to
pursue her career in Corporate Strategy and Risk Assessment.
Rozenn is politically involved in France, by encouraging and
establishing connections between her city and private companies.
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Benot Ingelaere
Audencia Nantes School of Management, France
Benot is a full-time MBA student at Audencia Nantes School of
Management, he was awarded a scholarship from Audencia based
on merit. He has spent ten years as Business Development Manager
with two international logistics groups (UPS and DHL) where he took
on management responsibilit ies. In the year before joining the MBA
at Audencia, Benot managed a 5,000 sqm warehouse with 30
operators and three foremen. His responsibilities included operations
management, HR management, site management, project definition
and implementation, and P&L management.
Jonathan Kilgour
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Jonathan graduated from Waikato Management School in 2013 with
an MBA with Distinction. Following graduation, Jonathan was
appointed as a member of the Waikato Management School
Corporate and Executive Education Alumni Board. He is currently the
Research Manager for Waikato Tainui College for Research and
Development, and in a separate role works as a consultant in
strategy, evaluation, research and indigenous development. Since
completing his MBA, Jonathan has worked with NGOs and
collectives to develop long-term strategies, review governance
structures and review organisational capability. Jonathan has ten
years experience in the public sector, particularly in public
management, strategic development, monitoring and evaluation. He
also holds a Master of Laws with Honours and a Bachelor of Social
Sciences, specialising in Mori language and political science.
Marko Kui
Cotrugli Business School, Croatia
Marko graduated from his Executive MBA programme in 2006. He
has more than six years of management experience, focused on
business development, sales, marketing and operations. He has a
successful business track record domestically in Croatia and
regionally in Europe, working as Business Development Director and
partner at Cotrugli Business School. Cotrugli specialises in providing
MBA and tailor made educational programmes, targeting middle and
top managers from various organisations in South Eastern Europe;
including Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania
and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Kim Lee
Curtin Graduate School of Business, Australia
Kim Lee finished his full-time, blended learning, MBA in 2006. He is
Director of Career Services at Curtin Graduate School of Business,Curtin University. His areas of interests include organisational
leadership, strategic marketing, organisational development and
fostering understandings in cultural diversity. Prior to joining Curtin
University he worked in the areas of marketing, media publications,
hospitality /restaurant management and events management.
Between 2008 and 2011 he was actively involved in the APAC
Australian Leadership Development Programme, funded by the
Australian Government. Kim is well travelled and has extensive
international networks among multinational corporations and small
and medium enterprises within Australia and abroad. He holds two
Masters qualifications, an MBA and Master of Business Leadership.
In the last nine years he has received numerous employee awards at
the University and is a member of the team awarded the 2009
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for programme
management.
Franco Leoni
MIB School of Management, Italy
Franco Leoni graduated with an honours degree in Mathematics
from the University of Bologna in 1996 followed by an MBA in
economic studies in 1997. After receiving his MBA award, Franco
joined private company Giesse Group in Bologna where he was
responsible for developing marketing strategies for an international
division. During these two years of work experience, Francodiscovered that Italian companies required Internet based tools to
manage business more effectively. His connections with students of
the Mathematics university department and his work experience to
date enabled Franco to found his innovative company, Polonord
Adeste, a company dedicated to digital duplication offering a full
digital right management consultancy service. Franco is currently
member of the Italian Manufacturers' Association, of the board of
directors of Aimba (Italian academy of MBAs) and is the current
president of the Alumni Association of MIB School of Management.
Weij ie (Vergil) Lin
Zhejiang University School of Management, China
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Vergil Lin is a full-time MBA student at Zhejiang University School of
Management. Prior to this he worked in the ferroalloy department of
Zhejiang Topchance Group Co. Ltd for four years. He started in
ferroalloy production management in Inner Mongolia for eight months,
and then transferred to the overseas division in charge of mineral
import. Later he became the deputy manager of the division,
responsible for all ore transactions covering nickel, chrome,
manganese and copper. His work in mineral resources development
and trade introduced him to many different people from this industry.
Vergil also wishes to start an NGO with his colleagues, to help
children in impoverished and mountainous areas in China.
Anca Manduleanu
Kingston Business School, UK
Anca Mandruleanu is a current MBA candidate at Kingston
Business School. Anca holds a PhD in Management and double-
first degree in Business Administration and Political Science. She
has five years professional experience in research, advisory and
consultancy roles for both public sector and corporate
organisations, initially as an economics researcher for parliamentary
committees and latterly as a consultant advising international
companies seeking to expand their businesses into new markets
(Austria and South Africa) and to secure European funding. In 2006,Anca joined the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest (taught in
foreign languages), Faculty of Business Administration where she is
still delivering lectures on aspects of business management to
undergraduate students of business. Anca is also the founder of an
NGO that is intended to bridge the gap between the academic and
the business environment, by encouraging and establishing
connections between universities and private companies.
Davina McCormick
Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of
Technology
Davina is currently studying for her part-time MBA. She has a
diverse range of marketing, stakeholder engagement, project
management and strategy skills built up over twelve years across
new venture start-ups, global companies and government
corporations. Davina's professional career experience spans the
financial services, utilities and energy industries for companies that
include Allianz, Pacific Premium Funding (Pacific), General Electric
and Energex Ltd. After beginning her career in the insurance
industry, Davina joined commercial finance new venture start-up,
Pacific. The business was ultimately acquired by GE Capital, where
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Davina continued her career, before taking the opportunity to work
on a low-emissions technology project for GE Energy. In 2012,
Davina joined Energex - a government-owned corporation managing
a large electricity distribution network. In her current role she is
responsible for the development and management of the company's
customer and stakeholder engagement strategy. Davina also holds
a Bachelors Degree in Business (distinction) with majors in
Marketing and Management.
Ezio Messina
MIB School of Management, Italy
Ezio Messina graduated from his Executive MBA at MIB (Trieste,
Italy) in 2005. He started his career as a Naval Officer in the Italian
Navy, after graduating first in his class from the Naval Academy and
University of Pisa in 1986. He specialised in telecommunications and
electronic warfare, directing operations from a frigate during Operation
Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf in 1991. He was later Operations
Assistant during the UN mission 'Restore Hope' in Somalia in 1992,
and Military Assistant to the NATO Supreme Allied Commander in
Europe, during the liberation of Kosovo campaign. In 2002 he joined
Fincantieri, one of the world's largest shipbuilders, becoming Project
Manager for the building of a new generation of large cruise ships. He
completed six projects delivered to various brands of Carnival
Corporation. After graduation from his MBA, he became CEO of
SeaNet Custom Marine Solutions, a company delivering turn-key
safety systems for cruise ships and mega-yachts. Currently, he isworking for Venture Capital Fund AladInn, managing as CEO one of
their companies, Sprin Technologies (Industrial biocatalisys).
Orie Miyazawa
Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK
Orie has an MBA from Kent Business School (KBS) which is her
second Masters, previously gaining an MPhil in Computational
Linguistics. She is currently a part-time PhD student in Critical
Accounting History and also teaches HR at KBS as a part-time
seminar leader.
She has extensive business experience in facilitating international
businesses especially in engineering and commercial areas prior to
achieving the MBA. Higher education marketing is her current
interest and she carried out in-depth research in order to write an
MBA dissertation on the subject.
Ha NguyenUniversity of Southampton Business School, UK
Ha Nguyen has over ten years' experience working within
international business organisations and completed his MBA degree
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at the University of Southampton Business School in 2010. Prior to
completing his MBA degree, Ha worked for two international
companies: Obayashi, a Japanese company, as Senior Technician,
and Shell Vietnam, part of the Shell Royal Dutch brand, as National
Sales Solution. Following the completion of his MBA, Ha returned to
Vietnam and work for Willis, the UK insurance brokerage and
consultancy, in the Vietnamese headquarters. Ha now actively
contributes to the wider society in Vietnam and is involved in
numerous organisations including British Business Group in
Vietnam, the Euro Chamber of Commerce Vietnam and various
MBA forums.
Fayola Nicholas
Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Trinidad and Tobago
Fayola Nicholas graduated from Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of
Business, Trinidad in 2005 with an International MBA. She is now the
Director of HR, Advancement and Alumni Relations at Lok Jack
GSB. She was previously Director of the Market Development Centre,
a position she held from January 2010. She has played a prominent
role at the Lok Jack GSB, leading the rebranding of the school, and
spearheading the campaign for the Distinguished Leadership and
Innovation Conference, which took place in March 2011. She has
worked in the field of marketing for ten years, previously holding
positions at Coca-Cola Caribbean, as Marketing Activation Manager
(Jamaica and Trinidad); Unilever Caribbean Ltd, as Brand Manager
(South Caribbean); and Carib Brewery Ltd, as Brand Manager inTrinidad, W.I.
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Xolani Nocanda
Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
Xolani graduated an MBA degree from Stellenbosch Business School
in 2011. Prior to completing an MBA he completed a PhD degree in
Chemistry from Rhodes University in South Africa. He has over 10
years work experience in Chemical Industry. He has worked for
Pharmaceutical, Chemical Cellulose and Fatty Acids manufacturing
companies. His roles were Research & Development Chemist,
Research Scientist and Business Development Chemist . Xolani
currently work as a Principal Scientist for Ethekwini (Durban)
Municipality Water & Sanitation Scientific Services. He is a
registered Professional Natural Scientist with the South African
Council for Natural Scientific Professions. Xolani is passionate about
the application of scientific ideas to create new business
opportunities. He is currently starting a company to provide support
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in Science and Mathematics. He is also involved with Stellenbosch
Business School Alumni Association where he organises networking
events.
Adela Papac
Westminster Business School, UK
Adela Papac is an MBA student at Westminster Business School.Originally from Croatia, Adela has been working in Public Relations
and Communications for the last thirteen years. Adela worked in
managerial positions for notable international companies across
several sectors, including telecoms, retail and real estate. In her role
as a communications professional, she handled a wide range of
communication projects, acted as a corporate spokesperson,
generated news reports, press releases, handled media relations and
co-ordinated multi-lingual press conferences and media briefings.
She has developed and implemented communications strategies for
reaching different stakeholder groups and provided communications
counsel to executives and managers. As a distinguished
communications professional, Adela has managed demanding and
often 24/7 media relations and large-scale communications
campaigns. Adela is dedicated to adding value to businesses and
creating winning relationships among companies, customers and the
community.
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Dalila Paris
Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
Dalila Paris is a current MBA candidate at Strathclyde Business
School. She graduated with a bachelors degree (honours) in
Mathematical Modeling, with over 10 years of experience in
spearheading the development and expansion of the PaymentServices Industry in South East Asia. Her areas of interests are in
innovation and expansion of organisations' core business across
sectors, with expertise in strategic framework development, project
management, marketing, polic ies and procedures development, and
account management. She has been involved in driving new business
set-ups and the establishment of strategic collaborations and
partnerships across businesses and sectors. Her achievements have
been in the expansion of core business of Malaysian payment
service providers and Loyalty Platform Service Providers.
Alec Pearson
Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK
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Alec completed his full-time MBA at the University of Glasgow
Adam Smith Business School in 2011. Preceding his MBA studies,
Alec worked within the IT industry for 18 years, focussing on IT
technical operations across several sectors, predominately within
the legal fraternity at Tods Murray LLP and Mayer Brown
International LLP. Alec has more than 10 years' experience in
Management, taking up the role of Senior IT Manager within South
eastern Railway and Global Technology Manager with Mayer Brown
International LLP, managing teams based in America, Hong Kong
and the UK. His IT career encompassed the responsibilities of
project management, strategic planning, operations management,
change management and team development, which were
instrumental in the success of new IT installations and services. An
area of Alec's career which he found most rewarding was the
management and development of staff. Alec is driven by the future
and the unknown. Alec believes he's never been better equipped to
develop personally and to deliver a range of worthwhile services to
people at varying stages of their career.
Dimitris Petounis
Audencia Nantes School of Management, France
Dimitris Petounis is currently studying his Executive MBA at
Audencia Nantes School of Management. His 15 year career
involves various sales and marketing positions in the environmental,
construction and animal feed sector in Greece and also in France.
For the past seven years, Dimitris has focused his career in
international development for Europe, Brazil, and Asia, specialising
in animal feed products working for the company S&B Industrial
Minerals. Dimitris runs a personal project within Audencia Business
School which involves the operations and marketing plan for a start-
up digital interactive advertising agency. The project involves
developing materials classified by particular business sectors.
Colin Richards
University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, UK
In 2012 Colin completed his full-time MBA through the University of
Glasgow. He has over 15 years of project management consultancy
gained across a broad range of industry sectors. He has brought his
expertise, in particular, to taking on challenging projects that have
suffered divergence from their original objectives and guided them
back on track. He also supports organisations in the development of
change processes and governance to ensure the disc iplines of
project management are embedded from the first days of inception by
organisations. The range of areas varies from construction projects,
logistics, finance, telecoms, and aviation. He has provided his
services to the likes of British Airways, various parts of the Virgin
Group, Royal Mail, and British Telecom, as well as a number of
Public Sector organisations.
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Colin has a passion for the empowering value of education and as a
UK school governor, and trustee for education with Transform
Burkina, champions the importance of education to enable the next
generation to fulfil their potential both in the UK and Africa.
Paul Quilliam
Paul Quilliam is Managing Director and Cofounder of QueenslandKids, working towards establishing Hummingbird House as the only
children's respite and hospice facility in Queensland. Paul served as
the founding Board Chair when Queensland Kids incorporated in
February 2011. He has been a leading educator and IT administrator
in the independent education sector for almost two decades. After
completing his Executive MBA, he transitioned from his Chief of Staff
role in a large Brisbane private school to focus full-time on leading
Queensland Kids in the paediatric palliative care sector. Having
almost twenty years of experience in the not-for-profit sector in both
management and governance, Paul also actively serves the
community as a Commissioner of Declarations. He is currently a
member of the Australian College of Educators, Queensland Justice
Association, MENSA, Foster Carers Queensland, Transplant
Australia, the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation International
Advisory Council, an Executive Adviser to the QUT Executive MBA
program, an Associate of the Fundraising Institute of Australia, and
an Associated Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.
Brigitte Roediger
University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
Brigitte Roediger completed a part-time MBA in 2011 following a
postgraduate Business Management degree from the University of
Stellenbosch Business School. Brigitte has worked in the wine
industry for six years and is currently the Brand Manager at Spier
Wine Farm. During her time studying, Brigitte represented the
University of Stellenbosch Business School by blogging for
Financial Times MBA Blog, travelling to three internationalconferences including World Business Dialogue in Germany, St
Gallen Symposium in Switzerland and hosting the 2ndGRLI Young
Ambassadors global conference in South Africa. She won the
Marketing and International Management awards and would like to
pursue her interest in global strategic marketing.
Don Sharples
Monash University Melbourne, Australia
Don is a part-time MBA student at Monash University, Melbourne
Australia. He is General Manager of Socom Public Relations in
Melbourne, Australia, and Director of ORDA Relationship
Management. To date his career has been in professional
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communications, specifically public affairs, strategic relationship
building, reputation and relationship management. He has worked as
a consultant, public advocate, media advisor and stakeholder
manager. He is now looking toward full-time involvement within an
industry that will be critical to the world's future. He intends to
combine his MBA studies with his consulting, public affairs, people
management and operations experience to build a career in the
renewable energy sector.
Nidhi Singh
Bristol Business School, UK
Nidhi is an alumnus of Bristol Business School, UWE, U.K. She is
currently based in India and works as a Consultant with a consulting
firm called MART. She is part of the strategy team at MART whichadvices businesses, donors and investors on the intricacies of the
emerging markets in India and other nations. She works on an array
of projects ranging from providing safe and clean drinking water to
rural communities in India to solar electrification of villages. Prior to
completing her MBA she was running a small social enterprise which
worked on Fair Trade principles in India. She worked with
underprivileged artisan groups in rural parts of India to provide them
access to fair wages and equality, by promoting their handmade
products in national and international markets. A software engineer
by profession, Nidhi worked with one of the leading Indian IT firms for
a couple of years. She then worked for a small NGO, promoting adult
literacy and women empowerment. She has also worked with start-
ups in their initial phases, helping them with business plan
formulation, s trategy development and marketing strategies.
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Vibhuti Singh
EM Lyon Business School, France
Vibhuti Singh completed his MBA in 2012 from EMLYON Business
School, and he holds Bachelors degree in Software Engineering
from Indraprastha University, India. He speaks English, Hindi,
French and can manage in Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati and is currently
learning German.In his professional career of 8 years, he has lived
and worked in India, Sweden, Ireland, the United States, France and
is now working in Berlin, Germany. Vibhuti started his career as a
consultant in WPP, India, for which he was leading engineering
team to build analytics products. After that, he moved to work for
Teleopti in Sweden as an Engineer, then as a consultant. In 2007 he
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joined eBay as a Software Engineer, where he was expat to the
U.S.A., United Kingdom and Germany. He left eBay in a position of
Product Manager to pursue his MBA from EMLYON. Post MBA,
Vibhuti wants to develop in Strategic Product Management within e-
commerce. It led him to join the firm Groupon based in Berlin,
Germany as Senior Product Manager. He is currently leading cross
functional teams to develop strategic product for the company. He
believes he can bring his skills set for the benefit to
Global Ambassador position.
Yiqing Wang
National Inst itute for Innovation Management, Zhejiang University,
China
Yiqing is currently studying an MBA at Zhejiang University Business
School. Having graduated from Beijing International Studies
University in 2008, she s tudied human resource management in theUniversity of International Business and Economics. In 2007, Yiqing
attended the "Work&Travel" programme in America. She worked as
a course consultant in Hampson English in Beijing and was
transferred to Shanghai branch to work as a VIP course consultant
within her first month. She was then transferred to Hangzhou branch
act as school principle in 2009 where she currently works. Working
in one of the top three schools in China, Yiqing enjoys the challenge
that comes with her role. Yiqing is looking forward to the
opportunities that being a Global AMBAssador will bring.
Xiaoran Xiong
School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of
Technology
Xiaoran now is taking his first year study as an IMBA student at
SME of Beijing Institute of Technology. After Graduation from Tianjin
University of Science and Technology in 2005, Xiaoran started his
career as Sales at TCL Corporation which is one of the most
successful home appliance companies in China; from 2006 to 2011,
he worked for Testo as area manager in north China in division
climate, Tetso is a German company and also the leading company
in environment measuring especially the flue gas emissions; after
that, since 2011 he works for Vaisala as sales manager, and takes
responsible for life science business, Vaisala is a Finish company
and it is also the top leading solution provider in environment and
weather business globally.
Xiaoran enjoys his career and willing to take adventures. As a global
AMBAssador, he is looking forward to the great future opportunities
together with the AMBA and BIT.
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