Erjena Keller, IMD Executive MBA
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English Professional working proficiency
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German Professional working proficiency
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Swiss-German Professional working proficiency
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Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
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Mongolian Elementary proficiency
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Japanese Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Stefan Michel
I was Dean of the IMD Executive MBA program which Erjena completed in April 2022 where she successfully navigated, an impact-investment expedition to Lima, an innovation expedition to Tallinn, a dedicated Online Module on Impact Investing & ESG Integration, a dedicated Online Module on Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics and pitched a start-up to Venture Capitalists from Silicon Valley. Erjena, together with a team including George Gogolev, Kristina Musienko and Tatiana Tsalolikhina wrote a business case on the topic of ''Innolume gmbh turnaround'' (supervised by IMD faculty Prof. Stefan Michel). Erjena is truly a global business leader and highly recommended to leadership and management roles.
Evgeny Petrov
Erjena was one of the best students of our university!
Stefan Michel
I was Dean of the IMD Executive MBA program which Erjena completed in April 2022 where she successfully navigated, an impact-investment expedition to Lima, an innovation expedition to Tallinn, a dedicated Online Module on Impact Investing & ESG Integration, a dedicated Online Module on Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics and pitched a start-up to Venture Capitalists from Silicon Valley. Erjena, together with a team including George Gogolev, Kristina Musienko and Tatiana Tsalolikhina wrote a business case on the topic of ''Innolume gmbh turnaround'' (supervised by IMD faculty Prof. Stefan Michel). Erjena is truly a global business leader and highly recommended to leadership and management roles.
Evgeny Petrov
Erjena was one of the best students of our university!
Stefan Michel
I was Dean of the IMD Executive MBA program which Erjena completed in April 2022 where she successfully navigated, an impact-investment expedition to Lima, an innovation expedition to Tallinn, a dedicated Online Module on Impact Investing & ESG Integration, a dedicated Online Module on Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics and pitched a start-up to Venture Capitalists from Silicon Valley. Erjena, together with a team including George Gogolev, Kristina Musienko and Tatiana Tsalolikhina wrote a business case on the topic of ''Innolume gmbh turnaround'' (supervised by IMD faculty Prof. Stefan Michel). Erjena is truly a global business leader and highly recommended to leadership and management roles.
Evgeny Petrov
Erjena was one of the best students of our university!
Stefan Michel
I was Dean of the IMD Executive MBA program which Erjena completed in April 2022 where she successfully navigated, an impact-investment expedition to Lima, an innovation expedition to Tallinn, a dedicated Online Module on Impact Investing & ESG Integration, a dedicated Online Module on Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics and pitched a start-up to Venture Capitalists from Silicon Valley. Erjena, together with a team including George Gogolev, Kristina Musienko and Tatiana Tsalolikhina wrote a business case on the topic of ''Innolume gmbh turnaround'' (supervised by IMD faculty Prof. Stefan Michel). Erjena is truly a global business leader and highly recommended to leadership and management roles.
Evgeny Petrov
Erjena was one of the best students of our university!
Credentials
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Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
IMDApr, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Impact Investing & ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)
IMDMar, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Advanced Management Concepts
IMDJan, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)Dec, 2020- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Medzie
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Switzerland
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Technology, Information and Media
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1 - 100 Employee
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CEO and Founder
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Jan 2022 - Present
On a mission to help medical facilities instantly connect with medical professionals through our platform to find on-demand engagements addressing their professional and personal needs. On a mission to help medical facilities instantly connect with medical professionals through our platform to find on-demand engagements addressing their professional and personal needs.
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Novartis
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Switzerland
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Rotation in Policies, Advisory & Anti-Bribery Program team in Ethics, Risk and Compliance
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Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
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Head Business Information Security Management for Corporate Business Services, IT Ops and M&A
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Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
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Head Business Information Security Management for IS&RM, UX and M&A
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Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Provided strategic leadership, direction, and governance to executive management regarding the information security compliance, data management, risk management to achieve business objectives.Established and lead a high performance team of information security and risk managers as well as external reports. I closely collaborated with the leaders from the global functions such as Corporate Business Services, IT Operations, Information Securtiy&Risk Management, End User Experience, and Mergers&Acquisitions.
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Head Information Governance Management for Country Switzerland & Global REFS
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Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
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Head Information Governance Management for Novartis International
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Jan 2014 - Mar 2016
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Senior Finance Project Manager
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Nov 2011 - Dec 2013
During this role I advised FRA (Finance, Reporting and Accounting) department leading the key project portfolio in Pharma Services headquarter, e.g. divisional transformation project and transition of approved accounting activities to the finance service centre. I defined and implemented standardised business processes and systems in adherence with regulatory compliance.Some of my key milestones are below:* Secured 20% cost by leading divisional transformation activities.* Digitalized cumbersome semi-paper based financial processes for several areas, such as balance sheet review, asset management, SOX302 certification, fund replenishment, and self-invoicing.* Conceptualised and modernised process for cross-divisional demand fulfilment
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Global Finance Program Manager
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Sep 2007 - Nov 2011
During this role I led a team of over 30 internal/external members, including five project managers. I administered budget/vendor, programme risk, and stakeholder’s management through strategic planning and execution. I enabled outsourcing of transactional activities for delivering operational results by leading a global programme to implement standardised finance processes and systems.Some of my key milestones are following:* Rolled out global projects in more than 30 countries across five divisions and trained around 5K users at Novartis globally.* Contributed to assist sites around the globe for managing change and increasing user acceptance for new processes and tools.* Reduced cost and processing time as well as improved data quality in finance, reporting, and accounting globally, by directing global transformation programmes.* Orchestrated multiple multi-million projects in parallel co-ordinating large international teams by administering senior project managers.* Modelled business processes, which enabled the outsourcing to the lower cost location service provider.
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Finance Business Analyst/Account Manager
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Sep 2006 - Sep 2007
During this assignment I managed multiple SAP projects such as merge/transition of company codes for Novartis country organizations. I was selected for one year of international assignment in Russia for a dual role FI/CO Functional Expert and Project Quality Manager for SAP ERP implementation project for Russia CPO. Projects included data migration, set up of processes running in to be obsolete company code to the target company code, sales process improvement and automated stock transfer at batch release. Regression and data verification testing. Coordination of international offshore and business team with different time zones.- T&E web-based tool implementation, conceptual design, customizing and integration with HR, FI/CO modules. NetWeaver Process Integration, NetWeaver Portal components usage- Account Manager for Russia
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Quality Compliance Manager
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Nov 2002 - Aug 2006
During this role, I was responsible for GxP validation of SAP systems during SAP ERP implementation projects.- Project Manager for DN4ALL project: Roll-Out of DocNavigator document management application to other Business Units: Sandoz and Ciba Vision- One year of international assignment in Nuremberg, Germany in QM/DM role for PEP/ERP Germany implementation
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