Over the past ten years, I have helped large financial institutions build new capabilities and businesses globally. I am a lateral thinker who is comfortable making decisions and taking ideas to market in uncertain environments. My experience allows me to create value through all phases of new business development: - Conducting human-centric market research - Ideation of product features that solve customer needs - Efficiently testing prototypes and adopting learnings - Aligning internal stakeholders - Developing external partnerships - Coordinating UI/UX design - Setting the go-to-market strategy - Managing the launch and driving user acquisition - Collaborating across Sales, Marketing, Legal, and Technology functions Experience and accomplishments: - Developed an ecosystem of start-ups and established and launched an innovative health-care mobile app in South Korea - Set the digital strategy as the business lead for a multi-year, multi-million dollar digital transformation program in the U.S. - Launched a health platform in Singapore and earned LumenLab's first revenue - Led multiple innovation projects and facilitated design thinking workshops across Asia - Managed a team of agile software developers and cut infrastructure cost by 40% as product owner for Germany's second-largest bank - Public speaker at conferences, regulatory events, and universities
Head of Propositions & Engagement at Manulife
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General