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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)

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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-

mba-experience/global-ambassadors-programme/global-

ambassadors-views/)

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-


ambassadors-views/)

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.

Read Bruce's views on the MBA and accreditation here >>(/the-
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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-

programme/global-ambassadors-views/)

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.

Read Marko's views on the MBA and accreditation here >>(/the-


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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.

Read Fayola's views on the MBA and accreditation here >>(/the-


ambassadors-views/)

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.

Read Adela's views on the MBA and accreditation here >>(/the-


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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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experience/global-ambassadors-programme/global-ambassadors-

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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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