Veritux

Veritux is pleased to welcome Sandeep Lele. Sandeep spent 10 years as a Senior Director in the Private Equity Value Creation practice at Strategy& and has been running his own consulting firm since February 2024. Prior to that, Sandeep was a manager in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice at Deloitte. He is a senior consulting leader with more than 15 years of professional experience developing and executing comprehensive investment strategies, including sourcing, evaluating, and executing potential investments for Corporate and Private Equity (PE) clients in Healthcare, Tech, and Financial Services. He has a proven track record in driving exceptional client outcomes, positioning the value of technology to guide clients digitally transform their business, reducing risk, delivering operational excellence, and capturing value while solving their mission-critical challenges. . He is an expert storyteller, negotiator, and businessperson, able to make personal connections to forge solid relationships to be a trusted advisor with credibility, reliability, empathy, and a client-centric mindset.

How to Gain the Competitive Advantage Branka Dessens shares a post on both hard and soft due diligence and how to use it to gain the competitive advantage. https://lnkd.in/gr6vS72d

Six Tactics to Land a Spot as a Podcast Guest If you want to be featured on a podcast, this article from @Gary DePaul explains how to avoid common mistakes when reaching out to podcasters and offers tips on how to reach out effectively. https://lnkd.in/e_FxTsQp

Veritux is pleased to welcome Pietro Pazzi. A summary of Pietro's experience follows. "THREE DECADES OF PERFORMANCE TRANSFORMATION LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE IN MNCs AND START-UPS B.Psych; MBA; Chartered Marketer (CM); Cert. LSS BB & MBB My fServices include: - Creating a strong strategy for BPM and operational excellence - Developing roadmaps to track and measure progress in BPM and operational excellence - Evaluating and enhancing your BPM and operational excellence program - Improving agility, integrating automation and driving digitisation programs. - Setting up key indicators, dashboards, and governance for tracking performance - Using data analytics from collection and cleaning to predictive modelling - Integrating emerging technologies - Tools and techniques for innovation and new product introductions - Tailored agile continuous improvement training programs - Leadership, program, and project coaching - Managing business transformation and change - Facilitating strategic and execution workshops My Expertise: Executive Leadership • Business and Performance Transformation • General Management • Continuous Improvement • Change Management • Project Management • Classical & Online Marketing My Core Skills: Lean Six Sigma • Strategy Analysis & Planning • Data Analytics • Statistics • Business Intelligence • Agile Project Management • Coaching • Training • Leadership"

Tune in to Effective Communication If you have great ideas and wisdom to share but struggle to be heard, Gary Danoff’s podcast interview with media training expert Tracey Madigan offers professional insights on effective communication. https://lnkd.in/gmV2jGJi

Veritux is pleased to welcome Sam Abiad. Sam brings over 20 years of management experience in leading sales and operations organizations with multiple Fortune 500 companies. He has managed key sales business processes, including strategy, business development, and execution. Sam began his career in operations management at Ford Motor Company working in material planning and logistics before transitioning to media and joining NBCUniversal where he worked at implementing various systems and operational improvements within Sales, Finance, Research, and Technology. Sam then focused on Ad Sales when he joined Univision Communications first as a VP in Commercial Operations and ultimately as the SVP for Ad Sales Strategy and Operations. In this role, he designed, developed, and implemented a set of Advanced Advertising capabilities that included audience-based buying on TV, addressable advertising through connected TVs, TV attribution modeling, a self-serve tool to automate the process of buying media, in-content virtual advertising, and interactive advertising elements. He is a graduate of Wayne State University where he earned an MBA in Management.

Veritux is pleased to welcome Elie Naoum. Elie's career consists of public sector consulting, Big 4 management consulting, and software development. After his MBA, Elie started his consulting career with a boutique-public sector firm in Washington, DC named AOC Solutions. After projects with the Department of Transportation and Department of Defense, Elie pursued an opportunity to join Barclays Capital as a Business Analyst in New York City. To make his return back to Cleveland, Elie joined EY's Advisory practice working in the Enterprise Risk group supporting various industries with internal controls and process design, business area reviews, and testing risk management/internal audit frameworks. During his 7 years at EY, Elie also worked on projects in the Performance Improvement group leading finance/digital/back-office transformation, post-acquisition integration, and system implementation projects. After over 10 years of consulting experience, Elie took the leap into the startup space, joining a Cleveland-based real estate investment fintech company named Fund That Flip. Later rebranded as Upright, Elie was able to establish Business Operations, Project Management, and Product Strategy teams to help the startup mature and expand their internal capabilities. Work aside, Elie is born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, lifelong wrestler, and someone who grew up at his dad's hip in their family owned gas station. Elie likes to step into the abstract, collaborating with others to develop a strategy and put an action plan into place to drive results. He's open to discussing any industry and project type, leaning on his diverse experience and ability to flex where needed. 

Veritux is pleased to welcome Peter Benda. Peter has over 25 years experience in management consulting, primarily in procurement and supply chain, but also in business strategy and operational improvement. His industry experience includes mining, diverse manufacturing, diverse services, utilities, and financial services. He has worked overseas extensively, including Australia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Canada, and has worked professionally in German and Spanish. He has significant experience in mining procurement and mine construction, and has worked with several large clients on front-line construction productivity improvement. He contracts through his entity, DecisionPoint, Inc. DecisionPoint, Inc. just celebrated its 25th anniversary since founding. Peter has founded or co-founded several startups including an early 3PL focused on the US truckload marketplace, risk management and market analysis for real estate investors, and development of a nanoparticle-based magnetic material. He is currently associated with Axtom Technologies, a company developing a "robo negotiation" platform to create value in tail spend sourcing through automation and AI. He has been in the alt data space and published two articles in the Wilmott Journal evaluating the relationship between corporate hiring behaviors and stock price. He has several patents related to logistics and portfolio optimization. Peter has worked as an election official in Henrico County, Virginia, since 2020. In connection with a family member who is on the autism spectrum, he has developed significant insight into the challenges faced by non-neurotypical people and people with psychological disabilities. He is an avid but plodding bike rider. Peter lives with his family in Glen Allen, Virginia, and is open to interesting projects anywhere on the globe.

Setting the 2024 Agenda: Key Priorities for Pharma in the Omnichannel Domain Osman Daggezen shares the key areas of focus for Pharma in 2024 to enhance customer engagement, improve customer experience (CX), and amplify business and customer impact. In 2024, the pharmaceutical industry must focus on enhancing customer engagement, improving customer experience (CX), and amplifying business and customer impact. This includes leveraging data-driven insights and AI to create personalized interactions, focusing on seamless integration across all touchpoints, adopting robust measurement and amplification through advanced analytics, navigating regulatory changes, embracing digital innovation, and building Omnichannel capability for employees. https://lnkd.in/gUv-feis

Veritux is pleased to welcome Manny Mattos. A summary of Manny's experience follows "Proven executive leader. At the forefront of the most significant business and technology trends of the past 30 years. Expert in scaling growth opportunities, proven problem solver. Open, collaborative approach supports creative, innovative strategies focused on both delivering value and positive human impact. Love helping organizations and individuals grow, realize their potential, solve the seemingly unsolvable, create positive experiences. Proven expertise in developing sales function and partner ecosystems. Broad and deep experience across Technology, Data, Marketing, Sales, Finance functions on both the client and consulting side, including Startups, Fortune 50 and Non-Profits. Foundational expertise in leveraging data to drive sales, marketing, commerce and operations. Ability to see business potential of new technologies. Able to craft solutions that drive innovation and results. SME in marketing, content, commerce and social technology including Salesforce and Adobe stacks to emerging AI. Deep understanding business application of data and analytics. Knack for translating chaotic data environments into coherent useable business intelligence. Always looking for how to make something new real with AI now at the forefront of opportunity."