Advisory Board Member Mahendra Pattni
Massachusetts Financial Educators Council
Mahendra Pattni is a strategic and results-driven International Senior Finance and Operations Executive with extensive corporate expertise in the Biotech/Pharmaceutical and Consumer industries driving revenue growth, cost savings, process improvements, and knowledgeable in operational excellence at all levels of the organization.
Advisory Board Member Mahendra Pattni trained as a mechanical engineer, earning a bachelor’s degree from the National Institute of Technology in India and an MBA from Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois. He is also a Fellow of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, London, England.
Forging Business Partnerships through Financial Education: Mahendra Pattni
Pattni has over 30 years of experience in the Consumer Healthcare/Pharma/Biotech industry supporting as finance business partner to operational and corporate functions. He has extensive experience working closely with different functional areas such as Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, R&D and Corporate at GlaxoSmithKline and Shire/Takeda. He also worked as Director, Business Planning, Global Business Services (GBS) at Biogen, where he supported senior management to set up a new Global Business Services function and track financial benefits of a change management program to institutionalize and improve business performance.
Mahendra currently serves as Head of Finance at Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute where he reorganized the Finance function and implemented business planning processes including financial systems and Adaptive Insights for reporting financial performance. At present, he is working on developing finance team members into business partners working collaboratively to support operational and strategic needs.
Massachusetts Financial Educators Council Details
Selected members of the Massachusetts Financial Educators Council Advisory Board are individuals who support us in our commitment to widely spread financial wellness resources across the state of Massachusetts. They share our goal to donate financial wellness programming at the community level in initiatives that can be sustained and taken to scale.
Board Members who pass the rigorous selection criteria are professionals with a demonstrated commitment to building financial wellness in their communities. Individuals with the following traits are considered:
Dedication
A demonstrated deep passion for raising financial wellness, empowering people, and strengthening whole communities with financial education.
Contribution
Minimum contributions of time, active participation, and communication are required of individuals and organizations selected to serve on the Advisory Board.
Integrity
Board members are individuals with a proven history of providing ethical, honest service in their local communities and maintaining strong professional values.