
Shelli-Ann K.
Admissions Committee at Columbia Business School

Works at Gartner
Available Saturday at 1:00 PM UTC
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Work Experience

Senior Enterprise Account Executive
Gartner
November 2018 - Present
Head Admissions Consultant
Veritas Prep
September 2008 - January 2022
Account Development Manager
American Express
January 2017 - November 2018
Responsible for deepening strategic account relationships and growing the corporate payments spend in a portfolio of 11 multi-national accounts in the New England area. Proactively provide expertise on policies, benchmarking, and recommendations to optimize programs, reduce costs and drive efficiencies for clients.
Senior Client Solutions Manager
American Express
August 2016 - January 2017
Ownership of portfolio of 76 B2B and B2C merchants representing over $580MM in annual charge volume. Additional Responsibilities Include: • Establish mutually beneficial and profitable relationships across portfolio • Articulating premium value and maximized benefits of American Express acceptance • Deepen customer relationships to effectively sell-in value across multiple layers of the client organization • Work with internal partners to implement solutions to drive new initiatives to increase share
Senior Channel Marketing Manager
American Express
October 2012 - August 2016
Responsible for managing and optimizing the B2B lead pipeline via various sales channels including merchant acquisition, client management and telesales. Ownership of the performance of an outbound telesales force of 20+ agents and a budget of $1.8M. Additional Responsibilities Include: • Capacity forecasting, training, reporting, performance tracking and incentive planning • Developing strategies to maximize close rates and reduce cycle time for B2B merchant leads across various sales channels • End-to-end P&L ownership • Ongoing program tracking and reporting

Consultant - Senior Consultant
Deloitte
2008 - 2010
Led a team of 2-6 consultants to assist senior executives in using organization perspectives and methods to execute business strategies, improve operations and performance, and optimize roles and responsibilities. Key Accomplishments: National sales force CRM technology integration • Developed and coordinated the delivery of a training strategy to 1,000 end users in six locations throughout the US • Coordinated the training support process and created self-help processes for end users • Managed the development of a project intranet site to host all key project dates, announcements and documents • Conducted stakeholder analysis to identify impacted stakeholder groups, assess the level of impact and needs for necessary training, communication, work force transition and enrollment activities • Developed a CRM Readiness Survey to assess the current level of support and understanding of the new CRM platform including information needs and communication delivery preferences Project management office for emerging global sales technology offering • Acted as the liaison between client and third-party product development team to gather and document product requirements • Developed marketing materials to detail the features and functionality of the tool for use in sales pursuits • Developed training materials for administrators and end-users

MBA
Columbia Business School
August 2006 - 2008
Education
Boston University Questrom School of Business
BSBA, Management
Worked part time at Admissions Office, gave tours, hosted students, etc.
Columbia Business School
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Admissions Committee Experience
Student interviewer and alumni interviewer. Part of Hermes society the student arm of the admissions office.