The Plan, Prioritize and Execute (PPE) model is an effective tool for an integrated strategic and financial planning exercise. It can be used by both large and small businesses and accommodate different budgeting methodologies.
Manasi Ramanna
Finance leader with a twenty-year track record growing profitable VC and PE-backed companies in the US and Europe. Manasi is reputed for her ability to develop prioritised and executable strategic plans, drawing upon her operational background. Additionally, she has a proven record of building lean, high-performing finance and operations teams and ensuring successful execution.
Some highlights of her professional journey include:
- Revenue growth of Ulthera, a med device company, from $18M to $114M in three years while simultaneously achieving both profitability and positive cash flow.
- IPO preparation and ultimate sale of Ulthera, Inc. for $600M.
- The successful series D raise ($125M) at AgBiome LLC., an Ag biotech company.
- The strategic transformation of a 110-year-old company, Merz KGaA, from a pharmaceutical to an aesthetics medicine company with revenue of $1BN within two years.
Manasi holds an MBA from the London Business School and an MS in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Rutgers University.
She has actively contributed to the early-stage entrepreneurial ecosystem by serving as a Mentor in Residence at Duke New Ventures and undertaking a knowledge transfer fellowship at Imperial College, London.
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FP&A departments are able to track and manage financial plans. But can FP&A help manage the execution of a strategic plan? Is there value in integrating these two processes?