Mix & Mingle with Deloitte’s Finance & Enterprise Performance Technology Practice

Nina Zhang is a leader in Deloitte’s Digital Finance practice, with over 10 years of experience delivering and managing enterprise performance management and analytics solutions to Life Sciences clients. She has led and delivered in some of Deloitte’s largest global Planning implementations for our pharmaceutical clients. Nina brings a depth of experience in managing and delivering solutions across multiple tracks and geographies for our complex finance transformation solutions. Nina’s breadth of functional experience in planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analytics solutions includes working closely with the corporate, commercial, operations, and R&D organizations to define and enable their future state vision. Her project experiences includes leading teams through all stages of the project and software development lifecycles.

Vishnu Narins has over 10 years of consulting experience in Technology and Finance with a focus on design and implementation of advanced Analytics solutions for complex multinational organizations. She has architected multiple planning projects with a focus on driver-based planning solutions and predictive modeling. She has led several multifaceted transformation programs for organizations that are shifting from a “siloed” model to become globally customer and/or product focused. She has noteworthy global team management experience and has made distinguished contributions to overseas assignments. Her excellent communication, team skills and initiative enable her to continuously learn, adapt and acquire expertise in new areas. Specialties: Financial Planning and Analysis, Business Analytics, Advanced Analytics, Predictive Modeling, Cloud EPM, Hyperion Planning, Anaplan, SAP BPC

Celeste Qian is a seasoned corporate performance management professional with seven years of experience and domain expertise in financial budgeting and forecasting, financial close and consolidation, account reconciliation, data integration and financial reporting. Celeste leads multiple project teams performing analysis, design, development, and deployment of best-in-class CPM applications. Celeste is a quick learner with outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills -- and a team player with excellent interpersonal skills to establish strong relationships with client subject matter experts and technology practitioners.

Deepti Sanghvi has over 14 years of experience delivering complex solutions for clients across commercial and public sectors. She has led large global engagements and Finance transformation projects with a focus on Planning and Reporting using Hyperion products. She has worked as product agnostic solution architect to help client assess functional/non-functional requirements, work with enterprise architects and shortlist right product based on fit-gap assessment. She has also lead hybrid implementations that include both Oracle EPM and Anaplan. She has proven ability to work in a fast-paced, unstructured environment and lead large diverse teams using momentum project management framework

Taryn Townsend is a manager aligned with the Enterprise Operations offering portfolio. She is a proud graduate of Pepperdine University and Northwestern University having earned her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from each school respectively in Bioinorganic/Analytical Chemistry. Taryn’s project experience centers on Anaplan implementations in FP&A, marketing performance management, and supply chain use cases. She possesses strong design and analytical skills born out of her educational and project experiences as well as her desire to continuously evolve in emerging technologies. Her positive attitude, team-oriented mind set and honed communication skills make her a solid asset to any project