EXECUTIVE, Healthcare & life science Strategy & Solutions

Summary

Joanna  Pashos
Mrs Pashos is known and respected in the legal industry with proven capabilities in leading teams to execute complex portfolios, programs and projects. With over 20 years of leadership experience, Mrs Pashos has a consistent record of accomplishments while driving increased levels of productivity, ROI's and internal/external customer satisfaction. Mrs Pashos thrives in situations in which requires creativity and strong communication skills to produce positive results while working with multi discipline/multinational and professional teams.

Bringing unique set of executive experience to any organization, which includes, but not limited to the following:

  • Established a third-party consultancy that supports client projects in healthcare and labor and employment practices.
  • Established a Global Enterprise Project & Information Governance office.
  • Defined project management processes and procedures, data governance policies, solution requirements management, change control, and quality assurance.
  • Oversaw a number of technology projects in alignment with the Firm’s roadmap.
  • Developed and Implemented the IT Budget.
  • Developed, socialized and obtained Executive and Partnership approval on the Information Governance Policy and Retention Schedule. Socialized new policy to the Firm.
  • Established business transformation and modernization as well as governance over the Firm’s most important assets.
  • A solid record of introducing a number of streamlined, enhancements in collaboration within the organization and external business constituents.
  • Developed a long set of goals to ensure successful realization of the organization’s vision. Ensured the development of clear goals that align a unit’s efforts with the organization’s vision and strategic plan.
  • Establishes a large number of Firm wide system automation/conversions and successful deployments across domestic and international levels.
  • Has built a wide network of exceptional relationships with customers, vendors and service providers.
  • Extraordinary ability to write proposals, negotiate contracts, develop and implement marketing campaigns, as well as developing pricing and projection models.
  • Builds and maintains synergies between people, processes, and strategies to drive execution of business objectives.
  • Develops an organizational culture that leads to ongoing excellence and effective growth of the business while maintaining the highest integrity.
  • Consistently promotes a positive environment, where employees are engaged and perform at the highest level, especially effective leading or functioning as part of multidiscipline/multinational and professional teams.

Mrs Pashos has built teams that facilitate high quality programs that solve business problems and provide tangible results for enterprise-level solutions. Her experience includes all aspects of the healthcare space, information systems, information and data governance, intellectual property as well as real time financial analytics. As an integral part of her employer’s senior management team, she has been the central facilitation hub for stakeholder management across product implementation, workflow improvements, and policy creation, awareness and adaptation within the firm.

Mrs Pashos excels at ….


  • Leading teams to execute complex technology portfolios, programs and projects
  • Turning around underperforming programs into successful implementations
  • High adoption on digital platform implementations that yielded to high ROI
  • Information and Data Governance with risk mitigation
  • Aligning solutions to organizational strategy and vision
  • Bridging the gap between business needs and technology
  • Managing complex interdependent programs and concurrent projects
  • Coaching, mentoring and team building leadership

Her career began with Program Management where she progressed to manage all IT planning, forecasting, and business case management in the Legal space. She went on to Senior Program management positions, rising in 2016 to a Director, Global Program & Information Governance Office with McDermott Will & Emery LLP, a diversified international business law firm. Ms Pashos in 2019 established her own business importing healthy, organic food products from Greece to support the US Military. In her latest role, Assistant Director of EBG Advisors, Mrs Pashos has built a strategy solution for the Health Care industry providing end to end expertise to assist Health Care Organizations via a third party network of consultants.

Mrs Pashos has been described by executives, peers, subordinates and clients as a straightforward, effective communicator, a clear, concise writer, and a persuasive presenter. Mrs Pashos has earned her Masters of Business Administration in International Finance & Investments from Southern New Hampshire University. Her Bachelor of Business and Management degree is from The American University of Athens in Athens Greece where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Timeline

  1. -
    Senior Program Manager, Howrey LLP
  2. -
    Senior Program Manager, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
  3. -
    Director, Program & Information Governance Office, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
  4. -
    Founder & CEO, Pashos Imports LLC.
  5. -
    Assistant Director, EBG Advisors Inc., Epstein Becker Green, P.C.
  6. -
    Liaison, EBG Advisors Inc., Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

Proudest Accomplishment

Information Governance Policy & Records System implementation that led to process efficiencies.

Experience Highlights

  • Healthcare & Life Science
    INCREASED THE SIZE AND REVENUE FOR EBG ADVISORS INC BY MORE THAN 60% IN LESS THAN 3 YEARS.
  • Data Privacy
    BRIDged THE GAP BETWEEN EU AND US ON ALL PRIVACY MATTERS, GDPR PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES.
  • Billing Process & Operations
    Modernized billing processes which led to time and cost savings for the FIrm.
  • Intellectual Practice Improvements
    Standardized and digitized IP Practice processes that streamlined daily operations for the Firm.
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    pAIRED dATA AND BUSINESS RULES TO HELP BETTER PRICE AND STAFF MATTERS WITH LEGAL TALENT.
  • Firm Rebrand
    administered the activities for the firms rebranding while expanded fimr with new office openings.
  • Information Governance
    Stabilized firm wide governance operations. consolidated databases into one central repository.
  • Global Program Management Office
    Streamlined formerly manual processes and digitized the workflow of managing and executing projects.

Education Highlights

  • MBA, International Finance & Investments
    Southern New Hampshire University
  • BA, American University of Athens, Greece
    Magna cum laude

Results

  • 30%
    reduction in payment cycle for consutlants
  • $30M
    Revenue increase for a 3rd party consultancy
  • 50M
    eLECTRONIC GOVERNANCE FOR OVER 50 mILLION RECORDS
  • 70%
    Reduction of time in document production & review
  • $200K
    Saved Annually for Quality Assurance Team
  • $500K
    Cut from billing costs

Skills

  • health care & life science
    15
  • Contract negotiations
    10
  • STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
    20+
  • Software LIFE CYCLE
    20+
  • Business Analysis
    20+
  • sap solutions
    4
  • Salesforce
    8
  • Billing systems
    15
  • ai & bi solutions
    4
  • SHARE POINT
    10
  • tRAINING & cUSTOMER sUPPORT
    20+
  • EXECUTIVE GUIDANCE
    20+
  • Program Management
    20+
  • Leadership
    20+
  • Information Governance
    15
  • sOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE
    20+
  • cONTRACT REVIEW
    10
  • AGILE
    10
  • Policy development
    15