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Ariana Bavarian - Chief of Staff & SVP, Operations in Chicago, IL

Ariana Bavarian

Executive Operations Leader specializing in M&A integration and marketing/tech transformation

Shift ParadigmUniversity of Texas at AustinChicago, IL20 Years ExperienceExecutive Level

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Operations-focused leader who joined a consulting firm immediately after consolidating 5 companies via M&A and built standardized time tracking plus utilization analytics that became a core executive-management tool. Experienced in change management and cross-functional redesign of business systems, including simplifying an over-engineered Salesforce CRM to improve sales adoption and pipeline data integrity.

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Key Strengths

  • built unified time-tracking and utilization reporting across 5-company M&A consolidation
  • created executive-level utilization dashboard used in weekly exec meetings to inform hiring and restructures
  • drove adoption of new systems via structured change management, training, and leader championing
  • implemented accountability mechanisms (reminders + delinquency reporting) to improve timesheet compliance
  • diagnosed and simplified an over-engineered Salesforce instance to better match real sales workflows
  • collaborative, cross-functional approach to designing scalable operational solutions

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Experience

Chief of Staff & SVP, OperationsShift Paradigm · Jan 2022 – Sep 2025
Director, Team Operations & Research & InsightsQuad · Apr 2017 – Jan 2022
Account Director, AnalyticsPeriscope · Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
Director, Business Solutions ConsultantsMediaocean · Jul 2016 – Dec 2016
Director, Strategy & ProductBPN Worldwide · Oct 2012 – Jul 2016
Director, Strategy & ProductShopper Sciences (IPG) · Oct 2012 – Jul 2016
Associate Director, Context StrategyTranslation, LLC · Nov 2011 – Mar 2012
Strategy SupervisorOMD/Omnicom Media Group · Nov 2005 – Nov 2011

Education

University of Texas at Austinbachelor, Advertising (2005)

Awards

  • Cannes Young Lions finalist

Languages

English

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