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Stanley Mufaro Shumba

Trailblazer · DISC type DI
Group Finance Director at Essential Pharma
📍 United Kingdom

Stanley is a CFO and Group Finance Director at Essential Pharma with a history of supporting high-growth, international businesses. His expertise lies in pharmaceuticals, clinical research, and consulting for private equity-backed companies. He holds an MBA from Henley Business School and started his career at Ernst & Young.

He is passionate about leadership that focuses on investing in people and lifting others up to build legacies. Stanley believes in empowering teams with the right tools to drive both efficiency and strategic insight, emphasizing the importance of the human element in the business world.

He specializes in building scalable finance infrastructures, including systems, processes, and teams.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Group Finance Director
Location
United Kingdom
Personality Overview

How Stanley shows up

Persuasive
Achievement-Oriented
Friendly But Fast

They like to keep things under control. They will fight for you if they come to believe in you. They respond better to a combination of speed and relationship.

Priorities

Topics Stanley cares about

PE-backed Growth
His career is focused on supporting high-growth, private equity-backed companies in the pharmaceutical and consulting sectors.
People-centric Leadership
Frequently posts about leadership, believing that great leaders invest in their people to build legacies and that true leadership is about lifting others up.
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Career

Work history

9-2024 - 1-2026
Group Finance Director
Essential Pharma
6-2024 - 9-2024
Managing partner - Consulting
The Leo Consulting
2-2020 - 5-2024
Divisional Finance Director/CFO- US, Europe & APAC
Avalere Health
11-2014 - 1-2020
Regional Finance Director - EMEA
Syneos Health
11-2013 - 10-2014
Group Finance Manager - Europe
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies Europe
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2014 - 2016
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Henley Business School
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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