Giovana Milaneze Wellmann
Background and experience
Giovana is a leader in ZS’s strategy and transformation practice area, where she helps clients achieve lasting value and commercial excellence through innovative data-driven approaches and strategies. She is an experienced leader with over a decade of experience in partnering with global organizations to design and deliver large-scale transformations from strategy to implementation. She leads global commercial transformation initiatives across industries, with deep expertise in complex B2B environments spanning multiple geographies.
Her work focuses on unlocking sustainable growth by shaping enterprise strategy, redesigning operating models and processes, embedding advanced analytics and deploying best-in-class technologies to drive measurable impact.
Originally from Brazil, Giovana has worked across South America, Central America, North America and Europe, bringing a global perspective to her client engagements. She also serves as a faculty member at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management executive education program.
Giovana joined ZS in 2015 after more than a decade with a Fortune 500 global retailer, where she held leadership roles across strategy, transformation, finance, sales operations, pricing, commercial enablement, M&A and business development.
Education
MBA, Palm Beach Atlantic University
B.S. in international business and trade, Florida Atlantic University