Natalie Megrabyan

About Natalie Megrabyan

Driven and passionate business leader with 15+ years of experience in strategy, operations, and finance, with a deep focus on technology, media & telecom (TMT), consumer products, and professional services. I specialize in leading multi-year transformation programs, ranging from global cloud implementations to operating model and organizational redesign. My consulting career has honed my ability to deliver under pressure, communicate with senior executives, and lead cross-functional teams through complexity — including leading and mentoring high-performing teams of 30+ people to create collaborative, trust-driven cultures that consistently deliver results.Beyond consulting, I’m the co-founder of Taim Olive, a direct-to-consumer brand that delivers premium extra virgin olive oil from Lebanon directly to customers’ doorsteps. Through this venture, I’ve gained hands-on experience in brand storytelling, business development, digital marketing, and consumer engagement, translating strategy into execution while building an authentic product rooted in heritage and sustainability.What ties my journey together is a blend of strategic rigor and entrepreneurial execution. I think big picture like a consultant and execute like a founder. With a perspective shaped by advising global enterprises and building consumer brands from the ground up, I thrive at the intersection of media, technology and consumer products.I’m also the author of the book \"Georgia Travel Guide: A Country of Hospitality, Wine and Mountains\", which has been consistently ranked among Amazon’s bestsellers in the travel category for the country of Georgia.Skills: Strategy & Operations | Digital Strategy | Agile & Waterfall Transformation | Organizational Change | Global Implementations | Strategic Partnerships | Consumer Brand Development | Media & Technology Industry Expertise | Cross-Functional Leadership | Entrepreneurship

Experience

1. Senior Manager - Business Consulting

   EY

   Jan 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   As a Senior Manager, I drive transformation of client\'s organization across critical dimensions of change: strategy, organization, process and technology. From business development and go-to-market (GTM) perspective, I work with clients to define their problem statement, and shape up the approach, resourcing, and timing for the ways to solve for their challenges. From delivery and execution perspective, I serve as an engagement lead, where I manage teams of 10-30 internal and external contributors to drive execution of the day-to-day activities of large scale transformation programs. Selected Achievements- Improved operational efficiencies through a cloud solution deployment. Directed 50+ consultants and client stakeholders, advised Executive Leadership Team on strategy and execution, and led the end-to-end implementation, collecting requirements, translating requirements into features, building and testing the solution, with successful post-launch hypercare- Enabled launch of a large-scale business offering for a media company by leading a back-office finance transformation. Facilitated capability alignment, designed end-to-end processes, and ensured that finance team was receiving the solution aligned to business needs- Designed future-state finance operating model - developed activity split, defined roles and responsibilities and handoffs, built governance frameworks, led org design across FTE, and partnered with Change Management to drive adoption and sustainable value through change impact analysis, training strategy. training materials development and execution of the train-the-trainer- Delivered $15M in annual savings through a 12+ month transformation establishing an offshore Shared Services Center (SSC)/Center of Excellence (COE), standardizing 80% of processes, mapping customer journeys, and implementing hypercare and KPI tracking.Sectors: Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT), Consumer and Retail, Professional Services

Education

• Caucasus University- Caucasus School of Business

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance

• The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy

• ESC Clermont Business School

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General