CEG C-Level Connect Series #44-Ms. Meena Balakrishnan, Vice President, Finance Transformation at Danaher Life Sciences and Bio Technology, Washington DC, USA.

Name: CEG C-Level Connect Series #44-Ms. Meena Balakrishnan, Vice President, Finance Transformation at Danaher Life Sciences and Bio Technology, Washington DC, USA.
Start: 2025-04-06T20:00:00+05:30
End: 2025-04-06T21:00:00+05:30

April 6 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm UTC+5.5

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Ms. Meena Balakrishnan, CEG 1985 Mech and Vice President, Finance Transformation at Danaher Life Sciences and Bio Technology, Washington DC, USA.

Meena just completed 20 years with Danaher (DHR) in a variety of progressive finance roles and has been with the Life Science (LS)/Biotechnology (BTG) platform Opcos since the Pall acquisition. She joined DHR as the Sales and Marketing Finance Manager for Jacobs Chuck Manufacturing Company. She currently is VP – Finance Transformation supporting DHR LS/BTG. She was part of the DHR acquisition integration team at Pall (~$14.0B acquisition) and served as its Corporate Controller until she was selected to be the DHR Finance Transition lead for the acquisition of Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), a Coralville, IA based company. After the successful finance integration of IDT early 2019, Meena was named as the DHR Finance Transition lead for the acquisition integration of Cytiva, formerly known as GE Biopharma (~$21.0B deal). She has also helped support finance integrations of Cytiva’s bolt-on acquisitions and recently was the lead for the financial integration of Pall Life Sciences with Cytiva to create the Biotechnology segment. Together with her Cytiva responsibilities she is also assisting the integration of Genedata, a recently announced DHR acquisition.
Meena believes her engineering degree together with her accounting/finance experience has helped her to continue to add value to integrating large acquisitions. Being able to “think outside of a box” is a much-needed skill to navigate through the complexities of diverse acquisitions.
As an Asian Descent associate in the US, and her unconditional passion for helping others, Meena has been actively involved with the volunteer based, DHR’s Asian Descent and Friends (AsD+F) ARG for many years. She served as a Steerco Member in Cytiva’s Global DEI Council after previously serving as the Chair of the DHR AsD+F ARG Steering Committee. She continues to serve as a mentor for many Cytiva/DHR associates both formally through Cytiva’ s mentoring programs and informally through those who reach out to her directly.
Meena in her own words, “I have been very fortunate and privileged with the career opportunities and mentorship, DHR has given me, and I believe it is now my time to pay forward”.
Meena enjoys listening to Indian Classical music and enjoys traveling to exotic places with her family. She currently resides in Falls Church, Virginia.
Meena has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India, and an MBA (Accounting and Finance concentration) from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

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