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Maria Whitman is a principal in ZS’s Philadelphia office, and she’s responsible for ZS’s global specialty therapeutics and oncology space, which encompasses about half of the company’s work. She’s focused on ZS’s people, fostering inclusion and diversity among employees. Maria is a founder and steering committee member of eight centers of excellence in the company, and she’s a key leader within ZS’s Women’s Leadership Initiative and ZS Cares, the company’s community service and pro bono activities group.
 
Previously, she was the managing principal of ZS’s Philadelphia office, which more than tripled in size during her tenure. As a professional, Maria has “reinvented” herself four times at ZS, never shying away from a challenge and pushing at every opportunity to learn and grow as a balanced consultant and leader. Maria came to ZS with a marketing and strategy consultant background. After several years, her work shifted radically and she spent more than two years helping define ZS’s early commercial operations capability, taking on program management for the largest project in the company’s history. In addition to managing around 75 team members in seven countries, she was an instrumental leader in the early days of ZS’s presence in India and helped develop the working model that has become a core ZS structure today. Maria then spent several years advancing customer insights and market research, becoming an early leader in the company’s innovation and change management thinking, and then turned her focus to oncology, an area that she’s passionately committed to.  

Prior to joining ZS in 2005, Maria worked in direct response relationship marketing and advertising for several agencies. Maria earned her MBA with honors in marketing and health care systems from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from La Salle University and graduated maxima cum laude. In 2015, Maria was named one of Consulting Magazine’s 12 “Top Women Leaders in Consulting.” She also serves on the boards of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation and the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Association, and she’s a member of the Union League of Philadelphia. Maria recently welcomed another daughter and returned to her leadership roles in oncology and specialty therapeutics. She has jumped right back in, taking on a new role for ZS, becoming one of the first members of our new Executive Advisory track. Maria lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughters.

Maria Whitman is a principal in ZS’s Philadelphia office, and she’s responsible for ZS’s global specialty therapeutics and oncology space, which encompasses about half of the company’s work. She’s focused on ZS’s people, fostering inclusion and diversity among employees. Maria is a founder and steering committee member of eight centers of excellence in the company, and she’s a key leader within ZS’s Women’s Leadership Initiative and ZS Cares, the company’s community service and pro bono activities group.
 
Previously, she was the managing principal of ZS’s Philadelphia office, which more than tripled in size during her tenure. As a professional, Maria has “reinvented” herself four times at ZS, never shying away from a challenge and pushing at every opportunity to learn and grow as a balanced consultant and leader. Maria came to ZS with a marketing and strategy consultant background. After several years, her work shifted radically and she spent more than two years helping define ZS’s early commercial operations capability, taking on program management for the largest project in the company’s history. In addition to managing around 75 team members in seven countries, she was an instrumental leader in the early days of ZS’s presence in India and helped develop the working model that has become a core ZS structure today. Maria then spent several years advancing customer insights and market research, becoming an early leader in the company’s innovation and change management thinking, and then turned her focus to oncology, an area that she’s passionately committed to.  

Prior to joining ZS in 2005, Maria worked in direct response relationship marketing and advertising for several agencies. Maria earned her MBA with honors in marketing and health care systems from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from La Salle University and graduated maxima cum laude. In 2015, Maria was named one of Consulting Magazine’s 12 “Top Women Leaders in Consulting.” She also serves on the boards of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation and the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Association, and she’s a member of the Union League of Philadelphia. Maria recently welcomed another daughter and returned to her leadership roles in oncology and specialty therapeutics. She has jumped right back in, taking on a new role for ZS, becoming one of the first members of our new Executive Advisory track. Maria lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughters.