Yvonne is a member of the Elite Trends Group Senior Executive Team (SET).

In her role, she oversees the successful integration of the consulting arm of the business. Driving the company’s commitment to deliver its clients the highest quality of financial services, managerial system designs, and profitable benefits.

She has efficiently led the delivery of various initiatives and projects through strategic vision and an aptitude for managing diversity. Working closely with the executive leadership, and teams across industry areas, she has impacted corporate philanthropy, employee volunteerism and economic development.

With a commitment to community and passion for service, Yvonne became cofounder and organizer of the Elite Trends World NGO. In this role, Yvonne leads the organization towards the realization of a strong benevolent alliance between the US and Africa. This has become a personal mission, driving her to collaborate with notable institutions.

Skills and Expertise

Strategic Partner and Advisor with two decades of experience in regulated industries, auditing, and
health care services.

Exceptional Relationship Manager adept at developing creative solutions to broad issues that produce operational improvements (e.g. the design/ implementation of a new product, paradigm-shifting new technology and leadership of multidisciplinary team).

Broad background and skill set that draws on a rare and valuable mix of business, management, and scientific experiences in various corporate settings ranging from start-up to Fortune 500 Global companies.

Biography

Yvonne is a Biopharmaceutical Executive, Business Consultant, and Philanthropist. Her signature skill is analyzing the root causes of business problems and executing solutions in the areas of: health, hospitality, public administration and non-profits. She is known as a fair and pragmatic leader who is an exceptionally innovative strategist.

She was born in Cameroon where she attended Saker Baptist College, boarding school for her
secondary education. She migrated to the US in her teens. At age 17, prior to joining college she
started her professional career in finance as a part time Accounting Assistant at Delphi International in Washington, DC, an international relations exchange NGO. She worked there until she completed her college education and obtained a BS in Biology (Hons) from the University of the District of Colombia (UDC). This earned her a scholarship to pursue her graduate education in Public Health from George Washington University. Yvonne has done research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Georgetown University Medical Center Dept. of Pharmacology and UDC.

Yvonne’s passion for Biotechnology led her to acquire an MS in Bioscience Regulatory Affairs from Johns Hopkins University. Her biopharmaceutical journey began with her interest in public health and a desire to impact health care at a global stage. After graduating, Yvonne held various positions in the biopharmaceutical industry with increasing responsibilities ranging from a Research Analyst to management positions within Quality and Compliance Operations. 

In her current role at AstraZeneca (AZ), she is the Business Process Owner for Batch Disposition, and Issues Management including Product Recall across therapeutics areas of its vast Biologics clinical pipeline. She plays a key role in ensuring the availability of the company’s biopharmaceutical portfolio of products to patients, accelerating innovative science and delivering on targets for growth.

Prior to joining AZ, Yvonne also worked as a Sr. Laboratory Technician Contractor for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as a Microbiologist at Chesapeake Biological Laboratories (CBL), Inc., and as a Research Associate at Anmed Biosafe, Inc.

Yvonne’s hard work and dedication for service earned her the Volunteer Award at the George
Washington University Hospital. She also received the 49th Cameroon Youth Day Celebration Award; for Outstanding Contribution to the Cameroonian Community in the U.S. This passion for service and wanting to impact change in Cameroon and Africa was the beginning of her involvement with Elite Trends.

She has championed activities to foster a strong benevolent alliance between the US and Africa. This
has become a personal mission, driving her to collaborate with notable institutions such as; the US African Development Foundation, US Department of State, US Agency of International Development, State of Maryland, the District of Columbia, the African Union Representational Mission to the US, African Embassies in Washington DC, Representatives at the United Nations, and more.

Yvonne has sponsored several events organized for public outreach; Hosting Artists preparing for the Ebola Charity Concert at Filmore, Silver Spring, to leading platforms acknowledging ideological game changers and revolutionary leaders. A highlighted few, include: Queen Mother, DR. Delois Blakely Community Mayor of Harlem, Ambassador of Goodwill to Africa at the UN, H.E., DR. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, African Union Ambassador to the United States, and Laurie Adams, the CEO of Women for Women International.

In 2017, she was invited by the President of the Republic of Cameroon; as a panelist, and the US
Diaspora representative to the Forum for Diaspora (FODIAS) conference hosted in Yaoundé. This initiative was launched to further enhance Diaspora relationship and contributions to their homeland. In her continuous effort to give back, she accepted the call to moderate the 58th Cameroon National Day celebration in Washington, DC on May 20, 2018.

Yvonne is engaged in a variety of community and industry organizations and supports colleagues both as an informal and formal mentor. She believes it is her duty to grow and develop the underserved societies, while cultivating a positive motivational and inspirational culture to empower generational leaders and scholars.

Yvonne is happily married and has a beautiful daughter, Camille who inspires and motivates her. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with loved ones, cooking, traveling globally, listening to music, and inspirational teachings.