NNIT’s Marina Prodan selected as Talent 100

More than 400 talented and ambitious young people were nominated for this year's Talent 100 published by the Danish broadsheet newspaper Berlingske. Only 100 talents were ultimately selected for this year’s list, and Marina Prodan is one of them.

Marina Prodan’s story is quite extraordinary. At age 19, in 2010, she arrived alone in Denmark from Romania to study business administration at Copenhagen Business School. Determined to put down roots and launch an accelerated business career, she quickly set out to learn Danish, which is not an easy undertaking.

While learning Danish and studying, she worked odd jobs to support herself. In record-time, her Danish was good enough for her to land a steady job as a cashier in a supermarket. Next, she landed a job as a student assistant in a consulting company – and after five years, she graduated with an MSc. in Economics and Business Administration.

An accelerated career with NNIT

Having finished her studies, Marina Prodan immediately found full-time employment with NNIT where she was recognized as an extremely likable colleague and valued customer liaison. She quickly climbed the ranks, and today, she is the director of NNIT’s globally leading Regulatory Affairs consulting unit in Europe.

“Marina always rises to the occasion and is equally valued by colleagues and customers for her ability to listen and deliver results. She is an obvious talent and so deserving of the selection as one of the Talent 100 for 2024, says Vice President Niels Buch Leander and continues:

“She is a modern leader with the ability to successfully liaise with colleagues, customers, and partners to achieve common goals and success. She has driven growth within her areas of responsibility, not least doubling the revenue with one central life sciences customer. Marina’s determination, ambition and leadership style deserves recognition and praise; we think that she is one of Denmark’s greatest talents in the consulting arena, and we know that she is a role model, particularly for our female consultants.”

To infinity and beyond?

Marina Prodan is honored to have been selected and comments: “I feel beyond proud and happy. To me, being on this year’s Talent 100 list is the culmination of my 14-year journey in Denmark so far, from making ends meet while in school and learning Danish to really making my mark at NNIT. I am immensely grateful that almost eight years ago, a wonderful hiring manager at NNIT took a chance on me and helped pave the way for where I am today, even though back then my business Danish wasn’t perfect, and I still had limited work experience.”

So, what’s next for Marina? We asked her if there is a career plan v2 in the making?

“Of course there is, but I will wait a bit with spilling the beans. What I can say is that, currently, the life sciences industry is evolving at a rapid pace, and at NNIT, we are spending quite some time on advising our customers on the next big things in Regulatory Affairs, including topics such as data management, IDMP and generative AI. So, for now, my focus is on accelerating the journey that my department is on and expanding our overall European footprint. From there on, the sky is the limit.”

Marina Prodan’s accelerated career path at NNIT:

• 2016-2019: Business Consultant
• 2019-2021: Advanced Business Consultant
• 2021: Senior Business Consultant
• 2021: Promotion to Line manager
• 2023: Promotion to Manager of the European life sciences consulting unit (managing 15 consultants in Germany, UK, Switzerland, Denmark, and Poland).
• 2023: Promotion to Director responsible for NNIT’s Regulatory Affairs consulting unit in Europe (managing 14+ consultants in Germany, UK, Switzerland, Denmark, and Poland).