2024 20 in their Twenties: John Evans

Finance Manager, Corporate  Financial Planning | Eli Lilly and Co.

Age: 27

Hometown: Indianapolis

Education: bachelor’s in finance and accounting, Butler University

Family: father, Mike Evans; mother, Sherry Evans; brother, Ben Evans

Years with organization: 5

First job: He and his brother started a lawn-care company called “Help R Us.”

Givebacks: group facilitator, Heart of a Man (engage in weekly meetings focused on promoting in-depth exploration of Biblical texts and personal reflection); finance committee member, Shepherd Community Center

Something surprising: He completed a full 140.6-mile Ironman triathlon in Muncie.

Coffee order: drip coffee with vanilla and LOTS of room for creamer—ideally at Hubbard and Cravens

John Evans is responsible for providing Eli Lilly and Co. senior management with insights into the company’s financial results, near-term forecasts, business plan and strategy. Evans began his career in the pharmaceutical industry at Johnson & Johnson’s world headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he served in the Global Finance Department as a cooperative education intern for one semester his junior year in college. After interning at Eli Lilly and Co. during his senior year, Evans joined the company’s global research and development finance team as a financial analyst, working as a finance strategic partner for Lilly’s medicines development organization. In 2022, he was promoted to the corporate financial planning group as a senior financial analyst. He was one of three recipients of Lilly’s 2022 CFO Award for finance simplification projects of the year. After 11 internal interviews with Lilly’s finance executives, he was selected as one of four corporate MBA finance sponsors for the class starting this fall. In addition, he was admitted into Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business MBA class, beginning in the fall.•

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