Vice President play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Vice President role. We have selected these Vice President’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.
Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Vice President’s. The list is in no particular order!
Zahra Hassan
Vice President @ The Raine Group
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Zahra is Vice President at Raine. Prior to joining Raine in 2014, Zahra was at CODE Advisors, a digital media and technology boutique investment bank. At CODE, Zahra worked on capital raising and sell-side advisory for late-stage digital media and internet firms. Focused on European coverage and execution, Zahra worked on transactions such as Spotify’s fundraisings, Supercell’s secondary financing and subsequent sale to SoftBank and Shutl’s sale to eBay. Prior to CODE, Zahra was at UBS in European Mergers & Acquisitions and part of the dedicated sell-side advisory team. During her time in the M&A team, Zahra worked on a variety of technology transactions including the sale of GlobalCollect to Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe and DataCash to Mastercard. Prior to joining the M&A Department, Zahra spent two years in UBS’s Global Healthcare Team based in New York and an additional three years based in London. While at UBS, Zahra worked on over 25 transactions including a number of sell-side transactions and equity and debt offerings.
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Dan Houser
Co-Founder and Vice President @ Rockstar Games
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Caroline Hazlehurst
Vice President EMEA @ Bird
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Caroline Hazlehurst is the Vice President of Europe, Middle East and Africa at Bird, a last mile electric scooter rental service with a mission to make cities more liveable by reducing car usage, traffic, and congestion. Prior to Bird, she was UK General Manager and then Director of Operations at Deliveroo, an on-demand food delivery business. Previously, Caroline was an Investment Executive at private equity fund Bridgepoint, and an Investment Banker at Barclays and Rothschild. Caroline sits on the Global Future council for Mobility at the World Economic forum, and sits on the Investment Committee of the Conduit EIS Impact Fund. In addition, she has held various Non-Executive Director roles at early stage startups and is an angel investor.
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Wendy Tan White
Vice President @ X, the moonshot factory
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Wendy Tan-White is Founder and CMO of fast growth software company Moonfruit which provides small businesses with a simple but powerful DIY website builder giving them total design control. She founded www.moonfruit.com in 1999, as CEO raising significant venture capital from Macromedia and LVMH. Moonfruit was sold to Gandi Group in 2005 where Wendy became Marketing Director but catalysed by high growth it was spun back out as a separate company, raising $2.25m from Stephens(US) in Sept 2010 to scale internationally. A BEng in Computer Science from Imperial College, London led her to a career in IT and finance. She was part of start-up team which set up www.egg.com, the UK’s first Internet bank. Wendy was also part of the team who set-up www.zopa.com in 2004, the first European peer to peer lending website. Wendy mentors for 500startups, silicon valley based seed fund and incubator, she’s on the investment panel of Mobius Lifesciences incubator and a mentor for Astia Women Entrepreneur’s Programme. She has an MA in Design for Future Textiles from Central St. Martins and is a smart textile designer for fun. She works with her husband Joe White who is CEO, Moonfruit and they live in West London with their 6 yr old son and 3 yr old daughter.
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Arjun Purkayastha
Senior Vice President – eCommerce, Digital & Ventures @ Reckitt
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Arjun Purkayastha is a purpose driven leader with extensive global experience managing diverse businesses and multi-cultural teams at FTSE Top 10 and Fortune 100 companies – RB and P&G. He has a strong track record of building outperforming teams, iconic brands & innovative business models across 60+ countries having lived & worked in the UK, Singapore, South Korea and India.
He currently leads eCommerce, CRM, digital, DNVB & start up ventures globally for RB with P&L, strategic and operational responsibility of all online channels & customers. He serves on the Board of Directors of 4 high growth, online focused companies – Pharmapacks.com (one of the largest and best 3P resellers on Amazon), Bombay Shaving Company (leading men’s wellness company in India), UpSpring (mom & baby products) and Healthily by Your.MD (AI powered self care). He is also an Investment Committee Member of Founders Factory & RB’s JV focused on Hygiene & Home start ups.
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Moubin Faizullah-Khan
Investment Professional: Vice President @ Apax Partners
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Moubin Faizullah-Khan is an Associate in the Retail & Consumer team. He joined Apax Partners in 2014 and is currently based in London. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Moubin was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Co. in their London office, where he primarily worked in retail and consumer on a broad set of topics including strategy, operational improvement and due diligence. Moubin is a medical doctor, graduating from Imperial College with an MBBS (hons) and BSc (hons).
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Ilia Perekopsky
Vice President @ Telegram Messenger
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Mark Adams
Senior Vice President and Head of Innovation @ Vice Media
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Edward Hughes
Vice President @ Providence Equity Partners
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Edward Hughes is a vice president based in our London office. Prior to joining Providence in 2013, Mr. Hughes was a vice president in the telecommunications, media and technology investment banking group at J.P. Morgan in London. He received a Bachelor of Science from Durham University.
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Britta Bomhard
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer @ Church & Dwight, Co
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Simon Vincent
Executive Vice President, Hilton and President of Europe Middle East and Africa @ Hilton Worldwide
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Louise Sondergaard
Vice President @ Apax Partners
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Louise Sondergaard is an Associate in the Tech & Telco team. She joined Apax Partners in 2014 and is currently based in London. She has participated in a number of key deals including EVRY, where she serves on the Board. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Louise was an associate at McKinsey & Company in their London office, where she primarily worked on restructuring, transformation and strategy topics. Louise holds a MSc from London Business School (with distinction), and a BSc in International Business from Copenhagen Business School (summa cum laude; with joint degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of North Carolina).
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Carlo Giovanni Biggio
Vice President @ Accel
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Carlo Giovanni Biggio focuses on Cloud, Fintech and Security businesses. Prior to joining Accel, Carlo was with Anthemis and Rocket Internet, focusing on early-stage European startups. Carlo is from Cagliari, Italy and graduated from Bocconi University and the Rotterdam School of Management.
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Patrick Legro
Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer Staples Europe @ Staples Europe
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David Bunch
Vice President Retail Sales and Operations & Chairman SDSA @ Royal Dutch Shell
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David has been with Shell for 17 years – in a number of marketing & sales roles. Prior to his appointment as Vice-President Marketing, David was General Manager Retail Lubricant Sales for the Americas within the Global Commercial organization.After graduating in Psychology and Economics, David completed an MBA at the London Business School and then began his career in Asia, moving to Europe and then the US – where prior to joining Shell he worked with Sony, in the PlayStation division; Japan Steel, in new product development; and Anderson Consulting, in the Retail practice.
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Gavin Howe
Executive Vice President, Human Resources @ Elsevier
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Gavin Howe is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Elsevier. He led the successful integration of the Harcourt businesses into Reed Elsevier and led the sale of and transfer of the Harcourt college business to Thomson Reuters. Previously, he was Chief Operations Officer at Elsevier and CEO of the Reed Elsevier Technology Group based in Boston. Having joined Elsevier in 1998, Gavin’s responsibilities have included central marketing, social sciences and economics publishing, IT, production and customer services. For the 15 years prior to joining Elsevier, he worked for another Reed Elsevier company, Reed Business Information in Marketing, Publishing and Electronic Publishing. Gavin rose to be a divisional MD at Reed Business Information and joined the board in 1993. Gavin started his publishing career in Journalism, becoming an editor of a Yachting Magazine.
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Harry Fackelmayer
Vice President @ Eight Roads Ventures
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Kelly Kowal
Executive Vice President, Farfetch Platform Solutions (FPS) @ Farfetch
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As Managing Director of Farfetch Black & White, Kelly’s role is focused on leading her team to build revolutionary multi-channel e-commerce solutions and operating e-commerce sites for luxury brands and retailers. Kelly sits on the Farfetch Executive Board. Kelly joined Farfetch in 2010 to build and lead all digital marketing initiatives including customer acquisition, retention and engagement. Within her time at Farfetch, she also led the international growth and development strategy, overseeing expansion and localisation for all markets. Kelly’s background is in internet marketing and e-commerce, with her experience spanning over 15 years.
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Niccolo Ferragamo
Vice President @ Apax Partners
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Vice President @ Apax Partners – focusing on Growth Equity opportunities in Software (PriceFx), Fintech, Marketplaces Former H&F Sr. Associate (worked on the Nets, Concardis and TeamSystem transactions), McKinsey Associate, CEO & Founder at Kiwi Local
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Asit Mehra
Executive Vice President @ Omnicom Group
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Asit is responsible for growing some of Omnicom’s key client relationships. He is tasked with developing and delivering bespoke “Screen to Shelf” solutions for clients that leverage the scale and creativity of Omnicom’s individual agencies, creating new, more effective ways of engaging with large global clients and ultimately their consumers. Asit has been with Omnicom for almost nine years, before which he spent 18 years at the Interpublic Group, where he held a variety of roles, ranging from running large multinational businesses, regions and offices. Asit is a true citizen of the world, having grown up and worked on both sides of the Atlantic and Asia.
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Richard Kirk
Vice President, International Sales, Software Integrity Group @ Synopsys
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Alex Kontos
Vice President Of Engineering @ System1
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Hamza Farrukh
Vice President, Macro Rates Sales @ Goldman Sachs
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Martin Froggatt
Executive Vice President – Abercrombie & Kent USA @ Abercrombie & Kent
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Abhas Ricky
Vice President, Business and Cloud Transformation @ Cloudera
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Esme Harwood
Vice President, Public Policy @ Barclays
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Christian Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Workspace Services @ Citrix Systems
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Christian Reilly is Vice President & CTO at Citrix, responsible for technology strategy and platform engineering for Workspace Services. Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held leadership positions at US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel, where he was most recently responsible for the strategic planning, enterprise architecture and innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. In addition to expertise in technology strategy, systems design, commercial evaluation, implementation and operation of complex environments, Christian also previously oversaw commercial and technical vendor management of key global accounts for Bechtel including Citrix, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Oracle and Microsoft. Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied business & computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.
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Joe Baguley
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA @ VMware
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Joe Baguley is VMware’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA. He joined VMware in July 2011 and helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As part of VMware’s Office of the CTO and its representative in EMEA, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use today’s advances in technology to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes. Joe is a recognised leader within the European technical community and is considered one of the world’s most influential IT global leaders, currently positioned 26th on Tenfold’s global list of the top 79 Chief Technology Officers. He has played a key role in CloudCamp and other events, communicating how cloud technology fits into the broader IT landscape. He is a regular commentator on BBC World News, last appearing in January 2018 talking about edge computing with Aaron Heslehurst on Talking Business. In addition, Joe is also on several advisory boards at the European Commission and ETSI and is a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society which helped shape the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
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Andrea Calabrò
Vice President @ General Atlantic
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Andrea joined General Atlantic’s London office in 2017 and focuses on Consumer, Internet and Technology investments. Prior to joining General Atlantic, Andrea was an investment banking M&A analyst at J.P. Morgan both in London and in Milan. Andrea holds MSc. with Distinction from the London School of Economics and a BSc. Cum Laude, Valedictorian, from the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari.
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Umashankar Lakshmipathy
Senior Vice President & Regional Head (EMEA) @ Infosys
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Stephen Lemon
Co-Founder | Vice President | Strategic Partnerships & Corporate Development @ Currencycloud
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Steve has worked in Foreign exchange and international payments, pretty much forever, and participated in the first FinTech of the late 90s wave (before it was even called Fintech) as founding team member of HiFX. The current, product lead revolution has tipped him over the edge and he’s now a fully paid up FinTech geek, of the opinion that we live in exciting times and that Open APIs will change the world. Stephen currently also serves as a Non-Executive Director and Advisor for a number of early stage FinTech companies, and has recently mentored for the 2017 cohort at Techsters. In his personal time Steve is a keen amateur photographer, motorsport lover and live music fan.
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Angela Watts
Vice President of Marketing & Communications @ Spotify
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Ulyana Shtybel, Ph.D.
Chief Capital Officer and Vice President of the Board @ HighCastle
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PhD in Economics, Former Executive Director of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in Ukraine, Head of Banking and Financial Services Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce, commercial bank trainee with 180 loan specialists under supervision. Named the Digital Leader of the Year Finalist, London Regional Finalist for the Forward Ladies National Awards 2019 and Blockchain Leader Finalist for the Women in Tech Awards.
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Justin Barrett
Vice President EMEA @ Brightcove
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Yigal Elstein
Vice President UK&I @ Tricentis
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Hubert Patricot
Executive Vice President and President, European Group @ Coca-Cola Enterprises
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Julia van Tuyll
Vice President of Investor Relations @ Lion Capital
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Julia van Tuyll is a Vice President of Investor Relations at Lion Capital. Prior to joining Lion Capital, Julia was employed by Vision Capital where she was involved with the implementation of the fund raising programme including raising capital from new and existing relationships. She was previously with the European Department at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in London. Julia graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne where she obtained an Honours Degree in International Politics.
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Vidur Narain
Vice President @ Apax Partners
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Vidur Narain is an Associate in the Retail & Consumer team. He joined Apax Partners in 2012 and is currently based in London. Prior to joining Apax Partners, Vidur was an investment banking analyst at Deutsche Bank in London, where he worked in the European Consumer & Retail group. Vidur holds a BSc in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics.
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Andrew Sutherland
Senior Vice President, Technology & Systems, EMEA @ Oracle
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Dr. Andrew Sutherland is senior vice president of technology and systems for Oracle Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for growing Oracle’s EMEA market share in these key business areas. In this role he develops business strategies and manages competence in Oracle’s technology and systems offerings across the region. He is also responsible for the interaction with Oracle’s product development teams. Sutherland joined Oracle in 1995 and has more than 30 years’ experience in emerging technologies and their application to business challenges. His specific expertise is in the design of solutions incorporating mobile and internet technologies. Immediately prior to joining Oracle, Sutherland established a high tech company that developed technological solutions to the problems of the sensory-impaired. The company received prestigious innovation awards from the Department of Trade and Industry. Before this he was deputy director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research, a research and development consultancy attached to the University of Edinburgh. During his time there, Sutherland helped win and subsequently oversaw the development of projects in commerce, industry, and the public sector. In 1988, Sutherland designed the UK’s first parallel-processing speech- recognition system. Based on parallel processors, it operated in real time. Under his management, this technology was successfully applied to problems encountered in aviation, medical reporting, and police reporting. Sutherland has contributed to more than 15 technical publications on multimedia and business issues, including entries in a major encyclopedia. He holds a first- class BSc in electrical and electronic engineering from Edinburgh University, a PhD in digital-signal processing, and an MBA in workflow analysis. Sutherland is also a chartered engineer.
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Jeanne Bolger
Vice President Venture Investing @ Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
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Jeanne Bolger, MB BCh BAO, Vice President, Venture Investments, joined Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) in 2013. She is based in London, UK. Dr. Bolger has over 25 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in management roles across R&D, Commercial and Business Development (BD). She spent 11 years in Licensing and Acquisition (L&A), most recently as Global Head of Scientific Licensing for Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceutical business, having joined Johnson & Johnson in 2005 from the Business Development group at GlaxoSmithKline. In 2009, Dr. Bolger became Vice President, Alliance Management at Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy, working with Pfizer and Elan. Dr. Bolger received her medical degree from University College Dublin. She also holds diplomas in Child Health (NUI) and in Finance and Accounting (ACCA). She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland (RAMI). Dr. Bolger has served as the sole pharma industry representative on two Irish government taskforces seeking to enhance the commercialization of IP from Irish academic centres. She is a visiting lecturer on the MSc Pharmaceutical Medicine curriculum at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
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David Montgomery
Executive Vice President and President, @ Tempur Sealy
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David Montgomery joined Tempur Sealy International in February 2003 and serves as Executive Vice President and President of International Operations, with responsibilities including marketing and sales. From 2001 to November 2002, Mr. Montgomery was employed by Rubbermaid, Inc., where he served as President of Rubbermaid Europe. From 1988 to 2001, Mr. Montgomery held various management positions at Black & Decker Corporation, most recently as Vice President of Black & Decker Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mr. Montgomery received his B.A. degree, with honors, from L’ Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Reims, France and Middlesex Polytechnic, London.
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Isabella Pighi
Vice President of Data @ MelodyVR
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Tom Hussey
Vice President @ General Atlantic
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Paul Mullins
Vice President Asset Management, Private Investments @ Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
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Paul heads CPP Investment Board’s Portfolio Value Creation group which oversees and supports assets in the Infrastructure, Natural Resources and Private Equity spaces. Paul is a member of the investment committee for Private Investments. Prior to this he was at Permira Advisors LLP and a Partner and Managing Director at the Boston Consulting Group.
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Kok-Chye Ong
Senior Vice President, Head of Investments, Data Centre @ Keppel Data Centres
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KokChye is the Senior VP and Head of Global Strategy and Investments for Keppel Data Centers, a regional data center owner and operator with over 20 data centers spread across APAC and EMEA region. He has over 20 years of international experience in telecoms, data center and submarine cable development projects. KokChye joined Keppel in 2011 as senior finance manager and went on to assume the data center investment role in 2014. Since then, he has helped to grow the company’s data center presence in APAC and EMEA as well as expanding into new markets such as Indonesia. He is also an advisor to Keppel’s US$1billion Alpha Data Center Fund. KokChye holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and graduated from the Sloan Fellows program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business with a Master of Science in Management.
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Robert Kernahan
Vice President @ Capgemini
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Rob Kernahan has done tours of duty throughout the full IT life-cycle with responsibilities across programs and services, at scale, which has led to an in-depth understanding of how IT should work and how to deliver it effectively.
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Mark Wenham
Executive Vice President @ Multi Packaging Solutions
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Mark Wenham was appointed to the position of Executive Vice-President at Multi Packaging Solutions in November 2014. Mark has responsibility for all European operations dedicated to the Healthcare market. Previously Mark served as managing director for Chesapeake’s UK, Ireland and Asia healthcare operations and has been with the company for 18 years. He has thorough understanding of the business through a variety of roles including responsibility for its Benelux sites and a management period in the U.S. A lithographic printer by training, Mark has worked for over 33 years in the print and packaging sector. During his tenure, Mark has directed the business through a period of strong growth and he has overseen an unprecedented investment program resulting in new equipment at every location.
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Mark Cooper
Vice President and Managing Director, Avery Europe and Asia Pacific @ CCL Industries
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Neil Holloway
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions @ Microsoft
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Neil Holloway has been Corporate Vice President, Sales & Partners for Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) since July 2012. In this role he reports to Rocky Blanton, CVP of the Enterprise and Partner Group, and is responsible for Sales operations worldwide for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP product suites; the development and health of the Microsoft Dynamics channel ecosystem and customer service programs; as well as ERP & CRM sales worldwide via Time Zone teams, field and integration with the broader Microsoft sales organizations. During the prior 5 years as VP Business Strategy for Microsoft International, Holloway was a key strategic partner for the corporate business groups and segments, and field leadership, being at the forefront of some of the largest change initiatives the company has implemented, and better positioning the company to capture the opportunities in the transition to a world of cloud, services and devices. Since joining Microsoft in 1990, Holloway has held a number of strategic roles in its UK subsidiary. He was appointed Managing Director of Microsoft Ltd. in July 1998 and subsequently was appointed Vice President of Microsoft EMEA in April 2000. Holloway has an MPhil in Operational Research and Control Engineering from Cambridge University and a BSc Hon. in Mathematics from the University of Bath. In 2008, in recognition of his contribution to international business, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Bath.
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Giora Salita
Executive Vice President, Business Development and M&A @ Etrion
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Mr. Salita has over 15 years of executive experience in the renewable energy, technology and private equity sectors. Prior to joining Etrion, Mr. Salita was one of the founding members of Sunray Renewable Energy Ltd., a leading solar power developer in Europe and the Middle East that was acquired by SunPower Corporation, a leading U.S. solar energy company, in 2010. Subsequently, Mr. Salita held the position of Vice President Utility Power Plants International at SunPower, where he led the marketing, sales and business development teams responsible for project development, engineering, procurement and construction of utility-scale solar parks. Mr. Salita graduated from the Warwick Business School with a bachelor’s degree in management sciences and attended the development program for owners/directors at INSEAD Business School in France.
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Olivier Robert-Murphy
Executive Vice President @ Universal Music Group
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Simon Viggers
Vice President Human Resources @ Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
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Simon Thule Viggers is a Senior HR Leader with deep global experience. Almost 20 years of experience within Pharma, 15 years in leadership roles across three continents. Proven ability to lead through challenging change and with an ability to approach business in a holistic way. Simon takes the starting point in the business agenda and translates that into actions for the organization and the people. Simon has a strong leadership background as he has been part of executive teams for more than a decade and has been preferred coach to many executives.
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Stefan Dandl
Senior Vice President @ TA Associates
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Sahil Rekhi
Vice President Global Strategic Partnerships @ RingCentral
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Wissam Jabre
Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President @ Dialog Semiconductor
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Wissam joins Dialog after serving as Corporate Vice President of Finance at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) since 2014. Between 2003 and 2014, Wissam Jabre held various executive positions at Freescale Semiconductor, including Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, Vice President Global Pricing, Chief Financial Officer of the Networking & Multimedia Solutions Group as well as senior roles within Corporate Treasury. During this period he gained extensive experience in accounting, financial planning, treasury, procurement, and merger and acquisition integration. He began his career at Schlumberger, gaining international experience in the Middle East, Europe and North America, before joining Motorola in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and received an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York in 1998.
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Andy Fletcher
Vice President Of Products & Proposition @ Liverpool FC
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Bryan McLoughlin
Vice President @ Claret Capital Partners
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Bryan joined HMC in January 2014 to source and execute new investment opportunities with high growth technology and life sciences companies. He also serves as an advisor and mentor to early stage entrepreneurs in the fintech and software sectors. Prior to joining HMC, Bryan was a co-founder and director at Aldermanbury Partners, an independent management consultancy. He started his career with Deloitte’s graduate program and spent several years working on advisory, forensic and research engagements for financial services clients. Bryan graduated with a degree in Economics and Business Law from the University of Strathclyde and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) during his time with Deloitte.
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Andrew Biggs
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary @ Primeline Energy Holdings
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Andrew Biggs is qualified as a solicitor in England and in Hong Kong. Between 1981 and 1998, he was a partner of international law firm Richards Butler, both in Hong Kong and London, specialising in Hong Kong/Asian M&A and corporate finance transactions. He was involved in many of the early H-share listings of mainland Chinese companies on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and dealt with numerous M&A and financing transactions in China. In 1998, Mr. Biggs joined Parkview Group (which group includes Primeline) as Corporate Affairs Director and General Counsel. In this capacity he has overseen all legal aspects of Primeline’s operations. Mr. Biggs has worked for Primeline full time since 2007.
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Fahad Khan
Vice President @ Claret Capital Partners
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Fahad has intensive professional experience across management advisory, accounting and investment management. At HEGCF, he focuses on sourcing, evaluating and executing investments in high growth companies across the Technology and Life Sciences sectors. Before joining HEGCF, Fahad worked at the London offices of Deloitte within the Investment Management and Private Equity team where he advised leading UK based funds investing across debt and equity strategies. In addition to the professional experiences above, Fahad has worked closely with entrepreneurs and has been an active advisor to the start-up community through his involvement in a number of accelerator programmes. Fahad is a Qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) with a degree in Economics, Accounting and Finance from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
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Nat Edington
Vice President & General Manager of Environmental Sensors Business Line @ ams
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Nat has over 20 years’ experience in fast paced technology companies, from start-ups and SMEs to global players. Prior to CCS, he was VP & General Manager at Wolfson Microelectronics for 8 years, managing their largest revenue businesses in excess of $100m with blue chip consumer customers. Previous roles include Board Directorship, General Management, Business Development, Strategic Marketing and Engineering in the semiconductor, electronic products and manufacturing sectors
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Hugh Eaton
Vice president @ Microsoft
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Giovanni Dolci
Vice President, Theatre Development and Managing Director, Europe and Africa @ IMAX
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Giovanni Dolci joined IMAX Corporation in October 2012 as Vice President, Theatre Development. In January 2017 he was also appointed Managing Director Europe and Africa, where he is responsible for growing and expanding the IMAX theatre network across the two continents. He previously served as Director of Business Development and Commercial Operations at Arts Alliance, where he was in charge of negotiations with cinema exhibitors and film distributors throughout EMEA to support the market’s transition to digital projection technology and where he helped establish a worldwide digital distribution platform. Prior to Arts Alliance, Giovanni Dolci worked in film financing and oversaw a number of projects based in New Zealand, Italy and the UK. He has a degree in Economics and Management from Bocconi University in Milan and an MSc in Management from Cass Business School in London. He is a Junior Fellow of the Aspen Institute Italy.
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Ben Powell
Vice President Business Development @ Learnosity
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A firm believer in the power of technology to transform education and energize the learning experience, Ben specializes in international business development. Prior to Learnosity he held a number of senior executive positions at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, including SVP of Corporate Development. Ben started at HMH during its inception as Riverdeep and was heavily involved in the multi billion USD acquisitions of Houghton Mifflin and Harcourt between 2006 and 2007. Ben is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and while he lives in London with his wife and two young children, he racks up the air miles traveling to the USA – one of Learnosity’s key markets.
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Vincent Miceli
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer @ NXT-ID
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Vincent Miceli, age 56, has extensive hands on experience in financial and operational management and business leadership in both substantial private and public companies. He is also experienced with working with public company Boards of Directors, as well as financial institutions. Vincent Miceli was the Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer of Panolam Industries International, Inc., a company which primarily designs, manufactures and distributes decorative and industrial laminates, from May 2006 to mid-December 2013. Prior to that, Vincent Miceli was the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller of Opticare Health Systems, Inc., a public company which provides integrated eye care services, from 2004 to 2006. Prior to 2004, Vincent Miceli held senior accounting positions at Amphenol Corporation and United Technologies, Inc. Vincent Miceli holds a BS in accounting from Quinnipiac College, an MBA, with a concentration in Finance, from the University of Hartfordand he is an affiliate member of both the AICPA and the CT Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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Julie Kainz
Vice President @ Dawn Capital
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Bobby Ford
Vice President/Global CISO @ Unilever
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Ronan Harris
Vice President & MD UK & Ireland @ Google
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Ronan Harris has been named the new managing director for Google across the UK and Ireland. Google appoints Ronan Harris as MD He replaces Eileen Naughton who moved to California to become vice-president of people operations in July. Harris has been based in Dublin, in charge of the sales teams for large customers across EMEA. He will relocate to London for the new role. He has been at Google for more than 11 years, joining as senior director for large customer sales for EMEA.
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Jurgen Heppe
Executive Vice President @ Standard Bank
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Jurgen is an Executive Vice President with Standard Bank Group. He has over 20 years investment banking experience, including 17 years focused on telecoms and media transactions. He has led multiple public and private capital raising and M&A transactions in developed and emerging markets, involving both strategic and financial investors. Clients have included MTN, Orange, Telefonica, Vivendi, Telenor, Telenet, Eutelsat, Batelco, Econet, Celtel, De Agostini, Prior to joining Standard Bank Group, Jurgen was with Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jurgen graduated from London Business School with a Master in Finance degree.
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Blair Robertson
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President @ TVSquared
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Blair is a seasoned data scientist and visualization guru with a background in Artificial Intelligence. He has spent the past 13 years helping global companies improve decision-making and product development through the application of analytics. As TVSquared’s CTO, Blair is an expert in a range of statistical techniques such as data modeling, signal processing and machine learning, which he and his team deploy to continually improve the company’s technology platform. Throughout his career, Blair has focused on presenting complex technical concepts in an easy-to-consume, business-friendly way and has a reputation for designing analytic products that are highly visual and intuitive. Previous engagements have included time as principal analyst at Sumerian, where he led analytic engagements with dozens of the world’s largest companies. Blair has also acted as a private consultant for a wide-variety of data-driven companies in financial services, utilities and hi-tech, and as a financial technology consultant with Accenture Plc.
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Victoria Kitcatt
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel @ Pfizer
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John Wigneswaran
Vice President of Clinical Affairs @ DaVita
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Jon Shimp
Vice President Risk Management @ Louis Vuitton
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Luke Parsons
Vice President @ Summit Partners
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Luke joined Summit in 2017 and focuses primarily on the healthcare and life sciences sector in Europe. Prior to Summit, Luke served as Vice President in the Mergers & Acquisitions division of Jefferies. Luke holds an MA in applied economics, with honors, from the University of St. Andrews.
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Nick Child
Vice President @ Stablepharma Ltd
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Nick Child – Vice President & Co Founder Experienced company leader, business developer, multi-disciplined & experienced in UK & International markets, manufacturing & distribution. Initiated various start-ups, acquisitions, & funding rounds.
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Chris Burgess
Vice President of Information Technology @ Expedia
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Chris is the VP of Infrastructure and IT at the world’s largest travel company, Expedia Group. He leads a global team of over 700 people who are responsible for providing IT infrastructure and support for Expedia’s eCommerce platform along with 25,000 employees in over 200 offices worldwide. Chris is currently based in London and frequently travels to the US, India and Europe as part of his global remit. He has been with Expedia for 17 years. Chris is an ally, advocate and sponsor for Diversity, Inclusion and Gender balance he sits on Expedia’s Global Inclusion forum. He has anxiety around public speaking at large events but is trying to learn from his 8-year old daughter who has no fear. Like most Expedians, he has a passion for travel and loves visiting new countries and experiencing different cultures with his wife and two children.
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Calum Daniel
Vice President @ Kuwait Investment Authority
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Chloe MacEwen
Senior Vice President @ Argus Media group
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Chloe MacEwen is Senior Vice-President, Global Public and Regulatory Affairs, based in London. She joined in 2014 and is responsible for Argus’ engagement with policy makers, legislators and regulators around the world. Chloe qualified as a solicitor at Simmons & Simmons and then worked as a competition lawyer at Herbert Smith before spending ten years working as a regulator at the Competition Commission, Office of Fair Trading and DG Competition, European Commission. Prior to joining Argus Chloe had worked as Head of International Policy at Lloyds Banking Group overseeing the bank’s engagement strategy with policy makers on a broad range of financial services and competition issues. Chloe was educated at Kings College London where she gained a LLB and LLM
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Andrew Dyson
Executive Vice President & Head of Global Distribution @ Affiliated Managers Group
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Andrew Dyson joined AMG in 2011 as Executive Vice President responsible for managing the Company’s global distribution business. Prior to joining AMG, Dyson served as Head of BlackRock’s Global Institutional Client Business, following the merger of BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors. In prior roles at BlackRock and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), Dyson held senior distribution positions, including Head of the International Institutional Business, and, before that, Head of the Institutional Business for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Prior to joining MLIM, Dyson was Head of U.S. Multinational Investment Consulting for William M. Mercer, and also served as Head of U.K. Pension Fund Investment Consulting for the firm. Dyson is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He earned an M.A. degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University.
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Stephen Moorhouse
Vice President, General Manager – Northern Europe @ Coca-Cola Enterprises
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Peter Hamilton
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist & Senior Vice President, Research & Development @ PathXL
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Professor Peter Hamilton is the Founder of PathXL Ltd and is the Head of the Bioimaging and Informatics Research Group at Queen’s University Belfast. For the past 25 years he has been leading research on computer vision and decision support in diagnostic cancer pathology and the identification of novel digital tissue and cell markers for diagnostics, prognostics and for predicting response to therapy in cancer. He sits on the committees of a number of major medical research organisations including the International Society for Cellular Oncology.
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Mohamed Dabbour
CEO Millicom Africa & Executive Vice President @ Millicom Systems
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Mohamed was appointed as Executive Vice President Africa for Millicom on February 1st 2017. In his role he is responsible for ensuring profitable growth and cash flow for Millicom Africa. Mohamed joined Millicom in 2008 and has held a broad variety of roles in the Africa region, including Chief Financial Officer in Chad in 2009 and Chief Financial Officer in Ghana in 2011. Most recently he was appointed Chief Financial Officer for the Africa region in August 2015. Mohamed holds an Executive MBA degree from London Business School.
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Colin Hutchison
Vice President of International @ Edgewell Personal Care
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Colin joined Energizer in 2004 as Vice President Europe for Wilkinson Sword. In 2006 he led the successful integration of the Personal Care and Household Divisions in Europe. After the Playtex acquisition, he became Vice President for Personal Care in Europe and led planning for the distribution expansion of Hawaiian Tropic and the Hydro brand launch. After the American Safety Razor acquisition, Colin was appointed Vice President and General Manager for EPC’s Private Brands Group. Overseeing strategic development for the global private label wet shave business, he reshaped the portfolio and developed a roadmap for growth through NPD and distribution expansion. Additionally, he led the integration of most functions into the wider Personal Care business structures. Prior to Edgewell, Colin worked for a number of consumer goods businesses based in Europe including United Biscuits and the Campbell’s Soup Company. He held various positions in sales, marketing, and general management that latterly included international responsibilities.
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Jonathan Carpenter
Vice President, New Energy Services @ Petrofac
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Abhishek Lahoti
Vice President @ Sapphire
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Kent McCammon
Executive Vice President of Corporate Development @ PRA Group
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Kent is responsible for the company’s global development including mergers and acquisitions. He was appointed to his current role in 2015. Prior to that he was responsible for global strategy and business development and directed PRA’s fee-for-service businesses. He joined the company in 2007 as senior vice president, strategy and business development from Shamrock Holdings, the investment arm of the Disney family, where he was managing director. While at Shamrock from 2004 to 2007, he helped raise $1.25 billion to fund activist investments in publicly traded companies. Prior to Shamrock, Kent conducted business development for Trader Publishing, LLC in the Trader Ventures group from 2003 to 2004. From 1995 to 2003, Kent directed equity research and capital management for Atlantic Capital Management and Scott & Stringfellow. He was an associate at Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., from 1994 to 1995, and started his finance career as an analyst in New York at Smith Barney Inc. in the early 1990s. Kent has an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.
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Dan Hutchinson
Vice President – HR UK & Ireland @ Schneider Electric
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Dan Hutchinson’s passion is people and change, combined. After graduating in Business Management, Dan forged his early career in retail management before embarking on a 15 years’ “HR” career journey internationally across the manufacturing, engineering and services sectors. He joined Schneider Electric in 2010 and has led major transformational programs as Schneider has built and grown their HR Services in domains of people, technology and service excellence. Since 2017, Dan is VP of the HR Services Europe region in which he is driving operations and change with a major focus on digital employee experience. ’s passion is people and change, combined. After graduating in Business Management, Dan forged his early career in retail management before embarking on a 15 years’ “HR” career journey internationally across the manufacturing, engineering and services sectors. He joined Schneider Electric in 2010 and has led major transformational programs as Schneider has built and grown their HR Services in domains of people, technology and service excellence. Since 2017, Dan is VP of the HR Services Europe region in which he is driving operations and change with a major focus on digital employee experience.
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Lisa Macedo
Vice President @ Moody’s Investors Service
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Lisa Macedo is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in Moody’s Investors Service Structured Finance Group, based in London. She has been responsible for assigning ratings to over 100 securitisation transactions. The asset classes encompass peer-to-peer, consumer loans, student loans, credit card receivables, auto ABS, CMBS, non- performing loans, and all RMBS asset types: non-conforming, reperforming, warehouse, reverse mortgage, master trusts, prime and buy to let loans. She has covered EMEA, APAC and US jurisdictions including Germany, Netherlands, UK, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Currently she is responsible for surveillance of consumer asset securitisations, focused on the UK, Russia, Ireland and is also involved in rating methodology projects, research on market relevant topics, and has been involved in special focus groups covering matters including Brexit and IBOR transition.
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Gillian Lamela
Vice President, Cloud Adoption Programme @ Barclays Investment Bank
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Gillian Lamela is a Programme Manager with 15+ years of experience in delivering technical transformation in financial services. She specialises in breaking down complex business problems into strategic technical solutions, resulting in multi-million cost savings. Gillian currently supports the Barclays International Cloud & Engineering Programme. She is also the Women In Technology UK Co-Chair and Diversity Committee Member at Barclays where she aims to promote awareness and career opportunities in STEM.
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Michael Charalambous
Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President Of Commercial Operations @ FuelPlus
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Michael joined FuelPlus in 2016 and is responsible for global marketing and communications, based in their UK office. Michael has been helping scale-up great technology companies for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining FuelPlus, he was the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Director of Marketing for Diligent Corporation, a $100m Delloite top 50 growth company. Michael started his career at British Airways and has held senior marketing roles at Siebel Systems, Oracle, Carbon Trust and Opower. Michael has a degree in aeronautical engineering and a masters in strategic marketing.
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Martin Henley
Senior Vice President, Technology Services @ Globality
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Craig Probert
Vice president of sales @ CensorNet
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Craig Probert has over 30 years’ experience of delivering superior sales and leadership success across Europe. He has a track record in building successful sales teams and has held numerous executive and operational roles at market-leading software companies, where he consistently delivered exceptional revenue growth. Craig was non-executive director at SaaSID, a UK based single sign-on and application security vendor, which was acquired by Intermedia Inc. in September 2013, and before that he was managing director for EMEA at Chordiant Software. His nine year tenure at Chordiant saw him build a European team that delivered outstanding growth and a class-leading focus on customer service. During this time Chordiant was named as a top-50 fastest growing company, having achieved growth from zero to $75m in revenues in less than five years. Prior to Chordiant, Craig held various executive positions at Oracle over a 15 year period.
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Marcus Sawyerr
Global Head of Digital & Innovation / Senior Vice President @ The Adecco Group
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