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Daniel Haußmann is the Vice President of Strategy Execution and Post Merger Integration at MANN+HUMMEL, a global leader in the field of filtration. During his career Daniel has worked in in variety of functions such as project management, operations, innovation management as well as corporate ventures and M&A.  Having managed and led people and cross-functional teams for more than 15 years, Daniel is an experienced leader, with a focus on driving (strategy) execution, change and transformation and empowering teams and organizations to achieve their goals.

Riccardo Picca is currently the Executive Director, Strategy & Global Business Transformation at Sandvik. He is also responsible for the Operations Lean and Digital Program, the Green Factory Program (Sustainability in Operations) and the Procurement Excellence Program for all manufacturing sites worldwide.

Riccardo Picca is multilingual senior executive with more than 20 year of experience in driving growth, building capabilities, and leading high performing teams across global markets. He combines a track record in general management, operations, strategy and business development roles with a blended professional experience in leading corporations through transformations and as well in delivering distinctive impact for clients in strategic consulting top tier firms. He has a proven ability to set and deliver on organic and acquisitive growth strategies, and experience leading complex transformational and turnaround programs.

Tom Nijenhuis is CEO of equensWorldline NV, a subsidiary within Wordlline Group with a particular focus on providing regulated payment processing services to clients in the Dutch market and other countries. Tom has been working within Worldline Group and its predecessors since 2003. In previous positions he was responsible for strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate development, legal and communications. The various positions he held enabled him to gain a lot of knowledge and experience in the European payments industry.

Paula Dias' career is marked by a variety of challenges that she has embraced since. In 2009 she was appointed Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Diehl's operations in Portugal (at the time the company assumed the name of Elastomer Solutions) and, in 2012, she became CEO of the Elastomer Solutions group with locations in Germany, Portugal and Slovakia. In these new functions, he designs the company's strategic plan and implements the group's expansion outside Europe with the installation of operations in Morocco and Mexico, creation of a competence center in Portugal and consolidation of the focus of production on the core business of rubber injection and development of a thermoplastic and bi-material injection segment. In her subsequent role of Sector Head Automotive at Mutares AG (the PE that owned Elastomer Solutions) and later as an Independent Advisor she’s supported several M&A automotive projects in different countries. Most recently she has become Board Member and CEO of GLN Advanced Solutions S.A. a technical plastics solutions provider for the automotive industry

Jacob Buchardt was appointed VP for Corporate PMO in January 2017. Jacob is responsible for cross-organisational transformation and post merger integration projects. Prior to this, for a ten year period Jacob was a management consultant with among others Implement Consulting Group and before that worked for IKEA for 12 years in management positions, e.g. in Holland and Germany. Jacob holds an MA (Law) from the University of Copenhagen and a higher diploma in Business Controlling & Process Management from Copenhagen Business School from 2001 and studied innovation management with INSEAD in France

Daniel has a diverse background in leadership, corporate development and investment banking. He was until recently CEO, Germany at Global University Systems. Global University Systems (GUS) is a global higher education platform, with leading positions in 12 countries across 3 continents. He was previously Group Director of Corporate Development at SIG and served as its managing director in the Middle East. Prior to this, he has several senior roles in investment banking in Germany and China.

Morten Elvang received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark. Morten believes that everyone deserves the freedom to perform and opportunity to contribute. He has helped product and service development teams of all sizes to gain better results with less hassle.

Jan is a Strategy & Growth leader with 15 years of industry & consulting experience. He has operated in B2B complex product environments, has been part of the strategy office of Deloitte for a fyll exco cycle, is part of the leadership team of a 500M Global Business Units, facilitated +200 strategy workshops from Atlanta to Shanghai (and back).

Noémie is an expert in program and change management, and healthcare delivery models redesign and has seventeen years’ experience leading cross-functional, multinational programs and lean deployment for clients in the USA and Europe. She is passionate about bringing people from diverse backgrounds together and leading teams to collectively drive large scale change that have a meaningful impact on life / people.
She has lived in the USA, France, Spain, England, Switzerland, Japan and Australia, and thrive on culturally rich exchanges.

Melvyn is a seasoned M&A and Operations professional with deep experience in executing complex small to large deals and building operational efficiencies in Technology and Software companies. His strengths include proactively identifying business challenges and solving problems with stakeholder engagement and trust. He has achieved successful M&A execution and operational transformation to create higher growth business with efficiency and is interested in building a business ready for next-level growth

Inigo is Corporate General Manager of the Project Management Office (CPMO) of RENOLIT Group, where he set up the guidelines, processes, governance and harmonized framework for an effective Project, Program and Project Portfolio Management within our Market Units, Corporate Units and Sites world wide. He is a certified Project Management Professional PMP® with a coaching leadership style, seeking for bringing a Successful Change to our organization through managing both the Project/Organizational side of Change and the People side of Change, as he considers Project Management and Change Management are complementary disciplines with a common purpose of producing the desired results and outcomes.

Koen has 20+ years of experience in transformation management and consultancy, currently at a corporate level, and previously within IT, where he was mainly responsible for Corporate Technology Strategy and Transformation, which included the set up and management of several large scale IT transformations and programmes, including Lean Programmes, technology cost reduction programmes, and the sourcing strategy for corporate technology.

Anton is currently leading the operational de-merger of ABB's global 'Power Grids' business into the newly founded Hitachi Energy Group - covering all aspects of the entire business cycle and related support functions like financial, HR, legal, tax, etc. in a wide range of countries across all continents.

Anton has had the privilege to work not only for two global technology groups, and in many countries, but also a private equity firm, leading various large Business Transformations, as well as Business Development assignments. These engagements covered a wide range from Growth Initiatives, M&A Transactions including Post-Merger Integrations and Carve-Outs, to Restructuring Projects, and - last but not least - Turnarounds. In his General Management roles, Anton led multi-functional and cross-cultural teams, creating comprehensive solutions & implementing them in a sustainable and socially responsible way.

Ashutosh Pandey is the Global head of QBE and Process Reengineering with Nokia, based in London UK. As a Transformation and Turnaround Leader, he has successfully delivered cost intensive projects bringing in more than 1 Billion Euro savings globally. He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt from General Electric GE (CMBB), ASQ Certified Manager for Quality & Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE), ASQ Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Business Excellence Assessor (CBEA) on EFQM model, etc.

Natsuko is director change management at adidas. She was previously working at PwC and Oracle in various roles

Daniel Sechi is Deputy CEO of Santander Consumer Technology Services. Prior to this he was Director of Technology Strategy & Portfolio Management Daniel , and previously was leading Santander’s Digital Transformation unit for Digital Sales.

He’s a senior executive with +20 years of working experience at Banco Santander in multiple IT- and non-IT functions and is currently member of Santander Germany Senior Leadership team, overarching responsible for IT Strategy and Transformation

During his career, he has been driving Digital and Technology transformations as well as Post Merger Integration projects. His current focus is on IT transformation and the strategic evolution of legacy systems towards new cloud-based capabilities and new customer-centric technology stacks.

In parallel to his tenure in the Banking Industry, Daniel is holding teaching positions as tutor and assistant professor on Digital Transformation, Project- and Change Management as well as on Leadership and Communication.

Thomas Rosenberger works as corporate strategist at Volkswagen AG. Prior to that, he worked for many years as an advisor at well-known management consultancies, most recently for almost seven years at Porsche Consulting as expert in the areas of business growth strategies, strategic planning, and performance optimization.

Anne is currently director Strategy or BYK Additives having previously served as Head of Innovatioan Management from 2020 to January 2023. She also worked at Grosse-Hornke Private Conult and BASF. She has a MS from the University of Duesseldorf.

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