Maud Durand

META

Global Change & Learning Manager

About 15 years ago, Maud started the most fascinating journey, working in the Human Resources world! She is a passionate person for whom the greatest career achievement is to bring out the best in talents and being surrounded by the people that encourage her to be a better human being and professional.
As a Global Change & Learning Manager based in London, Maud is operating across the globe with a focus on enabling the potential of teams and talents that surround her. 
Her will is to be a partner, teacher and advocate to the teams she supports; ensure they have the guidance and resources to turn their high-impact work into the talents’ Meta needs now and in the future.
Preceding her time at Meta (Facebook) she worked for LinkedIn and Dell as a Talent Acquisition Partner & before that as a HR Partner in France. 

Frode Hvaring

Newind

Managing Director

Frode is an international Leadership, Human Resources and Cultures advisor, who teaches Business Strategy, Global Leadership and International Human Resources in business schools.

He is the Managing Director at Newind, provides optimization of HR output, staff performance and corporate success across cultures and disciplines

Previously, Frode held COO and international Head of HR roles in companies such as Swiss employers’ association; Credit Suisse, Caterpillar and EBU-Eurovision. He leverages these experiences in Boards and Advisory Boards in Switzerland and Germany.

Frode has a Masters in Economics from Fribourg, Switzerland and post-grads from IMD, Lausanne and Thunderbird, Phoenix. His doctoral studies with GEM Grenoble/Sant’Anna di Pisa focus on Cultural Intelligence.
 

Indi Seehra

London School of Economics and Political Science

Director of Human Resources

Indi Seehra is Director of Human Resources at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  He is also the Chair of the Board of the parent company to Vitae, CRAC.  Vitae is dedicated to releasing the potential of Researchers through transforming their professional and career development. Indi held a number of significant private and public sector appointments including HR Director of the Crown Prosecution Service and subsequently the Serious Organised Crime Agency (now NCA).  Over recent years he has been involved with respective European Union Task Groups looking to overcome the barriers to mobility for Researchers and has most recently been on the task group to launch Resaver, a new European wide pension scheme for Research Institution. Until May 2014, he headed up Human Resources at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Member of Jesus College, Cambridge and a visiting lecturer to two institutions in North India.  

Andre De Wit

Leadership Academy Amsterdam

Dean

Andre De Wit until recently served as Vice President Learning and Capability Building for the Carlsberg-group, an internationally Beer-brewing company with 45.000 employees and factories in 40 countries mainly in North, Western & Eastern Europe and Asia. Carlsberg, which has his home base in Copenhagen Denmark, is currently the 3rd biggest beer-brewing company in the world. Previously to joining Carlsberg Andre was the Group Director Learning at Metro A.G, Developer and Facilitator of Cultural Transformation Program at Friesland Campina, CEO MCC Croatia at Metro Cash and Carry and CEO IKEA Iberica.

Sabine van der Meijden

ING

Global Performance Manager

With a Master in Social and Organisational Psychology and experience as a change management consultant driving large scale transformations, Sabine changed last year to the role of Global Performance Manager at ING. Currently ING is rolling out Step Up Performance Management: a new way of working that aims to improve the performance culture of the bank by moving from a retrospective review process to a real-time improvement process. In the roll-out the focus is to not only technically implement the framework, but really create a new performance culture.

Natasa Prodanovic

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company

Group Talent Director

Natasa Prodanovic is the Group Talent Director at Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company –  one of the world’s largest bottlers and partners of The Coca-Cola Company.

Natasa is an award-winning professional with a strong focus on continuous improvement. During 16 years of professional career in HR, she gained critical experiences through different roles from Business Partnering to building Talent CoE.

Natasa supports her company in delivering its Talent-centric strategy, by leading and transforming different Talent areas, as well as building High performing teams. Being responsible for End-to-End Talent Processes enables great integration and standardization of top talent practices in Coca-Cola HBC Business Units spread across Europe, Asia and Africa.

Natasa graduated in psychology and psychotherapy and has been expanding her knowledge through different Leadership and HR courses from IMD Business School, IEDC Bled School of Management and University of Michigan. 

Anna Laine

Rovio Entertainment

Senior HR Manager

Anna is an HR professional with 15+ years of experience in HR Management & Development. Currently working as a Senior HR Manager in Rovio Entertainment Corporation, Anna is working in Business HR role and leading talent management on corporate level. She is passionate about supporting business to manage talent landscape as well as building strategy-driven solutions to promote talent growth.

Before joining the gaming world six years ago Anna worked in HR development and managerial roles in Technical Research Center of Finland as well as in pharmaceutical and logistics industries. Anna holds Master degree in Political Science and is currently finalizing Master studies in Business and Economics in Aalto University in Finland.