Catalina Schveninger

DataCamp

Chief People Officer

Catalina Schveninger FCIPD, joined DataCamp from Futurelearn & Vodafone where she most recently held the Global Head of Learning and Capabilities role, being responsible for the reskilling/upskilling and learning culture strategy for the FTSE 20 company’s 100,000 employees across 25 countries.
Previously, Catalina was HR Director of T Mobile in The Netherlands. She began her international HR career in 2002 as a member of the Human Resources Leadership Program at GE and held different roles, including the HR Director of GE’s Security EMEA division.
A mother of 2, Catalina is a passionate advocate for the attraction and development of women in organizations and describes herself as a people and HR tech geek. Catalina holds a BA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Bucharest, a Diploma in Management from The Open University, and has lived and worked in six countries.

Martin Lexa

former Alcon, Medtronic, Novartis HR executive

Martin Lexa is the former Chief People & Communications Officer at the world-leading medical solutions company Mölnlycke. He has a long track record of HR leadership in growth companies in the healthcare and medical devices industries in both mature and emerging markets.
A German national, Martin joined Mölnlycke in 2016. Before that, he spent three years within the Novartis Group, first as head of HR Over-The-Counter for Europe at Novartis Consumer Health and then as Head of HR for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Alcon. He also worked at Medtronic for five years, including as VP for Human Resources, Europe, Middle East & Africa and Canada – and at Bristol-Myers Squibb for eight years in different national and international HR leadership roles.

Oana Iordachescu

WAYFAIR

Head of Tech TA EU

Oana Iordachescu  is a Senior Talent Acquisition Leader with over 10 years experience Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion and Talent Management. She has built her portfolio partnering with leaders across companies such as Booking.com (Amsterdam), Criteo (Paris)  and currently Wayfair (Berlin) with the explicit goal to build and nurture inclusive workforces. 
She has developed programs and processes that aim at creating access to equal opportunity and advocates for diversity and inclusion policies as a business and societal benefit. 
Her mission is to show that changing the ratio is not the problem, changing the ratio is the solution.

Florine van der Ven

ING Group

Global HR Business Partner Tech

With Masters in Civil and Corporate Law, and experience in Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Brand Activation, Agile Way of Working, Florine changed after working in Italy for a few months and the role of a Global Transformation & Change Consultant at ING, to the role of Global HR Business Partner Tech. ING has recently embarked on a massive transformation journey becoming an IT company with a banking license, IT and analytics being at the core of this change. Florine supports more specifically the Tech Infra business, which especially in these times play a crucial role for the bank. Aim is to have a better client and customer experience.

Gaia Artico

DBI - Dim Brands International

HR Senior Manager Direct to Consumer and Talent Development

Gaia Artico has 15 years of experience developed in Italy, UK, Benelux and France. After 10 years as Training, Recruiting and Development Manager in Italy, she moved to the UK as HR Manager UK and Benelux. Since July 2019 she is based in the European headquarters in Paris. She is a certified facilitator and her main responsibilities are Talent and Performance Management, Training and Development, Employee Engagement and Internal Communication. In addition she is HR Business partner for the direct to consumer department: Ecommerce, Retail, IT. . 

Olivier Boisard

Merck KGaA

People Data Scientist

Dr. Olivier Boisard is a People Data Scientist in the People Data & Technology Unit at Merck KGaA, in Germany. His background is in Data Science. He got a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Burgundy, France. He then stepped in the entertainment industry, where he built pipelines for real-time sensor data analytics. Now, his main tasks at his current position are to provide business stakeholders with data driven solutions that help them understand better their human resources.

Milena Jakšić Papac, Partner*

K A R A N O V I C & P A R T N E R S

*Independent Attorney at Law in cooperation with Karanovic & Partners

Milena is an Independent Attorney at Law practicing in cooperation with Karanovic & Partners. She is a Partner and head of the Employment practice group. Milena assists clients on various strategic and daily employment issues, with special focus on sensitive cases of termination of employment, structuring of complex compensation & benefits packages, relationships with trade unions and collective bargaining. She also has broad experience in the preparation or revision of numerous employment law documents, advising on employment matters arising from M&A transactions, procedures related to protection from harassment at work and whistleblowing.

Milena graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law and prior to joining Karanovic & Partners, she had worked at the Municipal Court in Subotica. She holds the position as the President of the Foreign Investors Council Human Resources Committee, where she focuses on the changes in the Labour Law, digitalization and simplification of various administrative procedures.