Sergio de la Calle

Telefonica Universitas

Programme Director& Faculty

Comic artist by vocation, Sociologist by accident, HR expert by profession. I’m also a bit masochist as I have been working in HR for twenty years. A bit of recruiting & on-boarding, a bit of Direction by objectives & performance, a bit of Compensation, a lot of Engagement & culture change programmes and many HR platforms implementated. Currently pretty excited in the position of Programme Director& Faculty at Universitas, the leadership corporate University of Telefónica.

Jermaine Daw

Wella Company

Vice President & Chief People Officer EMEA

Jermaine Daw is a business-centric People Executive with experience working across various industries, including Healthcare, Media, Sports, Entertainment and FMCG.Currently serving as the Vice President & Chief People Officer - EMEA for the Wella Company, Jermaine is responsible for all aspects of the People strategy and delivery for the multi-billion-dollar EMEA division of Wella.
 
With a strong track-record of delivering transformational change across complex, global organizations, Jermaine is a trusted advisor to senior leaders on issues ranging from talent management to organizational design and optimization.  He is passionate about developing high-performing, diverse teams that can drive sustained business growth and achieving strategic objectives.
 
Before joining Wella, Jermaine held senior HR positions at several leading organizations, including the National Basketball Association (NBA), HBO, and Luxottica Group. Jermaine holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a master’s degree in Human Resources Management, both from Stony Brook University. Jermaine has demonstrated a deep commitment to early-career development and DE&I throughout his career. He is a sought-after speaker and thought leader and is regularly invited to share his insights at industry conferences and events.  He has served as a Mentor for the TEAK Fellowship, a program that helps talented students from low-income families achieve their potential.  Jermaine was named as a 40 Under 40 2017 honouree by The Network Journal, a leading U.S. publication, for his professional and mentoring contributions.

Sean Penistone

with BT, GSK and Xerox

Former Director Leadership, Learning & Talent

Sean is a strategic and innovative Talent, L&D, and OD specialist with a 25-year record of success in the complex, matrix, international settings. He focusses on transforming business capability through pragmatic Talent and Capability strategies and approaches. He is experienced in many industries, such as Life Sciences, Professional Services, Retail Banking, Technology and Telecoms having held senior HR roles in the likes of Glaxo SmithKline, Astellas Pharma, Xerox, and HBOS.

In his previous roles Sean was the director for leadership, learning, and talent at British Telecom BT. Before BT, he was leading GSK’s Talent and Capability work in the area of Digital Transformation and is introducing new approaches, practices and procedures to ensure that GSK has the skills to thrive in the digital world. 

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 Tech NL

Global Senior HR Business Partner

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.

Azad Navaz

BMW AG

Head of Qualification, Training & Retail HR

Azad Navaz is the Head of Qualification, Training & Retail HR at BMW AGMW for Africa and the Eastern European Region. His overall responsibilities include employee Attraction, Selection, Development, Retention in the BMW Group Retail Network in 36 countries across the region with a strong focus on Recruitment and People Management Culture. 
In his previous role in BMW Azad was the Training Manager for the Asia Pacific Region responsible for identifying training needs, developing training content and training delivery for the whole region. Azad is also the recipient of The Prince Philip Medal awarded to an engineer of any nationality who has made an exceptional contribution to engineering as a whole through practice, management or education. 
 

Mark Hayton

WOLT

Head of Leadership Development

Mark is the Head of Leadership Development at Wolt, he is an experienced HR professional with deep expertise in organizational change and transformation, workforce management. His perspective has come from experiencing people and leadership practices from 120 countries and cultures. Mark is a firm believer in robust data, meaningful facilitation and that people don't think as much as they think, they think.

Fatih Uysal

Kariyer.net

CEO

After graduating from Galatasaray High School and Boğaziçi University’s Management Department, Fatih Uysal started working in Danone in 1999. At Danone’s Turkey office, Fatih handled various responsibilities for the company’s many different brands. He was assigned to the Danone Group Head Office, as Global Marketing Manager in 2006. There he mentored approximately 40 countries in establishing and applying new marketing strategies. Fatih spent the last year of his overseas placement in the Netherlands, as the Global CRM Director responsible for the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. After returning to Turkey in 2010, Uysal started working as the Marketing Director of Vodafone and led the launches of several different segments and projects. In February of 2017, Fatih Uysal became General Manager & CEO at Kariyer.net, the biggest online Human Resources Platform in Turkey.