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.

Paolo Vasques

Benetton Group

Global Director for Industrial Relations

Graduate in Political sciences with international law specialization, MBA in Business Management, Paolo has gained valuable experience in HR management of Italian and multinational companies like Fiat Auto, Alcoa and from 2010 Benetton Group. In 2015 has signed with the unions an important and innovative agreement to renew the company collective bargaining regarding the Corporate welfare; In February 2017 he has signed the renewal agreement of the national  textile collective bargaining (420.000 employees) in Italy. Paolo is also a member of Benetton’s sustainable committee.

Serdzan Şimşek Arnautović

Facebook

Recruiter - Middle East, Turkey, Africa & Central Eastern Europe

Serdzan is an international recruiter based out of Dublin, Ireland. He has worked on cross-border recruitment projects with some of the largest financial & tech institutions and is now working for Facebook as a recruiter for their various positions across the MENA and CEE regions. Fluent in several languages and with a solid knowledge of the global recruitment market, Serdzan is a recruiter with exposure and experience in various fields (private banking, finance, funds, e-commerce, IT, gaming.)

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.

Troels Wendelbo

LEGO Group

Senior Director of People Operations & Development

Troels Wendelbo is the Senior Director of People Operations & Development, working as strategic HR business partner for LEGO Group CFO and member of the People Operations & Development global leadership team. Previously he has held global responsibility for many parts of LEGO Group HR/people agenda, spanning from HR strategy, attraction & employer branding, culture, engagement, HR analytics, globalization, leadership development and business partnering. Troels has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of HR, primarily from consultancy and the FMCG-industry. He holds an Executive coaching degree from Columbia University in New York and holds a master in Organizational Strategy.

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.

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.

Holly Macwilliam

Farfetch

Global People Development Manager

Holly is a Global People Development Manager at Farfetch and has worked in the fashion / telecommunications / beauty industry for 10+ years. A certified coach, expert facilitator, guest lecturer at The University of Creative Arts (UCA), and a certified yoga teacher and mental health first aider. She is passionate about the intersection between happiness, authenticity, well-being and performance and is currently studying a Masters in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health at Kings College London. She continuously explores new ways to combine people’s development and well-being to help others thrive professionally and personally. Her current focus at Farfetch is creating and delivering world-class development experiences in Leadership Development.

Claudia Chloe Tattanelli

C-YourCulture

CEO & Founder

As a founder and CEO of C-YourCulture, Claudia Tattanelli advices and helps organisations worldwide uncover and communicate their unique culture as well as supporting organisations in building strategies to reinforce and foster an Inclusive & Diverse work environment that inspires in their workforce a strong  sense of belonging. 
Claudia is also board member of the Future Talent Council since 2016. Previously Claudia was The Chairman for the Global Strategic board of UNIVERSUM, where she lead the strategic development for the global Universum brand.
Claudia has extensive experience from the global recruitment, talent and branding scene working with many management teams and CEO’s of the world’s largest companies and organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 100 firms, on their People & Culture strategies.
Some of the many organisations include Accenture, Apple, ABINBEV, Audi, Barclays, Campari, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Exxon, EY, Facebook, H&M, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, JP Morgan, Kering group, King, Lamborghini, L’Oreal, Majid Al Futtaim, Mondelez, Lenovo, P&G, SAP, Siemens, United Nations, Unilever, VF Group, Zalando. 
As a thought leader in Employer Branding, EX, Culture and Inclusion, Equity & Diversity ,Claudia has been quoted in top publications around the world including Businessweek, CNN,The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Washington Post ,Il Sole 24 ore, Corriere Della sera and The Economist.
She has also been a keynote speaker at several conferences worldwide speaking on topics ranging from diversity and women recruitment issues to the war for recruiting and retaining top talent, generations at work and building and fostering great work cultures. She has also been featured as a guest on Fox TV, Bloomberg and CNBC’s Morning Call and many other media outlets.