Federico Balzola

DIM Brands

Chief HR Officer

As CHRO DIM Brands Federico cares about 4000 employees in 18 countries, thanks to a fantastic team of 40+ HR professionals. His key activities include building a connected, agile, engaged and diverse culture, helping everybody in the company to unleash their talent and transforming the organization and skills set to achieve its business vision. 

An Italian national, Federico has worked and lived in France, Italy, UK, Ireland and Switzerland. His career spans through strategy consulting, organization, sales and HR in companies like Deloitte, Danone, Gillette/Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Aer Lingus and Hanes. He is a certified coach since 2016.

Federico is convinced that allowing people to express their true self at work inevitably leads to superior company performance.

Anne Morrison

Pearson College London’s Governing Body (former BAFTA chair, former BBC Academy Director)

Chair

Anne Morrison is Chair of Pearson College London’s Governing Body and is a senior media executive, coach and keynote speaker. She is Creative Director of Factual Programmes at Nevision, a London-based independent production company, where she has recently executive produced several feature documentaries, including The Missing Children for ITV’s Exposure strand. 
She was Chair of BAFTA from 2014 to 2016, the second woman to hold the position in the organisation’s history. She is a member of the Communication and Engagement Committee for the British Academy and of the Annual Review Panel for BBC-branded magazines at BBC Studios. Previously she was a Governor of the University of the Arts London, Chair of Creative Skillset’s TV Committee, a Trustee of the Charleston Trust and a board member of Women in Film and TV.
She is a frequent speaker internationally on issues such as diversity, employability, and creativity and has her own coaching practice. Throughout her career, she has been committed to the development of new talent. Until 2014 she was Director of the BBC Academy, the BBC’s centre for training, which she launched in 2009.
In her television career, having worked as a producer/director, she held senior management positions for 20 years at the BBC, and was responsible for hundreds of hours of factual television including many award-winning programmes.
Anne was educated in Belfast and Churchill College, Cambridge.

Stefaan Stroo

ING Group

HR Way of Working & Risk Lead

Stefaan Stroo joined ING in 2016 and is part of the Global Strategy & Analytics Team. In that team, he is responsible for the strategy and design of the global HR function and for the global HR Risk team, where the goal is to ensure that ING is a safe and compliant place to work. Previously he worked for ING Belgium, where Stefaan developed and build a new approach to support potentially redundant employees from job to job. Before joining ING, Stefaan was a project manager and a banker at BNP Paribas Fortis, after which he joined a consultant firm in project, portfolio & program management, where he led the HR department. His professional experience has allowed him to build up expertise in both HR as well as the business side, and to combine the two to create business value.

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. 
 

Francesca Dellacroce

PVH Corporation

EU Director of HR Strategy and Planning

Francesca Dellacroce is an experienced senior manager with a demonstrated history of working across several market industries for more than 17 years. She is a professional with consulting background, highly skilled in HR strategy and transformation, change management, talent and learning management, organisational effectiveness, and design. She has relevant cross-functional experience developed working for both business (e.g. Retail and B2B) and control/support functions (HR domain) in international and multicultural environments. She currently covers the role of EU Director of HR Strategy and Planning at PVH Corporation in Amsterdam Headquarters.

Jérémy Amsallem

Disney

Organization Development Manager

Jeremy is the Organization Development Manager for Disney Parks & Resorts, based in Paris. In his current position, he is supporting business executives in transforming & adapting their operating model to meet the company’s strategy. Specialized in organizational assessment, design & change, Jeremy uses a mix of business acumen, HR technics, organizational sociology & behavioural science to address a variety of concrete business challenges.
Before joining Disney, Jeremy was a management consultant for several years, where he supported various organizational transformations in different industries.
Jeremy holds degrees in Business administration and HR Management. Beyond his job, he loves practicing photography, music and theatre but is also an aspiring private’s pilote.

Raul Perez

Novartis

Global Head Talent, Advanced Therapy Platforms

Raul is currently Global Head of Talent for Advanced Therapy Platforms and works closely with Novartis Business Leaders and with HR colleagues across all relevant business units to drive business success for Platforms and enabling platforms business strategy. Focus includes maximizing talent retention, building even stronger holistic pipelines with internal and external talent and optimizing the work environment in partnership with Org. Development. 

Raul joined Novartis in 2016 to set up our Talent Scouting function in Global Drug Development and later coordinated the function across the enterprise. He also supported the Chief Digital Officer in building a new digital organization for the enterprise – work that was later evolved to the Digital Talent Acquisition organization. Prior to joining Novartis, Raul gained over 15 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and held various senior leadership roles such as Global Head of Talent Management & Talent Acquisition, Global P&O Head roles in both Commercial & R&D, and Country HR Head for the UK & Ireland. Raul started his career in consulting moving to executive search where he hired senior executives on a global basis. 

Raul holds an MSc in Organizational Psychology from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a post-graduate diploma in Human Resource Management from the University of London.