Giovanni Everduin

ETNICITY Group

Managing Partner

Giovanni Everduin is a global expert on Organizational Strategy, Analytics, Culture and HR.
He has worked in a variety of roles within industry and consulting environments, including global Fortune 500 companies to local Middle Eastern banks and start-ups.

A Harvard Business School alum, he is the Managing Partner of the ETNICITY Group, a boutique advisory firm that specializes in cross industry organizational strategy, analytics and culture consulting, as well as creative direction and new product development for fashion and retail brands. In addition he serves as Senior Advisor for HR & Organizational Development at Boston Global – a US based Communications & Performance consultancy, Senior Advisor to Peoplecart – an India based social Rewards/Recognition & Performance Management platform and as Senior Advisor of Product & Brand Strategy for Qlearsite – a London based People Analytics firm.
In his last industry role he served as Chief People Officer of Tanfeeth, the GCC’s first, fast growing, Shared Services & Advisory organization in Dubai where he helped build a unique business model and culture that was documented in a Harvard Business School Case Study (Tanfeeth: Bringing Service Excellence to the GCC – 2015).
Giovanni is a published writer and global speaker on various topics around The Future of Work, Analytics and Shared Services. In his spare time he is an avid collector of sneakers.

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.
 

Kim Wylie

Builder.ai

VP People

Kim is the VP of People at Builder.ai (an approx. 1k global employees company, using AI to democratize access to software development. Awarded Top 3 Most Innovative Companies in AI, 2023 by Fast Company) She previously spent 12 years at Google and five years at Farfetch in a variety of leadership roles across Transformation, Change Management and People Teams. She is a Certified Clifton Strengths Coach, and Neuroleadership Institute 'Brain-Based' Coach, and practises a human-centred leadership style, informed by principles of Design Thinking, Positive Psychology, inclusion, wellbeing, and neuroscience.

Thomas Davies

Temporall

Founder & CEO

In his 10 years at Google, Thomas led the UK&I Cloud business as Country Manager, then became Director of
Northern, Eastern & Central Europe, before leading the Global Partnerships team.
During this time Thomas was intrigued by the culture of the organisation and began to investigate and
subsequently define what high-performance culture really meant, and how to measure it. He has a passion for
helping organisations use technology to drive cultural change and develop a sustainable strategy for future
success.
Having founded Temporall, Thomas now helps organisations develop culture as a strategic lever for
transformation. Positioning culture as a strategy leads to an increase in performance and supports successful
digital transformation.
He took his own enterprise cloud product from concept to go-live in 12 months and united a world-class team to
create a digital native organisation that is continually transforming - successfully. Thomas is an expert in the
business use of machine learning, digital technologies, leadership and the complexities of operating in multiple
markets in times of unprecedented change.
Thomas and the Temporall team are now supporting progressive business leaders in understanding how to
capture quantitative, qualitative and ‘network activity’ signals from employees that positively impact the bottom
line. He strongly believes that every organisation is unique and has the power to choose their own destiny. He
has a humanistic approach to life and work.
Thomas is a highly regarded keynote speaker and has had articles published on FastCo and Medium and he
featured in the Financial Times series “Meet the Career Changers”. He is an accredited executive coach and
has sat on the Technology Advisory Board for one of the UK’s leading banks. Thomas is on the Advisory of the
Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT), and a Board member at TCES Group.

Khan Ozol

AstraZeneca

Head of Talent Acquisition - North America, Global Oncology R&D, and TA Data Science & AI Innovation

Seán McArdle

Facebook

Business Recruiter, Global Operations Team EMEA

Sean is an international Recruiter having worked across the EMEA region for LinkedIn, Stripe and now Facebook. Having a Marketing background and working in-house for over 6 years in Tech, he believes the role of Recruiters has changed to being Marketeers for the company: RECRUITMENT = MARKETING. He's scaled existing teams, built new functions from scratch and experienced all the ambiguity that comes with it! He's currently recruiting for Facebook's Global Operations function from Dublin, Ireland. 

Andy Longley

Teamup.inc

Co-founder & CEO

Andy is an occupational psychologist by training and has worked across leadership development, talent management, talent acquisition and organisational development over three continents. He has worked across a variety of industries including Defence, telco, technology, aviation, sports and now fashion tech with Zalando. Andy has enjoyed the experience working for some other large global brands such as IBM, Emirates Airline & adidas, but also across smaller organisations as a consultant. This journey has led to a breadth of learnings focused on building a performance culture, leadership capabilities, effective team leadership, and internal talent development ecosystems.