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.

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.

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. 
 

Stephanie Fastre

Netflix

Learning and Organisational Development, EMEA

Stephanie has over 22 years of psychology, people and organisational development experience, firstly in a professional acting career, followed by over a decade in Google’s Learning and Development organisation, where she helped build and sustain effective cultures of learning, innovation, creativity, and community via extensive teaching, advising, and coaching to all levels of employees. 
 
Her strengths lie in working with executives and leaders on achieving their business goals by developing their people capabilities, by focusing on their organisational design and approaches, on people management, innovation and creativity. Stephanie is well-known for developing unique solutions, including Google’s acclaimed globally scaled community of learning: "g2g" Googler-to-Googler peer-to-peer learning platform, Google's global "Manager Communities" platform for manager development, for Google team development and CSI:Lab, one of Google’s flagship innovation and creativity learning programs. 
 
Stephanie has also worked at McKinsey, Columbia University, Alcorn McBride, and QVC (you might have seen her on the occasional show ;)) More recently, she joined Netflix’s Learning and Organizational Development team.
 
Stephanie is a trained professional actor, business mentor and executive coach. Outside of work, Stephanie is from Belgium but was brought up in the USA, Germany, France, and the UK. Today, Stephanie has three sons and one daughter, who teach her lessons like she never imagined - thankfully, she is an insatiable, incredibly curious, lifelong learner.

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. 
 

Julia Markina

Merck KGaA

Senior Data & Visualization Engineer

Julia Markina is a Senior Data & Visualization Engineer in the People Data Science team at Merck with five years of experience working with data. After completing her Master’s in Mathematics at TU Darmstadt, she worked as Data Analyst at Deutsche Post DHL Group supporting operations at German parcel hubs with ad hoc analyses, data driven volume forecasts and Tableau dashboards. After logistics, Julia is now discovering the world of HR data at Merck. She specializes in data engineering and data preprocessing to ensure high data quality and to enable Data Scientists from her team to work on use cases. In her free time, Julia likes to hike, organize the apartment, and enjoy some time cooking and drinking wine with her friends.