Rob Veersma

Gazprom International Training

Director Training & Development

Rob Veersma is the Director Training & Development at Gazprom International in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is responsible for implementing training programs for Gazprom EP International, aligned with the competence management system and tailored to local needs.Previously he has been working for Shell International as the Commercial Academy Learning Manager, responsible for all aspects of global capability building that enables world-class deal making. During his long career he has been focusing on global onboarding, virtual working, leadership development and portfolio management. He is a published HR expert and has given many public speeches on among others, Performance Improvement, Just-in-time-learning, Learning and Ethics, Virtual Working, and ROI of Learning.

Ofelia Nieto

Allfunds

Corporate HR Manager

Ofelia Nieto is a Corporate HR Manager at Allfunds, one of the world's leading wealthtech companies. Previously she has been working for a decade at Beiersdorf Holding. As a Human Resources Generalist, she was in charge for managing on a day to day basis, business policies, procedures, and programs such as training and development, organizational development, internal communication, and employment. Her main specialties are talent attraction and development. She has been a part of a number of International projects run by Beiersdorf, particularly concerning a huge project on change management.

Andre De Wit

Leadership Academy Amsterdam

Dean

Andre De Wit until recently served as Vice President Learning and Capability Building for the Carlsberg-group, an internationally Beer-brewing company with 45.000 employees and factories in 40 countries mainly in North, Western & Eastern Europe and Asia. Carlsberg, which has his home base in Copenhagen Denmark, is currently the 3rd biggest beer-brewing company in the world. Previously to joining Carlsberg Andre was the Group Director Learning at Metro A.G, Developer and Facilitator of Cultural Transformation Program at Friesland Campina, CEO MCC Croatia at Metro Cash and Carry and CEO IKEA Iberica.

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

FAMAR

CHRO

Martin is a result-oriented HR executive with over 25 years of extensive and broad-based experience in
both mature and emerging markets within the healthcare sector. Currently serving as a global HR leader, he
excels in supporting companies as an interim and project manager. Martin is also a sought-after speaker at
prestigious HR conferences, where he addresses relevant HR topics such as age diversity, and is an author
focusing on integrating people with disabilities into society and the workplace.
Before his current role as CHRO FAMAR, a pharmaceutical CDMO, Martin's corporate career included
notable positions at Mundipharma and Mölnlycke Healthcare, where he served as Chief People Officer. His
tenure in these roles was marked by significant contributions to HR leadership in growth companies within
the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. Before these roles, Martin worked for the Novartis
Group and at Medtronic in international roles. Earlier in his career, he worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb,
holding various national and international HR roles.
Throughout his career, Martin has consistently demonstrated a solid ability to support the business strategy
and lead and develop HR functions and leaders, driving organizational success in dynamic and diverse
environments. His proven track record in this area instils confidence in his leadership and change
management skills.
He is married with three daughters and lives in Vienna

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.

Andrzej Borczyk

Grupa Żywiec S.A.

HR Director

Business Leader, Board Member with Sales, Operations and HR experience. 23 years within global leading companies: Mars, Diageo, Microsoft and Grupa Żywiec (one of the biggest Heineken unit in Europe).

Co-creator of HRInfluencers initiatives that drives HR best practices, trend books and cross company mentoring program.

Creating and executing People and Organization strategies in Poland and Central Eastern European Markets. Strongly believe that in digital era key role of HR is to create working environment that enable sustainable business & people success led by transformational leaders.