Maud Durand

META

Global Change & Learning Manager

About 15 years ago, Maud started the most fascinating journey, working in the Human Resources world! She is a passionate person for whom the greatest career achievement is to bring out the best in talents and being surrounded by the people that encourage her to be a better human being and professional.
As a Global Change & Learning Manager based in London, Maud is operating across the globe with a focus on enabling the potential of teams and talents that surround her. 
Her will is to be a partner, teacher and advocate to the teams she supports; ensure they have the guidance and resources to turn their high-impact work into the talents’ Meta needs now and in the future.
Preceding her time at Meta (Facebook) she worked for LinkedIn and Dell as a Talent Acquisition Partner & before that as a HR Partner in France. 

Luigi Maria Fierro

ING Group

Global Head of HR Strategy and Transformation

Luigi Maria Fierro joined ING Group in 2015 and he is currently Head of ING HR strategy and transformation, leading HR’s future strategic agenda and the implementation of the new HR operating model globally. During his journey in ING, as Head of Performance Management space, he has redesigned the Group’s new performance management framework and had ensured its full implementation with a transformation program covering 55.000 employees. Prior to join ING Luigi Maria has been working for 10 years in McKinsey and Co. serving several of the leading financial institutions in Europe, Middle East and North Africa. Thanks to this experience Luigi Maria has developed an extensive experience on the financial institutions sector that is combining HR business and strategic perspectives

Dennis Kight

IBM

Leadership Development Partner

Dennis has more than 20 years of Human Resources experience in a variety of industries and roles within the HR function including compensation, benefits, recruiting, organizational development, business partner, employee relations, training, and leadership and executive development. He is currently the Leadership Development Partner for IBM, and focuses primarily on developing IBM’s executive population across MEA. Prior to joining IBM in 2009, he worked with a diverse group of businesses including CBS News, BBDO Worldwide Advertising, Delta Airlines, Motorola, and Cisco Systems. He first moved to Dubai in 1998 while on assignment with Motorola. He relocated back to the Silicon Valley during the height of the internet boom, and returned to Dubai in 2003 when a great opportunity presented itself, and has lived in Dubai since. He enjoys the challenges that come along with supporting the MEA region’s very dynamic and emerging markets.

Ramakrishna Movva, Phd.

Chrysalis Consulting Solutions

Founder & CEO

Ramki performed various HR leadership roles in a career spanning over three decades. He last held the Executive VP & Head of Strategic HR and Organizational Capabilities position at Emirates NBD. INSEAD Business School published a case study on the HR transformation he facilitated at Emirates NBD. Previously, he worked with PwC and Unilever. He recently founded Chrysalis Consulting Solutions that provides consulting, coaching, learning, and advisory services in organizational and leadership development.

Ramki had the opportunity to conceive and execute organizational culture change initiatives and design new-age practices relating to leadership development, performance management, high potential talent, and succession programs. Besides, he trained and coached senior leaders and high-performing teams from diverse cultures to help them be at their best. 

He has a doctoral degree from California Institute of Integral Studies, USA, a postgraduate diploma in Occupational Psychology from the University of Surrey, UK, and a Master’s degree in HR from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. In addition, he is an International Coach Federation certified leadership and team coach. 
Ramki lives with his family in Dubai. He replenishes his inner self through long walks, mindfulness practices, music, and gardening.

Keith Robson

Interim Group Head of Talent, OD and Leadership Development

As an interim HR Executive Keith has been taking on different interim roles most recently at NATS as Interim Director, People & Organisation Development, at Rolls Royce as Interim Group Head of Talent, Leadership Development, OD and TA, and at Aviva as Interim Group Head of Talent & Leadership Development. Prior to Aviva Keith enjoyed a 5 month career break having left eBay in May 2015. At eBay Keith was based initially in Singapore covering eBay’s Asia business then relocated to London where for 3 years he had a global role with approx. 30% of his time spent at eBay’s base in California. He had full responsibility for all areas of Talent Management, OD & Leadership Development and Learning supporting the eBay HR and Business leadership teams. Before joining eBay Keith worked in Dubai responsible for all Talent, Leadership Development and Learning   activity for Barclays’ Emerging Markets business – 14 countries across Africa, SE Asia and the Middle East with18,000 employees. Prior to Barclays he was the Learning and Organisational Effectiveness Executive for Bank of America’s International business. Based in London and with 2 years living in New York, Keith also worked at HSBC as the Global Head of Talent, Development, Learning and Graduate Resourcing for HSBC’s Investment Bank.

Catherine MacGillivray-Prantl

Swarovski

Former Head of Global Talent Acquisition

Catherine has spent 4 years in 3 different roles at the Swarovski Crystal Business corporate headquarters in Switzerland. In her most recent role as Global Head of Talent Acquisition, she was responsible for developing a global talent acquisition framework, bringing global approaches to recruitment and employer branding for their 25,000 office-based, production and retail staff across 40 locations worldwide. Catherine started her career in Paris (France) in the strategic marketing department of Chanel Fragrances & Beauty, then moved on to join TMP Executive Search where her clients included many luxury brands. Subsequently, Catherine spent 8 years with Value Retail, a pioneer in the creation and operation of luxury outlet shopping destinations, as HR Business Partner for various European countries.

Sophia Boleckis

Wärtsilä

Director, Culture Transformation Lead

Sophia Boleckis is currently working in Wärtsilä as Director, Culture Transformation Lead. Sophia has an over 20 years global experience from various HR fields: resourcing, talent attraction, employer branding, talent development, leadership, culture transformation, employee experience and engagement., as well as space design, communications and marketing. She has a strong passion in transforming employee and customer experiences into word-class excellency, working cross-functionally, creating true eco-systems and constantly maintaining a robust business focus in all of her work and initiatives – and through these to help organizations and people to grow and flourish. 

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.