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

Jermaine Daw

Wella Company

Vice President & Chief People Officer EMEA

Jermaine Daw is a business-centric People Executive with experience working across various industries, including Healthcare, Media, Sports, Entertainment and FMCG.Currently serving as the Vice President & Chief People Officer - EMEA for the Wella Company, Jermaine is responsible for all aspects of the People strategy and delivery for the multi-billion-dollar EMEA division of Wella.
 
With a strong track-record of delivering transformational change across complex, global organizations, Jermaine is a trusted advisor to senior leaders on issues ranging from talent management to organizational design and optimization.  He is passionate about developing high-performing, diverse teams that can drive sustained business growth and achieving strategic objectives.
 
Before joining Wella, Jermaine held senior HR positions at several leading organizations, including the National Basketball Association (NBA), HBO, and Luxottica Group. Jermaine holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a master’s degree in Human Resources Management, both from Stony Brook University. Jermaine has demonstrated a deep commitment to early-career development and DE&I throughout his career. He is a sought-after speaker and thought leader and is regularly invited to share his insights at industry conferences and events.  He has served as a Mentor for the TEAK Fellowship, a program that helps talented students from low-income families achieve their potential.  Jermaine was named as a 40 Under 40 2017 honouree by The Network Journal, a leading U.S. publication, for his professional and mentoring contributions.

Sean Penistone

with BT, GSK and Xerox

Former Director Leadership, Learning & Talent

Sean is a strategic and innovative Talent, L&D, and OD specialist with a 25-year record of success in the complex, matrix, international settings. He focusses on transforming business capability through pragmatic Talent and Capability strategies and approaches. He is experienced in many industries, such as Life Sciences, Professional Services, Retail Banking, Technology and Telecoms having held senior HR roles in the likes of Glaxo SmithKline, Astellas Pharma, Xerox, and HBOS.

In his previous roles Sean was the director for leadership, learning, and talent at British Telecom BT. Before BT, he was leading GSK’s Talent and Capability work in the area of Digital Transformation and is introducing new approaches, practices and procedures to ensure that GSK has the skills to thrive in the digital world. 

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.

Michelle Falco

ING

Performance Manager

With a Master in Labour and Company Law and experience in Reward, Talent Management and Leadership, Michelle changed this year to the role of Global Performance Manager at ING. ING has recently rolled out Step Up Performance Management: a new way of working that aims to improve the performance culture of the bank by moving from a retrospective review process to a real-time improvement process. In the roll-out the focus is to not only technically implement the framework, but to really create a new performance culture.

Virginia Colurcio

Former HR Director EMEA

Virginia is the Former HR Director EMEA at Netflix. She holds a degree in law from University of Naples (Italy), integrated by studies at University of Gent (Belgium), University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and University of Cambridge (UK). Prior Netflix she has worked for: Anthos Int. as Global Head of HR, as Director of IR/ER & Supply Chain Benelux at Unilever where she was responsible for the relationship with the Unions and for the HR strategy in the factories. Prior Unilever Virginia had worked as Senior HR Director International at Belkin, being strategically responsible for HR in EMEA and APAC. Virginia has started her business career at Transcom where she spent 10 years in different international HR positions. Before joining Transcom she lectured for 4 years at Univercity of Groningen (the Netherlands).