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

Torben Pedersen

Novo Nordisk

Senior Project Manager, Digital Transformation, Global HR

Torben Pedersen, is currently in charge of the Digital Transformation of Global HR for Novo Nordisk. Previous to this role he was in charge of the Oral Launch Plant in Novo Nordisk and an SVP HR Partner where his main field of work was the optimization of the core HR processes leading up to talent recruitment and developing and implementing a new talent management process.

Bjarte Bogsnes

Bogsnes Advisory

Managing Director

Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is a pioneer in the business agility movement Beyond Budgeting and has been heading up the implementation of the concept at Equinor. He led a similar initiative in Borealis in the mid-nineties, one of the companies that inspired the Beyond Budgeting model. 

Bjarte is Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT).  He is a popular international business speaker and the winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award. Bjarte is also author of "Implementing Beyond Budgeting - Unlocking the Performance Potential", where he writes about his almost twenty-five years long Beyond Budgeting journey. He has throughout these years inspired and helped numerous companies all over the world getting started.

Bjarte has taken early retirement from Equinor but will continue his Beyond Budgeting work through Bogsnes Advisory.

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. 

Sari-Ek Petroff

VTT

HR Business Partner, Leadership and Talent Development & Culture

Sari Ek-Petroff is responsible for the People and Leadership Development, as well as Wellbeing and Culture, at VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. Prior to VTT, Sari was working in the pharma industry, in Sanofi for more than 12 years. She was the HR Director for Finland as well as HRBP for one business area in the Nordics and Baltics. During 2012-2015 she had an additional role for the Talent Management for the Nordics and Baltics as well as for the young potential program in Europe, called EVOLVE.

Sari has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration,  she is also a qualified business teacher and holds a HRBP Certificate.

Marjo Kuosmanen

Amer Sports

Head of HR, Digital services, ICT and Suunto

Marjo has started her career in Human Resources (HR) more than 15 years ago. During her career in HR she has worked in various HR roles in many different industries and cultures: both start-ups and publicly listed global companies. Before joining the world of sports, she worked at gaming, telecom and forest industries, in Rovio, Nokia and UPM. Marjo´s strength is turning business strategy into actionable people plan for excellence and engagement. More than a year ago Marjo joined Amer Sports and is leading company´s Connected Devices and Digital Services, Global ICS and Suunto HR.

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

Khan Ozol

AstraZeneca

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

Mark Hayton

WOLT

Head of Leadership Development

Mark is the Head of Leadership Development at Wolt, he is an experienced HR professional with deep expertise in organizational change and transformation, workforce management. His perspective has come from experiencing people and leadership practices from 120 countries and cultures. Mark is a firm believer in robust data, meaningful facilitation and that people don't think as much as they think, they think.

Jenni Kivikoski

Wolt

Talent Acquisition Partner - Product+

Jenni Kivikoski is currently the Talent Acquisition Partner - Product+ at. Wolt. In her previous roles she was a Talent Acquisition Lead at Silo.AI - the largest private AI lab in the Nordics, heading recruitment and employer branding in Finland and in all new markets. She has previous experience in talent acquisition, designing and executing recruitment and employer strategies in fast-paced high-growth environments, especially in the field of IT. In her previous role, Jenni was responsible for leading the talent acquisition and kicking off international talent acquisition from scratch. Together with the team, they managed to grow from 500 to 1000 professionals, from one country to six in less than three years. She is passionate about modern talent acquisition, data, company culture, internationalization and diversity & inclusion topics. Not getting enough of recruiting during working hours, Jenni helps people during her free time in job search and volunteers around tech and startup scenes and speaks in different events.