Marc Bejas is the Vice President Finance of Secfi, an American-Dutch fintech scale-up that helps start-up employees understand and enable them to make the most of their equity. It is the leading provider of equity planning and financing for start-up employees and is trusted by over 20,000 start-up employees for equity planning, has more than $25 billion worth of equity registered on the platform, and has provided over...

Sophie Bergisch is the Global Finance Director at MassiveMusic in Amsterdam. She has been involved in financial management for almost six years, having previously specialised in accounting and account management. What do you see as the biggest challenge for your business and your own role over the next 12 months? After my first month at MassiveMusic, everything changed. I was hired as the right hand of the CFO, but, du...

Kimberly DeMello is the Vice President, HR International at HMSHost in Amsterdam. She has a wealth of experience in the Human Resources and Staffing discipline, having worked for multi-national organisations, such as Adidas and Procter & Gamble. How do you feel the workplace will have changed as we emerge from the global pandemic, especially in a business like HMSHost that has experienced a significant impact? Fro...

Olena Kvashyna is the Global Supply Chain Excellence Head at Clariant in Basel, Switzerland. She previously held several positions over a ten-year period at Syngenta. What is it like leading a Global Supply Chain Excellence team? First of all, thank you very much for inviting me to have this discussion. Looking back into different roles that I’ve had so far in my career, this is probably one of the most interestin...

Gerard Sieben is the CFO & Management Board Member at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) in Amsterdam. He has been with the business for over 13 years, having previously held roles such as Project Manager Finance and Finance Director. What do you see as the biggest challenges for a) your business, and b) your own role over the next 12 months? I think the biggest challenge for us in retail real estate is reinventin...

Rimmert van Luyn is the VP Global Transportation, Customs & Compliance and EMEA Operations at Hitachi Vantara. He previously spent eight years at Hitachi Transport System as the Director Europe and was the VP Global Transportation, Customs & Compliance at Hitachi Data Systems. What does your organisation do to drive its sustainability agenda? Hitachi’s slogan is, Hitachi Social Innovation is POWERING GOOD...

Ranjeeta Rai is the Head of Packaging & Global KAM Supply Chain for Laundry & Home Care at Henkel. She has been with the business for over seven years, working within the Netherlands, Singapore and China. Previously, Ranjeeta was a Senior Analyst and Team Leader within investment banking. How does your company work to retain high potential employees? Henkel has a robust talent programme with variou...

Pratik Yadav is the Digital Transformation and Analytics Lead for all programmes at Mondelez. Pratik is one of the rare leaders in the industry today, having a solid background within Operations, as well as hands-on knowledge of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), robotic process automation (RPA), blockchain etc., driving global digital transformations. He has been through...