The success of companies depends on how capable they are of unleashing the talent and passion of theit people to win with the hearts of a growing number of customers.

This is Jonathan Escobar´s business belief and he has proven it in more than 30 successful tranformations of just companies into High-Performance Organizations leading multidisciplinary and multicultural teams in more than a dozen countires and on three continents, lately at the HARTMANN GROUP and Procter & Gamble.

He is also co-founder and partner with HPO Global Alliance and a member of the Advisory Board of the OPEX Society and the Readiness Institute founded by Joseph F. Paris jun.

Driven by his passion for education, Jonathan Escobar transformed his idea of a new approach to education into reality and became co-founder and CEO of inn-Be, a start-up dedicated to High-Performance Education.

He has had a long professional career with more than 16 years experience during which he has held positions of maximum responsibility - and it´s going to be continued ...

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She leads and enables people to contribute to continuous improvements by utilizing and training Six Sigma & Lean Tools and Change Management proven by measurable performance improvements. Working in the Global Corporate Head Office which reports directly to the CEO of the group, developing and implementing strategies belongs to my key tasks.

Pedro began his career in 1998 with Leonische – automotive industry – as a Process Engineer. In 1999 he joined Lear Corporation – also in the automotive industry – where he became a Six Sigma Black Belt from Six Sigma Academy. From 2004 to 2009 he took several projects among different industries as a Continuous Improvement and Social Compliance consultant. In 2010 he joined IKEA Group as a Continuous Improvement Leader for the IKEA Industry Portuguese site. In 2015 the factory ranked 1st on Lean practices within IKEA Industry Group. In 2017 BoF factory has been recognized again on its work in creating and sustaining a Lean culture, ranking in the 1st place within IKEA Industry Group, among 41 factories (the Lean grading took place in June 28-30, 2017).

With a wide experience in the Continuous Improvement field, his heart beats for developing and sustaining a Lean Culture of continuous process improvement leading to drive people to continuously improve the processes that add value to the customer. Pedro is driven by a passion for continuous improvement and organizational transformation and for sharing the knowledge and experience he has achieved so far.

35 years of manufacturing experience, including Automotive, Aerospace and Healthcare. Master’s degree in Engineering, Master Black Belt in Lean six sigma. Operated in over 65 countries and 5 continents. Developed and executed Lean six sigma strategies gaining significant business benefits

Experienced senior management leader with comprehensive experience in Program Management, Transformation and Change Management addressing complex business problems in national, regional and international environments.

Currently, Head of the Operational Excellence activity for Nissan in Europe.

Certified Project Management professional with over 14 years of direct PM experience (Manufacturing, Logistics, R&D, Sales & Marketing, HR and Finance) and is a Certified Nissan V-Expert (equivalent to Six Sigma Master Black Belt) leading numerous improvement projects.

Currently (12 years) in the Automotive industry (Nissan Motor Company) and previously (11 years) in consulting firms (such Accenture in the Process & Management Enterprise's division) mainly focused on Distribution and Food & Beverage companies.

As Purchasing Project Manager (between 2009 to 2016), he was responsible for annual turnover about 240 million €, with over %6.9 cost reduction performance upon budget, with more than 50 national & multinational suppliers.

A regional and global player who built the bridge between corporate and subsidiaries.

Specialties:
- Creative problem solver with proven ability to derive practical solutions
- Excellent written, presentation and communication expertise with all levels of senior management
- Good listener and thinker before acting together in a consensus, dynamic, open-minded and direct social communicator
- Global and local resourcing strategies builder with analytical and negotiation skills
- Strong business and commercial perception with strong initiative, ambition and transparency
- Team sprit consisting of different cultural individuals, delegating /directing management
- Dedicated, enthusiastic and passionate about excellence

Rosa Allegue is since 16 years CFO in Skechers Iberia.

She has more than 25 years of experience in Financial Management in Spanish, Portuguese, American and German corporations. Prior to Skechers she was CFO in two startups (SportArea.com and Baquia.com) and previously during more than 10 years she was financial controller in Siemens.

Rosa graduated in Germany as “Industriekauffrau”, holds a degree in Business Administration, an MBA, and an AMP Advance Management Program from ESADE Business School. She was awarded as one of the 100 best CFO’s in Spain for the years 2015 and 2016 by the specialized maganize “Actualidad Económica”.

She is mentor for new entrepreneurs in the Mentoring Net of Madrid, guest speaker in Spanish and American universities.

She is coauthor of the book Relatos Humanos.

Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Economics, focused in Leadership

Hervé is presently the chief franchise development officerof Carrefour in Belgium. Before joining Carrefour, he worked successively for Ciment Français in Marocco and Hachette Livre in France as commercial and supply chain controller.

He then joined the Carrefour Group in 1998 as regional controller in France mainly in charge of food supermarket and franchisee activities. After working into strong commercial and back offices réorganisations, he was appointed in Belgium to support the company’s recovery.

Fabrizio Olivares has more than 25 years experience in Financial Management and International Controlling with major US and European Companies active in diverse businesses through complex matrix organizations. With a well-balanced presence in 90 countries and a focus on Cement, Aggregates and Concrete, LafargeHolcim is the world leader in the building materials industry. The Group has 100,000 employees around the world and combined net sales of CHF 29.5 bn (EUR 27 bn) in 2015.

A highly experienced Finance and Business Transformation Leader working with International FMCG organisations (Coty, 3M, Kraft Foods and KAO). An authentic leader, with an entrepreneurial energy, creative flair and driven by making a difference. Passionate about people and developing talent. Founding Partner of PontCollab.

Tania is a passionate leader and has extensive experience in finance in international listed companies. She joined Tecan, a listed Life Sciences company, in February 2020 as the Group CFO. From 2010 – 2020, Tania held various roles in finance at Sulzer AG, her last role being Chief Risk Officer and Internal Audit Head. Amongst other she was responsible for finances at divisional level. Before joining Sulzer, Tania held various financial positions at Monsanto, Gate Group and General Mills in Switzerland, the UK, Australia, Poland and Russia.

Marco Torrente is the Chief Financial Officer for Europe at WebBeds Europe, the world ́s second largest accommodation supplier to the travel industry, Marco has over 20 years of experience building and leading finance teams in global companies with significant operating scale and complexity. Prior to joining WebBeds, He was FD at Sabre with responsibility over the EMEA Region. Previously, he was at TUI plc, where he spent 5 years in finance and operating roles in Europe, Asia and South America. Marco began his career with SC Johnson and held various management positions across Europe. He served on the board of directors of STNME, JV in UAE, and was head of audit committee.

Armand Angeli is a recognized expert in international business development, finance & accounting transformation, shared services and outsourcing. From end of 2014 until September 2016, he was the Lead of the newly created Business Process Services (BPS / BPO for F&A, HR and Procurement) Practice of Hewlett Packard Enterprise for EMEA South (Italy, France, Spain and Portugal). As a Partner, from 2004 to October 2012, with Grant Thornton, the global audit and accounting network, Armand held several roles over eight years including Director Global Outsourcing Services, heading business development for Finance Transformation and Outsourcing, and serving as Global Lead for Travel, Tourism and Leisure sectors, and head of Payroll Outsourcing Services. He was previously with PwC as European Business Development Director BPO, responsible for business development for shared services, outsourcing and consulting businesses for Continental Europe. Armand has degrees in engineering from INSA Lyon (1981) and an MBA from INSEAD (1990), and served in senior international roles, including as Purchasing Director, Internal Audit Director and CFO, over a 15 year period with IBM, General Electric and Case. He has successfully led numerous financial re-structuring, IT, consulting, shared services and BPO projects.

The International Association of Financial Executives Institutes or IAFEI is a private non-profit and non-politcal association of Financial Executives Institutes from all over the world. Founded in 1969, IAFEI currently has 20 Member Institutes in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, with a total membership of over 17,000 financial executives.

Ricardo is a experienced finance leader with broad managerial leadership skills; BA in Economics, MBA and Corporate Finance Masters Programs in ESADE and EADA. Ricardo joined; COTY in 2000; Since then COTY has significantly grown from a private 1B$ to a current public (quoted in NY Nasdaq) 10B$. Ricardo has developed his career with COTY growth; Appointed Iberia Finance Director in 2006, combining such role with several Corporate projects and assignments in M&A and big integration projects. Currently is Finance Director, Global R2R lead since 2016.

Anwar is a recognised authority on the subject of Data Governance, Master Data Management and Information Management. For the last decade, he has spoken at numerous global events covering forums for Analytics, Finance, HR, IT, Legal, Mobile, Shared Services etc. Anwar’s keynotes, panels and Masterclasses are a balanced blend of cross‐functional, business and IT perspectives presented in a logical flow.

Anwar has developed his own unique Data Governance methodology and deep‐dives into the critical areas that companies often struggle with and prescribes ‘Data’ as the new business imperative. His approach has been adopted by many multi‐national companies,software companies and consulting firms in the USA, Australia, Asia and Europe.

With 29 years of experience at TNT, Anwar has a proven track record in Functional management, global project delivery, controlling core business processes, managing large teams, implementing applications and technology presented in the form of tangible top and bottom line benefits from the outset.

For the past 6 years, Anwar has dedicated much of his personal time to lecturing at University level with a personal objective of bringing ‘Data’ into mainstream education.

Nicolas is Chief Innovation Officer at Orange Valley, an agile entity within Orange Innovation division. Innovation executive, Nicolas sets-up innovation centers, and creative programs.

Nicolas leads crowdsourcing web site “Imagine With Orange” (Imagine.Orange.com), Intrapreneurs Studio (programme for intrapreneurs), and Rapid Innovation framework (Rapidinnovation.fr). He is Tweeting at @nicobry, connected to start-ups ecosystem, mentoring entrepreneurs, innovation teacher and speaker. Graduate from Engineering School Supélec and from HEC Business School.

Rob de Graaf is Senior Consultant Product Innovation at Philips Innovation Services, Industry Consulting. He’s also the Dean of the Idea to Market Academy at Philips University. He works on innovation strategy, portfolio management, value proposition creation, product launch and knowledge management to name a few. Rob has been working in innovation since 1996, at Ericsson, Ascom, Stratx, and Philips. He also was an entrepreneur for 7 years, leading the Innovation Leadership network. Rob has a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, and has a PhD in Technology Management.

Faustino holds more than 10 years of experience in senior Environmental, Health and Safety management positions in Celsa Group™ and DuPont and his other half of professional career in operations roles. He is recognized as expert, results driver and influencer in cultural change.

In CELSA Group™ he has held the position of Global EHS director and lead a radical cultural change on management and organization that divided injury rates by 20 times in 5 years and energized the group to become a sustainability leader in the European steel industry.

Previously he held the position of EHS Director at DuPont Ibérica (Spain and Portugal) and Environmental Discipline Leader in Europe in the same company.

He has held various positions on Spanish, European and worldwide EHS organizations as Worldsteel, FEIQUE, COASHIQ or Eurofer.

Mr. Martinez also has a wide experience in operations where, amongst other positions, he was Industrial Operations Director of Global Steel Wire within Celsa Group™.

He describes himself as an Operations Director with wide passion for safety and specialized in influencing and coaching leadership to adopt safety as a management strategy.

Philippa Knapp leads the Behaviour Based Safety and safety culture maturity programs for Vestas Wind Systems’ manufacturing and service businesses globally. She previously developed global safety awareness and behaviour change programs for other companies including Ingersoll Rand. Philippa worked as an HSE consultant with Arthur D. Little running global projects for FMCG, Electronics, Metal, Oil and Gas and other industries for over fifteen years and is a qualified Occupational Hygienist.

Jeff is the SHE Director for Thai Union in Europe and Africa. He has more than 25 years’ experience of SHE Leadership involving the development of strategies, plans, management systems and policies for several multi-national companies including Ingredion, Beiersdorf, McCormick Foods and Rhodia-Solvay. Jeff holds a master’s degree in Managing Business Excellence and is a Chartered Member of the UK Institution of Occupational Safety and Health

Geelanie Briones has been a leader in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 20 years. A member of the Xellia Leadership Team since 2014, she previously worked at Novo Nordisk and Sandoz GMBH (Novartis group), within areas of quality, regulatory affairs and clinical operations. She recently expanded her area to include the EHS organization in 2018, and Sustainability in 2020. Though relatively new within the EHS area, she recognized and maximizes on the similarities in the mindset and tools used between EHS and Quality. This led to greater visibility and focus to the value of EHS in Xellia. Geelanie is passionate about leadership and has strong focus on people and their well-being, knowing that these are important for good performance. Geelanie is a registered Pharmacist from the University of the Philippines and has Executive MBA from the Scandinavian International Management Institute (Denmark).