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<strong>GIL</strong> EUROPE<br />

2016<br />

30 June, 2016<br />

Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London<br />

Visionaries, Innovators and Leaders<br />

Michael Koenitzer<br />

WealthTech Program Practice Head and COO<br />

FINTECH Circle Innovate<br />

Result-driven, hands-on and proactive financial services<br />

professional with strong communications skills, and in depth<br />

experience acquired during his 20+ years in Structured Finance, Commercial and<br />

Investment Banking, 5+ years in Consulting and 3 years in project management at the<br />

World Economic Forum. Extensive global perspective gained through long term<br />

assignments in the New York, London, Frankfurt, Geneva and Zurich. Deep<br />

knowledge of and ties to US and European Capital Markets participants, including<br />

issuers, bankers, rating agencies, regulators and law firms as well as firms in the fintech<br />

industry. Customer focused professional with strong credit skills, navigating through<br />

complex structures while mitigating risks. Proven ability to lead, motivate and staff<br />

superior teams and execute unique and effective solutions and best practices in key<br />

projects for financial institutions. Building a portfolio of fintech advisory projects.<br />

Nina Bjornstad<br />

Country Manager<br />

Google for Work, UK & Ireland<br />

Nina Bjornstad is the Country Manager for the UK&I, Google<br />

for Work business where she is responsible for helping to<br />

transform and to liberate how work gets done. Nina originally joined Google to<br />

establish the market for Google Cloud Platform in EMEA. Prior to Google she<br />

worked for 10 years at Microsoft across a variety of roles across Finance, Corporate<br />

strategy, Marketing, International Business Development, and most recently leading<br />

Enterprise Partner Sales for the UK. Her career started in the US with the pioneers<br />

in technology, Dell and Amazon.com, at the onset of the transformation we are all<br />

experiencing today.<br />

Olivia Price-Walker<br />

Principal Consultant, Visionary Innovation<br />

Frost & Sullivan<br />

Olivia is a Master of Law with an LLB from Durham University<br />

UK and LLM in International Criminal Law from Nottingham<br />

University UK. Her research and consulting focus is global trends, leading the mega<br />

trends consulting programme for European clients across a range of industries.<br />

Recent focus areas have included smart cities, connected living and workplace of the<br />

future. A key mega trend is social trends and consequently the impact of the<br />

empowerment of women. Olivia has just completed a global study into the future<br />

female automotive customer – having done a significant number of interviews with<br />

women car buyers across the globe. Olivia has worked on and managed numerous<br />

high-value consulting projects globally, focussed on future trends and their strategic<br />

implications. Recent clients include BMW, Toyota, Nissan, St Gobain, Hitachi and<br />

Continental.<br />

Rohit Talwar<br />

Futurologist<br />

Fast Future Research<br />

Rohit is a global futurist, strategist and award winning speaker<br />

noted for his humour, inspirational style and provocative<br />

content. He advises global firms, industries and governments on how to survive,<br />

thrive, spot and manage emerging risks and develop innovative growth strategies in<br />

the decade ahead. Profiled by the Independent Newspaper as a top ten global future<br />

thinker, his interests include the evolving role of technology in business and society,<br />

emerging markets, the future of education, sustainability and embedding foresight in<br />

organisations. Rohit helps clients understand how mega trends, emerging ideas, new<br />

business models, and disruptive developments in science and technology could<br />

impact individuals, society, business, industries and government. He currently leads<br />

studies on transformative drivers of change for the next decade, science and<br />

technology developments over the next forty years, impacts of emerging<br />

technologies on the legal sector, human enhancement and the Shadow Economy.<br />

Sanjay Brahmawar<br />

Global Head & Managing Partner Strategic Business<br />

Development<br />

IBM Watson Internet of Things<br />

Sanjay Brahmawar is Global Head & Managing Partner<br />

Strategic Business Development for IBM’s Watson Internet of Things Business,<br />

responsible to build, lead and transform the Internet of Things Business for IBM<br />

around the world. In this high priority and key growth business Sanjay is driving<br />

business into a new era of cognitive, helping “clients unlock value in new insights”<br />

from the massive amount of data they generate each day. Prior to that Sanjay was<br />

General Manager & Managing Partner Europe Industrial Sector for IBM's Consulting<br />

Services. As a member of the European IBM Services Board, he built up Industry<br />

focus all over Europe and was P&L responsible for the portfolio of clients in the<br />

Petroleum, Automotive, Aerospace, Electronics and Manufacturing industries in<br />

Europe. Early in his career Sanjay was appointed General Manager of Fedex Supply<br />

Chain Services Belgium, leading services delivery across the country. As a Managing<br />

Consultant at PWC Netherlands, Sanjay lay the foundation of his now wide ranging<br />

expertise on IT led Transformation Management ranging across supply chain<br />

management, BPR, programme and project management and in the array of IT<br />

advisory, consulting and systems delivery work, including outsourcing. Sanjay<br />

Brahmawar holds an MBA in Finance & Marketing from the University of Leeds<br />

(1997) and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (1992).<br />

Sarwant Singh<br />

Senior Partner<br />

Frost & Sullivan<br />

Sarwant Singh joined Frost & Sullivan in March 1999 and has<br />

managed over 250 strategic consulting projects across diverse<br />

industry sectors during this time. He heads up two teams in Frost & Sullivan: the<br />

Automotive and Transportation Practice and the Visionary Innovation Research<br />

group which works on Mega Trends. Sarwant is responsible for managing the global<br />

team and for developing and implementing business strategies and fulfilling high-value<br />

consulting projects. Sarwant is the author of a book titled, "New Mega Trends:<br />

Implications to our Future Lives." The book has been sold in over 30 countries since<br />

its launch in Sept. 2012. Sarwant combines his engineering acumen with strong<br />

commercial and business awareness.<br />

Sree Menon<br />

Head of Parts and Accessories<br />

eBay Motors<br />

Sree Menon is the Head of Parts and Accessories at eBay<br />

Motors, responsible for leading the planning and execution of<br />

the vertical’s strategy, customer needs, marketing, product, sales, and customer<br />

experience. Menon joined eBay in early 2014. Prior to eBay Motors, Menon was the<br />

E-Commerce and Online Director for Dell in the Americas.<br />

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