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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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