WORLD FINANCE FORUM

Joao Almeida

CFO: Hubs

Joao Almeida is the CFO for Hubs at the A.P. Moller Maersk Group 2017 and he holds a Master of Science in Strategy and Management from the London Business School, London, United Kingdom.

An international strategic and commercially focused finance executive with extensive expertise in leading scalable business and M&A growth in complex global business environments. Proven track record operating at Board of Directors’ level. Publicly listed, private equity, start-up experience in B2B and B2C across supply and logistics, food, consumer healthcare, telecommunications and building materials. Leader in best in class global business and technology enabled transformations.

Has held senior finance leadership roles at A.P. Moller Maersk, CRH plc, Royal Numico N.V. (now part of Danone) and KPMG.

Angelique Odendaal

Financial Director

Angelique Odendaal is an experienced finance director with 20 years’ experience in commodities. Angelique joined ACT Commodities in 2022. Prior to joining ACT Commodities, Angelique has held positions with Petredec, Puma Energy (Trafigura subsidiary), Shell and PwC across various locations including South Africa, Myanmar, Singapore, US and finally the Netherlands. Angelique prides herself as a solutions oriented, trusted business partner. Angelique is passionate about business performance and making data talk by providing useful insights and analysis of data, overlaying financial data with operational data. This not only supports improved performance, but improves forecasting and expectation management of both internal management and external markets. Angelique has lead various finance transformation projects and enjoys the challenges that data provides her on a daily basis.

Ewelina Wojtowicz

Head of Finance, Specialized Nutrition Netherlands

Katekani Mabasa

Global M&A Senior Finance Lead - Philips International B.V

Katekani is a highly accomplished senior finance professional with over 11 years of experience in leadership and specialist roles within multinational environments. Currently based in the Netherlands as part of Royal Philips, Katekani has demonstrated expertise in managing finance matters across diverse industries such as Power and Water, Oil and Gas, Transportation, and Healthcare.

With a dynamic background spanning Africa, the United States, and Europe, Katekani possesses a unique global perspective and a proven track record of success. Her areas of specialization include financial leadership, international finance, strategic business partnering, financial planning and analysis (FP&A,) treasury management, as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Katekani is skilled in profitability turnaround, double-digit business growth, cash management, IT solutions implementation, and shared service centre deployment.

Her strategic insights and financial acumen have enabled her to optimize performance, drive revenue growth, and enhance profitability leveraging her strong leadership skills to foster collaboration, mentor talent, and build high-performing teams.

Ana Caria

CFO

Ana is part of the Management Team of Dexter Services B.V. and is serving as the Chief Financial Officer leading the Finance team. Her passion is to bring clarity into financial information, enabling sustainable growth.

In her current and previous role she successfully led the finance team of Oaky and focused on scaling the team to turn vision into reality, but also with a strong focus on strategic advice and financial monitoring and analysis.

Ana Graduated from ISCTE Business school with a Master of Science in Economics and moved from Lisbon to Amsterdam in 2017.

Remko Walsweer

CFO

Remko Walsweer is CFO at PreZero Nederland

Ellen Dooms

CFO, Benelux

Ellen Dooms is CFO at L’Oréal Benelux

Camille Eliseo

Finance Business Partner for Sustainability and Circular Business

Camille Eliseo is a Financial Business Partner for Sustainability and Circular Business in Decathlon Netherlands, working closely with the project team to establish the new circular business models from providing insights for strategic decision-making, to understanding the business operations and identifying financial flows and managing risks to preparing and communicating performance management reports. She is also working with the Sustainability Team in challenging and reporting the decarbonization strategy within the company. She has a relevant experience in compliance and financial reporting in Decathlon Philippines and Decathlon Group Consolidation based in France. She has 6.5 years of external audit experience working in SGV & Co. (an Ernst & Young affiliate in the Philippines).

Andreu Labian Pages

Director for Supply Chain Finance

• Finance professional currently serving as Director for Supply Chain Finance in The Kraft Heinz Company for the International Zone (LATAM / APAC / EMEA)
• Previously CFO for Spain and Portugal business Unit , and leading Commercial finance in Italy.
• Before working in Finance FMCG market with KraftHeinz, I’ve worked in Pricing Strategy in Telecommunications sector
• Along my career, I’ve been leading several projects of Data Analytics, Data Automation, Pricing optimization and Revenue management
• 35 years old, happily married with 4 beautiful kids

Arjun Srinivasan

Head of Finance - UK, Northern Europe & DACH Mobility

Over the past 14 years, I have strategy & business management experience across sectors (E-Commerce, FMCG, Pharma, and Logistics), geographies (Europe, India, South Asia) and business contexts (B2C & B2B, MNCs & Startups). I have progressively managed larger businesses and higher caliber teams. I am a CFA charter holder and have MBA and Engineering degrees from leading Indian universities.