WORLD FINANCE FORUM

Sumit Chaudhary

Divisional CFO, EMEA

Sumit Chaudhary is the divisional CFO at Foot Locker EMEA. Prior to that, he held senior finance positions at Amazon and Sabre Technology. He is a qualified chartered accountant and holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), India. Sumit has worked internationally across Asia,  Middle East, UK, and European markets in industries like retail, e-commerce, travel technology, and telecom. A proven strategic finance leader, Sumit has successfully helped organizations drive growth and accelerate value creation. He has also been involved in finance transformation, including ERP and BI technology implementations, as well as setting up tax structures and the IFRS transition. He has also held various board positions.

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

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).

Ellen Dooms

CFO, Benelux

Ellen Dooms is CFO at L’Oréal Benelux

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.

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.

Michael Greve

Finance Director Operations EMEA a.i.

I am a seasoned executive master (EMFC) in Finance & control with a proven track record in a wide range of industries. With strong change management skills to professionalize organizations, leading large finance teams and drive improvements.

Ewelina Wojtowicz

Head of Finance, Specialized Nutrition Netherlands

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.

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.

Dado Alonso

Group CFO

Dado Alonso is Group CFO at BBG, the global e-commerce company and one of the pioneers in the direct-to-consumer business. The Internet brand company currently sells 4,800 products under 56 brands (including Klarstein, auna, blumfeldt, Capital Sports) on more than 100 channels in 28 countries. She is a passionate and performance driven finance executive with more than 25 years of successful financial experience in world-class corporations.

Prior to BBG she served as Group CFO for Azerion, where she successfully completed a SPAC / IPO . Before this she served in different finance executive roles at Naspers, C&A Netherlands, Booking.com and Amazon Europe. She started her career in Siemens.

Outside of work Dado Alonso stays busy spending time with his son reading, kickboxing or painting. She also works to make the world a better place focusing her most hearted interest towards women and children.

She holds a MA in Law and a MA in Business Administration from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain), a MSc IT & Management from Sheffield Hallam University (UK), as well as a CMA from the US Institute Management Accountants. Dado has been since 2012 member of the IMA, from 2017 to 2022 she has been serving as member of the IMA/ICMA Boards. Since January 2023 she’s also appointed at Professional Accountants in Business advisory group within the International Federation of Accountants.

Ilva Gacaj

Director of Finance Excellence

Ilva Gacaj is Director of Finance Excellence at Marel. Ilva has more than 16 years’ experience within finance including change management, financial planning, reporting, internal controls, compliance and risk assessment. Prior to joining Marel, Ilva led the EMEA internal audit department for Align Technology. She has lived and worked in 4 different countries. Ilva has received her BS degree in management from the University of Bologna, Italy. She has also received her MBA from the same university. Ilva holds several certifications: CIA, CISA, CFE and CRMA.

Stef Jansen in de Wal

Solution Architect

Stef Jansen in de Wal is Solution Architect at Pigment – working on the next generation of integrated business planning

Alexandre Furlan

Partner

Bharadwaj Raghavendran

Senior Business Controller & Global Program Manager - Commercial Spend Productivity

Eyal Dayan

Finance Lead - Southern Europe and BeNe - CAG Diagnostics

Eyal’s track record in financial management started early – from his days as a Purchasing Officer at the Israeli Defense Forces, PWC, CheckPoint, ICL to serving as a Head of Finance at a number of high growth ventures along the way. Today he is the Finance Lead for the Southern Europe and BeNe Regions at IDEXX. “I’m a Finance professional that likes to build things, radically improve business systems and provide answers to the difficult business questions, with the use of data.”

Kavita Singh

Senior FP&A Analyst, International

FP&A professional with 15 years of experience in finance, pricing, and commercial analytics. My passion for automation has led me to explore the benefits of next-generation technology, and I firmly believe in its potential to revolutionize the field of Finance.

Throughout my career, I have successfully led three integrations, and in recent years, I have focused on analyzing, modeling, and tracking the benefits of finance transformation initiatives. My ability to analyze complex data sets, combined with my expertise in financial modeling, has enabled me to identify opportunities for process improvements and drive organizational efficiencies.

As a passionate advocate for gender equality and diversity, I actively work with women’s inclusive network at FedEx and coach professionals to help them reach their full potential

Remko Walsweer

CFO

Remko Walsweer is CFO at PreZero Nederland

Arielle Narinesingh

FP&A and Investor Relations

Arielle Narinesingh is FP&A and Investor Relations at Adyen

Nikhil Thakur

Head of Finance

Nikhil is an experienced finance professional currently serving as the Director of Finance for Web3 infrastructure provider Figment. He has previously held leadership roles in venture-backed tech scale-ups in New York (RiskMetrics) and San Francisco (Zuora). He was also a Management Consultant with PwC focused on Mergers & Acquisitions. Nikhil holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and lives in Amsterdam with his family and dog Gino Avocado.

Igor Curic

StartUp CFO

Financial auditor turned entrepreneur turned VC ★ Six years providing assurance to financial companies ★ Five years building my own startups, corporate ventures and running an acceleration fund ★ MBA / CFA / CIPM / ACCA / CFA ESG ★ Lived and worked in Croatia, Netherlands, USA, France

Marco Antonio Fini

FP&A Senior Manager

Marco is an experience finance professional currently working in a global finance function as an FP&A Sr. Manager at Bunge.Throughout his career, Marco specializes in Fixed Costs monitoring, project management, process improvements, tools implementation, reports automation, Region finance consolidations and controls implementation.Prior to joining Bunge, Marco held Manager position EY working at the audit area. His extensive experience in both audit-side and finance/Internal control roles has equipped him with a comprehensive understanding of the financial function. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Marco holds an MBA in Agrobusiness from the University of São Paulo and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Nick Cox

Director Product Marketing EMEA

Nick Cox is Director Product Marketing EMEA at OneStream Software

Giel Jansen

Spend Management Specialist

Giel Jansen is Spend Management Specialist at Payhawk

Martijn Janssen

Sales Director

Martijn Janssen is Sales Director at Tipalti Europe

Jane Waiyaki

Senior Manager, Sustainable Finance

Jane Waiyaki is an avid sustainability and shared value advocate. She is passionate about building capacity and training on sustainability, demystifying the myths around it and creating innovative solutions that will drive more financial flows towards things that heal the planet while driving business sustainability

She is currently with the Finance Practice at the World Wide Fund for Nature supporting Sustainable finance in Africa and Asia markets with a focus on Financing Green. She has over 13 years’ experience in the financial services sector. She holds a postgraduate certificate in sustainable value chains and a certificate in business sustainability management from the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership; she is also certified project management practitioner (PMP®) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting from the University of Nairobi, Kenya and an Alumni of the Global Management Foundation Programme from IMD, Switzerland Lausanne

In 2021, she was recognized as an SDG pioneer by the Global Compact Network Kenya and became a One Young World Ambassador, Manchester in 2022. In her free time she loves to travel, enjoy a good meal in great company, be immersed in nature and most of all mentoring and coaching the next generation. She is also a wife and mother to three beautiful children

Ravi Santokhi

EPM Lead Consultant

Ravi stands out for his enthusiasm and great communication skills. As an EPM Lead consultant, he specializes in planning processes, multi-dimensional analytical solutions, and financial reporting. His years of experience as a Business Intelligence consultant, complemented by financial knowledge, makes him the ideal interlocutor for our clients with control issues.