Adrienne Stoudenmire

Provide delivery oversight for the General Medicine book of business for ICONs Biotech customers, with a primary specialization in Cardiovascular, Metabolic, Hepatology-MASH, and GI.

20 years industry experience, with 11 years in the companies that comprise of ICON, with extensive experience in building operational strategy throughout the people, process, vision, and infrastructure required to successfully to deliver trials across my areas of specialization

Ash Noah

Ash Noah – CPA, FCMA, CGMA, is VP and Managing Director of Learning, Education and Development, at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.
In this position, Ash leads the Research, Examinations and Learning product development for the
Management Accounting Unit.
Ash works closely with CFOs and Business Finance Leaders globally, identifying the trends that are
impacting practitioners, businesses and the profession in order to ensure that the Association’s Finance
Competency Framework, Syllabus, Examinations and Learning solutions remain effective and are
producing competencies to operate and remain relevant in the practice of Business Finance.
Ash was formerly the CFO of the International Unit of TNT, A global express logistics provider and has
led finance transformation in teams across 45 countries. He is a Chartered Global Management
Accountant (CGMA), licensed US CPA and member of the American Institute of CPA’s (AICPA). He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
Ash has a passion for flying and is an avid aviator.

Jan Daeninck

Sales professonial with a strong operational background in Seafreight Solutions & Information Value Products. A variety of experience in transportation, logistic and supply chain management over various geographic locations.

Matthew Hoyland

Matt has a strong passion for all things flavour. He studied Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Nottingham and later went on to complete management studies at the Irish Management Institute. He started his career as a research scientist, before progressing through the R&D functions into the role he has today.

Matt spends his free time hiking, running, or cooking. He has a love for the fermentation of foods, developing home-made kombuchas and freshly baked sourdough loaves as a hobby. He loves to travel, and has held various global roles within Synergy, working with the dairy portfolio in Ireland and the coffee, tea, and hops portfolio in the United States.

In 2023 he relocated with his partner to Trieste, Italy, where he leads the natural extract design and manufacturing technologies platform for Synergy Flavours Europe.

Paola Bassi

Italian born, Paola is fascinated by the variety of Italian regional cuisine, enjoys cooking for family and friends and is passionate about nutrition and healthy living. She loves travelling and hiking with her family and their chocolate Labrador.

Now European Marketing Director for Synergy Flavours, Paola started her FMCG marketing career in Italy with Nestlé. She then moved to the UK with McCormick where she has held both local and central organisation marketing roles.

Paola also set up her own management consulting company and has worked for some time with SMEs and charities on strategic growth road maps, brand positioning, communication, change management and team reorganisation and development.

Paola graduated from Universita’ di Genova and holds a Master degree in Business Administration and a Certificate in Company Direction from the Institute of Directoes (IoD).

Mark Cunningham

Mark Cunningham is Managing Director of WhenFresh Ltd, the leading residential property data provider, which he co-founded in 2012 and is now part of the PriceHubble family.

Mark is a Graduate of University College Dublin, a serial entrepreneur, thought leader and regular speaker at events in Financial Services and the related sectors which WhenFresh & PriceHubble serve.

Dr. Thomas Mühlbacher

Thomas Mühlbacher has a PhD from TU Wien in computer science, and is a co-founder (CTO) of Visplore GmbH, a VC-backed leader for self-service analytics software. Thomas was involved in supervising the development team, IT and the customer success team. He has been ensuring successful use cases of key accounts in energy and industry for more than 10 years. His PhD thesis about making AI more accessible for subject matter experts received an Europe-wide Best Thesis award in the field of data visualization.

Dr. Harald Piringer

Harald Piringer studied informatics at the Vienna University of Technology where he also did his PhD. For more than 10 years, Harald Piringer was the head of the Visual Analytics group at the VRVis research center in Vienna / Austria, where he did applied research in close collaboration with leading players from the energy sector. Harald Piringer (co-)authored more than 30 international publications. In 2020, he founded Visplore as its CEO to boost digitalization in the energy sector. Today, Visplore is a fast-growing venture-capital backed leader in self-service analytics for the energy sector.