Michele “Mik” Ruberl is a veteran technologist with a 20+ year career delivering software solutions on four continents, both in the corporate world and as a (twice) startupper.
He has been involved in blockchain for traveltech since 2017, as the CTO of Sandos Hotels & Resorts and as Head of Architecture & Integration at Alpitour. Under his leadership, various projects were implemented, such as a decentralized travel loyalty federation and several NFT applications for the tourism ecosystem including the first world-wide hotel booking sold as an NFT, in occasion of the opening of Ca’ di Dio in Venice, Italy.
Now at Peakwork as Director Blockchain & Web3 Solutions, Mik leads the development of a platform to enrich traveler experience and eventually reimplement entire segments of the travel and hospitality supply chain.
Ian has over 30 years’ experience in senior roles, transforming operations across Publishing, Broadcast TV and Telecoms, laying claim to have created industry leading performance in every role. He is passionate about leading change and has recently crossed the boundary from being a user to a provider of technology and is currently the COO of ContactEngine, a NICE Company. As part of that role, Ian works with clients to define and build proactive communication solutions that reduce operational cost and improve revenue, using cutting edge Conversational AI to make a personal connection with customers. Prior to ContactEngine, Ian was one of the team that created and grew Sky Broadband and is widely considered to be an SME in the telcoms space, along with deep expertise in Billing, Credit Risk, Collections, Contact Centre Operations, Field Operations and Project & Programme Management
Waldemar Faltenberg has been responsible for market expansion in the DACH+ region for Provenir since last year. As a trained cooperative banker, he started his career at a local bank and was able to gain experience in the retail banking, mortgage lending, and corporate banking business during the almost 9 years he worked there. After a stint at Coface in corporate client sales, he returned to the cooperative financial network. At first, he was more operationally active at the former VR Leasing AG and after the reorganization and re-branding to VR Smart Finanz AG, he was responsible for the organization and management of 25 Volksbanks. Here he supported the banks at the strategic level in the area of SME financing and in the “make or buy” decision. In 2021, he moved to BFS finance Gmbh, part of Arvato Financial Solutions (now Riverty), where he worked on the cinfoni project. The idea of cinfoni was a platform to simplify the KYC process for corporates and Tier 1-2 banks with a networking mindset. Waldemar Faltenberg brings over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry in various fields. Professional development is very important to him. Thus, in addition to his professional activities, he completed a Bachelor’s degree after his apprenticeship, which he graduated from Steinbeis University Berlin in 2010. In 2019, he started an Executive MBA at the Spanish IESE Business School, which he completed in 2021. Here he was able to expand his know-how in the area of entrepreneurship, innovation and digital transformation in a very practical way and also in various projects. In his private life, the father of three girls is active as the chairman of the board for the non-profit organisation “Leben ist mehr e.V.” (Life is more), which is currently setting up a training workshop in a children’s home with a primary and secondary school in Kenya.
Matthias Grossmann is the CEO for the Commercial Finance business of Siemens Financial Services. Matthias has almost 30 years’ experience with the Siemens Group. He has worked in the US and Germany; and was until 2019 based in Sweden where he was CFO for the Siemens Nordic region. He was also Head of Corporate Pensions, the unit responsible for group-wide and Siemens AG pension management. Matthias has extensive experience and knowledge of both the finance and industry markets. He also has a keen interest in sustainability, and is leading the SFS Commercial Finance drive to enable businesses across the global to invest in more sustainable equipment and technology. Matthias holds a degree in Business Administration from the Technical University Berlin, Germany.
Aidan’s responsibility is to drive customer experience and ensuring that DHL meets all customer requirements across our warehouse and transportation network for their clinical supplies. Together with the Global Clinical Logistics Team they have developed a strong strategy to deliver clinical supply chains for the future, incorporating a strong focus on quality, regulatory compliance as well as a strong development agenda in Accelerated Digitalisation aligned to the wider priorities of DHL Supply Chain.
With extensive experience in managing clinical customers and implementing their operations across DHL’s global clinical network of over 32 depot locations. His knowledge of clinical supply ensures that DHL can deliver in line with specific customer expectations and requirements across the clinical supply and packaging industry.
Aiden has been part of the DHL Clinical Logistics team for the last 7 years, holding roles in Account Management, Operations and Depot Network Management.
Former Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Investment Officer Northwell Health, New York.
Former President and CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals
Former CEO Cook County Health System Chicago
Dr. Raju is also the recipient of numerous national recognitions. In 2014, 2015 &2016 he was on Modern Healthcare’s list of the nation’s “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.” Modern Healthcare also named him consecutively as one of the “Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare” in 2012, 2014 &2016 and one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare” in 2013, 2014 2015 &2016. In 2013, he was named a Business Leader of Color by Chicago United. Also in 2013 and 2014, Becker’s Hospital Review designated him as one of “20 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Follow on Twitter.” and one of the top Physician HealthCare leaders in the country.
Davy Rosseel is Global Key Account Manager at Resilux Group and experienced in business development PET preforms and bottles. With his strong focus in Dairy and Plant Based Drinks Resilux can offer true sustainable packaging solutions for valuable and innovative food and drinks opportunities.
Brittany VanBuskirk is the Plant Based Proteins Global Applications Lead at Ingredion. She has over 10 years of experience in ingredient and finished product development, collaborating with Ingredion’s small and large customers to develop solutions for the plant based protein space. Brittany previously led the Dairy & Alternative Dairy Subject Expertise Team for North America and prior to her role at Ingredion was a product developer for Danone North America. She has a Masters of Business and Science in Global Agriculture from Rutgers University and a Bachelors of Science in Food Science from Penn State.
