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Chief Operating Officer at OnDosis AB, a Swedish health-tech company developing a new category of prescription regimens, delivered in a connected hand-held device, integrating medicine with flexible dosing. 15+ years of experience from different roles within research and clinical affairs at global medical device companies. Significant experience from development of Class I-III medical devices and drug-device combination products.

Nikhita Iyar leads Moxo’s product marketing team. Iyar has helped drive Moxo’s growth in the market over the course of the company’s journey, with a strategic focus on go-to-market strategies. She works with Moxo’s global client base to help streamline their external business workflows with digital interaction workspaces. She has always focused on understanding customer needs and translating them to develop value propositions. Iyar helped develop Moxo’s client base in financial services and has been involved in a number of product launches. She continues to develop key messaging across each industry, build product assets, tailor user journeys, and closely align with customer needs and requirements for Moxo’s growth.

Marcin has been working with DrugDev and IQVIA for the past 9 years in the areas of site feasibility, contracting, and financial operations. In his current role, he oversees study-related financial operations for client portfolios, managing multinational site operation payment groups located in Europe, as well as actively contributing to continuous process improvement and excellence in the financial lifecycle offering. Providing services on a wide variety of client projects has bestowed Marcin and his teams with deep insight into the financial and legal requirements of payment recipients worldwide and a true understanding of the variability in client needs across clinical trial conduct.

Robert is currently the senior technical manager for Lallemand Biofuels and Distilled Spirits. His role has a global remit and supports Lallemand’s technical teams around the world as they partner with fuel ethanol and spirits producers.

Robert has 40 years’ experience of the distilled spirits industry possessing qualifications in both analytical chemistry and a degree in brewing and distilling. He was appointed as a Fellow of the Institute of Brewing in 2012 following his Chairmanship of the 2011 Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference in Glasgow. Roberts career has seen him hold positions as a laboratory assistant at Distillers Company limited, technical brewer at The Caledonian Brewery in Edinburgh, research scientist and laboratory manager at The Scotch Whisky Research Institute, Edinburgh and for 16 years as Chief Chemist for Chivas Brothers Pernod-Ricard based in Scotland. Experience covers process troubleshooting, spirits analysis techniques and extensive knowledge of congeners, flavour chemistry, new product development, maturation and regulated analytes such as trace metals, Ethyl Carbamate, Nitrosamines and Phthalate Esters. Robert has presented papers on the authenticity of Scotch Whisky at the AOAC Conference in Florida, IWABA Butrofos in Cyprus and for a number of years has presented and authored a chapter in the Alcohol Textbook on the subject of analytical techniques in spirits laboratories for the LBDS Alcohol School.

When not in or around alcohol, Robert may be found on a river either salmon fishing or panning for gold!

Brazilian, economist, Senior Forestry Officer and Team Leader of the Forest Governance and Economics Team in the Forestry Division of FAO. Work on forest socioeconomic contributions to the SDGs, cross-sectoral governance, forest value chains, bioeconomy, and economic instruments and finance to support forestry. Thais is focal point for SDG Indicator 15.2.1 and the FAO leader of the initiative “Sustainable Wood for a Sustainable World”, which articulates governance, economics, finance and scientific evidence to promote sustainable wood value chains and increase forest contributions to the SDGs and climate change objectives.

Thais career has a mix of experiences in finance, national policy-making and global environmental governance. Before joining FAO Forestry Department, Thais served as Senior Officer of the UN-REDD Programme Secretariat, directly in charge of the UN-REDD Global Programme, from 2011 to 2015. Her national policy-making experience comes from Brazil, where she served as Director of Climate Change of the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, and Director of the Brazilian Forest Service, having worked in the development and implementation of the Amazon Fund, the national Climate Change Fund, the Brazilian Climate Change Strategy and the Brazilian commitments to climate change mitigation. In the first phase of her career, Thais worked for 14 years at the Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development, in several executive positions.

Thais holds an MSc in Environmental governance and regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science – LSE.

Francisco Bonino is partner and CEO of AF Group. Francisco has 20 years of timber and agriculture experience gather in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Chile. In the past he was responsible of product development for Monsanto in northern Argentina, Bolivia and

Paraguay. He graduated as Agronomic Engineering from UDELAR (Uruguay’s National University) and he holds an MBA from the New

York Institute of Technology.

Joe Codd is the Business Development Director at Veon, a forestry consultancy company, who are involved with a range of forestry projects, including reforestation projects worldwide, reporting on timber industries and their macro and micro trends, portfolio acquisition due diligence, feasibility and market studies, ESG and CSR projects with corporates trying to reduce their carbon footprints. With 15 years’ experience, Joe leads sales and client-relationship management, tracking new markets and emerging trends, recommending new products and services, proposing and developing new strategic partnerships, and guiding long-term objectives to meet business needs and requirements. He is also responsible for forest portfolio acquisitions for institutional and domestic investors and some of the largest family wealth offices in Europe. Joe currently sits on the Board of the Society of Irish Foresters as a technical councillor and also the Board of Forestry Careers Ireland. Joe holds a B.Agr.Sc. in Forestry from University College Dublin and Dip.Sc. in Forestry from W.I.T.