Archives: Speakers

Creative director, Gabriele Chiave, brings a wealth of diverse professional and personal experience to Marcel Wanders.
Having grown up and lived in several places around the world – from Africa to South America to Europe – Gabriele
approaches design with a different perspective. This has created in him a passion to bring open-mindedness into what he
creates. Before arriving at Marcel Wanders studio, Gabriele studied in Milan at Italian design schools that are rooted in
industrial design heritage from the 1960s. He worked at Marc Saddler Studio where he immersed himself in the
functionality of Italian design. These skillsets have contributed to shape his vision of design, which has further expanded
by working closely with Marcel Wanders, from whom he learned a mentality that is strongly rooted in humanism, in an
understanding of design as art and celebration of craftsmanship of past ages. Gabriele is greatly inspired by art, his love of
photography and fashion which he brings to the role of Creative Director leading our design teams to design beautiful
things that uplift the human spirit.

Brad Davidson has over 30 years’ experience in hospitality planning and design. He worked originally as an architect and interior designer on projects throughout Asia and the US. The projects he was involved in included hotels in Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia and resorts in the South Pacific Australia and New Zealand.

Since 2006 he has been based in Belgium and spent 13 years working on the operator side as a Senior Director of technical Services for Starwood. In this capacity Brad work across all of Starwood’s 10 brands and across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. This extensive experience has given brad a clear understanding of the complexity of planning, designing and opening a hotel property.

Since the beginning of 2018 Brad, along with his partner, Hilde Vandewalle, has opened Brad Davidson Consulting BV as a hospitality consultancy to assist owners, operators and consultants to deliver hospitality projects and to structure the tax, commercial and financial side of the hospitality business.

Lesley Schofield has been in the pharmaceutical industry for over 25 years, starting with preclinical drug development and then moving on to clinical trial management in late phase clinical research. As a director of US Medical Affairs Clinical Trial Operations, she has the responsibility to lead a team in driving the design and implementation of innovative clinical trials across therapeutic areas. Lesley’s experience and skills include clinical trial design experience (with an emphasis on late phase, neuroscience and cardiovascular clinical research); clinical trial management with a focus on innovating the clinical operations process, protocol development, CRO/vendor selection and management, forming and maintaining strategic collaborations; identifying programmatic challenges and opportunities and developing result-driven operational strategies.

Bruce Nicol is an Architect based in Berlin. He is the Head of Global Design at Merck Window Technologies.

Having qualified at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, Bruce was immediately immersed in glass technology and innovations. Having an extended sabbatical in the glass industry, where he supported the glass design on major projects worldwide, he is now once again at the cutting edge of glass innovation engaging with the all sides of the construction process bringing eyrise dynamic glass solutions to the forward thinkers in the global community. Eyrise is here to help establish a well being and comfort level which respects everyone. Lightwellness for all.

Enno Zuidema (Kampen, 1968) studied at the Delft University of Technology where he graduated in 1992 with an honorable mention. In 1993 he founded his firm, Enno Zuidema Stedebouw. His strengths are in social and spatial strategies, he focuses on finding sustainable and suitable solutions by social participation and stakeholder cooperation. The emphasis of his work lies on regional and municipal visions, structural plans, landscape assignments, re-structuring of urban areas in need and infrastructure. Enno is an active urban planner and leader for the developments and challenges in the northern areas of the Netherlands. He is also often invited as a guest lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Tilburg, and at the University of Delft. He was also the Chief of Urbanism at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam. Since the 1st of September of 2018, Enno is the head of urban development studio at MVRDV.