Witness the Digital
Transformation of Nestlé

After 25 years spent in creative agencies leading Global clients such as P&G, L’Oréal and Nestlé, Aude moved to Google Ads business where she led the global Luxury clients and YouTube go-to-market in France. She then transferred to the US as Global Managing Director to lead Brand Marketing for Android, Chrome, Google Play, Chromebooks, Google Fi and Google Meet.

Aude joined Nestlé as Global CMO in July 2020.

Aude has lived in London, New York and Paris and has led teams across the 5 continents.

Neel is the Global Head of eCommerce at Nestlé. In his newly created role, he is responsible for delivering the group ambition to be the leading FMCG F&B manufacturer to reach 25% of Group sales online by 2025.

He has spent more than a decade in eCommerce, immersing himself in all things CPG on-line. He is particularly passionate about business transformation at speed, challenging the status quo and getting things done.

Before being named Global Head of eCommerce, Neel was eCommerce Director for Nestlé Purina Petcare Zone EMENA. Here, he created Nestlé's first cross-functional eCommerce business unit selling in more than 30 countries across the zone. His role was a unique combination of direct P&L management and strategic oversight for locally managed customers.

Prior to that, he was Head of eCommerce for Nestlé UK, leading the UK eCom team to deliver sales, profit and market share delivery across Grocery.com, Pure play and Specialist e-tailers.

Before joining Nestlé, Neel worked at Amazon as a Senior Vendor Beauty Manager Responsible for buying all categories in the rapidly expanding Beauty business. He also worked at PepsiCo for 8 years in various eCom, Sales, Strategy and Engineering roles. Neel is a Mechanical Engineer from University of Warwick.

A technologist at heart, Chris is passionate about exploring the role of information technology as an enabler, allowing corporations to bring their visions to life, at scale.

Starting his career 25 years ago as a young and enthusiastic IT graduate, Chris is feeling ever more excited of the sensational opportunities today’s digital age is bringing to our society. Chris leads a multicultural, increasingly diverse and agile, global IT team of the world’s largest food and beverage company. His team works to enable Nestlé to transform throughout a connected ecosystem, benefiting from industry leading IT capabilities, allowing every player to perform at their best.

Experienced Head Of Engineering with a demonstrated history of working in the food & beverages industry. Skilled in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Strategic Planning, Management, and Leadership. Strong engineering professional with a MBA focused in Finance and Multiple Executive Education courses from world renowned institutions.

Marina Nagel is currently a Factory Engineering Manager at Nestlé Indochina. She has over 13 years of experience in managing engineering projects and products in Nestlé.

Oluwabunmi Esther Etty-Mfon is currently the Plant Manager for Culinary at Nestlé Central & Western Africa. She is an experienced engineer with about 27 years of experience, and manages the operations of the culinary plant in Agbara Factory.

In her current role, Oluwabunmi is responsible for the daily ongoing operations of the Culinary Plant in Agbara Factory. Prior to joining Nestlé Central & Western Africa in 2010, she held various engineering roles in Nigerian Foundries LTD and Unilever Nigeria, where she was the first female Maintenance Engineer and Factory Area Manager.

Oluwabunmi's passion includes counselling, meeting people & making friends, as well as visiting various places with her sons!

Pierre Capelani is an Engineering Project Manager with wide experience of the construction of food manufacturing plants and a Certified PMP.

Arifa Hussain is currently the Regional Marketing Manager for Coffee & Beverages at Nestlé Middle East and North Africa. She has over 20 years of experience in the field of Sales.

Sarah has over 4 years of experience in Human Resources of Multinational Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Companies and is skilled in end-to-end Talent Acquisition process, Employer Branding, and Business Partnering.

She aims to address skill gaps among today's youth talent market, and does so by attending self-development classes as a facilitator and converting what she has learned at work into practical tips and trick to help youth kick-start a fulfilling career.

Hajra Omer is currently the Head of Human Resources at Nestlé Pakistan, with over 20 years of experience in the human resources industry.

Sally is currently the Head of Procurement at Nestlé Middle East and North Africa. She has a demonstrated history of working in the food & beverages industry, and is skilled in Supply Chain Optimization, SAP APO, Demand Planning, and Procurement.

Jessy Abdulnour is an experienced Business Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the food & beverages industry. Strong professional skilled in Marketing Management, Customer Insight, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Trade Marketing, and Retail Category Management.

Oluwabunmi Esther Etty-Mfon is currently the Plant Manager for Culinary at Nestlé Central & Western Africa. She is an experience engineer with over 20 years of experience, and manages the operations of the culinary plant in Agbara Factory.

Olha Vyslobodska is currently the Data & Technology Lead Nestlé Business Service Philippines. With over 10 years of experience, Olha is experienced in optimization, global transition and project management.

Mark Castillo has diverse experience in several industries including FMCG (home care, personal care, beverages), professional products & telecommunications.

He is results-driven and passionate about consumer insight, brand building and people development.

Amer Bolbol is an experienced eCommerce Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the food & beverages industry. He is a strong operations professional skilled in negotiation, business planning, sales, marketing strategy, and management.

Amit Narain is the Global Head for HR Business Services in Nestlé and is responsible for employee experience focused HR business processes and people analytics to support markets in taking informed people decisions.

Over the last 18 years with Nestle, Amit held various HR roles including the HR Director for South Asia Region and is a strong believer in Business-first mindset and talent development through empowerment and enablement.

Outside work Amit is a passionate traveler.

Since March 2020, Markus is member of the leadership team of the Nestlé delivery unit within SAP Enterprise Cloud Services and is heading a global team of architects and technology advisors. He has been instrumental in the successful transition of the Nestlé SAP landscape into the cloud.

Markus started working with SAP in 2008 at the SAP research department with a focus on digitalization and the Internet of Things. In 2012, he joined SAP Consulting and served various large customers as technical consultant, project manager, and architect. He maintains a relationship of trust with Nestlé since 2016 and is part of the SAP leadership team of the Nestlé account.

Markus holds a Master of Science in business information systems and a PhD in computer science. He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany and is married with 2 children.

Nabil El Bouzrati is a dynamic, highly skilled and accomplished Operations & Engineering Professional with commitment to providing highest added value. He is able to cultivate a winning team environment with an optimum combination of strategic thinking, critical analysis, a keen eye to detail and an inner drive to challenge the process.

Nabil has 30 years of experience in eight different countries, across three continents which helped build a wide range of cultural and environmental backgrounds. He is passionate about developing others and embracing new technologies.

Silky Mittal is currently the Head of eCommerce in Nestlé India, with over 8 years of experience in eCommerce and Consumer Goods companies. Prior to joining Nestlé in 2018, Silky held roles in reputable companies, such as Amazon and L’Oréal and has a deep interest in eBusiness, Digital marketing and transformation.

Richard Philippe is currently the Vice President of Brand Management at Jumia Group, a leading e-commerce platform in Africa. Prior to being the Vice President, he was the Group Category Director for the FMCG industry within Jumia. Richard is well-versed in the areas of brand management, vendor management, and key accounts management.

Tam Truong Cong is the experienced Head Of Integrated Media at Nestlé Vietnam with a demonstrated history working in different industries across FMCG and F&B.

Zetch is currently the Head of eCommerce at Nestlé Malaysia, where he leads eCommerce transformation for the company - developing eCommerce strategy across categories, delivering online business results and building organizational capabilities in eCommerce. Starting off as a Management Trainee in 2011, he was the pioneer in setting up the online business for Nestlé Malaysia back in 2014 and now has over 8 years of experience in eCommerce.

Kevin currently heads the Retail and Fulfilment team at Shopee Malaysia, where he leads the business for all retail accounts, Shopee Supermarket, and Fulfilled-by-Shopee (FBS). Prior to the role, he started off as the Category Manager for Groceries & Pets working closely with Nestle to establish business Nestle as one of our largest brands on Shopee Malaysia over the years. He was part of the founding team to launch Shopee Poland focusing on business development.

Dienda Andriani is currently the Head of Media at Nestlé Indonesia, where she leads a team of media experts who drive media capabilities internally and externally, while ensuring that all of the organisations' media activities are being implemented as efficiently and effectively as possible to aid in driving business results.

Dienda has more than 17 years of experience in media agencies for media planning and buying, and joined Nestlé in 2019. On a personal note, she loves travelling!

Guy Kellaway is currently the Communications Director at Nestlé Indonesia, where he leads the areas of marketing, communications functional capability and transformation for the organisations' people and brands, including media, insights, data and digital, content and experience.

Guy first joined Nestlé over 20 years ago, and has since embarked on various marketing and business management roles for multiple brands and categories across Oceania, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Switzerland and now, Indonesia.

When he's not in the office, Guy's simple passions include having a lazy Sunday brunch and travelling.

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Marcus is Head of Communications and Media at Nestlé Zone Greater China. He moved to Mainland China in 2005 and has worked in advertising agencies, including Havas and Ogilvy, on both MNC and local brands.

Before he joined Nestlé, Marcus was the Managing Director at Serviceplan China, where he was responsible for agency transformation from traditional one to an agency with truly integrated marketing capability.

In his current role, Marcus focuses in providing marketing & media initiatives and guidance on consumer communications to all Nestlé brands. He is also responsible to further drive Nestlé's corporate brand image, awareness, trust, and favorability through corporate campaigns. He is also the Zone Champion to Brand Building The Nestlé Way, a global marketing platform to help marketers to participate in accelerating the impact of Nestlé brands, with speed, agility and, above all, marketing excellence.

Beside mastering on consumer communication, Marcus is also a Muay Thai fighter and a long-distance runner.

Tshidiso Tshwaedi is currently the e-Category Manager at Nestlé Eastern & Southern Africa, with over 15 years of experience. In his current role, he leads growth marketing and digital strategies to support the organisation's health tech portfolio across South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana.

Cristian Fernandez is an experienced engineering professional with more than 25 years of experience in the Food & Beverage industry.

He is passionate about people, sustainability and the environment, as well as serving society.

Christian Von Alten is currently the Global Client Director for Strategic Accounts at Microsoft. He is a business leader with over 20 years experience in the consumer goods industry.

Krystal Olivieri serves as Global Chief Innovation Officer for Choreograph and GroupM—a dual role that makes her responsible for incubating, elevating, enhancing and streamlining innovative products and solutions. A member of GroupM’s Global Leadership Team and one of Adweek’s “50 most indispensable executives in media, marketing and tech,” Krystal masterfully uses software as a catalyst to drive innovation across the businesses.

Krystal is a GroupM veteran of more than seven years and has been leading innovation across the network through the conception and co-design of many core products throughout the years. The creator of GroupM’s data ethics philosophy of “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should,” she has long been an advocate for consumer-centered data usage in campaigns that preserves a consumer’s right to privacy. Prior to joining GroupM, Krystal was with Omnicom Media Group in business development. She currently lives on Long Island with her beloved Frenchie Gus.

Zumi presents a broad and classical background in marketing & business management, with 16 years working experience in South Africa and abroad from middle to senior management.

Her experience spans across different countries in Africa, across multiple areas of expertise and leading junior to middle management teams. Zumi's interest in marketing goes beyond building great brands that consumers love, but also in developing teams and ensuring they are well set to grow and lead over time.

Mosima Selota is a fully acquainted professional with demonstrated experience in Programme & Project Management, Big Data Science, Digital IoT, BI & Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource and Finance. He is also PMP, Prince2 and CoBiT Certified.

Mosima has held number of key leadership positions and has proven leadership skills. He demonstrates critical competencies in four broad categories: commitment to results, business savvy, leading change, and motivating.

Driving digital transformation in Nestlé leading Data, Technology and Activation with over nine years of experience in Marketing with strong focus in digital operations and technology.

David Holte is currently the Lead Cloud Engineer at Wunderman Thompson. He is passionate about Cloud infrastructure, data pipelining, ETL processes and MLOps.

Leading platform partnership and driving digital planning excellence driven by audience centric and strategic approach across full funnel activation from awareness to acquisition and purchase.

Laura Vacotto is currently the Group Platform Manager for SAP Landscape at Nestlé. She has more than 20 years of experience managing SAP platforms.

Katie is currently the Head of Supply Chain for Nutrition at Nestlé Asia, Oceania & Africa. She is an expert in the field of supply chain with almost 20 years of experience.

Gonggit Chanthawijaikul is a digital marketing professional with over 10 years experience in sales, strategy, UX, digital marketing, businees intelligence, and marketing analytics.

Gonggit leverages his analytical skills and creative ideas to help organisations generate more revenue. He is a strong believer in the power of quantitative analysis as a business tool to provide strategic insight, and has a passion and strong experience for exploring the uses of digital media to enhance business revenue.

Outside of work, Gonggit dreams of traveling around the world; brewing home-made beer and supporting small local businesses and restaurants in his free time.

Utku Hasdemir is currently the Head of eBusiness at Nestlé MENA. With 20 years of experience, he is leading the Digital Transformation journey across the Value Chain by discovering future business disruptions and developing digital know-how and competencies.

He is responsible for enabling Direct-to-Consumer solutions such as transactional web sites & mobile apps, creating engaging and impactful digital content, embracing a holistic search strategy including SEO, SEM and eRetail search, optimizing brand and corporate websites to enhance user experience, making digital media work smarter and building data powered & audience driven digital marketing communication strategies to deliver personalized consumer experiences.

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Charnae L. Morris, is currently the Head of eBusiness at Nestlé Indochina responsible for leading the organization’s digital transformation across marketing, eCommerce, data and technology. She started her career with Nestlé in the US in 2009, where she gained solid marketing and sales experience across the confectionery and coffee categories. During this time she led the direct to consumer business for Nescafé Dolce Gusto. In September 2014, Charnae joined the Digital Acceleration Team and later transitioned to Global Digital Marketing Manager with the Direct Sales Business Unit at Nestlé SA HQ in Switzerland before moving to Singapore in 2017 to assume the role of eBusiness Lead for Zone Asia Oceania and Africa (AOA). She is married and is the proud fur mom of Filou, a French Pointer.

With a strong focus on Purina Australia’s digital transformation including giving pets a voice through technology, Mark Harris moved into the role of Head of Business Development & Digital Services in September 2020, after successfully developing and leading the NPPA D2C and Care businesses.

Mark is based at the Nestlé’s Oceania head office in Australia and has worked in various Petcare Marketing, Innovation and Digital roles for over 20 years. Originally for The KraMar Petcare Company and Purina since 2010 when that business was acquired by Nestlé Purina.

Mark is Australian and has spent a considerable amount of time in South East Asia working with a number of OEM & 3PM partners in both the CPG and digital product space. Outside of work, Mark is a keen runner and devoted pet parent who continue to be his inspiration for all his teams product development endeavors.

Does thinking of new ways and ideas intrigue you? Adam Simon is here to show you how to take innovation one step further, by supercharging it at a global scale. As the Executive Director of Strategy at IPG Media Lab, Adam has been developing innovation strategies for the past 15 years. He also produced one of Unilever's first branded podcasts way back in 2005.

Fun fact! Adam is a published board game designer and an industry expert on innovation in theme parks and immersive entertainment!

A German with Chinese roots, Patrick has continuously worked at the intersection between East and West. Based in Munich, he supports German-speaking companies of all sizes take part in global trade through the Alibaba ecosystem.

Prior to this role, he was part of the digital strategy team at BMW in Munich, with assignments in Silicon Valley and Beijing where he gained experience in in-car entertainment, Android integration and autonomous driving. Patrick holds a Bachelor's degree in Business from EBS University and a Master's degree in Management from London Business School and Fudan University, Shanghai.

Bernie Stefan is currently the Nestlé Greater China Deputy Zone Head and is an experienced FMCG General Manager in developed and developing markets, with strong experience in successfully leading businesses to profitable growth, identifying and implementing major strategic initiatives and managing change management projects.

Demonstrated capability in M&A, business development & integration, marketing, sales, eComm, distribution and operations.

He is passionate about management and leadership capability that drives business outcomes by building strong teamwork.

Having lived in Beijing for 5 years Bernie had the chance to experience the Digital revolution in China first hand and remains fascinated by this topic and the impact it has on business around the world.

Binu Jacob is a General Management professional in the FMCG industry with 25 years of experience across Europe, US and Asia.

He is passionate about creating a purpose led, people focused, performance driven organization. Binu is currently, fascinated about building organizational culture, breakthrough innovation, circular economy and the fast changing digital ecosystem.

Nam's a digital-first marketeer with a strong technical background, he has had almost 10 years of expertise in Digital Marketing, Integrated Media, e-Commerce, Data Management, and CRM functions at L’Oréal Vietnam and other well-known agencies such as Climax Creatology, Performics, and Publicis Vietnam

Raine is a digital marketer with 14 years of combined experience in capability building, consumer platform development, brand management, accounts management, and events management. She is a creative collaborator in bringing ideas to life for effective storytelling, with a knack for iteration to achieve business goals.

Suresh Narayanan is the Chairman and Managing Director of Nestlé India. He joined Nestlé in 1999 where after which he took up stints in sales, marketing and general management. He moved across geographies in his stint with Nestlé including Egypt, Singapore, Philippines. He spearheaded the relaunch of Maggi after the crisis in 2015 and has been responsible for year-on-year growth that Nestlé India has seen in the past few years.

As the Commercial Director at Nestlé Nigeria, Khaled Ramadan is passionate about all things sales and trade. Throughout his 13 years and counting career at Nestlé, Khaled has seen himself grow and develop through the Syria crisis, when business continuity and business safety mattered most.

Prior to being the Commercial Director, he led the Sales and Distribution in one of Middle East's largest countries, across multiple trade channels. Khaled's vast experience has sharpened his resilience, stamina and most importantly leadership qualities. It's safe to say, that he is the 'Sales Guru' of Nestlé Nigeria.

Nathalie, was born in Zürich and discovered her passion for the digital world 17 years ago in a Telecommunications company. She joined Nestle in 2013, led multiple large-scale Business & IT transformations programs and recently took on her dream role as “Global Marketing and Business Relationship Manager”

Today she is managing the strategic relationship between the Global IT and Marketing departments.

Her job is all about finding pragmatic solutions and building solid partnerships with Global Marketing Leaders while being the “go-to” person for our IT organization.

She is also the proud mum of her 1 year old Nils and the cats “Panna Cotta” and “Prosecco”. Outside work, fashion and interior design are her big passions.

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Blerta Ramosaj is currently a People Co-Pilot in Nestlé's Global Procurement Hub. She is a cultural enabler who facilitates the creation of an inclusive environment where employees are able to maximise their potential and contribute to business objectives and priorities. Having been raised in a multi-cultural environment, respecting diversity is key.

She is a working mother and believes in empowering women at the workplace, to unleash their potential and maximize their value.

Christelle Daven-Foucher is currently the Global Head of Procurement Performance Acceleration at Nestlé. Her current role allows her to drive the right agenda in enabling Nestlé to perform and do more with the same structure, by developing and delivering best in class end to end solutions and processes through the right level of digitalization, as well as enabling savings identification through focused short-term projects. She believes that in the current, very complex global environment, the difference which can make a team is about the speed and efficiency in enabling an organization to stay ahead of its objectives.

Christelle joined Nestlé in 2001 as a packaging buyer in Nestlé Switzerland. Being with Nestlé for more than 20 years has enabled her to work in 8 different positions in 3 different countries, all of it in Procurement. Her career path is made of both at and above market positions with a mix of both operational and global roles.

When she's not in the office, she loves reading! A fun fact anout Christelle is that her first and last names are so long, that they cannot be printed on air tickets!

Hasmukhpinder, better known as Hutch, is the Head of Engineering & Safety/Environment for Nestlé Asia, Oceania and Sub-Saharan Africa region. His experience spans across investment projects, maintenance, energy and water sustainability. In Nestlé, he was worked in various Engineering-related functions across Malaysia, South Africa & Philippines.

In Hutch's current role, he leads the engineering function in the zone, including the installation of new lines, plants and factories. He also manages the upkeep of the organisation's asset base, building engineering competency and driving the manufacturing digital acceleration roadmap of Nestlé Asia, Oceania & Africa. Prior to joining Nestlé in 1994, Hutch has previously worked in the O&G industry in new refinery installations for 3 years.

Hutch is a big fan of Formula One and football, he loves everything to do with sports!

Luca is the Head of Supply Chain and Business Services for Asia, Oceania and Sub- Saharan Africa. In his current role, Luca is responsible for Supply Chain, IT and other Business Services for Zone AOA: CHF 20.7 billion turnover, 92 countries, 10 main business categories, 80 distribution centers.

With a background of Supply Chain and Sales, Luca moved to the Nestlé HQ in July 2019. He has worked with Nestlé in Europe, Asia Pacific, Oceania and South Asia in very diverse markets, cultures and business environment. He brings extensive operational experience in Procurement, Demand and Supply Planning, Logistics, Customer Service and Project Management (Performance Improvements, IT, HR, M&A). He joined Nestlé in Milan, Italy in 1997 as a management trainee and later moved to Asia taking increasing responsibilities in Operations. Luca has been a Supply Chain Director in Vietnam, South Asia and the Philippines. During his assignment in South Asia, he was also the Chairman of a local joint venture operating in fresh milk collection.

Argentinian born, Lino joined Google in 2008 and has since lived and worked in many different roles and countries. He was Country Director for Argentina & Mexico, Leader of the Global Sales Strategy Team for Online Media Solutions in Google’s California HQ, and before that was in charge of the Online Sales Organization for Germany, Switzerland & Austria while based out of Dublin. Most recently he was Managing Director for MENA, based in Dubai, where he currently lives with his wife and three children.

In February 2022 Lino Cattaruzzi joined GCAS to lead the Eurogroup team as their Global Client Partner, overseeing a team dedicated to leading Google’s deep engagement with some of the biggest giants in advertising such as Nestlé, Unilever, L’Oreal, LVMH, Haleon, VW and BMW among others.

Prior to joining Google, Lino held various managerial positions at AOL Latin America, including as President for LATAM and their subsidiary in Argentina.

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Christian Schmid has been with Nestlé for over 30 years, starting off his career as an NPT Team Member, and was then promoted to Supply Chain Director 7 years after. Today, Christian is the Head of Technical for Nestlé Asia, Oceania and Sub-Saharan Africa, resulting from his immense experience in Technical and Process Effectiveness. Prior to his current role, he was Executive Vice President - Technical at Nestlé Greater China Region.

Currently Nestlé's zone Head of Digital & e-Commerce for the Asia, Oceania and Sub-Saharan Africa region, Nadia is passionate about all things commercial and marketing strategy, especially in fast-paced environments.

With over 20 years of global experience, Nadia prides herself in sales and marketing for premium brands across Europe, LATAM and Asia,

On top of all that, she's also a proud mom of two, an avid swimmer and traveler, AND a Netflix and book junkie!

As the corporate head of operations technologies, Howard is responsible for setting the strategy for the digital transformation of manufacturing across the group, working with a small team in corporate but connected to experts located across the globe and in different functions.

Howard has been with Nestlé for 20 years, with a background in engineering Howard has been factory engineer, factory manager in the UK and US and chief engineer in the UK before coming to this role in 2018.

Outside of work, Howard enjoys sailing and cooking, but not at the same time.

Antonia Farquhar, Global Integrated Media Lead for Nestlé, has swapped Sydney, Australia, for Vevey, Switzerland in 2021 to take on a global media role. Strong of her 20 years’ experience in media, half of them in Nestlé, she has overseen many transformations over her career.

In her current role, Antonia is ensuring that media strategy, execution and effectiveness transpire across all touchpoints and works with teams across the world to create integrated, full funnel strategies.

When she is not making transformation happen at Nestlé, you will find her cycling along lake Geneva or exploring Europe with her family.

Aurelia Noel, Global Head of transformation and innovation for dentsu X, has left her native France 23 years ago to become a digital practitioner. As a first-generation Digital marketer, she has seen the world of digital through many lenses and loves the dynamics and ever-changing nature of her craft. In her current role, Aurelia is helping Nestlé teams across the world to champion meaningful progress, she also sits on the Global dentsu DEI committee. When she is not working as a trusted advisor to her global client teams, you will find her baking or enjoying a good music festival.

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Christof Gerlach, Director Category & Supplier Management in Delivery Hero. He graduated with MBA from London Business School with the results of top 10%. He was the Director at Omio and a Manager at Amazon under the Seller Fulfilled Prime Marketplace Programme.

Christof was also assigned with international project assignments in MENA, Southeast Asia and South Africa in the technology and telecommunications sector under Detecon. Christof is experienced in developing and executing business strategies such as product development, innovation, and growth.

He is also well-versed in operational and project managements that requires strong skills in analyzation and solving complex problems uncertainty using a structured approach especially through quantitative methods with large teams.

Yannis is an experienced senior business executive, growing teams and developing professionals that have been consistently transforming their business and delivering strong business performance in his 22 years with Nestlé, with categories such as coffees, food and confections in his background. For the past 5 years, he has been in the Nestlé global Marketing & Sales leaderships teams shaping and delivering the digital marketing, and eCommerce transformation of the Nestlé group, translating strategy to operational plans across categories and markets, while he has been leading all marketing & sales capability building initiatives. He has also strong experience in corporate communications & public affairs, and sales channel & category development. He has also worked in the insurance and equity markets. He is married with 2 sons, and has lived and worked in Greece, UK, Bulgaria, while currently is based in the Nestlé HQ in Vevey, Switzerland, and will soon be moving to the Vietnamese market to undertake the role of Head of Communications and Marketing.

Fun fact: He is a passionate gamer, participating in long afterhours battles on line with players across the globe.

Yves joined Nestlé more than 25 years ago. He has worked in Supply Chain, Operations, R&D and Business Management across different continents and product categories.

He is a forward thinker who has developed (and implemented!) transformational strategies in Operations and Logistics. He has a passion for innovation through technology and for people development.

Good to know: Yves is a city councilor in the town where he lives.

Tina is an expert consultant in marketing communication and digital transformation with excellent leadership and negotiation skills. Leading 'Digital Transformation' for Nestlé Germany 2014-2019 broadened her knowledge along the whole value chain and also in change management.

Since 2019 Tina has been leading Global Media Communication at Nestlé HQ and from January 2021 she took on additional responsibilities in the role of Global Head of Media Communications & Partnerships. Tina has a proven track record in managing agencies, and is competent in working successfully in diverse and international teams. She has natural networking skills which have provided her with valuable contacts in media, marketing and agencies throughout her career.

Her work as chairwoman of OWM 2013-2019 (Advertisers Association Germany), as well as being a member of WFA Global Media Board as of 2019 complement her profile as a senior executive.

Nicola Mendelsohn is the Vice President, Global Business Group at Meta. She previously served as Vice President for Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Meta – a role she held since 2013.

She is also a non-executive of Diageo, serves on the UK government’s Digital Economy Council, the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, and is co-president of the charity Norwood.

In 2019, Nicola founded and launched the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation, a charity focused solely on raising funds to help the thousands of people living with Follicular Lymphoma to live well and get well.

Prior to joining Meta Nicola worked in advertising for over 20 years working at BBH, Grey and Karmarama.

Prior roles include: first female President of the IPA (the advertising industry trade body), Trustee of The White Ribbon Alliance, Chairman of Women’s Aid Development Board and President of the Women in Advertising and Communications London club (WACL). She was also a Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Co-Chair of the UK Governments Creative Industries Council. In 2015 she was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the creative industries in the UK.

Her greatest joy in life comes from her husband Jon and her four children Gabi, Danny, Sam and Zac