Speakers

Bjarte Bogsnes
Vice President, Performance Management Development
Statoil, Norway

Bjarte has a long international career, both in Finance and HR and currently heads up Statoil’s Beyond Budgeting project. He is Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table in Europe (BBRT) and has just published the book “Implementing Beyond Budgeting - Unlocking the Performance Potential”. He writes about why traditional leadership and management practices no longer work in today’s competence organisations operating in a business environment more complex, dynamic and unpredictable than ever.

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Lars Häggström
Head of Group Human Resources
Nordea, Sweden

Lars Häggström has been with Nordea since June 2008. His previous positions include Senior Vice President Group HR at Gambro, and senior HR-positions for the American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Co in Sweden; in the US as HR Director for Lilly’s operations in South America and in the UK as head for Eli Lilly’s T&D-organisation in Europe. He has also worked as HR Director of Astra Zeneca Sweden. Areas of special interest include leadership and organisational development.

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Silvia Merretz
Head of Talent Management
McDonald’s Germany

Silvia Merretz is Head of Talent Management McDonald’s Germany which at the same time is the lead of the Western Division (besides Germany 9 other central European countries) within the European structure of McDonald’s.

Her day to day responsibilities include the coordination of the succession planning process for the Western Division as well as the organisation of development programs on a German and Division base. Innovative development concepts in addition to personal development opportunities such as seminars, etc. also belong to her area of responsibility. Since she is supporting company employees and franchisees and their employees the number of her “clients” is around 2000 people.

Her story at McDonald’s already began in high school where she was a part time worker in one of the restaurants in her home town. After graduating from high school and coming back from a year of private studies in the U.S.A. Silvia attended the University of Bonn to study Sociology, Psychology and Business Administration. Then she went to the University of Bielefeld where she graduated in Sociology with specialization in Socialpsychology and Personal- and Organizational Development.

Silvia Merretz started working for McDonald’s Germany again in 1998 in the training department where she was responsible for the restaurant and operations mid-management development. From there she moved on in various development responsibilities before she started 5 years ago to build up the Human Resoures Talent Management department with a strong focus on a strategic personal development to become a well accepted business partner in order to support the company’s goals with the right people in the right place at the right time.

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Gordana Landén
Senior Vice President Human Resources
SCA, Sweden

Gordana Landén has broad and sound experience of a wide range of HR issues in an international environment including creating, planning, execute and aligning HR strategies and processes to business strategies. Gordana has previous worked for Ericsson where she held a number of senior positions beginning in 1991.

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Birgitte Brix Andersen
Employer Branding Director
Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Denmark

Birgitte has been responsible for global Employer Branding in Vestas since May 2009 and prior to that she worked as an employer branding consultant.

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Filip Sjögren
Global Director Performance & Reward and Country Lead HR Sweden
AstraZeneca

Filip has held senior HR positions within manufacturing, telecom and transportation since the mid 90s. He has been responsible for the salary and incentive issues within AstraZeneca for many years, both in Sweden and globally, and he is also responsible for HR in Sweden. A common thread through the years has been the involvement and development of performance cultures and rewards to ensure linkages at both the local level and in an increasingly global environment.

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Jenny Evelius
HR Director
EF Education First, UK

Jenny Evelius is currently the Senior Vice President Human Resources at EF Education First based in London, UK, a position she has held since January 2007. EF is the world’s largest private educational company with 29,000 employees, offices in over 50 countries and a total of over 400 schools and offices across the globe. Since it was founded in 1965, EF has grown at an exceptional speed of 20-25% per year. The culture is highly entrepreneurial, results driven, non hierarchical and extremely international - in the London office alone there are currently 27 nationalities.

Prior to joining EF, Jenny was responsible for Leadership development for Senior Management at the Electrolux group, based in Stockholm, a position she held for 4 years. Before that she was a consultant with Heidrick & Struggles, one of the world’s leading global executive search firms. There she was managing Executive Search assignments, mainly within the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Pharmaceutical/MedTech sectors, working across functions but specializing in HR. During her time at Heidrick and Struggles, she also performed Non-Executive Director Searches on behalf of major Swedish listed companies

In 1993, Jenny graduated with a Masters Degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Cathrine Foss Stene
Senior Vice President HR & Corporate Communications
Schibsted, ASA Norway

Cathrine Foss Stene was VP Communications & PA in SAS Norge 2004-2008, VP Strategic Leadership in the SAS Group 2002-2004, Head of the SAS Group’s leader-, organisation- and collaborator development 1999-2001, EVP of Manpower AS 1998-1999, GM of Bankpower AS 1993-1998 and Organisation secretary of Finansforbundet 1990-1993. She is chairman of the board of Fjellinjen AS and LINK Signatur AS and director of the board of Ementor ASA and Schibsted Sweden. Cathrine Foss Stene has a Master’s degree in economics from NHH (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) with AMP from Harvard Business School.

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Therése Jönmark
Head of Executive HR and Talent Management
E.ON Nordic

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Katarina Cars
Leader HR Strategy
Telenor Sweden

Katarina has 14 years of experience in Human Resources. She has worked in multi international companies such as Pharmacia, Amersham, GE Healthcare and Telenor. As global HR Leader Katarina has experience from all areas within Human Resources, but over the last 6 years she has specialized in performance management. Katarina has also been instrumental in mergers and acquisitions through her career. She has been leading processes of building new cultures and developing company values as well as designing organizational structures to reach a high level of efficiency within organizations.

Katarina Cars holds a masters degree in Human Resources from Uppsala University in Sweden.

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Marie de la Roche
Business Support Function HR Director
Danone, France

Before taking her current position Marie worked as Organizational Development Director, Resources Development Director and HRD at Danone.

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Staffan Ivarsson
Head of Competence and Learning
Swedbank Group, Sweden

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Henrik D. Sørensen
Managing Director
Ennova, Denmark

Henrik has been the managing director of Ennova since 2001. He is an advisor for several of the largest companies in Scandinavia and an experienced speaker at conferences in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

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Johan Swärd
Vice President HSE
Posten Norge ASA, Norway

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Erik Roth
Organisational & Development Vice President
Posten Norge ASA, Norway

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Hanne Pihl
Managing Director
Mercuri Urval AB

Hanne Pihl, has a long experience working with Talent Management, Business Transformation and Executive Services. She has also worked with Recruitment, Search and Selection on all levels. Hanne has a vast international experience working with clients in various projects and as Account Manager for large international clients. She has experience from many sectors with main focus on IT, automotive and consumer sectors.

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Håkan Petersson
Head of Leadership & Development
E.ON Nordic

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Anders Gyhlenius
Store Manager
IKEA, Sweden

IKEA Kungens Kurva. Anders has worked at IKEA for 20 years including six years in Russia.

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Mark Hamberlin
Senior Director, Human Resources
Cisco Systems Europe

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Marcus Morrison
Senior Consultant
Infohrm Services

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