Shaping the face
of our future
November 16-18, 2021 | Online
9th ABSL ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Faced with the unpredictable reality, and rapid changes that the last two years brought us, ABSL acted as a meeting point where the business services industry gathered for intel and to share best practices, a place where we all got united to find answers to our concerns. Our unique way of staying together “through good and bad times” taught us the key to success in this aim of
Shaping the face of our future
The pandemic showed us the power of a community and how important it is to have peers to speak with, share concerns, but also solutions.
Each one of us owns pieces of information that can create the bigger picture of what the future will look like. We just need to connect this knowledge in order to see trends, find opportunities and anchor ourselves in a reality where everything changes and is volatile.
We are all pieces of this puzzle. We all need to contribute. And in this way, we shape the face of our common future and grow stronger as an industry.
United by this endeavor to find new paths, take care of our people, and give them a sense of belonging, keeping the clients satisfy and expand, the business services community will be reunited this November under the same umbrella – ABSL Annual Conference.
The diversity of thought, creativity, perspectives, opportunities, and problem-solving approaches creates the environment where experts can work toward the same goal – to find the right way to turn the tables around.
600+
participants
35+
speakers
100+
companies
Romanian
Business Services
Industry Report
Live Streaming
Sessions
Virtual Stands
Networking Area
Breakout Sessions
Agenda
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16 NOV 2021
17 NOV 2021
18 NOV 2021
16 NOV 2021
- 10:00
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- Colin Lovering
Conference opening
- 10:10
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- Ciprian Dan
Welcome Remarks – President of ABSL
- 10:20
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- Francesca Postolache
Business Services Sector in Romania. Perspectives in the ”new normal”
2021 continued under the sign of pandemic and uncertainty. In this report published jointly by ABSL and PwC we tried to identify the perspectives and challenges of the business services sector in Romania, regarding mainly the development of labour market, salaries/benefits and the office market.
- 11:00 – 11:15
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- Raluca Bontaș
- Florentina Munteanu
Labour and work – the dilemma of a definition during our Zeitgeist.
Legal and tax perspectives catching up in the digital evolution
Whilst work trends emerge and are embraced by employees in no time, the Romanian employers try to adapt under the auspice of a rather robust legislation. One of the main challenges is to balance the mirage of these trends with the various risks they bear for both the employee and the employers (e.g., health and safety, immigration, labor law, tax, cybersecurity etc.). Our discussion will focus on alternatives to regular employment and on the three dimensions of the “most wanted” workforce trends: perception – reality – solutions, covering the labor law and the tax angles, always linked to the human capital perspectives.
#workingfromeverywhere #workation #bleisure #officeresidents – there is no doubt that the pandemics has changed the ways of working and there are alternatives that are worth investigating and implementing for a more flexible working relationship. But there are also boundaries that need to be acknowledged, valued, and conformed. It is both the employee and the employers’ responsibility to make sure that tailored solutions are identified and properly implemented. It’s a game of meaningful communication, education, and compromise that the employers need to master.
- 11:20
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- Ash Noah
Skills of the future in a Post-Pandemic World: The mindsets required for the NEXT Normal
The pandemic has reset the global operating system, challenging every organization to rethink and reimagine their very business and operating models. Finance and business leaders need to have a clear vision of preparing their teams and organizations for the “Next-Normal” to harness the opportunities that abound in a post pandemic landscape.
This session will focus on crafting Finance and Business leaders agenda to drive resiliency and growth. Ash Noah will discuss the imperatives and shifts that Finance teams need to make and summarize the key actions and take-aways from the Finance track.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the new and emerging areas that Finance and Business must support
- Identify the new competencies the must be created
- Determine the shifts that finance and business must make
- Recognize how to drive these shifts in your organization
12:00 – 13:00
INTERMISSION & LUNCH BREAK
- 13:00
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- Alina Alpaslan – Skanska
- Costin Cristea – Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Andrei Ivan – Skanska
- Iulia Priceputu – Microsoft
Sustainable way of living
Sustainability is now becoming more and more of a lifestyle rather than an idealized principle we know we should act upon. It’s time to move on from a linear economy to one of a circular kind that encourages us to rethink, reduce, repair and recycle instead of take, make, and dump/throw away. It’s up to us to redesign our way of living in order to build a better and a futureproof new reality.
We invite you to join a discussion moderated by Alina Alpaslan – Skanska Romania, where our top invitees Andrei Ivan – Skanska Romania, and Costin Cristea – Hewlett Packard Enterprise, will not only share their companies’ bold targets and smart solutions to cut carbon emissions and build resilience, but present their own green agendas and daily actions in their professional and personal lives that contribute in combating climate change.
In a world where the pandemic has already accelerated the adoption of positive actions and trends, be the one to take a step further towards a greener, more responsible and more environmentally aware future.
Let’s find out more about both corporate and day-to-day sustainability, learn best practices and share insightful ideas that will help all of us build a better strategy for a sustainable way of living.
- 14:00
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- Catalin Micu
- Oana Marinescu
Legal Challenges for Employers in Implementing Remote Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic has reshaped the future of work and the fast-paced legislative amendments have been aimed at maintaining productivity while keeping employees safe. Employers struggle to keep up with changes to the law and to adapt to a new working era. Health and safety remain not only an obligation of employers, but also one of the conditions to assure business continuity.
Here are some key topics to bear in mind:
- Future trends in working from anywhere
- The concept of flexi-offices as part of the tendency to implement flexible work arrangements
- Importance of telework in the implementation of flexi offices
- Office sharing and hybrid remote work arrangements
- Implementing work from home and office sharing
- Employees’ obligation to observe confidentiality
- The concept of flexi-offices as part of the tendency to implement flexible work arrangements
- Wellbeing and work from anywhere during the pandemic
- Legal obligation of employers to organize work by considering the number of vaccinated employees/employees who recovered from the COVID-19 infection
- Legal obligation to implement telework/work from home during the state of alert
- Possibility of employers to limit the access of remote workers to the working place organized by the employer
- Evolution of the legal framework facilitating telework during the pandemic
- Telework is expected to develop, without being impacted by vaccination rates or the legal constraints in this respect.
- Q&A session
- 15:00 – 16:30
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Round table session: Future strategies in the next normal – Business Process Outsourcing sector
- AS IT IS:
- Foreign competitors
- Foreign salary vs Romanian residence
- Turnover last year vs this year
- TO BE (considering also the above results):
- The Future of B2B Sales in the everywhere customer world
- Top Trends Impacting Business Services Sector
- New development strategies of the companies (within RO)
- How to adjust / modify companies’ strategies to people’s needs?
- Tier 3 cities: opportunities (skills, salaries, impact)
This session has a limited number of places. After you register in the platform, book your seat here
17 NOV 2021
- 10:00
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- Ilinca Popescu
Investing in Social Glue
The most engaged employees are the ones who feel a sense of belonging. This feeling is built over hours and hours of micro-interactions that bond people together. Working from home, it’s been harder to sustain those interactions, and networks have been shrinking. To hold people together in a hybrid work environment, leaders will need to nurture and reward the small acts of human glue that bond people to each other, and therefore to the organization.
What are the interactions that bind your organization’s teams together and to each other?
Who is making your organization’s glue?
In this workshop, we will explore these interactions together. There is no preparation necessary, just a willingness to reflect, share and learn from each other.
- 11:00
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- Georgiana Andrei
- Crina Ilie
Deep dive Regina Maria. How companies take care of their employees’ health. Facts and best practices in employee benefits
25 years ago, REGINA MARIA, the Private Healthcare Network, launched the first medical subscriptions on the Romanian market. The impact was decisive both for the future of modern health system and for companies and their employees. Organizations started focusing more on health benefits for their employees and invested in medical packages that became more complex, year on year. Now, over 1,6 million people have a medical subscription – a third of the active working class in Romania.
During the session, Regina Maria will deep dive into its portfolio of over 7,500 companies and talk about how organizations from the most important industries behave when it comes to health benefits, how the packages look like and what are the key insights and best practices in each segment. Georgiana Andrei Corporate, Sales Director, Subscription Division at Regina Maria, will present and host the panel.
12:00 – 13:00
INTERMISSION & LUNCH BREAK
- 13:00 – 14:10
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Beyond onboarding – from recruiting, building networking, upskilling to innovation, creativity and retention
- Rebeca Lavinia Toader
Stefanini University Plan – How to invest in developing new generation in a pandemic context
In a pandemic context, new generation is even more vulnerable to uncertainty and lack of necessary tools in building their career path. Our aim was to provide students with all the information they need to expertly manage their own career paths – HR and IT operational team partnered in developing a program dedicated to students – the result was a series of workshops offering real answers to their questions.
- Iuliana LEURENT
Why recruitment hurts so much?
How do you know that you are ready to attract and recruit the right talent? What is the right balance while navigating stormy candidate market fighting against time, candidates’ shortage, insufficient competence or low engagement. How and why did the process change and how is that affecting our business. Being connected to facts and “thoughts” of the labour market helps us foresee existing dynamics and getting ready for future trends.
- Matei Popilian
- Diana Simion
Adapting to the new normal requires creative, yet human-centric solutions
The new (hybrid) way of working came as a challenge for all of us. TotalEnergies joined forces with Design Thinkers Academy in getting 50+ employees involved in addressing this challenge in a creative, yet human-centric way. The 5 key projects we came out with are solutions created not only for, but most importantly, with the employees being engaged in this co-creative process end-to end.
- Václav Plevka
How to retain the right talent in SSC using AI
We will look at one critical phenomenon at SSC which is retention of the talent. The aim is to share Deloitte’s structural approach from the projects for SSCs where we helped dealing with high turnover using the AI and advanced analytics methods.
- Dorin Cristian Enache
Effective use of competencies in HR processes
Competencies are the cornerstone of all HR processes.
But sometimes, adding an extra step in these processes, which is in a lot of cases is considered “administrative” by managers and employees will affect the efficiency of a Shared Service Center.
Add an unscheduled pandemic and things can quickly get out of control.
So in 2020, we decided to focus our attention on the effectiveness of our HR Process, not only efficiency.
We started with the first process, recruitment, and we’ll share with you our plans and the challenges we faced implementing them.
- 14:15 – 15:10
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The work of the future – through automation and digitalization
Automation and digitization are the key drivers for value creation. We will discover together from our members’ success stories, how technology evolved during last year, the risk minimized and the impact maximized.
- Leon Labrin
- Mircea Tanase
From reactivity to proactivity in maritime transport planning
Following the COVID pandemic, the maritime transport industry have been heavily impacted. The situation is expected to remain difficulty in 2022. Michelin has few levers to mitigate the impacts of the maritime crisis. Among those there is the capacity to anticipate the transport needs. The main point is to move from a reactivity to proactivity in releasing transport requests to maritime companies. At first the intention was to generate a maritime detailed forecast in containers from a port of departure to a port of arrival. All of this by identifying a Machine Learning model capable to optimize a forecast. Project evolved. What we truly needed was to take the right decision despite the forecast inaccuracy. We needed to optimize the probability to commit for a container reservation. Roughly the forecast could be wrong, but still, we are capable to measure on how much we should commit. The machine learning is in fact optimizing our bet into the future rather than the forecast itself. The result is a number of containers to be planned on a daily bucket. We changed from standard way of waiting the order prior to booking, to a pre-booking up to 5 weeks in advance. This approach allows to secure volumes, reliability, and cost. Carriers are interested on reliable anticipated information. The gains potential is currently estimated at 1 day of Overall Lead Time for Europe Export, which worth roughly 3 million euros of Cash Flow thanks to inventory decrease.
- Adrian Dinca
Organizational Development and why it’s never been more important
Every year companies are expected to bring new products on the market, at a faster pace, cheaper prices and better quality than ever before
As these changes happens, what happens to people? What happens to their roles? Did what made sense before still makes sense now? Do the old teams structures, roles and responsibilities still make sense?
HR can leverage Organizational Development tools to guide the company through this complexity and the rapid-evolving business. Technology alone won’t change the world. People will. Finding ways to make people work together in an effective way is the key to the success of any organization.
- Gabriela Mardare
Finance Reporting Platform implementation for the reports prepared by Finance Division
Use case: Implementation of a Finance Reporting Platform (FRP) to monitor reports consumption for all relevant Finance reports. The FRP is a central repository for all reports prepared by the Finance Division for a wide range of beneficiaries. It is setup not only as a reports’ storage & distribution repository, but also as a collaboration platform in which finance colleagues work together to prepare the reports, using our company’s main collaboration tools (MS Teams and SharePoint Online).
All reports prepared by Finance division are uploaded in FRP, accessed by the beneficiaries via FRP Access Point, thus they are no longer sent via email or other communication methods. Beneficiaries have the possibility to give feedback on the reports (1 to 5 stars or specific comments) and many other features improving their experience. The platform is offering also the basis for reports governance and increased transparency of the end to end process (from preparer to beneficiary consumption of the report), supporting us to identify areas with reduction/simplification/automation potential
- Adriana Dragomir
Building a Digital Hub in GBS. Journey from Global Business Services to Global Business Solutions
Companies often wonder whether the technology is ready for their organization. Well, most of the time this is not the case because it is not scalable or compliant. But, in fact, the question should be turned the other way around: is the organization ready for technology? Join this session with Vertiv to learn more about the 4 game changers identified in the journey from services to solutions provider!
18 NOV 2021
- 10:00
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- Mihaela Perianu
Uncovering our Blind Spots & Leading with Our Sage Powers!
Whether we like it or not, as leaders we’ve been living with the paradigm of ‘Employees leave their bosses and not the company’, and that has been happening for quite some time, by now. No pressure 😊
On top of this paradigm that made history, we now start hearing rumors that we are in the midst of The Great Resignation, YOLO, VUCA world. COVID 19 seems to be the ‘top player’ in terms of testing our leadership skills.
So now, this wind of change brought us to a new leadership paradigm, one that implies empathy, creativity and stretching ourselves in finding new ways of attracting talents and leading our teams in a different way.
But in doing so, what is it about ourselves (each and every one of us) that stands in the way? In this sessions, we want to talk about the 10 Saboteurs that we all have, but are not fully aware of, as well as their impact on us, our teams and the business.
Warning: This session is meant to uncover those parts of us that we don’t like and yet are leading our way. Our blind spots!
- 11:00
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- Silviana Petre-Badea
- Sven Sajet
Tech solutions for the new way of work
The presentation covers the ways in which technology enabled us to track the use of offices and made the booking of space seamless.
It shows how technology made it possible for us to aggregate different apps and software into an integrated solution that will facilitate employees’ ease of access to the physical and virtual offices.
It tackles topics such as the workplace of the future, post pandemic and the new hybrid way of work, from a technological standpoint.
12:00 – 13:00
INTERMISSION & LUNCH BREAK
- 13:00 – 14:30
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Round table session: Smart Satellite offices/teams – in an anywhere and everywhere work environment
- The new digital workplace & working room
- Future trends in working from home / from anywhere
- Competition on local talent between European and local companies (Romanian experts hired in Romania to work for a foreign company)
- Best practices and solutions for team bonding/productivity/sense of belonging in the context of WFH (channels, activities, programs, games). Online vs offline socialization
- People, moving from employees to freelancers – contractual, organizational and managing changes (freelancers, contractors, employees)
This session has a limited number of places. After you register in the platform, book your seat here
- 14:30 – 14:45
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- David Hand
Ethics for sustainable AI adoption: connecting AI and ESG
Artificial intelligence (AI) is relevant to accountancy and finance professionals because it is moving from the experimental stage to adoption at scale over the decade of the 2020s. The accountancy profession, with its explicit and long-standing commitment to ethical practices, is well placed to guide organisations along a responsible path for AI adoption.
- 14:45 – 15:30
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Driving results through data and continuous improvement
Sustaining and spreading a continuous-improvement culture through identifying and implementing a set of rules in order to generate the most value towards customer satisfaction. But how do we do that? Let’s learn from our colleagues best practices in terms of goals setting, SLAs/KPIs definition, tools/methodology used and moreover knowledge investment.
- Adriana Dragomir
Is “Evolution” or “Revolution” the key to Business Transformation?
Which one is more important to your organization, continuous improvement or innovation? By leveraging a culture of continuous improvement you realize gains in efficiency and productivity that can lead to increased profitability. Being committed to innovation ensures your organization has a process to continually develop and produce products and processes that deliver positive results. The combination of the two pack a real one-two punch and deliver great benefits for your organization’s people, products, and processes. So, what’s the difference between the two and how do they work together?
- Mihaela Jurje
Sustaining a continuous improvement culture in Allianz Partners Romania through People analytics
Allianz Employees Survey is used on yearly basis in building a credible human capital analytics for our organizational competitive advantage. The survey is covering 12 pillars ( e.g. Customer Centricity, Diversity & Inclusion, Manager, Job & Processes, Innovation & Change, Top Management & Strategy, Learning & Development etc.) being the most powerful tool in obtaining employee feedback. As a next phase in the process, at organizational level there is a clear direction in understanding the feedback through results discussions, transforming results into action and foster continuous improvement.
Speakers
Alina Alpaslan
Finance Manager for Skanska’s commercial development division in CEE
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Alina Alpaslan
Finance Manager for Skanska’s commercial development division in CEE
Alina is the Finance Manager in Skanska’s commercial development division in CEE, being in lead of all financial activities with focus on ensuring support to the Project Management and Leasing business lines. She provides strategic analyses for senior management to determine project and company profitability and is an active member of the local Management Team.
Starting her financial career in 2014 when she joined Skanska, Alina Alpaslan was one year later promoted as Business Controller. Supporting both the development and construction business streams, the role offered her the opportunity to expand and implement related controlling processes and systems within the organization while acquiring a broad overview and expertise on both business models,
As a Business Controller in Skanska Property Poland within the Unlimited Program, Alina oversaw Business Controlling for major projects in 3 regional cities.
Besides her role in the finance department, in 2017 she also worked as a Risk Team Member for Skanska’s commercial development division in CEE, when Alina was responsible of reviewing and scrutinizing all projects submitted for investment approval. It was the same year when she took over the finance department in Romania overseeing all local financial activities and became part of the local Management Team.
For the next two years, in addition to her Finance Manager position, Alina was appointed as an Ethics Committee Member for Skanska CEE. From this position, Alina makes sure that ethics and integrity always serve as a compass, providing upright recommendations and well-thought plans on how to resolve or avoid potential dilemmas.
As ethics is one of the core concepts in sustainability, it’s no wonder that Alina also shares Skanska’s Care for Life value, which reflects in her efforts to integrate and promote sustainable solutions in the day-to-day office life.
Georgiana Andrei
Corporate Sales Director, Regina Maria The Health Network
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Georgiana Andrei
Corporate Sales Director, Regina Maria The Health Network
Georgiana dedicated herself to consulting in 2000. The experience in sales and sales team management has taught her that, in this field, the key to success is to know how to listen to the other side – be it a customer, employee or business partner. After 13 years of real estate, she was attracted to healthcare. This is also the reason why, in 2016, she chose to join the REGINA MARIA team as Corporate Sales Director. She believes that both areas have given her the opportunity to help clients better understand what they can do to make their employees happier, more loyal and, last but not least, more productive. This approach pushed her to the coaching area in 2013 as well.
Raluca Bontaș
Partener, Deloitte Tax Global Employer Services
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Raluca Bontaș
Partener, Deloitte Tax Global Employer Services
Costin Cristea
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Costin Cristea
Workplace Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Creating great Workplace Experiences @ HPE.
Passionate about the future of work, design and making technology a force for good
Adrian Dinca
EMEA HR Director, Vertiv
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Adrian Dinca
EMEA HR Director, Vertiv
HR Director in VERTIV EMEA, currently responsible for Engineering and Shared Services EMEA, but also leading global transformation projects. My experience covers continuous improvement and transformation roles (Black Belt certified), but also software development
Adriana Dragomir
Head of Transformation Team, Vertiv Global Business Services
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Adriana Dragomir
Head of Transformation Team, Vertiv Global Business Services
With a background in outsourcing and shared services, Adriana’s career expands over several industries and functions, including healthcare, manufacturing, customer service, finance, procurement, human resources. She has led teams of 80+ people and global transformation projects for 10+ years and is currently leading the Global Transformation Team in Vertiv Global Business Services, focused on continuous improvement, innovation, digitalisation and expansion of the GBS footprint.
Dorin Cristian Enache
Competency Manager, Michelin
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Dorin Cristian Enache
Competency Manager, Michelin
Dorin Enache has 14 years of experience in Learning&Development in different organizations.
He successfully coordinated and deployed organizational development, leadership, talent management, and many others.
Currently, he is the Competency Manager for Michelin's Shared Service Center dedicated to the Time Zone Europe.
His role in Michelin is to offer support to the management team on everything related to behavioral and professional competencies.
His focus in the last years has been: how to effectively use competencies in different HR processes from recruitment to talent management.
David Hand
Director of Strategic Employer Partnerships, ACCA
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David Hand
Director of Strategic Employer Partnerships, ACCA
David Hand is Director of Strategic Employer Partnerships at ACCA, whom he joined in 2011. In this role he is responsible for leading ACCA’s engagement with key employers to develop mutually beneficially relationships. He is also responsible for Global Business Services, leading ACCA’s strategic approach to the shared services and outsourcing sector worldwide.
David began his career as an accountant for a major UK retailer, and has since worked in a number of countries in Asia and Europe. Prior to joining ACCA, David spent 15 years in various finance and general management roles with major multinationals such as GE and AstraZeneca. This included 2 years running GE’s finance operations in Hungary and setting up AstraZeneca’s APAC shared services organisation.
David is married with 2 young boys and currently is based in the Netherlands.
Crina Ilie
People Function Leader, Europe and South Africa, Genpact
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Crina Ilie
People Function Leader, Europe and South Africa, Genpact
Crina is passionate about HR and is constantly looking for new challenges. In her over 20 years of experience, Crina has developed the ability to work in various multicultural environments. Over time, she has held various roles in HR across Europe and America’s, working for a local HR consulting agency, for Regina Maria as HR Director and currently acts as regional HR Leader for Genpact in EMEA.
Besides her passion for hiring, leadership development and learning frameworks, she has a deep interest in HR Technology, organizational culture, employees experience and wellbeing.
Andrei Ivan
Projects Director, Skanska
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Andrei Ivan
Projects Director, Skanska
Andrei Ivan is an experienced professional in commercial development and sustainability who joined Skanska Romania team in 2015, as a Project Leader. With over 14 years within the industry, Andrei held different positions related to managing sustainable commercial projects.
Starting March 2021, Andrei has been promoted as Projects Director, leading the project management activities for Equilibrium and future Skanska projects in Romania. Andrei’s expertise in project management and knowledge in sustainability will enhance the value already created in our developments.
During the last 2 years, he successfully contributed to driving sustainability in our business and unit contributed even more towards Skanska’s mission to build for a better society. He truly believes that our industry role is crucial for the development of green cities and a sustainable future. Either he supported the development of the Skanska Group sustainability strategy, contributed to the review of health and safety standards, or he promoted innovations and digital solutions, Andrei has an increased focus on sustainable solutions, bringing added value to our projects and our customers.
The latest years in Skanska gave him a global perspective, being involved in diverse projects with positive impact for communities.
He believes that achieving any targets is possible as a common effort of the team and that is why he appreciates the expertise that every colleague brings on in the ongoing projects. He is a team player and he always enjoyed working with diverse teams.
Mihaela Jurje
Head of Global Competency Center, Allianz Partners Romania
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Cătălin Micu
Head of Global Competency Center, Allianz Partners Romania
Mihaela Jurje is leading all existing operational platforms in Allianz Partners Romania since September 2017, ensuring excellent operational service delivery and performance, successful onboarding of new business and continuous optimization of the business relationships. Having two bachelor degrees obtained at Warsaw & Bucharest Universities, Mihaela has a 16 years’ experience in IT corporations, Oracle ad HP, out of which 10 in various EMEA & Global Management roles.
Leon Labrin
Performance Manager - Michelin
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Leon Labrin
Performance Manager - Michelin
Graduated in Economy and statistics from the Alpes university, also graduated in transport and logistics from Le Havre Port and management school of Normandie.
During 23 years of experience in Intercontinental logistics and supply chain, Leon worked in 4 countries accross Africa, America and Europe.
After close to 2 years as manager of the Non-Finished Products Intercontinental team he contributed for the last 3 years as Intercontinental Performance manager.
Born in Chile and raised in France, Leon had the chance to grow some interest on cultural differences.
Iuliana Leurent
CEO, Temps HR
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Iuliana Leurent
CEO, Temps HR
Iuliana is the CEO of TempsHR, a Romanian capital HR company, one of the top national players. For the last 15 years she is a true passionate of HR consultancy, consolidating understanding of different industry drivers and reinforcing ways to reveal impact of strategic HR within business development. This has been an ongoing process of building expertise and market understanding in order to advise clients to optimize planning and relate investments to actual resources.
Oana Marinescu
Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners Attorneys at Law
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Oana Marinescu
Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners Attorneys at Law
Oana specializes in all areas of employment and labor law advising local and multinational companies on strategic HR issues affecting their workforce.
She has a particular interest in matters concerning the termination of individual employment agreements, transfers of undertaking, corporate transactions, and the full spectrum of non-contentious work. Oana has experience in handling highly sensitive and confidential matters affecting employers.
Oana holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree in Commercial Law.
Gabriela Mardare
Head of Business Unit Finance, OMV Petrom Global Solutions SRL
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Gabriela Mardare
Head of Business Unit Finance, OMV Petrom Global Solutions SRL
Cătălin Micu
Partner of Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners Attorneys at Law
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Cătălin Micu
Partner of Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners Attorneys at Law
Cătălin Micu, Partner of Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners Attorneys at Law, has an unsurpassed practice in employment law with an exceptional reputation for advising clients on all aspects of individual and collective labor law. Having thorough and solid knowledge of the Romanian corporate regulations, Cătălin is popular among major domestic and international corporations for advice on agreements negotiation, implementation of sophisticated management organization systems, important business transfers, corporate restructurings and collective bargaining agreements.
During 2014 Cătălin successfully coordinated the first ad integrum reorganization in Romania for a bank, by the means of collective dismissal integrated in a sophisticated mechanism of repositioning the human resources on a new jobs’ structure approved by the shareholders of the bank.
Cătălin has also a notable reputation for advising on medical law and commercial law matters, acting for a client roster encompassing companies acting in a variety of industry sectors.
Florentina Munteanu
Partener, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal Employment law
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Florentina Munteanu
Partener, Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal Employment law
Ash Noah
Managing Director, CGMA Learning, Education and Development Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
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Ash Noah
Managing Director, CGMA Learning, Education and Development Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
Ash Noah is Managing Director, CGMA Learning, Education and Development, at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA).
In this position, Ash leads the Research, Examinations and Product Development for the Management Accounting Unit.
His primary responsibility is to ensure that the Association’s Finance Competency Framework, Syllabus, Examinations and Learning solutions are effective and remain relevant to the practice of Management Accounting. Ash works closely with Finance Leaders globally, identifying the trends impacting the finance profession.
Ash was the CFO for the International Unit of TNT global express logistics provider and has led finance transformation in teams across 45 countries. He is a licensed U.S. CPA, a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation holder, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
Mihaela Perianu
Managing Partner Dale Carnegie Romania
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Mihaela Perianu
Managing Partner Dale Carnegie Romania
Silviana Petre-Badea
Managing Director Romania & Deputy Head & Operations CEE Capital Markets, JLL
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Silviana Petre-Badea
Managing Director Romania & Deputy Head & Operations CEE Capital Markets, JLL
Václav Plevka
AI & Data manager, Deloitte
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Václav Plevka
AI & Data manager, Deloitte
My name is Vaclav and I’m a manager at AI & Data Deloitte CE based in Prague responsible for delivering Data Science projects including HR Analytics. I’m an integrator of business and technical sides with the help of data-driven approach.
Matei Popilian
Talent Developer - TotalEnergies Global Services
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Matei Popilian
Talent Developer - TotalEnergies Global Services
With a strong passion for HR and Education, I am a restless learner and I truly believe in personal and professional development, of myself and others.
Current role: Career coach and business partner for 200 employees in a Financial Shared Service Center
Previous experience: Certified coach & trainer, with 10 years of HR & Learning Facilitation experience in corporate (TotalEnergies, Microsoft, Finastra) and non-corporate environment (AIESEC, Teach for Romania, Alternative University).
Ilinca Popescu
Regional Sales Manager Central Europe Steelcase Inc.
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Ilinca Popescu
Regional Sales Manager Central Europe Steelcase Inc.
As Sales Director for Central, Eastern & Northern Europe, Ilinca is responsible for guiding the best allocation of all Steelcase resources in her region and focuses on getting the most out of her sales team and dealers through active coaching, development and engagement.
Experience: Over her 8 years at Steelcase, she has led projects and developed dealers and teams in the Netherlands, the Baltics, the Adriatics, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Malta. Ilinca has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science from University College Utrecht, Netherlands, and a master’s degree from the University of Leiden.
Francesca Postolache
Partner, PwC
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Francesca Postolache
Partner, PwC
Francesca joined PwC Romania in 2000. With more than 18 years of experience in audits performed under the International Standards on Auditing, Francesca had an active role in the development of the Romanian and Moldovan audit practice. Being partner of PwC Romania she is also partner responsible, since 2014, for the PwC office in Moldova.
As Partner within the Assurance Department, Francesca currently manages a sizable portfolio of large international and local clients in different industries such as retail, oil & gas, tobacco, etc. and also leads the Real Estate practice in PwC Romania. In her Real Estate leader capacity, Francesca acts as main contact for Romania on projects developed by PwC across Central and Eastern Europe and coordinates the input for the “Emerging Trends in Real Estate” flagship report published yearly by PwC in partnership with the Urban Land Institute.
Francesca has also been in charge of the audit of banking and industrial clients, as well as audit of large projects financed by International Financial Organisations. At the same time, she coordinates other assurance projects, including the PwC training centre ‘The Academy at PwC’.
Fluent in Romanian, English and Russian and speaking basic French, Francesca is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in the United Kingdom, the Romanian Chamber of Financial Auditors (CAFR) and she is also representing PwC at the German Chamber of Commerce (AKH).
Iulia Priceputu
Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft
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Iulia Priceputu
Support Engineering Manager at Microsoft
In a nutshell, my name is Iulia and I’ve spent the past 6 years of my professional life with Microsoft – what initially started as an opportunity to work with cloud technologies in Microsoft, turned into an amazing journey which had me go through different roles within different teams working in customer support and touching different fields, from technical to operations and business.
I have joined the leading role in one of the Endpoint Manager Customer Support teams, pushing through challenges and always offering best in class support to our customers.
I’m a passionate climate change advocate but also a person who gets involved in as many volunteering activities as she is able to, always on the look-out to achieve the goal for which we have started our projects. The most recent one, to work together within a team of passionate people to achieve the bold target of becoming carbon negative by 2030.
I look forward to meeting you all!
Sven Sajet
Head of Technology Advisory Netherlands, CEE and Nordics, JLL
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Sven Sajet
Head of Technology Advisory Netherlands, CEE and Nordics, JLL
Sven is an experienced IT Business Partner with a history of working in the real estate industry. He is skilled in Business Engagement, Dynamics Development & Deployment, Service Delivery and Operations Management. He focuses on helping JLLs Core Business Leaders differentiate through innovative approaches.
Diana Simion
Senior Design Thinking Facilitator & Business consultant, TotalEnergies Global Services
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Diana Simion
Senior Design Thinking Facilitator & Business consultant, TotalEnergies Global Services
With a PhD in communication studies and a strong background in academic and marketing research, I am an enthusiastic learner by trade, challenge seeker by heart. Having the trend radar always on, I love exploring new methodologies and putting things in perspective.
Current roles: Design Thinking projects covering services or products’ development, improving customers’ or employees’ experiences, Soft Skills’ trainings, Marketing research and Brand strategy consultancy
Previous experience: Marketing research, planning and strategy in various professional contexts, from research agencies, multinational companies, governmental institutions, to academia, where I have also treasured up more than 10 years of teaching experience.
Mircea Tanase
Platform Manager, Michelin
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Mircea Tanase
Platform Manager - Michelin
Technical background, 23 years of experience in engineering, sales, purchasing and logistics on operational or management positions.
Since 2018 Platform Manager for Finished Products in Michelin CBS/LOG.
Rebeca Lavinia Toader
Talent Acquisition Lead - Stefanini
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Rebeca Lavinia Toader
Talent Acquisition Lead - Stefanini
I have over 10 years of recruitment experience, both in recruitment agencies and in-house. Throughout my experience, I have been involved in international recruitment projects for R&D area, automotive, BPO and IT – this allowed me to gain broad knowledge regarding the market and bring solutions and input to business, together with my recruitment team.
I love being an expert in a certain field of activity, but that won't keep me happy for a long time. That's why, in all my jobs, I managed to somehow bring other flavors to my given recipe. That's why I love working in HR - here, I can easily contribute on different areas and learn a lot of things in the same time.
My personal motivation comes from helping our teams excel by bringing valuable colleagues alongside.
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