Raul Monroig is the HR director of Spain and Portugal at Bristol-Myers Squibb and has over 18 years of professional experience. He is a leader in the human resources field with global experience in positions with global reach. He has a strong focus on business development and strategic implementation of organisational plans at the international level. Raul is also a recognised business turnaround expert, specialising in change, cultural integration and leadership development. Adding to that, he is also seasoned in coaching, corporate athlet­ics, 7 Habits and MBTI trainings. He has a degree in international relations from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he also spent time studying in Vienna, Alicante and Milan.

Alain Labouverie is leading the Shared Knowledge, Technology & Analytics department within the HR organisation at UCB. The team has end-to-end responsibility for the execu­tion and continuous improvements of the global HR processes, the analysis of the HR data to bring actionable insights and the ownership from an HR standpoint of all the underlying technologies that are supporting the HR organisation. Prior to joining UCB, Alain took various roles in the consulting business where he advised a wide range of multi-national companies to select and implement state-of-the-art HR processes and supporting technologies. On top of his customer solutions assignments, Alain took lead roles in local alliance management and global centres of excellence focussed on performance and compensation management.

Catherine Blachère is currently involved with the board of directors and various strategic committees. She also mentors startups on HR transformation, talent management and gov­ernance. Catherine worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb until the end of 2017, spending time as vice president of human resources, Europe, then intercontinental and then transformation. Catherine started her career in 1985 as a lawyer at Landwell, mostly involved in mergers and acquisitions, and then moved in-house in the pharmaceutical industry as general coun­sel France, Pharmacia and later general counsel Europe, Pharmacia & Upjohn (now Pfizer). She then joined a global service company, IMS Health (now IQVIA), as VP and associate general counsel for EMEA. Catherine then switched over to human resources and became VP, human resources EMEA, and later global VP, talent management, at IMS. Catherine’s view of human resources is that “it is all about talent” and about transforming organisa­tions. The whole HR organisation should be focussed on attracting, developing and retaining talents in ever-evolving companies. Catherine holds a master’s degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, a master’s in international law, Paris I Sorbonne, a bachelor’s in history, Paris IV Sorbonne, and she was a member of the Paris Bar Association.

Holly Foster has been in the field of human resources for more than 25 years. She has held senior leadership roles in human resources across multiple disciplines, including talent management, organisational development and organisational effectiveness. She has worked within multiple industries, including high tech, consumer products, industrial manufacturing and, most recently, the life sciences industry. She has a black belt in Lean and a master’s degree in industrial and organisational psychology. In her current role within Lonza, she is the vice president of human resources for the pharma and biotech segments. Lonza is a leading supplier to the life sciences industry, providing product and services from clinical development and services to innovative dosage forms. Holly is passionate about delivering value through people, and her mantra is “GSD” (get stuff done)! In addition to supporting the “people needs” of a fast-growing business, she is driving transformation within the human resources function

Diana Johnson is a life sciences talent acquisition executive at IBM, leading talent acquisition delivery for IBM’s talent and engagement clients in EMEA. With over 12 years of professional experience and expertise in technology, data, search and candidate experience, Diana recog­nises the huge impact technology is having not only in talent acquisition but to organisations as a whole. She looks to strip back complexity to apply technology where this can expedite successful delivery of talent acquisition objectives. Diana is studying for her CMI and enjoys her role as a leader internally within IBM. She also has a degree in international relations and enjoys spending time in Scotland detaching from all things digital.

Rob Enright has 12 years of talent acquisition experience, spanning recruitment delivery (both as a recruiter and leader) and latterly for the past 8 years partnering with clients to co-design talent acquisition strategies across a range of industries, workforce categories and skills. Rob’s expertise includes organisational design, strategy, employment branding, technology, sourcing, digital experience, process re-engineering and analytics. Rob is an IBM design thinking practitioner and cognitive business architect (Watson Solution Design) and has a passion to demystify the relevance of market disruptors and applying them practically to the talent acquisition domain. Rob has partnered with organisations across sectors, including the life sciences, technology, telecoms, FMCG and logistics sectors, where his solution design and innovation has supported initiatives such as user experience design, driving new hire quality, scaling to deliver critical hiring projects, employment brand design/ execution and delivering efficient (cost/process) recruiting operations.

Idan Hevion has been the head of Global HR Data Governance, People Analytics and HR Infrastructure in Teva Pharmaceuticals for the last 4 years. Idan, who has a strong financial background (both academically and from his early career stages), has spent his last 12 years driving and leading global and regional HR teams in most HR functions and domains. In his current role in Teva (since February 2015), Idan leads the following global functions: people analytics, data governance, HR platforms and HR planning and control. Prior to Teva, Idan has worked in several large high-tech companies, leading global functions and teams of total rewards, talent acquisition, HR operations, HR information systems and planning and control.

Born in Israel in 1974, Idan holds both of his degrees (MBA and bachelor’s in economics and business administration) from Tel Aviv University. In the past, Idan lived and worked in Lon­don and Bath, UK, for a few years and is now based near Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Guido Ruiz Höhn is a global player and recognised change leader with a successful track record in promoting transformations within global organisations. Currently, he is global HR head for Product Lifecycle Services and Global Service Centres at Novartis. In his previous role, he set the foundation and led UP4Growth, an enterprise-wide strategic program aimed to integrate and simplify core people development management processes across the or­ganisation for around 118,000 associates in approximately 155 countries. Prior to this, he was the global HR head for Pharma Quality at Novartis, where he successfully contributed to building the organisation and led a global team of HR professionals who achieved sus­tainable success in growing and strengthening the talent pipeline. Guido currently lives in Switzerland and holds a degree in psychology, a master’s degree in human resources and leadership and a master’s degree in business management.

Pedro Simoes has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from ISPA (Instituto Superior de Psico­logia Aplicada) and a master’s degree in HR management from ISCTE Business School. He also obtained certifications in coaching from the European Coaching School and training from TÜV-Portugal. He started his career in the insurance industry, working for Allianz in recruiting and training. After postings at Sony and Samsung in training roles, he joined Wyeth in 2007 as training and development manager. His responsibilities at Wyeth included overseeing recruit­ment, career management and training for both pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare businesses in Portugal. In early 2010, he assumed the role of European training manager for Global Commercial Operations (GCO), where his responsibilities spanned the country level, supporting Portugal and Spain, and also the regional level, where he worked closely with the European antifungals brand team. His responsibilities in GCO included the implementation of programs in negotiation, coaching and virtual classroom training. In his current role, he leads Global Learning and Development (GL&D) for Europe. He is responsible for representing GL&D’s portfolio of learning programs and resources and providing learning advisory services to business leaders across European markets.