Karolina Korth is a trained psychologist with passion for innovation and over 10 years of experience in digital transformation and corporate innovation in multinationals in the sectors of healthcare and mobility. Currently, she works as a Chief Digital Officer and Head of Strategy at Siemens Mobility South West Europe. Karolina is also a founder of Health 2.0 Kuala Lumpur and the FeMale Voice of Mobility – a movement to empower women in male dominated industries. She speaks regularly at conferences targeting digital transformation and gives lectures at business schools and universities.

Mireia Giné is a professor and Head of the Financial Management Department at IESE Business School. She has a BA in Economics and Master in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University. She received her doctorate from the University of Barcelona after several years at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania.

Mireia specializes in corporate governance, executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions. Currently, she investigates how common ownership of institutional shareholders impacts the corporate decisions of companies in their portfolio. Her research has been published in the Journal of Finance, Review of Finance, Harvard Business Review amo

Journalist, Engineer, Marketer, Saleswoman, Teacher, TEDx Speaker, Olivia’s mom, Partner and CMO at weme, a prestigious design and innovation consultancy in Brazil and co-founder at Libri, a talent-first flexible hiring platform for remote digital talents. Carolina has an unusual professional career, shifting from journalism to chemical engineering, sales and marketing B2B and B2C. Her experience in multinationals like 3M, startups and now at weme gave her a lot of great stories to share about marketing, design, innovation and the future of work in different types of organizations.

Vini Kitahara is a specialist in Corporate Happiness. He has served clients such as Google, Deloitte, Suzano, Santander, Nike, among others. He appeared in the CNN documentary “The Science of Happiness”. Vini is a professor of Corporate Happiness at Fundação Dom Cabral.

Marina is Managing Director at Suzano Americas, the world’s largest producer of hardwood pulp and a world reference in the innovation and production of renewable, bio-based materials. She is passionate about people, team development, and corporate happiness. Marina has led various initiatives bringing themes such as self-awareness, yoga, work-life balance, corporate happiness, and the pursuit of personal purpose to the corporate world. Marina holds a B.A and Master’s in Economics from Fundacao Getulio Vargas and EP at Yale School of Management.

Kerstin joined the BCG Munich office in March 1995 as a Consultant, and later became the Staffing Director for Germany & Austria. She then took over the G&A Marketing Team as Marketing Director for 8 years. After that, she was Senior People Director for Central Europe, Middle East & Africa. She now is the DE&I Executive Director for our “EMESA” region, ensuring our DE&I objectives are met through a large majority of the company. Kerstin studied Psychology at the University of Tübingen, University of Oregon and the University of Massachusetts. She holds a PhD in Psychology.

Helen is a DEI professional with 10+ years of experience in professional services. Helen joined Bain UK over 4 years ago and has been running the London DEI programme for the last 3 years. In 2021 she joined the Global DEI team to help drive the agenda across Bain in EMEA. As part of this role she spends a lot of time travelling to the firm’s 20+ offices in the region. Prior to joining Bain Helen also spent a number of years working for two global law firms in the UK and the Middle East, helping to drive their People and DEI agendas, and more recently a start-up management consultancy firm. 

Sophie van Gool is an economist, author and feminist. She is a weekly columnist at the Dutch Financial Times (Financieele Dagblad) and wrote the book Why Women Earn Less - and What We Can Do About It (in Dutch). She is a keynote speaker on the gender pay gap, negotiations and personal branding and has her own podcast.

Previously she worked at Boston Consulting Group as a consultant and as an independent advisor on diversity & inclusion.

Sophie holds an MBA (2019) from ESADE Business School in Barcelona and an MSc in Economics (2014) from the University of Amsterdam

Namrata is an HR leader with vast experience in designing and delivering Human Capital solutions across Industries focusing on HR Strategy & Analytics, organisational restructuring and operating model, workforce optimisation, transformation and change management. She is the lead partner of the HR Solutions practice in the Netherlands. Along with being a movie buff, she is also an art aficionado and collector and enjoys rummaging for local artworks during her travels.

Eva is passionate about corporate culture and employee experience, dedicating almost 40 years of her professional career worldwide to ensure that organizations have the best internal communication plans to increase the rate of employee engagement, an essential factor to achieve good business results, great brand reputation, pride of belonging and the best talent.

In 2022, Eva received two awards in recognition of her career and dedication to women's equality: the STEM Woman of the Year Award and the Honorary Award of the ADE Vallès association.

Sadie Raney is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Strix Leviathan, an asset manager in the digital asset industry. She is also the Co-Founder of Makara, an SEC-registered automated investment advisors in crypto that was acquired by Betterment in 2022. She is a mentor for the Barcelona Technology Transfer Group at IESE Business School, is a member of the Female Founders Alliance, and as an advisor to multiple early-stage startups. She holds a B.A. from Pepperdine University and an M.B.A. from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, during which she attended the IE Business School in Madrid for an International MBA exchange.

Eugenia is the General Manager of Barcelona’s Amazon Robotics sort center. The Costa Rica native is a Civil Engineer and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from ESADE Business School. She joined Amazon in 2017 as a Pathways Operations Managers, where she held four different roles in two business units: Global Specialty Fulfillment (GSF) and Amazon Transportation Services (ATS). Before joining Amazon, she developed her career internationally working in India, the US and Spain, in addition to her home country.

Hasmeet is a Partner in Roland Berger's Munich office and a member of the global Automotive team and heading our European Automotive Aftermarket business.

She has extensive experience in business growth, market entry and business model turnaround strategy across all the global automotive hubs including Japan, China, APAC, Middle East, Europe and North America.

Andreina is an Associate Partner in Bain’s Madrid office, where she joined after her MBA at IE Business School. She is a member of Bain’s Consumer Products Practice in EMEA and has experience supporting clients on commercial excellence, top line growth and operating model. She cares deeply about DEI and people topics, previously leading Women at Bain and HR initiatives locally and currently supporting the recruiting team. She has recently returned from maternity leave in a part-time job-share model, showcasing her motivation for building flexible paths at Bain. Previous to Bain, Andreina worked extensively in CP and Retail in her home country, Venezuela, where she worked on strategy and operations of her family business and entrepreneurship projects of her own.

Robert holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Business Administration from the Foster School of Business, University of Washington and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School.  His current research agenda concentrates on the role accounting and finance play in addressing climate change challenges. Before joining IESE, Robert worked as the Director of Valuation for a large Hedge Fund of Funds where he led the Valuation Committee and was responsible for developing, maintaining, and managing all firm-wide valuation policies and procedures.  Currently he advises several FinTech companies and provides consulting services for valuation related projects.

51 years, German / French, father of 3 and happy husband, since 20 years in Barcelona 
Co-founder at Dana, improving mental health of women transitioning into motherhood (FemTech)
Senior executive and Impact-driven entrepreneur transforming Society through integral health, Coach, Mentor, Investor
Launched 5 ventures, learned a lot along the way with epic failures and great successes
Hobbies: Family, travel, Thai boxing, meditation, beach volleyball, skiing, guitar, … let’s enjoy life as much as we can

Iris joined Amazon’s Pathways Leadership Program in 2014 after her MBA at London Business School. From Operations Manager to Senior Operations Manager, Iris moved to lead the UK quality team. In October 2021, Iris was promoted to Director level, and took responsibility for Quality Management across the EU Customer Fulfillment network. In her organization there are over 9,000 managers and associates, covering teams in field operations, project management and software development. In her org, Iris launched DEI work streams and a dedicated mentorship program, supporting affinity groups and Bar Raisers growth.

Mike Rosenberg is a Professor of the Practice of Management in the Strategic Management Department of IESE Business School. He began teaching part time in the MBA and Global Executive programs in 1999 and joined the faculty on a full time basis in 2003.

Professor Rosenberg lectures in IESE’s MBA and Executive Education programs, where he teaches strategy, geo-politics, and sustainability and publishes a weekly blog on these topics under the title Doing Business on the Earth.

Marcel is the Group Head of Executive Recruitment & Development Programs for Admiral Group, after having work for more than 11 years in the Talent & Development across Europe, the U.S. and LATAM, on topics such as recruitment, development, talent analytics, change management, employee engagement and DEI at large organizations across sectors like Amazon, Procter & Gamble, IE Business School and the Venezuelan financial group Banesco.

Zeynep was born and grown-up in Turkey. She studied Law and hold two master’s degrees to complement her legal background.  

Social injustice and gender inequality were topics close to her heart, even when she was a child, and she has been an active participant in Women’ Inspiration Networks before she took the role of I&D. Her clear values make her stands for them until the end, always with the motto of making our world a little better. 

Zeynep is a proud mother of two kids, a passionate about poetry, travelling and discovering new cultures, and a chocolate lover.

Sebastian Reiche (Ph.D., University of Melbourne, Australia) is Professor of People Management at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. At IESE, he serves as Associate Director of Faculty and Academic Director of the Program for Management Development. Sebastian is an expert on the forms, prerequisites and consequences of global work, global leadership, cross-cultural and diversity management, work design, and strategic talent management. His work has appeared in the leading scholarly outlets and has been recognized internationally through repeated research awards. 

From PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory, to PwC, and then Strategy&, Mike then pursued a bilingual MBA from IESE Business School, graduating in 2017. After his MBA, he worked at IESE, spending 2000+ hours advising students on how to best achieve career goals.

He is currently working at Boston Consulting Group as an International Campus Recruiting Manager. Mike also supports the Diversity Recruiting Team, having launched the first edition of the MBA Pride Fellowships for European Campuses.