Andres Olave is the Head of Product and Technology at Velocity Network Foundation. With over 15 years of experience designing and developing large scale systems, Andres has held multiple CTO positions leading R&D teams and addressing blockchain, security and compliance.

David Wilson is Founder and CEO of Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR Industry Analyst, leading Fosway's research, analysis and insight for next generation HR, talent and learning.

Dror Gurevich is the CEO of Velocity Network Foundation, with over 20 years in the HCM technology space. Formerly Co-Founder and Managing Partner at AKT, an EMEA based leading people advisory firm and HCM system integrator.

Etan Berstein is the Head of Ecosystem at Velocity Network Foundation. With over 20 years in HCM and management consulting. Until recently, Etan was Partner, People Advisory at AKT, an EMEA based leading people advisory firm and HCM system integrator. Before joining AKT, Etan held HR leadership roles at Applied Materials and Intel.

Guy Abramo is the Chief Executive Officer of the newly merged HireRight and General Information Services (“GIS”) companies. Formerly the chief executive officer of GIS, he joined us following a seven-year stint as president of Experian Consumer Services Division, overseeing the group’s strategy, direction and operation.

Prior to joining Experian, Guy served as president of Tallan, Inc, a nationwide professional services firm specializing in internet media design, business intelligence and custom software solutions. Before joining Tallan, he served for seven years as executive vice president, worldwide and chief strategy and information officer at Ingram Micro.

Preceding Ingram Micro, Guy served three years as a managing director at KPMG Consulting and the leader of the marketing intelligence consulting practice. While at KPMG, he was a member of the firms’ Technology Leadership Council and co-founder of the Center for Data Insight data mining and marketing automation lab at Northern Arizona University.

Guy is also a 12-year veteran of the Exxon Mobil Corporation. At Mobil, he held a number of positions across both operating and headquarters divisions. He began his Exxon career in research and development and achieved five patents for innovative fuels and fuel additives technologies. He later served in a number of positions of increasing responsibility in the Americas Marketing and Refining Division including manager of marketing services, assistant gasoline business manager of the U.S. Division and manager of administration and controls for a major Northeastern marketing unit.

Guy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgetown University.

Ike Bennion is the Principal Product Marketing Manager at Cornerstone onDemand. Ike is a speaker, writer, and thought-leader passionate about making the labor market more equitable through AI, blockchain, learning, and learning content. He works as a principal, product marketing strategist to help guide Cornerstone solutions to meet strategic needs in the market.

Mr. Laouchez has accumulated over 20 years of consulting experience, partnering with boards, CEOs and business leaders to help them design and implement their strategies. Over the course of his career, Mr. Laouchez has developed a passion for helping leaders and organizations perform and grow by integrating business and people dimensions.

He has worked with companies in multiple industries and geographies in strategy and organization design and implementation, board governance, leadership effectiveness, culture transformation, turnaround, and mergers.

Mr. Laouchez now leads the Korn Ferry Institute, KF research analytics and innovation arm.

Prior to these roles, Mr. Laouchez was Korn Ferry chief knowledge and transformation officer. He also led the global financial services sector, the global family-owned business practice and the Latin America key clients' team.

Before joining Korn Ferry in 2007, Mr. Laouchez was Brazil CEO and first global partner-elect of Axialent, an international corporate culture and leadership development and coaching firm.

He also worked over seven years at McKinsey & Company, a global strategy and management consulting firm. He was a leader of the organization practice and served large clients in Brazil, Europe and the USA.

Before his consulting career, Mr. Laouchez worked at investment Banque Indosuez (now Credit Agricole) as financial analyst, private banker and international controller.

Mr. Laouchez has been volunteering his time and experience to entrepreneurs with high social impact for many years. Mr. Laouchez supported Ashoka social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro' favelas. He regularly counselled founders of promising start-ups incubated by Endeavor. He also contributed to the international expansion of Trace TV, an urban culture media group.

Mr. Laouchez holds a Business Administration degree from ecole Superieure du Commerce de Paris and a M.B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, he completed an exchange program with Coppead, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

René Steenvoorden is a senior business professional with extensive experience in various sectors, roles and international markets. His passion lies where business and digital join to better serve customers. His belief is that every organization can be improved if people work together, strategy and operations are aligned and there is a focus on innovation and renewal.

Per September 2016, he is the Chief Digital Officer at Randstad, a global leader in staffing and recruiting. This sector is digitally transforming strongly. In this role he is the focal point to lead the further development of the digital strategy and to ensure its implementation across the group globally. The role includes the responsibility for Marketing, Communications and IT. In September 2019, he joined the Executive Board which was formalized in the shareholder meeting in June 2020.

René is a supervisory board member of KPMG the Netherlands. He supports several charities and provide advise to various companies. He taught cyber security at Nyenrode University, was a member of the global Advisory Board of IBM and a board member and president of the national CIO Platform. He was elected CIO of the Year twice in the Netherlands.

After his military service as lieutenant in the Dutch Royal Army, René started his career at Procter & Gamble, working in various national and international roles. Next, he was a senior consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving clients in the financial services, energy and other sectors. Before joining Rabobank, he served as Chief Information Officer at Essent, the leading energy utility in The Netherlands. At Rabobank, he had been a Senior Executive Vice President and the Chief Information Officer of the group. Next to the IT role, he had various senior business responsibilities and was a member of the Supervisory Boards of Rabobank Brazil and Chile. Since 2014 he was also responsible for global Innovation in the group.

René studied Business Administration at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, he is married with 3 children and live in The Netherlands.

One of the founding directors of Vero, Rupert is passionate about the Vero vision to deliver outstanding employment screening services and solutions which mitigate client risk and promote high levels of candidate engagement. With strategic oversight for the business, he is committed to developing collaborative partnerships with clients, operating in a fully transparent and consultative capacity to achieve exceptional levels of service.

Ximo Soler is the SVP of Global Digital Strategy and Innovation and Randstad. He is passionate about creating customer & business value at the intersection of technology and humanity.

Dr. Hardik Joshipura is the Chief Executive Officer of Innovassynth, a Custom Development & Manufacturing organization in India.

Prior to joining Innovassynth in May 2020, Dr. Hardik had spent several years at Leadership roles at Merck KGaA/Sigma Aldrich across different functions. His last assignment with Merck was as Head of Global Strategic Marketing for Pharm Materials, focusing on driving Global franchise strategies for process Chemicals & custom manufacturing services. Prior to which he was General Manager-SAFC (Sigma Aldrich India, later acquired by Merck KGaA) and responsible for Sales & Marketing of Custom Chemicals Business in India. Dr. Hardik joined Sigma Aldrich in 2006 as “Principal Scientist” & led Catalogue Chemicals manufacturing operations for few years before moving to a business role.

He started his career as Project Leader-R&D in Fine chemical business of Zydus Cadila, Ahmedabad & was responsible for driving R&D for CRAMS unit.

Dr. Hardik Joshipura is a Ph.D in Organic Chemistry & an Alumnus of Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA.