Amit Kataria
Finance Director, Avalere Health
Amit Kataria FCCA is a senior finance and commercial leader with over 24 years’ experience across the creative, marketing and healthcare sectors.
Amit has held senior finance leadership roles, including as Finance Director, and currently leads Group Commercial at Avalere Health, where he works across the organisation on commercial strategy, pricing, client negotiations and initiatives to drive sustainable and profitable growth.
Throughout his career, Amit has worked closely with senior leadership teams to bring together financial insight and commercial decision-making, with a particular focus on improving performance, strengthening client partnerships and translating financial data into practical business action.
Amit is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).
Anthony Osijo
CEO, Bboxx
Anthony Osijo is the Group CEO at ABCI-NEXUS. Encompassing Bboxx and ASOPO Technologies, ABCI is a super platform, transforming lives and unlocking potential by providing access to essential products and services across Africa. As an investment banker with truly global experience, he has worked and lived on four continents and has a vast knowledge of capital markets which he is now leveraging into finance improving lives in underserved countries.
Anthony has worked extensively across the structuring, equities and debt markets in Europe, the US and Asia. He displays a great deal of passion for technology, sustainability and clean energy and blends that aspect with his business expertise like finance which can be shown in his work
Aurelia Znakova
Finance Director EMEA & APAC, Imagine Communications
Aurelia is a strategic, commercially-minded CFO with an Executive MBA and 20 years of hands-on finance experience with the last 10 years spent in senior leadership roles.
Extensive experience of M&A, scaling PE-backed businesses, business transformations and post-merger integrations in private equity (p/e) owned international (US, EMEA, APAC) companies.
She has a proven track record of delivering successful M&A transactions in p/e environments, leading international teams (US, EMEA, APAC), successful post-acquisition integrations, and leading organisations through periods of change.
Her passion lies in fostering a culture of high performance, driving efficiencies and effectiveness and ensuring seamless business transformations, that align with strategic goals.
Brian Kenny
Group CFO, Neuven Group
Brian transforms finance into competitive advantage. As a CFO who operates at the intersection of strategic vision and operational excellence, he partners with Boards and leadership teams to architect growth, drive value creation, and position organisations to win in their markets.
His collaborative approach harnesses advanced technology and data-driven insights to inform bold decision-making and accelerate performance. Brian brings the story to life behind the numbers, turning data into strategy, complex insights into clear actions, and financial rigour into transformational growth momentum.
Catherine Wright
Director - Corporate Finance, HSBC
Damien Flosi
Vice President Centre Of Excellence Franchise, Accor
Damien Flosi is Vice President, Centre of Excellence – Franchise at Accor, where he supports the Group’s global franchise organisation, connecting central strategy with regional operations and driving performance, processes and owner relationship initiatives.
He brings over 15 years of international finance and leadership experience, including senior CFO and FP&A roles across corporate and regional organisations. Prior to his current position, Damien served as Corporate FP&A Director at Accor’s global headquarters and held VP FP&A and CFO roles across Europe and other international markets.
Throughout his career, he has focused on transforming finance from a reporting function into a strategic business partner, combining financial insight, operational understanding and cross-functional collaboration to support better decision-making and sustainable growth.
Fahim Lunat
Deputy CFO, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Fahim is a healthcare finance expert with over 15 years of experience in the industry. He is particularly focused on talent management and developing high-performing business partnering teams to influence decision-making.
One of his core skills specific to public healthcare is formulating novel cost-saving strategies within a resource-constrained environment. He is a values-driven leader who believes that integrity and trustworthiness should underpin every interaction, shaping how he evaluates himself firstly and all people at every level of the organisation he works with.
Fiona Smithyes
Director of FP&A and Tranformation, Westcon-Comstor
Fiona Smithyes is a Finance Director at Westcon-Comstor, with over 15 years’ experience across commercial and digital finance. A qualified accountant (FCCA), she has extensive experience in financial planning and analysis, business performance and transformation within global organisations.
Fiona is experienced in partnering with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders to drive alignment, support growth and improve profitability. She has a strong track record in delivering change and transformation initiatives, developing KPIs and performance frameworks, automating reporting processes and identifying opportunities for business growth. She is also passionate about developing people and building high-performing finance teams.
Imelda Lee
Vice President, Finance Operations, Teads
Highly accomplished finance and accounting leader specialising in fast paced environments with 18+ years of experience in high-growth, global, Nasdaq-listed tech companies. Proven expertise in finance operations and building scalable, audit-ready financial infrastructure.
Passionate about continuous process improvements to enhance efficiency and control. Proactive with a strong work ethic and proven track record of meeting deadlines and exceeding goals. Able to communicate with all stakeholders across different functions and levels, and excel at business partnering, building long-lasting relationships along the way.
James Owen
Group CFO, Pharmanovia
Multi-award-winning Group CFO with a track record in PE-backed businesses of delivering transformation and shareholder value creation through leading organisational, operational change and commercial growth.
A financial strategist with expertise in designing business plans with clear KPI’s and deliverables aligned to strategic intent. Critical thinker with extensive qualitative and quantitative skills who brings strong business partnership skills and customer-centric focus.
Dynamic stakeholder manager adept at working across matrices and multi-layered ownership structures, evidenced most recently at Pharmanovia (Triton Partners) & Kantar (Bain Capital)
Kashif Aslam
Head of Corporate Development, Experian
Kashif is Head of Corporate Development at Experian, a FTSE100 data and information services organisation. Kashif leads on M&A and strategic initiatives for the UK&I region and on global initiatives.
He started his career over 25 years ago in UK Investment Banking at Citigroup and subsequently has had M&A and investment roles in Blackstone, Anglo American and BT Group. He has an MBA from INSEAD and is a CIMA Fellow.
At Experian, his focus is on data led organisations and those with complementary capabilities including identity, fraud, marketing services, data governance, business information and consumer information.
He has also previously been Non Executive Director at Reward Loyalty, which exited to Rezolve.ai for $230m in 2026, and Coconut Platform Limited which exited to Go Simple Tax Limited in 2023.
Khushboo Jain
Director Financial Management, Sodexo
Khush is a Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of experience across Big Four firms and global organisations. She is Director of Financial Management at Sodexo UK&I, with expertise in financial reporting, governance, finance transformation and AI-enabled finance. Her previous roles include Carnival Corporation, British American Tobacco, Dow, WPP and Bharti Airtel.
She is passionate about building high-performing teams and driving commercial value. Outside finance, she enjoys painting.
Lindsey Roberts
CFO - UK, Valeo Foods Group
Experienced CFO and business leader with a passion for developing high-performing finance and business teams to deliver results.
Extensive experience across publicly listed, privately owned and private equity-backed businesses, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale strategic projects, business turnarounds and profitable growth.
Louise Leavey
CIO former CFO, DUAL Group
Award winning CIO, Chief Transformation Officer | INED | Women in Tech Advocate
Seasoned Chief Transformation Officer (35+ years) with a proven track record of driving business growth and digital innovation across large, complex organizations.
Skilled in:
Business Transformation: Leading strategic change initiatives to optimize costs, improve operations, and leverage technology for competitive advantage.
Digital Innovation: Spearheading digital transformation initiatives to enhance customer experience, streamline processes, and drive revenue growth.
Financial Acumen: Leveraging strong financial and commercial acumen to ensure transformation initiatives deliver measurable ROI.
Maria Ghibu
Global CFO, Testhouse
Mehtab Khalid
Finance Director - Security and Other Services, Mitie
Mehtab Khalid is an accomplished Finance Director and transformational business leader with more than two decades of experience driving financial performance, commercial growth, and strategic change across BP, BT, TUI, and Mitie.
Currently serving as Finance Director at Mitie, he provides strategic financial leadership across a portfolio exceeding £1.5 billion in revenue.
As an Advisory Board Member for Circle of Leaders, Mehtab brings executive finance expertise, transformational leadership experience, and a people-first mindset.
Olaide Olunloyo
Head of Finance, Jesus House
Olaide Olunloyo is a strategic and purpose-driven Finance Leader at a London-based charity, where she leads on financial sustainability, effective resource stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
A First-Class Accounting with Taxation graduate, she is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and holds a Master’s in Charity Accounting, alongside diplomas in Charity Accounting and Charity Management.
Olaide is also a trained financial coach, passionate about equipping leaders with the financial insight and people skills needed to lead boldly and develop high-performing teams. As a dynamic speaker and mentor, she actively invests in the growth of others through mentoring networks and capacity-building initiatives.
Known for blending technical expertise with human-centred leadership, Olaide is committed to transforming organisations from the inside out; with vision, integrity, and impact.
Randip Singh
Finance Director (UK Operations), WPP Media
Randip is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) with over 20 years’ experience in finance, commercial strategy, transformation and risk management.
He has a strong track record of using data, AI and technology to drive business performance, alongside building high-performing teams and leading organisational change.
Passionate about developing people and future leaders, Randip also mentors senior professionals and hosts the Unleash Your Inner Leader podcast.
Riccardo Calliano
VP Finance, GenAI Commercial Investments, GSK
RICCARDO CALLIANO is VP Finance, GenAI Commercial Investment at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). He is currently leading a Global program leveraging on GenAI to create analytics products to enable faster and better investment allocation decisions through real-time analytics.
His responsibilities involve creating and running the strategy, development and operations of the GenAI solutions development and deployment, leading the global delivery roadmap, managing change, adoption and communications across the program and partnering with key stakeholders at the Corporate and commercial market level to drive value. In his previous role as VP of Finance Capabilities and Talent Pipeline, he worked across the Finance organization to drive the new capabilities development agenda, drive the various talent programs and initiatives (from early to established talents), and develop the Digital Roadmap for Finance. He is also a qualified coach helping people in their career development.
He was previously Vice-President Finance, Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain in, in charge of manufacturing sites across the US, Europe and Asia.
His previous responsibilities as Vice-President of Commercial Finance for GSK USA included driving performance and strategic allocation of resources, with a particular focus on planning and execution for key new product launches.
Beforehand he served as CFO in the China/Hong Kong region, where he created a Share Service Centre for the area.
Previously Riccardo worked at Eli Lilly, acquiring emerging markets experience as CFO of Mexico. Prior to that, he led various initiatives in Eli Lilly Europe, such as planning and executing the outsourcing of financial processes for the region, streamlining processes as regional P2P process owner and Six Sigma Black Belt, setting up and running a Customer Intelligence team for the European Critical Care team in Switzerland.
Prior to joining the healthcare industry, Riccardo worked in FIAT’s Corporate Strategy and Business Development function for the automotive industry.
Riccardo holds an M.B.A from INSEAD, graduated in Business & Economics from the University of Torino (Italy), earned a diploma of International Business from the University of Dublin, and received an International Business Strategy certificate from the London School of Economics.
Richard Grenfell-Hill
Chief Economist, Diageo
As Chief Economist at Diageo PLC, Richard leads economic modelling, analysis and forecasting, providing strategic insights to senior stakeholders, including Group CEOs, directors and governments.
Richard has developed Diageo’s economic forecasting capabilities, supporting business planning and informing public policy across its major markets. With over 15 years of management experience, he brings a strong combination of strategic thinking, commercial insight and leadership.
Saf Ali
Head of Finance & Corporate Planning, Fujitsu
Saf is an experienced finance leader and CIMA-qualified professional, focused on strategic planning, financial performance and business growth.
As Head of Finance & Corporate Planning at Fujitsu Research, she works across global teams to drive financial alignment, improve processes and support strategic decision-making.
Sandra Stanley
Chief Data Science Officer, Dunnhumby
Everywoman in Technology Leader of the Year 2025 | Global Data and Analytics Leader of the Year 2023
Passionate and resilient business leader with over 25 years’ experience leveraging data-driven insights, data science and AI to drive transformation and deliver business impact, with customers at the heart.
Extensive global experience in grocery retail, alongside hands-on data science experience across a range of other sectors.
Proven track record of influencing senior management, inspiring and developing high-performing teams, and delivering data science initiatives that generate measurable business value. Respected as a leader who successfully balances team leadership, client delivery and strategic internal projects that benefit the wider data science community.
Sonya Matharu
CFO International, Pharmaceutical Diagnostics, GE HealthCare
Sonya Matharu is CFO for International Pharmaceutical Diagnostics, leading the financial strategy of a $1bn+ portfolio spanning approximately 130 countries. During nearly 20 years with GE HealthCare, she has built extensive healthcare industry and domain knowledge, with experience navigating complex global markets, macroeconomic volatility, evolving business models and transformation.
As a strategic partner to business leadership, Sonya focuses on translating strategy into sustainable growth, profitability and cash generation. She is also passionate about developing high-performing teams, challenging conventional ways of working, and using Lean tools to drive better decisions and simpler, more effective organisations.
Thi Luu
CFO, VinFast Europe
"Revenue Recognition IFRS 15/ASC 606, From Technical Compliance to Implementation Challenges"
Thi is results-driven and commercially focused Qualified Chartered Accountant with a proven track record in transforming financial operations, system implementation (SAP), cost optimisation and revenue growth across large and complex organisations.
With a focus on aligning financial objectives to business goals, he works with global teams to execute transformative strategies that deliver measurable results. My commitment to corporate governance, internal controls, and risk management ensures sustainable growth.
Thompson Koramoa
Director of Finance , NQA
Thompson is an accomplished finance professional with over a decade of experience across the logistics, technology, telecoms, distribution and professional services sectors including roles within FTSE 100 organisations.
He is a Fellow of both the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and the Institute of Financial Accountants (FFA).
Thompson is passionate about talent development, finance digital transformation and driving successful corporate turnaround initiatives.
