Efe Can Tugbay is a FP&A professional with 13+ years of international experience, mostly at manufacturing companies.

He became a CMA as of 2015 and is an active member of IMA (Institute of Management Accountants) since. He wrote his thesis about Turkey's top 500 industrial companies' budgeting approaches and tested specifically Beyond Budgeting in the Turkish business environment, academically.

He is a member of AI/ML FP&A Committee of FP&A Trends Group and is interested in process improvement developments for FP&A profession regularly.

Since 2001 Alexey has been working with financial analysis and data management tools, focusing on Planning and Budgeting, Profitability and Cost Allocations, Management Reporting, and data integrations solutions.

In his career, Alexey has taken part in solutions delivery, which helped businesses to improve financial planning, analysis, and efficiency in the use of data. For customers in the financial sector, telecom, retail and manufacturing, he was providing advice and practical assistance, to help create planning and management reporting platforms. He has worked with companies ranging from multinational corporations to local retail chains.

Andreas Simon

Andreas has over 25 years’ international business development, sales and technical experience, helping companies in their digitalization and automation process. For the past 6 years he has held the position of Sales Director, EMEA at Jedox. Andreas is an expert in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), as well as other technology areas, and is based in Dubai. Prior to joining Jedox, Andreas held exec positions in companies including Infor, TONBELLER AG, Systems Union and MIS AG.

Olga Rudakova

Olga is a finance professional and data skills trainer. Olga is passionate about data insights and data visualization. With over a decade of corporate career in FMCG and Retail she was supporting various business units towards data-driven decision making.

At the Business Intelligence startup Olga has learned, what the biggest obstacles on the way to insights-driven organization are.

Currently, as a full-time trainer and consultant she helps her clients bridge the gap between data and actionable insights.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olgarudakova/

Ashok Manthena has been working in Finance & systems for 10 years. He has published numerous articles and papers on how corporate finance can use artificial intelligence to increase efficacy and speed.

Strong finance professional graduated from The University of Akron.

Ryan Sullivan is a Principal at Collectiv, a strategy and consulting firm focusing on applications of Microsoft Power BI and FP&A.

Ryan used his degree in Mathematics to form his core mindset as an FP&A analyst, before moving into business intelligence and eventually becoming a consultant.

Over the past few years, he has moved more into the back office to focus on management and operations. During his ten years of experience working in data analytics and FP&A, Ryan has built a reputation as a vocal advocate for empathy and building successful personal relationships as a key tenet of financial success.

Bernard Drui

Bernard is Managing Director at Protiviti which is the global consulting branch of Robert Half.

He has 25 years of experience in large and international transformation programs. He has been working in industries such as life sciences, retail, construction, energy & utilities, building materials, etc.

Bernard conducted numerous of projects in finance & accounting areas as well as integrated financial management systems. Now he is helping clients to conduct the digital transformation of their finance functions at global scale.

Dante Healy is a finance leader, Agile enthusiast plus a certified project manager and Scrum Master, Passionate about Finance Analytics, Software Development and Innovation. He is a Finance Transformation Project Specialist, developing and implementing end-to-end financial and business change strategies enabling businesses with enhanced finance capability to drive scalable growth.

Dante is a lifelong learner who talks about #agile-finance, #dataanalytics, #digitalfinance, #projectleadership and #financetransformation