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 the 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/

Alex Beired

Alex Beired was born in Barcelona.

He received BA in Business Administration and MBA by ESADE (Barcelona) and MBA in International Management by Thunderbird (Arizona).

Alex brings 27 years of experience at Guardian.

He started at the Carleton glass plant as assistant controller. After one year, he moved to the Llodio glass plant in Spain, where Alex was controller of Fab operations while leading the implementation of Activity Based Costing and S&P across all EU plants.

5 years later, he moved to Guardian Automotive Trim division (today’s SRG Global) where he performed roles in Finance, Value Estimating (aka Quoting) and Business Development (acquisition of the Ibi Plater and expansions into Poland and Mexico), first in Valencia (7 years) and later in the US SRG Global’s headquarters (9 years).

Back to the Glass division since 2016 at the Auburn Hills office, first as FPA director and recently as Pricing Strategy director.

Lawrence Serven

Lawrence Serven is an internationally recognized authority on enterprise performance management (EPM). He is the founder and former CEO of XLerant, Inc., a leading EPM software company.

He is also the author of Value Planning: The New Approach to Building Value Every Day (J. Wiley & Sons) that earned the endorsement of the CEO of Pfizer, the CFO of Walmart and other industry leaders.

Lawrence’s work has been profiled in the New York Times and The Harvard Business Review. Lawrence has also contributed articles to The Harvard Management Update, The Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance, CFO Magazine, Strategic Finance, BPM Magazine and other industry-leading publications.

Arslan Hafiz

Arslan Hafiz works as International FP&A Director for Alexion - Rare Disease Unit in AstraZeneca.

He is passionate about improving processes as well as highlighting how FP&A can add value in the business and work as a Strategic Business Partner.

Trained in Audit & Assurance in a national firm in London, Arslan has previously worked in Commercial Finance/FP&A/Operational Finance roles across FMCG, Automotive and Legal services industry.

In his free time, he likes to travel along with his young family whenever possible, which consists of his wife and 2 boys (8 years and 2 years).