Kerman Lau is a seasoned finance executive and trusted advisor to business partners and company leaders.

He uses his strong systems knowledge to drive innovation, and has implemented planning and reporting systems in companies of all sizes. Kerman is currently director of finance at Workday, and regularly speaks and writes about FP&A best practices. Prior to Workday, he worked as a key part of the Finance teams at Electronic Arts, Symantec, and Veritas Technologies.

Joao Almeida is the Chief Financial Officer for the Hub Terminals Portfolio at AP Moller Maersk. Joao has expertise in blue-chip multinationals in senior finance and transformation leadership roles in supply chain and logistics, consumer, healthcare, telecommunications, building materials and private equity industries. Joao has operated in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa.

Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner and coach with more than 11 years of experience. She assists executive data management (DM) professionals in assessing data management's maturity and performance, implementing or optimizing data management frameworks, and developing a data lineage business case. For that, I offer a ready-for-use step-by-step methodology.

Simon is Director FP&A at FedEx Express. His more than 30 years in various Finance roles have provided experience on a wide variety of topics, including Strategy Development, Talent Development, Performance Management, Project Management, Global System Implementations, M&A, Accounting & Controlling, Working Capital Management & Auditing.

He has lived in Denmark, Chile & the Netherlands and has worked with and managed teams across the globe. Simon is a strong believer in looking beyond the figures to truly understand the story behind them.

Franz Röösli is head of the Institute for Organisational Viability at the University of Applied Sciences Zurich (ZHAW). He researches, teaches and advises companies in the areas of organisational design, leadership and strategy. He holds a PhD in management sciences.

At the same time, he is a member of the core team of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT), an international practitioner and research community of companies and researchers that addresses issues of future-oriented management and has developed the Beyond Budgeting management model.

Francesco Morini is Director - Innovation at CCH^® Tagetik.

He has a degree in theoretical math and a strong problem-solving attitude.

Francesco has always worked in supporting the Finance Analytics area with Deloitte first and HP later, with a deep focus on the Banking Industry, acquiring strong skills and competencies in most of the BI and Analytics market leader products from multiple vendors.

Elena Kiristova is a former CFO of TUI Russia, CIS, and CEE. She has a blend of business, legal and financial expertise. She has demonstrated achievements in FP&A, Business Planning, leading complex strategic, M&A and turnaround projects in crisis management mode and rapid growth phase, business decision support and implementation from the concept to operational status. She has strong leadership capabilities, team building and management skills across different functional and geographical boundaries.

David West is a qualified management consultant with decades of global business experience in the vendor community. Five years in the FP&A solutions space provided strategic and practical experience, where he worked on advanced client implementations across sectors. He has moderated and spoken about finance, people and technology at events and conferences.

David has more than 15 years of experience in operating and scaling global high-growth technology companies. His business industry experience spans SaaS, e-commerce, subscription models, omnichannel, and FMCG.

Bryan is the FP&A staff subject matter expert at the Association for Financial Professionals, a global not-for-profit focused on the success of the finance professional. AFP produces leading content through its conferences, certification, research guides, training, and networking.

Bryan creates and curates content to keep members current on developing topics and keep an eye on the future of the profession. He also manages the FP&A Advisory Council, which acts as a voice to align AFP with the needs of the profession.