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.

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

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

Bernard conducted numerous projects in finance & accounting areas and integrated financial management systems. Now, he is helping clients conduct the digital transformation of their finance functions globally.

Globally mobile, business-oriented finance professional with an eye for spotting inefficiencies and growth opportunities. Significant track record in Stock-Exchange-listed Global Multinational Corporations. Several successful international assignments in Global and Regional Headquarters and Local Country Organisations. Extensive experience in: 

Andreas Simon is Director Business Development MENA at msg Rethink Compliance. He has over 25 years of international business development, sales and technical experience, helping companies with digitalisation and automation. For the several past years, he has held the position of Sales Director, EMEA at Jedox. Andreas is an expert in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and other technology areas and is based in Dubai. Before joining Jedox, Andreas held executive positions in companies including Infor, TONBELLER AG, Systems Union, and MIS AG.

Highly experienced finance professional with 17+ years of expertise and a history of successfully led projects contributing to the enhancement of corporate performance through skilled alignment of financial processes, systems and controls with the company goals.

Passionate about digital finance transformations by leveraging Cloud technologies, predictive analytics use and embedding them into rolling forecasts as a way of driving a more agile Finance function and better and faster performance management processes;

Finance leader with a twenty-year track record growing profitable VC and PE-backed companies in the US and Europe. Manasi is reputed for her ability to develop prioritised and executable strategic plans, drawing upon her operational background. Additionally, she has a proven record of building lean, high-performing finance and operations teams and ensuring successful execution.

Some highlights of her professional journey include:

Mitan Patel is a CIMA-qualified accountant who now practises as a solution consultant/engineer in the SAAS technology space.