Jared Begun

Jared Begun leads implementation services and is responsible for overall customer success at Finario, the cloud-based enterprise capital planning solution. Before joining Finario, he led the North American Professional Services organization for Tagetik (now part of Wolters Kluwer), and spent 24 years in both executive and delivery roles with Ernst & Young, The Hackett Group and RGP focusing on global business transformation initiatives. He holds an MBA in Finance from the Fordham Gabelli School of Business.

Larysa Melnychuk

Larysa Melnychuk is a passionate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) professional and influencer who has held senior FP&A roles at leading organisations before setting up the International FP&A Board in 2013. The Board is a global and well-recognised professional think-tank that aims to bring together the knowledge and experience of senior FP&A professionals and aid the development of best practice in the profession.

In the last three years, she successfully expanded the Board into 27 chapters in 16 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and North America.

Larysa is also the founder and CEO at the FP&A Trends Group (fpa-trends.com), the leading online resource for FP&A professionals. She chairs the Global AI FP&A Committee and runs a number of high-profile initiatives in the area of modern financial analytics.

Larysa holds a Master of Science degree in physics of materials and is a qualified chartered management accountant (CIMA), chartered global management accountant (CGMA) and is a holder of an FP&A certification. She is also a member of the exam content writing team for the Association of Finance Professionals (AFP) FP&A certification.

Larysa is also a passionate conference speaker and writes articles on various FP&A-related subjects.

Joao Almeida

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 operating 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.

Joao served CRH plc as Transformation Director for Europe and Executive Board member at Secil S.A., a CRH held Joint Venture. Joao has also served as the Managing Director at National Business M&A Advisors, CFO at Cabovisao S.A. (part of Altice Group) and Divisional Finance Director at Royal Numico N.V (part of Danone Group). He is KPMG trained and qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Masters in Management from the London Business School.Joao currently serves on the Boards of various companies in non-Executive roles.

Jonas Ekegren

Leader in strategy and finance with more than 20 years of experience in banking and insurance.

Jonas is currently heading the Business and capital planning unit at Länsförsäkringar AB including M&A, investor relations and purchase & procurement. He has held several positions within two of the major banks in the Nordics Nordea and Handelsbanken and has experience from business divisions as well as group level. He is a strong believer in simplification and knowledge sharing being the route to success for all businesses.