Larysa Melnychuk

Larysa is a leading FP&A professional and influencer. She held senior roles at top organisations such as Invensys, Key Bank, and Combined Insurance, before establishing the International FP&A Board in 2013. A high-profile global thinktank, the Board aims to identify and promote new trends and best practices in modern Financial Planning and Analysis. Larysa has 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 of the FP&A Trends Group, the leading online resource for FP&A professionals. She chairs the Global AI/ML FP&A Committee and runs a number of high-profile initiatives in the area of modern financial analytics.

Holding a Master of Science, Larysa has a highly numerical background. She is a qualified chartered management accountant (CIMA) and chartered global management accountant (CGMA), as well as holding 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 – many of which you will find on the FP&A Trends website.

Nathan Goldstein

Supply Chain Planning Director at CCH Tagetik

Mr. Goldstein is a seasoned supply chain professional with more than 20 years’ experience leading global transformation initiatives for companies across multiple sectors including consumer packaged goods, industrial manufacturing, life sciences, and consumer electronics.

Nathan is well-versed in the use of advanced analytical techniques including predictive and prescriptive analytics supporting a range of planning functions including demand planning, multi-echelon inventory optimization, procurement and production planning as well as rough cut capacity planning, sales and operations planning, and integrated business planning.

Paul Mol

Senior Director Global Sourcing Home Comfort at Electrolux

Paul Mol is an accomplished finance executive with over 20 years of experience in high performing companies.

Starting at KPMG he continued his international finance career in various industries including automotive, capital equipment and home appliances.

Next to Finance Paul has held leadership roles in IT and Sourcing. This enables him to be a bridge between finance and business functions.

Paul has a passion for transformation and change, he loves to develop and implements finance strategies that support growth and profitability.

Marat Lomakov

Finance Director, Europe Supply Chain at Ecolab

Marat Lomakov is an experienced finance leader who is passionate about developing modern finance organisations with a focus on digital and business analytics.

He and his teams are generating insights that turn into actions through cross-functional collaboration, focusing on continuous shareholder value creation.

Over many years this resulted into successful projects in the following areas:

i) profitable growth;

ii) cost optimisation;

iii) cross-functional and finance processes efficiency;

iv) organisational design, including digital adoption and org. development;

v) internal controls; all across markets and geographies with a local, regional and global focus.