Alex Baumann
Alex Baumann is the co-founder and CEO of swedish-born Petbuddy Group (PBG) that acquires and scales sustainable pet food brands. Prior to founding Buddy Pet Foods (now part of PBG) in 2019 Alex was MD for beauty-subscription box Glossybox Nordics, worked with M&A and internationalization at british THG, and led digital strategy at Volvo Cars. Alex holds an MSc. in International Business from Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law
Damien Clarkson
Damien is the Co-Founder of THE PACK, one of Europe’s most exciting plant-based dog food startups. Since launching in September 2021 THE PACK has quickly built a strong following of pet parents using their highly innovative and nutritionally complete wet foods for dogs. Damien and his THE PACK Co-Founder Judy Nadel previously built Vevolution, a leading community in the plant-based world. Today the Vevolution is one of the world’s leading specialised marketplaces for plant-based and cell-ag businesses to find investment.
Camiel Derichs
Camiel Derichs is the Regional Director in Europe for the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). He’s been leading the development of the MSC program across Europe since May 2013. Before being appointed to this role, since 2005 Camiel served in a variety of other roles in the MSC. Setting up several regional offices in Netherlands, Sweden and working both with the technical development of the fisheries standards, as well as with actors in the supply chain on topics such as CSR and sustainable seafood procurement policies, as well as sustainable seafood marketing. Before joining MSC, Camiel was working in the Multi-National Financial conglomerate, ING-Group as a product manager. He holds a BSc and MSc from Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) in Business Administration, and a MSc from Tromso University (Norway) in International Fisheries Management.
Ben Weis
Sean Black
Ryan Mowat
Paul Lekas
Marc Walby
Marc Walby is a Senior Managing Director with FTI Consulting and leads the firm’s Financial Institutions Risk Management practice. Mr. Walby has more than 25 years of global industry experience driving organizational, process and technology assessments and transformation related to Risk Management, Compliance and Regulation, Anti-Financial Crime, Finance, and Internal Audit.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Walby served as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer for Deutsche Bank’s Risk Management Division in the Americas where he led the transformation and growth of the Bank’s Risk organization. During this time Mr. Walby also served as Interim Americas Chief Risk Officer where he oversaw the division and represented Risk Management on the Bank’s senior governance bodies and at various industry and regulatory forums.
Mr. Walby joined Deutsche Bank from KPMG where he was a Partner in the Financial Services Advisory practice focused on Risk, Finance and Audit.
