Career

Lia Silva-Lopez

Lead Data Scientist, NetOnNet (she/her)

Lia is is an engineer who uses empathy and her bag of math tricks to face problems in a reasonable way. Her passion is studying how people interact with products by looking at the precious digital traces they leave behind. She has worked on academia, consultancy, automotive, shipping and logistics and on November 2020, she began working with THE COOLEST e-commerce company in the Nordics: NetOnNet.

Vanessa Eriksson

SVP, Chief Digital Officer at Zenseact

Vanessa is currently SVP, Chief Digital Officer at Zenseact with the mission of bringing the company even further into the digital age. Managing petabytes of data as an asset while simultaneously leading the IT backbone, in pursuing Autonomous Driving. She is also a Member of the Board at Fidesmo and has been the Chairwoman of PwC’s CDO Advisory Board in 2017/18 and on Gartner’s EMEA and The America’s Data & CDO Advisory Boards between 2012 & 2017. A professional and experienced public speaker, Vanessa holds a proven track record in influencing key decision makers. Result oriented, her leadership skills include motivating teams, relationship building and integrity. A mother of 3 girls, Vanessa very feels strongly about encouraging Girls in Tech and has effectively launched a GiT event in 2017 with 4 large companies to promote her cause. Women in Leadership and Gender Diversity are topics that are close to her.

Alina Timofeeva

Senior manager, Cloud & Advanced Analytics, KPMG

Alina is a Senior Manager at KPMG UK, supporting some of the top clients in Financial Services in the space of Cloud, Innovation & Advanced Analytics. Last year she was recognised by 2 awards in UK Technology as one of the future women leaders in the industry. Her name is on the Makers’ Top 50 Software Powerlist and ComputerWeekly’s Most Influential Women in UK Technology. Alina is keen that her journey sets up other women up for success, through motivating them to deliver exceptional performance. She is an active mentor at KPMG and wider global networks (e.g. Cajigo, Like Minded Females), supporting women of diverse cultural and social backgrounds.

Sophie Theen

Group Chief People Officer, Oakam (she/her)

Sophie is an award-winning Diversity & HR leader in fintech and as the Chief People Officer in Oakam, her aim is to shift cultural paradigms within organisations and to champion diversity and equality using structured, disruptive thinking. Pre Oakam, she’s led recruitment projects with Ford, General Motors and IBM, before shifting to set up HR in early startups like Revolut & 11:FS. She is a recognized mentor, career coach for young women in tech and a credited mental health coach. Active on the diversity agenda, Sophie also runs a HR community in Slack, Work Experience Programs for young women and as a People Advisor to new Founders of FinTech startups in London. She's been on the Women Fintech Powerlist in UK for 3 years consecutively.

Ellie King

Diversity & Inclusion Advocate✨ Helping tech companies build a more ethical, diverse and successful culture.

Louise Bichler

Head of Recruitment & Employer Brand at Zenseact

A recruitment specialist with a broad industry and role specific background. An Ironman-triathlete with thousands of hours of endurance training. This combination sets me apart and enables me to run the extra mile, create the innovative solutions and build high performing recruitment processes and agile teams in an exceptional growth rate. I love to challenge myself as well as my surroundings, connect people for success and make the impossible possible, no matter what the subject matter is.

Marie Møgelvang

Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Trustpilot (she/her)

Marie is an experienced HR-professional and works as the Global Head of Talent Acquisition within the international e-commerce company Trustpilot. She is a certified coach, trainer and facilitator and has previously worked for several NGOs around the world. She has professional work experience from the educational, financial and tech industry.

Nidhi Illman

Talent Acquisition Specialist at H&M #AgileHR

I am a women empowering women from diverse backgrounds (race, nationality, culture, age & experiences) and helping them enter the Swedish job market and lifestyle. I come from a diverse background of working in India, USA and now based in Sweden. With over 10 yrs of exp in Recruitment and coaching and my focus is always on diversity hiring. My passion is to upskill and uplift women who want to work and re-enter work life after being on break be it maternity or relocation or break for studies.

Peggy Poon

Woman in tech, community builder and a global citizen with strong passion for innovation, helping others and diversity & inclusion!