Yukari Sugiyama, Change and Transformation Manager, Google Cloud

Yukari joined Google in 2009 as a Deal Operations Specialist, providing advice and guidance to Google Cloud customers in North America. She then moved to Google Japan to support Google’s Asia-Pacific customers. While working in Japan, Yukari developed a passion for helping the employees of Google’s customers realise the benefits of cloud and collaboration tools in their day-to-day work. In 2016, Yukari joined the Google Cloud Change and Transformation team in London, where she is responsible for helping both Japanese and European businesses with digital transformation. Yukari writes a popular Change Management blog in Japanese and is a regular public speaker on the topic of organisational change and business transformation. Yukari graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree from the College of Communications and was on the Dean’s List for three consecutive years. 

Willem works at Improbable.io, an a16z funded startup in London.

At Rockstart he mentors the startups on building scalable hiring architectures + finding their technical talent through github, snapchat, producthunt, airbnb, instagram & couchsurfing. He is a recruiting tool advocate and sometimes reviews them.

He speaks about building and nurturing great tech/product teams, sourcing and creating innovate hiring strategies. 

Besides hiring tech guys & girls, he likes to talk about technology in the HR / talent space.

Willem recommends: 
Sites: hackernews, github, angellist, quora, product hunt.
Tools: lever, workable, connectifier, contextscout, asana, trello, momentumdash, slack. 

He likes: running, biking, swimming, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, travel, public speaking, blogging, writing, reviewing and sharing my knowledge.

Henri Gillard has more than 15 years’ experience in the field of human resources. He has extensive skills in various HR areas - compensation and benefits, L&D, talent management, HR analytics, etc..
His career started with Ferreo in Luxembourg and Sydney. 5 years ago he joined Sodexo  - THE WORLD LEADER IN QUALITY OF LIFE SERVICES, and the last two years he holds the position of VP HR of Sodexo for Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.
In a region composed of 9 countries, his role is to support them in the development of their HR strategy. He also participates to acquisition processes as well as to the integration of new companies. He ensures the identification and development of Sodexo’s talents at executive and middle managers level. 

What is he saying about his work:  "Passionate about people development, I particularly enjoy transforming and improving the HR function. To do so, I try to identify the key drivers of the business to design an adapted HR strategy.
Working in international environment is a clear motivation factor for me as well as being able to see the impact of HR projects on people and business. 
I firmly believe that Quality of Life contributes to both the progress of the people and the performance of the organizations."

As part of the management of NaXex Technological Development, Ms Georgieva leads a team of distinguished HR professionals and implements innovative strategies for attracting the best IT talents in Bulgaria in the top software company for the finance and trading industry.
Ms Georgieva has over 9 years of experience in managing and developing employees and organizational culture. In her career, Ms Georgieva has been in a number of management positions in top companies like Kaven-Iradis and Avus Capital, where she managed the activities related to the management and attraction of new employees as well as was responsible for all corporate events.
Borislava Georgieva has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Cook’s Institute for Electronics and Engineering, Jackson Mississipi campus.

Mr. Nikolov is business-trainer, coach, motivational speaker. He has soft skills for software developers.
Andrey has cross-industrial experienceserved as manager and consultant in IT, media and professional training companies in CIS-countries and Eastern Europe.

Specialization in coaching:
- soft-skills;
- leadership;    
- communication;
- business-procedures.
Co-founder of Open International training festival.
Participant of Stephen Covey, John Van Ejken, Robert Kaplan, Robin Sharma, Jonas Ridderstråle and Dr. Ichak Adizes master-classes.
Certified in Technology investment by Haas School of Business (Universityof Berkeley, California, U.S.)
Silicon Valley management tour participant (2007)
Co-founder of annual HR in IT conference.
The author of a number of articles on organizational management, training and development.

Sofia Mednikarova holds a Masters degree with "Labour. Markets and Human Resources Development" and "Public Administration" from Sofia University. She has over 9 years of experience with the development and management of human resources. Her professional career began in the public sector and goes through banking sector. Now Sofia continues her professional development in the IT industry, as HR Manager at MM Solutions. She has extensive experience in all areas of HRM - selection, administration, performance evaluation, social policy, team building programs, labor protection, etc. Over the past four years she is is active in the initiation and implementation of charitable campaigns that are targeted at disadvantaged children.

Irena Joteva is Managing Director of HILL International Bulgaria, part of the Austrian consulting group HILL International GmbH with about 50 offices in more than 30 countries. HILL is a full-service partner with high-quality solutions in all matters of personnel search & selection, identification & development of key players and HiPo, leadership challenges, and corporate HR strategy. 25 years now HILL operates in Bulgaria.
Irena joined the company in January 2002, as a Psychologist. Two years later she became Head of Applied Psychology; in 2004 was appointed as Executive Director and five years after she stepped further as a Managing Partner. Since April 2015 she is a private owner of the company. 
Irena has 17 years of overall HR experience and 15 years of experience in HR Management Consulting. Previously she worked as a Human Resources specialist at a manufacturing company. 

She has a Master degree in Psychology from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and MBA in General Management from City University, Seattle, Washington. 
Certified Coach, Erickson College International, ICF ACTP (Accredited Coach Training Program). 
Since 2006 she is a lecturer at the Sofia University - Master program Labor markets and HR development. 
She is a member of the Council of Women in the Business in Bulgaria. 

Manuel Bellsolell has over 18 years of B2B sales training and consulting experience across a wide range of industrial, mining and retail sectors. He has worked with many multinational, blue chip clients including PepsiCo, HP, Danone, Tetra Pak, American Express, Santander, Goodyear, Telefonica, GE, RB, RioTinto, Toyota, Honda and VW Audi.
Manuel gained a Bachelor in Business Administration at the European Business and Management School (part of San Jose State University) before starting a career in consulting and training. From 1995 he has held a number of senior consulting positions with both international and regional consulting firms, including Cap Gemini and MTSI International.
In 2004 he established his own training and consulting practice specialising in customer care leadership and sales training with an emphasis on simulation based learning. He has continued to work with clients across a wide range of sectors including industrial, mining, telecom and food and beverages on customer care, sales and product launch projects. He became the official Spanish partner and Country Manager of Business Today Simulations.
He has delivered projects to 27 Fortune 500 Companies across the world.
He has also developed and delivered a number of national (Spanish) product launches, sales and customer care projects within the automotive sector.
Manuel is fluent in a number of languages and delivers trainings in Spanish, Catalan, English and French.

 Anita Stanoeva is a Human Resources Manager for Eastern Europe at Software AG, a German company producing software technology. She started her career in human resources 17 years ago, going through all levels and functions in the industry, which has enabled her to gain experience in all areas of human resources. In the last six years she has held various managerial positions both in Bulgaria and abroad. She has gained her professional experience in three multinational companies. The biggest challenge Anita has encountered in her professional career is her work in the ICT sector. In 2008, she won the award "HR Manager of the Year", awarded by the "Human Resources" magazine.