Matthew Lawrence Aon Chief Broking Officer, Health Solutions, EMEA Matthew has worked in the health industry for 20 years, where he carries out a variety of leadership roles for Aon’s Health Solutions business. As well coordinating and executing the broking strategy for the EMEA region, Matthew leads Aon’s health and analytics capabilities. He advises some of Europe’s largest and most complex employers on the financing of their benefit programmes,

Mark Votruba mark.votruba@case.edu Case Western Reserve University Associate Professor of Economics and Medicine Associate Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University with faculty appointments in the Weatherhead School of Management and the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at MetroHealth Medical Center. Director of Graduate Health Programs at Weatherhead School of Management. Co-authored paper that won the 2012 Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics.

Claire Steves claire.j.steves@kcl.ac.uk Cing’s College London Professor of Health Finance Dr Claire J Steves MA (Cantab) MBBS MRCP PhD (female) is a Senior (Clinical) Lecturer at Kings College London and Locum Consultant Geriatrician at Kings College Hospital. She graduated first class from Cambridge University in 1997, and went on to pursue clinical studies in the heart of the East End of London, graduating with multiple distinctions in 2000. She trained in the prestigious St Thomas’s

Leslie Lemenager leslie_lemenager@ajg.com Gallagher Regional President, International Ms. Leslie A. Lemenager, CEBS, CFP, is Regional President, International, of the Benefits and Human Resources consulting division of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Gallagher). Responsible for expanding the division’s international capabilities, Leslie focuses on developing the business in four key areas including organic growth, mergers and acquisitions, productivity and efficiency, and the Gallagher culture. Her expertise in U.S. domestic and international compensation

John McLaughlin Aon’s Assessment Solutions Commercial Director John is the Commercial Director for Aon’s Aon Assessment Solutions and has worked across Europe, APAC, South America, and North America. John’s passion for designing innovative workforce strategies has seen him help organisations across the globe understand what digital means in their specific context and to design talent strategies to help achieve their digital transformation goals and meet the future world of

Danny Dorling University of Oxford Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography Danny Dorling joined the School of Geography and the Environment in September 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand, went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne, and to school in Oxford. Much of

J. Patrick Gallagher Jr. Gallagher Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer J. Patrick Gallagher, Jr. began his career with Gallagher as an intern in 1972, started working for the company full time in 1974 as a Production Account Executive and was promoted to Vice President-Operations in 1985. He was elected to the Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Board of Directors in 1986. In 1990, he was named President and

Connor Bamford Queen’s University Belfast Research Fellow, Virology Connor is a virologist with over a decade of experience in studying how the immune system defends humans and other animals against disease-causing microbes like viruses, such as the hepatitis C virus, influenza virus and Zika virus. Connor recently moved to Queen’s University Belfast as a ‘Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) Early Career Research Fellow’ to continue his research into the

Fatih Eser fatih@collaborativeperks.com Collaborative Perks Key Account Manager Fatıh Eser, Key Account Manager at Collaborative Perks since 2017 is responsible for clients in Germany, Austria and Turkey. He is a graduate of Economics.

Christian Yates University of Bath Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology I’m a Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology and also an author. In my first book, the Maths of Life and Death (https://amzn.to/2MkmdcM) I explore the true stories of life-changing events in which the application (or misapplication) of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupt by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of

Jeremy Smith University of Tennessee Governor’s Chair, Biophysics Prof. Jeremy C. Smith has led research groups in France, Germany and the United States. After education at Leeds and London University in 1985 he became a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer with Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus at Harvard University. In 1989 he established a biomolecular simulation group at the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique in Saclay, near Paris. In 1998 he became

Andrew J. Whelton Purdue University Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental & Ecological Engineering Dr. Whelton is nationally recognized environmental engineer. Dr. Whelton has applied his unique skill set for 20 years to uncover and address problems at the interface of infrastructure materials, the environment, and public health. Topics pertaining to disaster response and recovery as well as construction site safety are just two of many topics his research has

Jean-Baptiste de La Mettrie jean@collaborativeperks.com Collaborative Perks Founder – Managing Director Jean-Baptiste de La Mettrie is the Managing Director and Founder of Collaborative Perks. With over 10 years of experience in Digital Business in a international Insurance company. Most recently, he worked for the insurance company in New York City as Head of Digital Business. He was in charge of the digital business to sale financial products helping the

William Rhoads Virginia Tech Research Scientist Ph.D. Student in civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech

Caitlin R. Proctor Purdue University Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow Caitlin R. Proctor currently works at Purdue University. She was previously working at the Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, where she completed her PhD through ETH Zurich. She completed her master’s degree at Virginia Tech. Since 2012, Caitlin has been involved in research at the nexus of civil engineering, molecular microbiology, and drinking water. She is concerned with the safety

Dr. François Iris francois.iris@bmsystems.org BMSystems Chief Scientific Officer Founder of BMSystems; Chairman, CSO-CTO – Geneticist, physiologist & molecular biologist; Inventor of the CADI methodologies and tools. He holds a Ph.D. in Zoology and is in charge of all model-building activities within the company. Creator of Millennium Pharmaceuticals’ (USA) high-throughput DNA sequencing unit. Former collaborator of Nobel Laureate Prof. Jean Dausset. Inventor of new technologies in molecular biology (6 issued patents). MRC Overseas

Dr. Athanasios Beopoulos athanasios.beopoulos@bmsystems.org BMSystems Integrative Biology Director Integrative biologist Director- Biochemist with a PhD in Biotechnology from INA-PG, France. He worked for several years on the metabolic engineering of yeast and bacteria for the production of oleochemicals, pharmaceuticals and antibiotics at CNRS and INRA genetic engineering departments. After a short period in the R&D of AKK Sweden, he joined the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT (USA), where he worked

Manuel Géa manuel.gea@bmsystems.org BMSystems Chief Executive Officer Co-founder of BMSystems, CEO and VP R&D Information Systems – Information systems specialist. Played key roles in the development of BMS and of the computing firm Formitel. Scientific Engineering (operational research specialty) degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. Dregree in sociology (General semantic specialty) Paris IX Dauphine University. Former Chairman of the Supervisory board of Pherecydes-Pharma (anti-bacterial bio-agents pharmaceutical company). Former McKinsey executive, creator of Practice Pharma services

Roland de Crombrugghe Roland.Decrombrugghe@aig.com AIG Global Benefits Network General Manager Roland de Crombrugghe has a master degree in Applied Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He has headed the AIG Global Benefits Network, formerly ING Global Network, since 2002. Prior to the ING Global Network, he worked 9 years for ING. He was member of the board of the savings bank (De Vaderlandsche Spaarbank, now Record Bank) in Belgium and ING

Patrick Donders p.donders@senspc.nl Expat Pension Holland Founder Patrick Donders is Pension Jurist/Consultant and founder of Expat Pension Holland. He graduated from Law School and has a Pension and Post Doctorate Tax Law background, as well as an actuarial education from the Actuarial Institute. After an internship at the Columbia Law School in New York City, Patrick started his career at Arthur Andersen. Patrick held several management positions at financial

Saira Chambers saira.chambers@mattioliwoods.com Mattioli Woods Senior Employee Benefits Consultant Saira has been involved in the employee benefits sector for over 25 years, offering consultancy support on pensions, risk and healthcare provision during that time. Saira started her career working for one of the UK’s largest mutual insurance companies, specialising in the pensions environment. She quickly transitioned from the insurance environment to the consultancy side of employee benefits and worked

Janet M. Lord j.m.lord@bham.ac.uk Birmingham University Research labs Director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing Janet Lord is director of the MRC-ARUK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research and the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, both located within the new Queen Elizabeth super Hospital which opened in the summer of 2011. Janet’s research focuses on the innate immune system, the body’s front line defense against infection, and how the

Christopher Martyniuk cmartyn@ufl.edu University of Florida Associate Professor Dr. Chris Martyniuk is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida’s Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology & Department of Physiological Sciences. As a Molecular Toxicologist / Physiologist, he studies biological responses using omics methods and biochemistry. Mammalian and zebrafish models are used to understand how our chemical environment is associated with human diseases. His research utilizes bioinformatics to integrate

Dejan Malesic Dejan.Malesic@previnet.it Previnet S.p.A Head of Business Development Dejan is Head of Business Development for outsourcing industry with a multi-annual experience within different business areas: Pension Funds, Insurance, Finance and Healthcare area. His main role is to establish and develop business relationships with international clients. As specialist in multi-country Defined Contribution pension arrangements Dejan works with various big consulting companies and multinationals on implementation of new plans as

Brian Quinn Bquinn@granite.bm Granite Management Limited Managing Director Brian Quinn is a founding Director and owner of Granite Management Limited (Granite), a Bermuda based captive management and consulting company, focusing on International Employee Benefits (IEB) and other specialist risks. Brian has been instrumental in Granite achieving recognition as a world leader in the reinsurance and/or financing of IEB programs designed to reduce the cost of employee benefit programs for client companies, without

Jasenka Zubcevic jasenkaz@ufl.edu University of Florida Assistant Professor Dr. Jasenka Zubcevic is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida’s Department of Physiological Sciences. Her research focuses on neural control of cardiovascular physiology, neurogenic hypertension, bone marrow immune responses in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and on the gut-brain axis in cardiovascular diseases. She holds a BSc in Pharmacology and a PhD in Physiology from the Bristol Heart Institute at

Chris Burns Chris.Burns@eebcg.com EBCG Partner Chris Burns has over 35 years of experience in the employee benefits, healthcare and digital health industries in the U.S. as well as globally. In his career, Chris has built a highly successful track record driving revenue growth, strategic planning, improving operational efficiencies, identifying/developing talent, expanding margins and increasing market share in a competitive environment. He has led large, publicly-held organizations as well as