Ana García Fau, Vice-chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Yell Publicidad

Ana García Fau is Vice-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yell Publicidad –the Spanish and Latin American unit of the Yell Group–, where she is responsible for its operations in Spain, Argentina, Chile and Peru.
 
Ana joined the Telefónica Group back in 1997 as Director of Planning of its Yellow Pages company (TPI). In 1999, after the IPO of the company, she was appointed Managing Director of Corporate Development, leading the company’s entry into Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Peru and Argentina). She was also member of the board of the acquired companies.
 
Ana was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2005 and, soon after the acquisition of TPI by the Yell Group, she became Vice-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yell Publicidad.

Before, Ana García Fau worked at Mckinsey&Company in Spain, where she took part in several strategic consultancy projects for different sectors, in Goldman Sachs International’s Investment Banking Division (London) and for the Corporate Identity firm Wolff Olins.

Ana García Fau is a graduate in Law and Business Administration from ICADE (E-3) and has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston-USA. Ana has recently been awarded the Icade Association 2009 Brilliant Career Award. She is also member of the Board of Trustees of the Pilates Foundation in Spain.

Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair is a leading barrister specialising in discrimination and human rights and a committed campaigner for women’s equality. She is closely involved with over 20 charities with a special emphasis on those working with women, and is founder and patron of her own charity, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, which provides integrated business development support for women entrepreneurs in developing and transition countries:

www.cherieblairfoundation.org

Guler Sabancı is Chairman and Managing Director of Sabancı Holding, the parent company of the Sabancı Group, Turkey’s leading industrial and financial conglomerate.  

Nancy McKinstry, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, Wolters Kluwer

Nancy McKinstry (USA, 1959) is CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company focused on professionals in areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance and healthcare. Wolters Kluwer has revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.8 billion), approximately 19,300 employees and operations in more than 40 countries.

After initiating a drastic turn-around when she became CEO in 2003, Ms. McKinstry is widely credited with the successful transformation of Wolters Kluwer from a formerly fragmented collection of assets to a truly global powerhouse for the 21st century. Under her direction, Wolters Kluwer has shifted its focus from a print-driven publishing enterprise to one that provides cutting-edge digital offerings and embedded workflow solutions.  

Formerly, Ms. McKinstry was President and CEO of CCH Legal Information Services, and previously held product management positions with CCH Inc., now part of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting. In 1999, Ms. McKinstry was CEO of SCP Communications, a medical information company. She formerly held management positions with Booz Allen Hamilton.

Ms. McKinstry earned an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Columbia University, New York, where she graduated Beta Gamma Sigma. At the University of Rhode Island, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelors Degree in Economics and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. She is a member of the Board of Directors of leading telecom supplier Ericsson and TiasNimbas Business School. She is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Amsterdam Institute of Finance, the Dutch Advisory Council of INSEAD, the Advisory Board for the University of Rhode Island and the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School.

Ms. McKinstry has been included in leading lists of business media as one of the most powerful women in business. Most recently, in 2010, she was among Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women, and in 2009, she was among Fortune's Global 50 Powerful Women in Business and Financial Times’ Top 50 Women in World Business.

Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Business Advisory Services, IFC

Rachel Kyte is Vice President, Business Advisory Services, for IFC. Previously, she served as Director of IFC's Environment and Social Development Department. At the department, which she joined in January 2004, she stewarded the development and adoption of the new sustainability policy, performance standards and disclosure policy for IFC and has overseen an overhaul in internal systems and procedures to support the strategic importance IFC places on environmental and social sustainability. The IFC’s new Performance Standards serve as a basis for Equator Principles which have now been adopted by over 45 financial institutions. Prior to this appointment, Ms Kyte was Principal Specialist in the Office of the Compliance Adviser/Ombudsman of IFC/MIGA. She managed the Ombudsman function, investigating and offering conflict resolution to complaints filed in relation to the private sector activities of IFC and MIGA. Before joining IFC, she was Senior Policy Adviser, Senior Adviser on Gender and Representative to the European Union for IUCN, The World Conservation Union.

A graduate of the University of London and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Ms Kyte has worked extensively within the environment, women's and health movements as a policy analyst and advocate. She has worked with and for private sector concerns on private/public partnerships in the fields of health and environment and has served as an adviser, and on the boards, of a number of NGOs, private philanthropic foundations, the United Nations, and government. She has taught negotiation and public policy at a number of institutions.

Vinita Bali ,  Managing Director & CEO of Britannia Industries

Vinita Bali is the Managing Director & CEO of Britannia Industries, India’s publicly listed, premier Food Company with revenue in excess of USD 750MM. She returned to this role in January 2005 following 16 years of overseas assignments in a variety of marketing and general management positions in different countries, with eminent multinationals like The Coca-Cola Company and Cadbury Schweppes PLC. 

In the five years that Vinita has been in Britannia, she has steered the Company on the Health and Nutrition course and delivered its highest ever growth rate. Britannia is engaged with GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition), UNWFP (United Nations World Food Program) and CGI (Clinton Global Initiative).

Vinita is also an Independent Director on the Boards of several Companies in India and serves on the Global Diversity and Advisory Council of Novartis International.

Vinita started her career in India and worked in senior roles with Cadbury Confectionery in India, UK, Nigeria and South Africa. She also served on the Boards of Cadbury Nigeria and Cadbury South Africa as Sales and Marketing Director.

In 1994 she joined The Coca-Cola Company as its Worldwide Marketing Director based in Atlanta and was later appointed President of the Andean Division, based in Chile. In 2001, she became a Corporate Officer of the Company and was appointed Vice-President of Corporate Strategy, reporting to the Chairman. 

A transformational leader, Vinita has won several awards and accolades for her business acumen and leadership and was named “Business Woman of the Year- 2009” by The Economic Times and ranked 22nd among the world’s top 50 business women by The Financial Times.

Vinita completed her MBA in India and pursued postgraduate studies in Business & Economics at Michigan State University on a scholarship from the Rotary International.

Nani Beccalli-Falco formerly served as President & CEO, EMEA. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President, GE Capital, where he had oversight responsibilities for GE Capital's Equipment Management Businesses. He also oversaw GE Capital India, GE Capital Global Sourcing, GE Capital Container Finance and the GE SeaCo JV.