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Pascale Marcou Benkemoun Pascale Marcou is a consultant in Human Resources specialised in gender diversity and team coaching. She is an Economist with University Education in France (DEA) and the US (MBA). Based in Spain but native French, she is currently Catalyst Europe Ambassador for the Latin Region and Director of Sewa Beats Iberia, a leading international corporate rhythm consultancy. Pascale has more than 15 years experience at executive positions in Corporate sales and Management including 7 years in the France Telecom group and more than 8 years working for American companies in the High Tech sector. She is also a keynote speaker at conferences and round tables on gender diversity issues and has participated at the French Senate in an expert commission for the recent quotas law. |
 | Rebecca Estrada Rebecca Estrada-Worthington is a survey research manager for the Graduate Management Admission Council, the worldwide association of leading business schools that administers the Graduate Management Admission Test®. She is responsible for managing several of GMAC’s large-scale annual surveys, including the Corporate Recruiters Survey, and Year-End Poll of Employers. With more than 16 years in the research industry, Ms. Estrada-Worthington has a wide background in collecting, analyzing and presenting data in an understandable and applicable way. Before joining GMAC in 2011, Ms. Estrada-Worthington worked at Westat, an employee-owned research corporation where she worked as a research associate and analyst for large-scale education related studies, including the US National Assessment of Education Progress and the National Assessment of Adult Literacy. Ms. Estrada-Worthington holds a master’s degree in Survey Methodology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University. |
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Professor Elisabeth Kelan Elisabeth Kelan, PhD, is a Chaired Professor of Leadership at Cranfield School of Management. Her research focuses on women and leadership, generations in organizations, leadership and diversity and inclusion. She has published two books (Rising Stars - Developing Millennial Women as Leaders and Performing Gender, both with Palgrave) and numerous peer-reviewed articles in academic journals. She is an associate editor of the journal Gender, Work and Organization and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Management. The Times featured her as one of the management thinkers to watch and her research is regularly reported in the media. She sits on the advisory boards of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, a partnership initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact, as well as the National Society of High School Scholars Foundation. She has provided thought-leadership to businesses and international organizations. Elisabeth Kelan worked at King's College London, London Business School, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Zurich University. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
| Benjamin Rohé Benjamin Rohé, an entrepreneur who co-founded a public company amongst other startups and worked in the tech, renewable energy, digital space since 1997. He started his first company at the age of 17. Benjamin has been investing time and money into startups throughout Europe since 2007. He has given talks and lectures at different European universities as well as at various European startup and economic conferences. Those include the Economic Forum, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Maastricht University, Center for Digital Technology & Management (Munich), European School of Management and Technology (Berlin) and the Zeppelin University where he also helped to create an investment fund for startups at the same university. Since January 2015, Benjamin is heading the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC) in Berlin. Founding Partners include European School of Management and Technology, Noerr LLP, RWE, Henkel and 2 foundations. |
