With more than 20 years of experience in retail industry, Alexis has explored many passionnating facets in this industry : from operational positions (French floor manager) to strategic ones (Group new concepts). All these responsibilities driven by the same two goals : meet business needs and enhance final customers’ satisfaction. The last 6 years have been dedicated to developing digital projects and he is currently building the Carrefour Group Product MDM.

Andrea Schlossarek has been with METRO AG since 2010. She led Group Internal Audit Management and Performance Improvement departments before taking over Corporate Master Data team in 2015. Andrea is a member of the End to End Steering Committee and Data Coalition of CGF as well as and BCST of GS1.

Prior to joining METRO, Andrea was a Business Risk Services manager at Ernst & Young and a Head of Internal Audit at CEPS, transmission system operator in the Czech Republic. Andrea has a legal background and is a mother of three children.

Jan is the CEO of GS1 Belgium-Luxembourg and GS1 in Europe Vice-Chair. He is the sponsor for the data excellence activities of GS1 in Europe. He will be one of the hosts for the Data Excellence Day.

Jonas Adser joined Trade Connectors when it was founded in 2016 as Chief Operating Officer and has since 2019 been Chief Commercial Officer. Prior to joining Trade Connectors, Jonas was working for GS1 Denmark where he was leading the implementation of the GDSN Data Pool which is a core product in Trade Connectors Duplex Platform. The Duplex Platform is today utilized by +5,000 companies across 10 European countries to ensure efficient data sharing within the sphere of GS1 standards. He holds a master degree in IT Management and Innovation from the IT university of Copenhagen from 2015.
Focus areas are; Cross Organizational Collaboration, Joint Investments in Technology, Innovation and Digital Product Strategy.

Henk-Jan is the Programme and Operations Director for GS1 in Europe. In that role he is managing the data excellence programme, consisting of the B2B2C working group Maintenance of the Global Data Model for Europe and several other projects. He will be one of the hosts for the Data Excellence Day.

Yvonne Hoeting joined Mars in 2001 as a Customer Service Manager and has held several supply chain roles. Since 2012 she has been responsible for Master Data Management and Data Communication at Mars Germany, which she has developed into a cross-functional and cross-segment business unit. She has 25 years of extensive experience in supply chain, data management as well as project management. The focus and passions of her work are standardization, end-2-open process design, data quality, and …above all… cross-company collaboration for mutual benefits in the FMCG industry: #dataIsTheProduct, #100%pragmatic.

Caroline Bialek is Manager for Consumer Information at FoodDrinkEurope, the European association representing the food and drink industry. Caroline focuses on all topics related to food labelling and consumer information. Caroline has experience in public affairs and the food sector as she previously worked in the Nutrition team of the global consultancy Edelman, and in the government affairs department of Pernod Ricard. Caroline holds a Master of Laws in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Master’s degree in international law from the Sorbonne University in Paris.

Francesca is a dedicated and enthusiastic public policy professional with 25 years-experience in both public and private sectors. With more than ten years at the European Commission and the European Parliament in Brussels, and ten years for a food multinational, Francesca’s vast experience covers also fast-paced National government environments. Among her biggest achievements, the corporate social responsibility program launched and developed to the highest public recognition for Ferrero, the convergence of environmental protection and chemical impacts in the framework of the EU Chemical reform, the fight against illicit trade through open non-proprietary standards for GS1. Francesca’s visionary, diplomatic and negotiating skills have been essential to develop strategies where different interests need to converge and where changes are quickly needed at the benefit of industry, governments and society.

Francesca studied Corporate Social Responsibility at the Harvard Business School, European Law at Leeds University and at LUISS University in Rome where she received the highest recognition cum laude. She is proficient in 4 languages and she can mix them in a single sentence still providing meaningful expressions. On both her professional and personal life, Francesca is a passionate storyteller and a smart writer.

Heino Clausen-Markefka is Managing Director of ProData GmbH, an important partner and driver of the R-Cycle initiative, of which he is also a co-initiator. He works as a managing director and consultant in the mechanical and plant engineering sector.

After studying mechanical engineering, he initially managed manufacturers of machine tools for the automotive and aerospace industries. Afterwards, he was responsible within the Reifenhäuser Group for the business units for lines for the production of strapping tape and later for the production of blown film. As a consultant, he has been supporting companies in technical and economic transformations for over 10 years.

Dr Kristian Moeller has dedicated over 20 years of his career to introducing and establishing GLOBALG.A.P farm assurance solutions, serving in different roles, Managing Director, CEO and President. His leadership and initiative have transformed the organisation into an international system that sets the benchmark for safe and responsible farming practices worldwide. Under Kristians lead, GLOBALG.A.P. has changed the lives of more than 200,000 farmers and their families, and more than two million farm workers — not to forget the many million consumers that enjoy access to safer food. Kristian is now turning his energy to a new challenging project; under the roof of the EHI Retail Institute, he will devote his time to helping the industry set up a grievance mechanism system that meets the needs of the supply chain due diligence act. Kristian grew up on a crop farm in Northern Germany and completed his education in Agricultural Economics at Paderborn University in Germany and Purdue University in Indiana, USA. He holds a PhD in Agribusiness Management from Kiel University, Germany

Passionate Supply Chain leader with 15 years of experience across several nodes of the supply chain in Procter & Gamble, always in close partnership with the commercial teams and external partners (suppliers, retailers, start-ups). His expertise is innovation, organization effectiveness, and sustainability.