Janja Skamlič
Partner in Forensic & Integrity Services, Assurance
Ernst & Young - Slovenia | Slovenia

Janja is a head of EY Forensic & Integrity Services team based in Slovenia. She has over 20 years of experience, primarily in the field of forensic investigation and fraud detection. As head of Forensic & Integrity services in Ernst & Young - Slovenia, she led complex forensic investigations in Slovenia and Balkan region, working for various clients including government. As the leader of fraud management department in 2009 - 2014 of insurance company, she focused primarily on development of early automate fraud detection and money laundering.

Martina Pipiskova
Manager in FAAS, Assurance
Ernst & Young - Czech Republic | Czech Republic

Martina is a Manager in FAAS practice at Ernst & Young - Czech Republic, based in Prague, Czech Republic. She has experience with leading various projects in area of Digital transformation, Process optimisation and Internal Controls. Martina is also responsible for her team’s Learning and Development and acts as a Wellbeing Ambassador. She is a certified Hatha Yoga teacher offering classes in the EY organization and has been involved in mentoring.

Thanh Tam Luu
Senior Consultant in FAAS, Assurance
Ernst & Young - Czech Republic | Czech Republic

Tam is a Senior Consultant in FAAS practice at Ernst & Young - Czech Republic, based in Prague, Czech Republic. She has professional experience with leading various projects in area of Finance and Data Analytics using data analytics tools – SQL, MS PowerBI, Tableau. She loves cultivating and caring for plants.

Andra Caşu
Partner, Tax, Financial Services Tax & Law Leader – CESA region
Ernst & Young - Romania | Romania

Andra is a Partner within Tax Practice at Ernst & Young - Romania and has more than 19 years of experience, being based in the Bucharest office of Ernst & Young - Romania. Starting 2022 she is also the EY CESA Tax & Law Financial Services Sector Leader.

She has extensive experience in leading tax teams for domestic and international tax consultancy and due diligence projects, tax structuring, tax reviews and compliance, overviews on corporate taxation. Moreover, she has numerous credentials from the financial services industry, considering her extensive technical specialization. Andra holds a Bachelor of Science, Degree in Economics, Major in Banking and Corporate Finance, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest.

She is a member of the Fiscal Consultants Chamber and has numerous articles published in economic magazines on tax and regulatory issues and is an active participant and speaker to tax conferences and seminars.

Justyna Wilczyńska-Baraniak
Partner, Leader of the Intellectual Property, Technology & Data Protection Team
Ernst & Young Law Talasiewicz i Wspolnicy sp.k. | Poland

Justyna is a Partner, Leader of the Intellectual Property, Technology & Data Protection Team at Ernst & Young Law Talasiewicz i Wspolnicy sp.k. She is also a co-founder and director of the Academy of Business and Law of New Technologies at Łazarski University where she coordinates Postgraduate Studies “Law in Business of New Technologies” and lectures on technology dispute resolution. Justyna has more than 18 years of experience in strategic advisory to multinational clients from various sectors including retail, technology, energy, finance, telecommunication (5G) and pharmaceutical sectors on intellectual property matters regarding strategic advisory on brand protection within EU, IP infringements, including cybersecurity, IP transfer and licensing, cloud implementation in regulated sectors. Justyna is one of the top ranking lawyers, recommended for efficient advisory and excellent representation of clients in multi-jurisdictional cases. She has been ranked by I AM Patent, Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and WTR 1000. Justyna strongly believes that in legal services in the field of new technologies, the aspect of understanding technology and business is absolutely critical. Only the combination of this knowledge with excellent knowledge of regulations and a "tailor-made" legal service can provide clients with better results and success. Justyna mentors women in many prestigious mentoring programs such as Perpektywy Woman in Tech, Leading Lawyer, Fundacja Liderek Biznesu or startup companies in such programs like InCredibles Sebastiana Kulczyka or Microsoft for Starups.

Fatma Cengiz
Senior Manager, Technology Consulting
Ernst Young Kurumsal Finansman Danismanlik A.S. | Turkey

I have joined EY in 2012 as a new graduate from industrial engineering. The EY organization has offered me great opportunities to work in cross border teams in transformational projects, so I stepped into technology world. In parallel, I got my master's degree in Business Information Systems. After a fabulous four years, I left EY to try new opportunities and observe different angles of business world. It was an eye-opening experience to see how EY has developed my tech skills and management skills. New challenges were not enough for me, so I got back to my EY family in one year. In my manager period, I have focused on designing our technology offerings and frameworks, taking advantage of my previous experiences in large scale transformational projects. In recent years, my focus is on two main areas. One is the "data" field aiming to transform EY clients into a data-driven-enterprise, and the other is "IT/Digital Strategy" to design overall IT operating model components, transformational roadmaps and  support EY clients on program management. Life goes on in parallel to my professional life… I got married and have two lovely sons. Enjoying my life with my personal family and professional family, EY.

Aneta Legenza
Partner in Cybersecurity, Technology Consulting
E& Y sp.zoo Consulting sp.k | Poland

Aneta currently works as a Partner in Cybersecurity department of E& Y sp.zoo Consulting sp.k. She has over 20 years of experience. It comes from consultant’s work with senior client executives and in projects with large numbers of senior stakeholders . Aneta gained her extensive professional experience participating in diverse IT advisory and strategy projects, particularly in Cyber Security area. She played a program and project manager role in many major projects, both advisory as well as implementations. She is graduated from the Military University of Technology and Warsaw University. She obtained Master of Science Degree in in Cryptology and BA in Mathematics. She is a happy wife and mom of two great kids and six cats.

Malwina Kozakiewicz
Manager, EY Wavespace
E& Y sp.zoo Consulting sp.k | Poland

Malwina is an experience lead and certified facilitator in wavespace Warsaw, which is an EY growth & innovation center.

She has 14 years of work experience, and in the last years she has concentrated on working with leaders and managers on defining the business problems they are facing and on finding leading working solutions.

Malwina propagates collaborative facilitation and design thinking as an effective way for organizations to define and help address their problems, design new alternatives and address challenges within cross functional teams.

Years of work with clients withing different industries gave her wide view on business challenges faced by management during business transformations run across organizations.

Within only last three years she has helped deliver over 200 workshop sessions, with hundreds of participants all over the world from different angels of business and industries including Insurance, banking, FMCG and different competencies from cyber security to HR.

Malwina believes that listening to the client/employee and understanding her needs, aspirations and problems is curtail for building better services and workplaces.

Esra Özdemir
Blockchain Desk Leader, Assurance
Guney Serbest Muhasebeci Mali Musavirlik A.S. | Turkey

After earning a degree in business administration from Bilkent University, Esra began her career as an auditor.

She has worked in both independent audit and internal audit positions over the course of her 15-year career, gaining knowledge in the Construction, Energy, Aviation, Defence Industry, Consumer Products, Health, Production, Mining and Service sectors..

Realizing the added value of Blockchain technology, which she met during her research to make audit processes more efficient, she concentrated on this industry. She conducts improvement and efficiency studies in all business processes by fusing her experience and knowledge in auditing with her understanding in the area of blockchain.

Magdalena Wrzosek
Manager, Technology Consulting
E& Y sp.zoo Consulting sp.k | Poland

Magdalena has a strong background in public sector. She worked in the National Research Institute (NASK), acting as national polish CSIRT, where she was the Head of Strategic Analysis and Emerging Technology Team, responsible for cooperation with essential services and national cybersecurity national competent authorities. She supervised crisis management activities during incident response on national level. Her duty was also NIS Directive implementation in Poland, as well as developing cybersecurity maturity framework for essential sectors. Magdalena holds PhD of national security in the War Studies University, Warsaw. A graduate of the University of Warsaw and the University of Konstanz in Germany. She also graduated from the European Center for Security Studies named after Greaorge Marshall in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Program on Cyber Security Studies and Seminar on Regional Security). US Department of State (Cyber Security and Government Interoperability Program) scholarship holder.

Joanna Wolf
Consultant, Technology Consulting
E& Y sp.zoo Consulting sp.k | Poland

Joanna is responsible for working with essential and critical sectors. She has a background in public sector, National Research Institute (NASK), acting as a national CSIRT for Poland, where she was working on incident response coordination on national level. Her responsibilities were, among others, passing the information about the incidents and threats between industry and public administration and working on escalation of the incidents accordingly to the crisis management SOPs. She was also involved in preparing training courses and meetings for public and private entities that helped essential sectors increase maturity level. She also participated in the creation of an ecosystem of public-private partnerships in cybersecurity, with strong focus of cybersecurity crisis management. She was also involved in building sectoral ISACs.

Katarzyna Sawicka Consultant, Technology Consulting
E& Y sp.zoo Consulting sp.k | Poland

Katarzyna joined EY in 2017, and since then she has been involved in multiple OT security projects for industrial companies, focusing on OT security assessments. She was responsible for conducting assessments based on OT security standards, such as IEC 62443 and NIST 800-82, which involved assessing OT security maturity of organizations, identification of OT security gaps and providing recommendations to improve current OT security posture. Katarzyna graduated from Warsaw University of Technology in the field of Automatic Control and Robotics at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering. 

Maria Letizia Locapo
Senior Manager in Strategy, EY-Parthenon
EY Advisory S.p.A | Italy

Letizia Locapo joined EY in 2021 and she is based in the Milan office of EY Advisory S.p.A. Before joining EY Advisory S.p.A, Letizia gained three years of significant experience in strategy consulting in the United States and Mexico.

She leads EY Global Metaverse plan to forecast revenues and costs associated with the Metaverse industry. This also includes a market study per industry to highlight clients current and future needs, creating a broad offer by client type.

Arianna Baccini
Manager in Strategy
EY Advisory S.p.A | Italy

Arianna is a Senior Manager within EY Advisory S.p.A office in Milan, part of the Corporate Finance Strategy core team and she joined EY in 2015.

Arianna worked for private equity funds and corporate clients in many sectors, including Fashion & Luxury, Consumer & Retail, Food and Beverage, Diversified Industrial Products, IT & Telco.

Arianna has been involved in consulting projects concerning business analysis and business planning, strategic and financial assessment of companies, market analysis and merchandising, buying and retail performance improvement.

Panagiota Koutla
Senior Consultant in Data & Analytics, Technology Consulting
Ernst & Young - Cyprus | Cyprus

Panagiota is a Data & Analytics Senior Consultant in the Technology Consulting practice of Ernst & Young - Cyprus in Cyprus. She is experienced in Data Engineering, Cloud Computing, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Panagiota’s deep subject matter experience is in Data Engineering & Data Science, and she is experienced in interpreting and analyzing data. She has evolved in various industries, such as Oil & Gas, Mining, Automated Graph Design & Healthcare.

Ionela Stan
Director in EY EMEIA Intelligent Automation Central Team
Ernst & Young - Romania | Romania

Ionela is a Director in EY EMEIA Intelligent Automation central team at Ernst & Young - Romania, with 14 years of experience in implementation support of business and digital transformation programs across various industries: Financial Services, Life Sciences, Energy, Business Services, and Consumer Products. For the past 6 years, she has been involved in defining and helps in implementing automation programs for clients in Europe and the US. The curious fact is that she doesn’t have a technical background, so join her session to find out how you can develop a tech career path in today’s fast-paced environment, leveraging a wide spectrum of business and technical competencies.

Dimitrina Vasilev
EY CESA Talent Leader
Bulgaria

Dimitrina is EY CESA Talent Leader. She manages, engages, develops and oversees cross-border central Talent team. Dimitrina graduated from Executive Master of Business Administration (Cotrugli Business School). Her hobbies are healthy cooking, conditioning training, exploring the world trough meeting diverse cultures, cuisines and people.

Margit Farkas
Partner, People Advisory Services
Hungary

Margit has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources and Change management (internal and consulting role) and fulfils different leadership roles for 15 years. Joined EY in 2000, prior to that was working for a boutique consulting firm. Margit is a BA in Economics and post-graduate in Human Resources management. Margit’s special focus is on change management, leading the change efforts around large transformations, with clients internationally across different industries (e.g. operating model change, global system integration, culture change, etc. She is a qualified trainer and facilitator, has extensive experience in designing and leading learning programs and workshops, as well as acting as a speaker for large audiences. Margit is an experienced executive coach, internally in EY and supporting clients at different industries.

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Verona Cojocaru
Partner in Assurance
Ernst & Young - Romania

Verona is Assurance Partner and Audit Transformation Leader for the Romanian practice, driving smooth technology integration into audit, innovation, as well as the work model change. She is also part of the CESA Digital Leadership Team, leading the digital Go-to-Market pillar. She has over 22 years of progressive experience in Audit, Accounting, Reporting and Control, as well as Performance Management, Tutoring and People Development in BIG4 practice, proving high business sense. She joint EY in September 2017.

Her professional experience includes coordination of audit and other assurance engagements for a large portfolio of clients, operating in different industries.

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Elena Hadjikyriacou
Director, Business Consulting
Ernst & Young - Cyprus

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (with Honors) and an MBA (Academic Excellence Award) both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant and has been a member of AICPA since 1997 and of the ICPAC since 2023. Elena is an expert Manager in Banking, and has worked in Front line, Control function and Supervisory roles for more than 20 years.

She specializes in Banking Regulation and has worked in Banking Supervision for the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), as a member of a Joint Supervisory Team (JST) between the ECB and the CBC.She also specializes in Management Reporting and Planning, and has served as the MIS Manager of a large Banking Group in Cyprus.

Elena is currently a candidate for an MSc in Blockchain and Digital Currencies.

Aktolkyn Kusherbayeva
Partner Assurance, Audit, Standards and Methodologies
Ernst & Young - Kazakhstan

Joined EY in January 2005 after graduation from KIMEP University. Auditor specializing mainly in ECU and IP sectors. Responsible for digital influencer role in Central Asia and EY women ambassador. In 2022, Aktolkyn has established the CCA Center of Excellence DATAS in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Małgorzata Dolińska
Senior, Assurance
Ernst & Young - Poland

Małgorzata Dolińska is a Marketing &BD Coordinator in EY Forensic &Integrity Services in Poland. She joined EY in 2006; marketing enthusiast with nearly 10 years of experience in marketing and digital marketing, social media management, content creation, project management and business development with strong creative and organizational skills; graduated in Administration; Certified Digital Marketing Professional.

Kat Ellis
Partner in People Advisory Services, EY Poland
Ernst & Young - Poland

Kat has 20 years of experience in transforming human resource management in the global market. For 13 years she lived in the UK, where she managed Digital HR programs at an international level.

In her previous role, Kat managed Digital HR offering globally for BPO teams in Australia, Malaysia, India, South America, Great Britain and Poland, building transformational frameworks to drive new work models with clients using technology and focused on people and business value.

Eirini Avraam
Senior Consultant, Technology Consulting
Ernst & Young - Cyprus

After earning an MSc in Business Analytics from Bayes Business School and a BSc in Economics and Finance from University of Surrey, she began her career as a Data Analyst.

She has experience working in the UK as Technology Consultant as well Cyprus for the past 3 years. Her skillset revolves around implementation of technology solutions, data analysis, and cloud data engineering. She is also experienced in collaborating across multidisciplinary teams and utilizing tools like Python, R, SQL, and Microsoft Azure. Committed to continuous learning, with certificates in Microsoft Azure, specialising in Machine Learning in the Financial Sector.

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Wioleta Fortuńska
Manager, Assurance
EY Poland

Wioleta Fortuńska is an Assurance Learning Manager at EY Poland who is dedicated to the development of her team members through sharing her knowledge and best practices. She is known for her passion for new technologies and how to effectively implement them in business and conceptual work. Wioleta is currently pursuing Executive Education in Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley as part of her commitment to continuous personal and professional growth.