- Utilizing revenue cycle analytics to streamline and optimize revenue cycle processes and produce valuable business intelligence
- Implementing data-driven healthcare RCM to improve financial workflows, reduce revenue leakage, and ultimately improve patient outcomes
Cerys graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2014 with a BSC Hons in Agriculture, specialising in livestock production and farm business management. She holds a PGDip in Agri-food, also from University of Nottingham, and has undertaken studies into Sustainable Food Security at Wageningen University.
Cerys has spent the last 9 years working in a variety of agriculture and sustainability roles across hospitality, retail and consulting. She spent several years within the Agriculture team at Sainsbury's, particularly focusing on pork and egg supply chains as Agriculture Manager. Following a consulting role in the Agricultural Value Chains team at South Pole, Cerys joined Heart with Smart in August 2022, where she leads on the development and delivery of their sustainability strategy and decarbonisation journey for the Pizza Hut and Itsu brands.
Usama has 15 years of deep procurement experience across wide variety of multi-billion-euro portfolios including agricultural commodities, chemicals, packaging as well as services and capital expenditure. He believes procurement has the opportunity to lead in the design of any company's future economic model and not only how that contributes internally to top and bottom line but also how it incentivizes and drives value externally. He has deep expertise in partnership ecosystems development and value chain transformations.
As Procurement Head for Nutrition Business Group, he has responsibility for procurement strategy development and implementation including competitive buying, sustainability, value chain interventions, partnerships, resilience, and digital transformation agenda. This encompasses working with over 3000 supply partners across the globe to help land our Force for Good Foods strategy. In this capacity, his team leads implementation of Unilever’s Regenerative Agriculture program working closely with our key suppliers.
Eric started his career in strategy consulting and merger and acquisitions and held several general management positions, including at Danone where he lastly oversaw the sustainability strategy of the company. Eric joined Unilever in 2021 and is now Managing Director Unilever Climate & Nature Fund & Vice President Business Operations Sustainability.
In this capacity, he leads the delivery of several of the major Sustainability goals and transformations for Unilever’s value chain, as well as Unilever's Climate & Nature Fund, an impact-led investment platform to accelerate solutions for protecting the health of our planet. The Fund, which was announced in 2020 has a mandate to spend EUR 1 billion, using the power of Unilever’s brands over this decade to make meaningful progress.
Eric also serves as non-executive director of The Carbon Trust and The Gold Standard Foundation.
In this position, Lucas leads the implementation of Unilever's regenerative agriculture strategy. The program has a pipeline of over 90 projects, mobilising suppliers in 27 different cultures.
These projects are developed in partnerships with brands such as Knorr and Hellman’s, as well suppliers, farmers and external partners. The program's primary objective is to positively impact the agricultural supply chain through sustainable practices.
His professional objective is to help companies create an innovative, healthy, and sustainable food system. With over 15 years of professional experience in large corporations, he has held procurement, operations, strategy, and sustainability positions, leading projects that built sustainable supply chains for fruit and dairy. He also worked with the decarbonisation of operations and worked on consolidating the companies' climate strategies.
He carries a giant curiosity, which is why, in parallel to his work, he is still studying for his PhD in sustainability strategy implementation.
Donald is currently a Distinguished Engineer at LinkedIn, primarily overseeing the company's generative AI strategy, architecture, and technology. He has more than 35 years of hands-on experience as a technical architect and CTO, with an extensive background in designing and delivering innovative software and services on a large scale. In 2013, Donald co-founded Maana, which pioneered computational knowledge graphs and visual no-code/low-code authoring environments to address complex AI-based digital transformation challenges in Fortune 50 companies. During his 15 years at Microsoft, Donald started the Knowledge and Reasoning group within Microsoft's Bing division, where he innovated "Satori", an internet-scale knowledge graph constructed automatically from the web crawl. He co-founded a semantic computing incubation funded directly by Bill Gates, portions of which shipped as the SQL Server Semantic Engine. Additionally, he created Microsoft's first internet display ad delivery system and led numerous AI/ML initiatives in Microsoft Research across embedded systems, robotics, wearable computing, and privacy-preserving personal data services.
Igor has more than five years of experience in machine learning. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich. During his studies, he developed a lot of experience in machine learning and robotics. He had multiple successful publications in deep learning at top conferences such as ICML and ECCV. Before co-founding Lightly, he worked as a software engineer at the Swiss stock exchange for two years.
