It’s time to ignite the Intelligent Planning revolution.

Marco Limena has developed his career in leading technology corporations and growth-oriented businesses, focusing on B2B software. With a unique international experience, he spent one third of his career in Europe and two thirds in the USA managing global organizations.

Marco spent 5 years at Microsoft in Redmond, as Vice President of the Hosting & Cloud Providers business where he was responsible for the global B2B commercial operations of the company’s cloud services through the partners ecosystem. Prior to Microsoft Marco spent 14 years at HP, during which time he held several roles including Vice President of HP’s Telecoms solutions business based in Palo Alto.

Marco has extensive experience working with leading Private Equity firms such as Vista Equity Partners and Nordic Capital where he has held multiple CEO positions overseeing M&A transactions on both buy and sell side. Marco has been Non-Executive Board Director in private and public companies.

Since joining Board as Chief Marketing Officer in 2022, Mark has been at the helm of the Intelligent Planning revolution. He brings vast software marketing expertise to the company and leads us in our mission to let the world’s largest enterprises know there is a smarter way to plan.

Mark joined Board from Cellebrite, the leading provider of SaaS-based Digital Intelligence offerings, where he led a global team of marketers worldwide. Cellebrite scaled from $135 million to $280 million in revenue during Mark’s tenure, before going public in August 2021, where he led a successful SPAC IPO valued at over $2 billion.

Prior to Cellebrite, Mark served as Chief Marketing Officer at MicroStrategy, a leading global enterprise software provider for Business Intelligence. At MicroStrategy, Mark led a global team of 135 marketing professionals dedicated to driving marketing operational excellence and elevating the brand.

As Chief Technology and Product Officer of Board International, Nelson Petracek helps shape the development of Board’s intelligent planning platform. With over 20 years of experience, Nelson works to deliver systems for the digital transformation age, drawing upon his deep knowledge of analytical applications, APIs, cloud, event-driven architectures, and other emerging technologies.

A technology evangelist, author, and frequent speaker, Nelson brings a record of continuous success in building world-class technology teams and leading the development of powerful planning and analytics solutions for high-growth organizations. Prior to Board, Nelson served as Global Chief Technology Officer at TIBCO and as a senior director within Informatica Corporation’s Enterprise Technologies group.

Louis Peacock is Board’s, Chief Customer Officer. Louis is an experienced customer success professional, having been in the planning domain for over 20 years.

Before joining Board, Louis built and led Customer Success organisations at Anaplan as Strategic VP of Global Customer Success and served as Chief Customer Officer at Talkwalker.

In his role as Chief Digital Officer, Jed champions the benefits of digital transformation for UK enterprise and evangelizes how Microsoft as a trusted partner and cocreator within the industry can enable key strategies. He has also established and now leads the enterprise digital natives sales business for Microsoft UK.

Jed joined Microsoft in March 2022 after 20 years in science, national security, and nuclear defense. Jed is a critical thinker with an eclectic background. His experience reaches from R&D, manufacturing, and process optimisation to security and intelligence, leading organisational change, strategy and innovation programmes.

A keen science and technology evangelist, Jed is passionate about human centred innovation, the digitally-augmented human and an advocate of innovation and growth culture. As a Chartered Physicist he supports the Institute of Physics (IOP) on matters of business innovation and growth and impact to UK economy, and mentors start-ups in deeptech and adversarial AI.

After five years at KPMG as an IT consultant and auditor, Etienne Causse joined Groupe SEB in 2011. Today, he is Head of Technology in the Finance Transformation department and is responsible for the group’s FP&A systems. 

Since 2016, Group SEB has implemented more than 10 different models with the Board Intelligent Planning Platform to tackle various topics in the finance function. From short-term forecasting to long-term strategic planning and reporting, Groupe SEB continues to find new use cases for Board.  

Aside from EPM requirements, the team is also building a finance data lake to support process analysis through data and operational KPI building across multiple systems. More generally, the team supports the data and technology needs of finance community members across the entire group. 

A market leader that is close to consumers, Groupe SEB owns 31 brands such as KRUPS, Mulinex, Tefal in the small household equipment sector and operates in 150 countries around the world. 

Dr. Carsten Bange is the founder and managing director of BARC, a European research and advisory firm that specializes in data & analytics and enterprise software. As a leading expert in data, analytics and corporate performance management Carsten has helped numerous companies in a range of industries transform themselves into data-driven organizations. He is a well-known thought leader, frequent speaker in corporate and public events, and the author of many industry publications and market studies. Hear his “Data Culture Podcast” with episodes in German and English language.

Alessandro Basile is a senior executive manager with more than 20 years of experience in the Banking & Finance sector. An expert in finance, strategy planning & execution, and change & project management, he likes to define himself as “a make it happen guy.” Since 2012, Alessandro has led financial planning & control at Sella Banking Group.

Sella Group is an innovator in the banking industry. Using the Board Intelligent Planning Platform, the company has digitally transformed numerous processes to become a data-driven organization that empowers users with self-service access to the information they need. This shift has driven greater visibility of performance across the group’s 20 companies and aligned financial budgeting and forecasting with the sales network.

Jeremy Hall joined OTC Industrial Technologies in 2021 as Senior Manager of Financial Systems and Reporting. He is an advocate and champion for OTC’s digital transformation journey. He brings together stakeholders from across the organization to listen and respond to data needs that ultimately help OTC deliver value to its customers. Jeremy seeks to collaborate and share best practices with industry peers.

OTC is using Board for Financial Consolidation and will extend Board into a company-wide planning solution, spanning multiple departments that interact with Finance. The goal is to completely do away with static reports and enable people to interact with data in real-time and drill into data on sales, invoices, orders, commissions, and more. The next phase of the project will be focused on Operational and Sales (Transactional) Reporting.

Ann is a Merchandise Manager at Charles Tyrwhitt with 25 years experience in Merchandising covering traditional Bricks and Mortar Retail through to Wholesale, eCom and Direct Marketing. Operating throughout on both the commercial trade side as well as the delivery of significant change covering reporting, planning and transactional systems.

Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts Ltd., also known as CT Shirts, is a British multi-channel clothing retailer specialising in dress shirts, ties, suits, casualwear, shoes and accessories.

Daniel Smith is the former Global Head of Analytics & Insights at Pangaia, with over 20 years experience in Strategy, Analytics & Insights.
As the Global Head of Analytics & Insights, Daniel drove a data driven culture to establish a state of the art data platform and planning solutions for merchandising & finance.
Daniel has a passion for unlocking the power of data and is dedicated to delivering business value. The solutions Daniel developed were recognised at Boards customer awards 2021.

PANGAIA is a materials science company bringing problem-solving innovations to the world through premium lifestyle products and experiences.

As Head of Portfolio Marketing, Pietro is responsible for leading go-to-market strategy, value proposition, awareness, sales enablement, and competitive intelligence efforts at Board.

With 12+ years of experience in CPM, Analytics, and ERPs, Pietro has worked with many global-level organizations delivering value through the transformation of decision-making processes.

He is also a subject matter expert for finance, sales, human resources, and supply chain, regularly contributing to blog, thought leadership whitepapers, eBooks, and webinars.

Before joining Board in 2016, Pietro held engagement and program management roles in multiple management consulting firms. He has earned a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Matt is a forward-thinking retail technology executive with a successful track record in formulating and delivering business-aligned solution strategies that drive value for clients in the retail and consumer product industry.

With 20+ years in several senior leadership positions, Matt’s contribution to retail solutions strategy accelerates customer value and the go-to-market performance for established and start-up technology providers. For the past 8 years, he has specialized in AI strategy for merchandising and supply chain, studying AI at MIT.

Dave has spent over 25 years working with supply chain solutions with time at a range of solution providers, normally at the strategic end of the product use and design, always looking to tell a story and make a difference.

Dave has most recently been a Postgraduate Lecturer and consultant on Supply Chain, a technology advisor with several participators. He has extensive, long-term expertise in Supply Chain leadership roles; for the last decade he has been providing advisory services to leadership roles ranging from innovative companies to market leaders, advising start-ups who are significant providers in areas such as machine learning, advanced analytics, and extended visibility solutions.

He has been providing future insight on Supply Chain strategy, systems and solution usage enabling Supply Chain Change and team process improvement. He is particularly interested in how companies can become disruptive through the leveraging of emerging technologies and approaches.

As Global Head of Financial Solutions, Samuel is responsible for leading the delivery of Board's financial solution portfolio, starting with Group Consolidation & Reporting to be launched in Summer 2023!

With over 13 years of experience in technology transformation, Samuel worked in FP&A before certifying as an Enterprise Architect. He has been in EPM since early 2016 and has successfully led consulting, customer success, presales and most recently product management, within the EPM space.

Working with organisations on achieving finance transformation through digital technology and professional consulting.

A qualified accounting professional and technology expert who brings strong proficiencies across business intelligence, performance management, and technology transformation. From consultancy and implementation, to the management of corporate engagements through pre-sales and sales, Gavin’s wide-ranging experiences have provided the relevant skills and expertise to empower business transformation through digital technology, innovation and professional consulting. He specialises in working with organisations to achieve finance transformation through digital technology platforms, bespoke software development, professional consulting, and coaching.

An Oliver Wight Partner for over two decades, Les works with some of the world’s leading organizations to deliver high-performance business improvement, including Nestlé, Cummins, 3M, Diageo, Oatly, and Molson Coors.

Prior to joining Oliver Wight Les was Head of Global Operations at Mercedes High Performance Racing where he was responsible for manufacturing, planning, and procurement through to race delivery of all Formula One, Nascar, Indy and CART racing engines and equipment.

"As demand for superior service, greater value, and competitive pricing increases, businesses have to optimise performance not only within their own four walls but up and down the supply chain too."

James leads the Finance Enterprise Intelligence practice in EY that specialises in delivering cross functional Performance Management and Insight capability. James has 15 years’ experience delivering IBP and Finance Performance Management transformations at several of the largest Pharma and Consumer Goods organisations.

Subir Gupta is Managing Principal of Thought Provoking Consulting (TPC) with responsibility for all consulting activity globally. He is an advisor to the retail industry with 3 decades of experience covering all ‘front office’ areas including buying, merchandising, supply chain and multi-channel operations. Subir specialises in operating model design, agile capability development and complex programme delivery. He is particularly experienced in the field of Retail business & systems transformation and innovation

Minochehr is a Partner in the Financial Services Consulting practice at KPMG in the London office with over 15 years of Cost and Value Performance Management experience across Financial Services. He works with senior client stakeholders to build value creation solutions in the areas of cost allocations and management, planning and forecasting, profitability management and benefits tracking. He leads KPMG’s Cost and Value Management (CVM) capability for Financial Services in the UK.