A member of the firm since 2004, Dorthe is a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, member of the Finance Transformation Team and the European Shared Services Leadership team. Dorthe has mainly focused on project management in the areas of finance transformation and global business services implementation, where she serves European and Global clients within industrial products and manufacturing industries.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Dorthe worked in the private sector within finance and admin, where she gained experience within the core of finance and admin as well as organisational change programmes, profitability management, outsourcing and IT implementations. Dorthe has lived and worked in a number of European countries and has a vast experience within the various cultures and ways of conducting business across borders.

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John is a Vice Chairman of Deloitte in the UK and our Senior Sponsor for this year’s SSC Conference.

John’s primary expertise relates to optimising global business operations, covering strategy, M&A integration and divestment, operational and financial improvement, ERP implementation, global business services, analytics and outsourcing.

John has over 30 years experience in the life sciences industry and currently leads Deloitte’s Global Life Sciences & Health Care Consulting practice. In this role, he guides and advises the leaders of Deloitte’s global member firm network and their clients in the industry. He serves as the Lead Client Service Partner on some of our most important global clients. John also sponsors Deloitte’s Health Equity Institute in Europe, a purpose drive organisation dedicated to ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential in all aspects of health and wellbeing.

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Parag Saigaonkar is the Global Business Services (GBS) lead for Deloitte globally and a Partner with Deloitte Consulting in Canada. Parag has been with Deloitte for 30 years working primarily across the Asia-Pacific region having been based in Hong Kong, Beijing, Mumbai and now in Toronto. He is focused on helping enterprises to efficiently globalise their operating models delivering higher value services with improved economics.

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Albrecht leads the Shared Services and GBS practice in Germany and is member of the European Shared Services Leadership team. He has more than 18 years of experience in the strategic development, the design, the implementation and the optimisation of GBS organisations. Albrecht has helped various major companies in Germany, US and Brazil to conduct successful GBS engagements.

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John is passionate about the Future of Work and the role HR can play in business strategy/execution and he brings over twenty years of experience in driving large-scale business change, including the transformation and digitisation of HR. John has led the HR track for the conference over the past five years and has been delighted to see the attendance of HR professionals grow over time and to experience the networking opportunities which have a positive impact on leaders across all industries.

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Chinmay leads Deloitte's Global Business Services Advisory practice in Switzerland. With 20 years of consulting experience, he specialises in transforming organisations through the deployment of shared services, outsourcing, and global business services, helping clients to improve productivity through automation and process efficiency.

Chinmay’s functional experience includes finance and accounting, human resources, information technology, supply chain, customer service, among others. He work closely with senior executives to understand their strategic vision and assess how GBS might align with their business strategy to drive results. He advises clients from initial strategy development, through the implementation and launch of Global Business Services; shared services and business process outsourcing, to refinements of the GBS model over time to help unlock the next frontier of growth.

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I am leading a team serving the SSC and GBS client segment with focus on the finance function, I have expertise in process transition, process optimisation, strategy, automation through Robotics and cognitive tools. During my consulting career in Deloitte I was directly involved in a finance transformation project in the largest retail bank in Czech Republic, I was responsible for project management and execution of several finance strategy projects including most recent programme co-ordination in multifunctional SSC roll-out across CE region. Currently I am involved in Accounting and Finance SSC roll-out activities for a Global Multinational Pharmaceutical company. I develop and nurture relationships with clients in the SSC/GBS segment in Czech Republic and co-operate with the global GBS community.

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Alev is the Head of Deloitte’s Public Sector Global Business Services (GBS) Practice and brings 20+ years of GBS experience from both industry and consulting roles. Alev is passionate about helping Public Sector organisations deliver front line impacting, sustainable value from their shared service organisations, leveraging opportunities presented by Cloud Technologies and customer and employee centric approaches. In the UK Alev is at the heart of advising Central Government and Security and Justice organisations in their technology enabled operating model transformations embracing the Centre Office principles.

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Vishal leads our Consumer-GBS team and Centre Office offering and has over 12 years of consulting and industry experience. He has led complex and sensitive Finance operating model and Global Business Services programmes. He has experience in driving change in various industries including Consumer, TMT and the Public Sector. He specialises in customer-centric, technology-enabled operating model design. Prior to joining Consulting Vishal worked in Finance at The John Lewis Partnership for 3 years.

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Bev is Delivery Lead for this year's Shared Services Conference and has been instrumental in transforming the prestigious Shared Services physical conference into an online virtual event.

Bev has 20 years' experience of Project Management and Business Development within the Broadcast and Media industry, and has led multiple digital product launches from concept through to delivery.

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Vamo is an Assistant Manager in the Experiential Team which sits within Deloitte’s in-house creative agency, 368. She has a BA Honours degree in Advertising Design and although relatively new to Deloitte, she boasts 8+ years of experience in planning and delivering events in the finance and advertising sector.

Having assisted on the Shared Services Conference in 2023, this year she is the Experiential Lead. In her previous roles Vamo has lead on a multitude of projects across Europe, South Africa and Dubai.

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Cari is a Senior Consultant in the GBS team at Deloitte and has 7+ years of experience in defining, managing and delivering multiple cross functional strategic programmes focussing on developing and implementing organisational discipline to optimise organisational effectiveness. Key areas expertise include global expansion strategy and execution, GBS Operating Model design, and change management.

Cari is passionate about driving the diversity and inclusion agenda, was the Co-Founder of the “Women in RPA” initiative prior to joining Deloitte, and now also leads the Women in Shared Services forum.

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Michael is a Manager with over 8 years’ experience of finance and business process improvement consulting. His primary focus has been delivering Global Business Services (GBS) projects including: transition and GBS set-up, ERP implementation and process optimisation.

With a strong background in process improvement and internal audit, Michael has extensive experience of core financial processes, helping to improve the performance and efficiency of finance functions. Michael has recently led the process, controls and change workstreams for the implementation of Oracle Fusion at a large asset management company and prior to this was leading a Shared Services Optimisation project at a luxury fashion retailer.

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Sumaiya has experience of working with Public & Private sector companies to transform Shared Services functions and deliver change & transformation. This includes designing Target Operating Models, conducting detailed design, highlighting and implementing process improvement opportunities, developing service management frameworks, and overall transition to enhance Shared Service functions. Experience includes working on a range of large-scale projects, as well as lean finance process improvement projects (O2C, P2P, R2R) for cost-reduction and increased efficiency purposes and to drive continuous improvement.

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Otis Joined Deloitte in 2022. This year, Otis is the Marketing lead for Deloitte's Shared Services Conference. Otis is an Assistant Marketing Manager at Deloitte who sits within consulting and supports our Partners in the Enterprise, Technology and Performance industry. He has experience in end-to-end campaign delivery, social media marketing, stakeholder management and the creation of bespoke assets for campaigns.

Another part of Otis’s role is to provide marketing support to our Oracle & Microsoft alliance partners, guiding them through their campaign right through to execution. Currently these campaigns are focused on accounts within the tech & ER&I sector.

He is a passionate communicator who loves collaborating with new people and showing them how important marketing is to businesses.

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