25th Annual Executive Compensation & Benefits Summit

Ms Ghislaine De Rouw is the Vice President of Total Rewards at Ahold Delhaize, where she leads the company’s global rewards strategy. With over a decade of experience across major international organizations including GrandVision, Arcadis, Consolis and Aegon, Ghislaine brings deep expertise in executive compensation, long-term incentives, and aligning total rewards with business transformation. Her leadership reflects a commitment to equity, well-being, and operational excellence in reward design.

Oluyomi Okunowo is SVP HR, Commercial Hair and Nail Organization at Wella Company, leading the People function across all markets. Prior to this, he was SVP, Total Reward and People Operations also at Wella Company, with responsibility for Total Reward (Compensation, Benefits and Mobility), People Support Center (HR Shared Service), People Systems and People Data & Analytics across all Wella businesses in more than 30 countries.

Oluyomi has held roles leading Reward and HR Transformation programs across multiple industries and geographies, including Beauty industry with COTY as VP, Global Compensation, Pharma with AstraZeneca as Regional Reward Lead responsible for Russia, Eurasia, Middle East and Africa (including Turkey) and in Banking as Compensation and Benefits Head for Citibank Africa. He has a keen interest in leveraging the link between Performance and Reward to drive business outcomes and is currently keen to see the evolution of People Data Management as Talent and Workforce Management evolve in the Digital age, leveraging new technology and particularly AI.

Job Eskens is Head of Executive Compensation at Royal Philips, a leading health technology company. Prior to joining Royal Philips, Job Eskens worked at Willis Towers Watson where he focused on Executive Compensation advisory services. His expertise lies in the design of short-term and long-term incentive plans, as well as the stakeholder dialogue that goes along with it.

Anastasia Mikhalev is Global Rewards Director at Prosus, working at the intersection of compensation, business strategy and the future of work.
She challenges traditional approaches to Rewards and believes compensation should do more than follow the market — it should shape the business.
Her favourite question: what if some of the things we take for granted in Rewards are simply wrong?

George is the Group Head of Reward for The Magnum Ice Cream Company, the world’s number 1 ice cream business listed on the Amsterdam, London and New York Stock Exchanges. Previously, he held senior reward roles in both industry (Reckitt Benckiser, JDE Peet’s, Direct Line Insurance) and consulting (Deloitte and Korn Ferry/Hay Group). He began his career in corporate governance at ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services).

George is a seasoned Global Head of Reward with a passion for leveraging reward strategies to drive cultural transformation and business performance and particular expertise in supporting organisations undergoing significant business change.

Sven De Cremer is Head of Rewards at Telenet, where he leads the company’s reward strategy, executive and broad-based compensation, benefits, payroll, and pay transparency initiatives. With more than 20 years of experience in human resources and rewards, Sven has built expertise across compensation, benefits, talent management, organizational effectiveness, and strategic workforce transformation.
Prior to becoming Head of Rewards, he held several senior leadership roles at Telenet, Earlier in his career, he worked as a consultant and HR leader at SD Worx, advising organizations on sustainable careers, strategic HR, and the future of work. Sven holds a Master's degree in Psychology from KU Leuven and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Telenet Pension Fund.

Alessandro Cavallera is Senior Manager Executive Compensation & HR Process Improvement at Iveco Group. He brings 15 years of experience in Rewards and Compensation within multinational organizations, with a strong focus on global reward programs, incentive & benefits design, and HR process transformation. Over his career, he has developed a solid background in global and regional rewards, compensation management, HR systems and analytics, with increasing exposure to Executive Compensation practices and governance. He is also passionate about the impact of technology and artificial intelligence on HR, particularly in enabling more effective, data-driven and future-ready HR processes.