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Steve Armstrong Corporate Risk | Strategy | Finance | Development at Lonza |
Stephen (Steve) Armstrong is Head of Corporate Risk and Strategy implementation at Lonza, a global provider of Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Nutrition solutions with headquarters in Basel, 15'000 employees worldwide, revenue of CHF 6 Billion, and market capitalization of CHF 40 Bio.
Steve graduated from Yale University, and then received a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Wisconsin-Madison from Professor Sau Lan Wu for work on the Higgs Search at LEP. He conducted research at CERN for 12 years with the ALEPH and ATLAS experiments, during which time he received a CERN Research Fellowship. He transitioned into business initially as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in San Francisco and London. Subsequently, he worked in the headquarters of SGS in Geneva for 8 years, becoming a member of the senior management of SGS's Life Science Services division.
He joined Lonza in 2013 and has worked in and across Corporate Finance, Strategy, Development, Legal and Risk teams during a time of intense growth, with responsibilities including management of all capital investments and establishment of four new regions in Asia. Currently he is the Group Risk Officer and leads Lonza's Coronavirus Task Force. He also reports to the Chairman and CEO as leader of the divestment of Lonza's Specialty Ingredients business. Among its broad portfolio of activities, Lonza is currently partnering with Moderna to enable manufacturing of up to 1 Billion doses of Moderna's vaccine against the novel Coronavirus/Covid-19 at Lonza facilities in Switzerland and the United States.
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Anthony Butler Chief Medical Officer, MARS Bioimaging Ltd |
Professor Anthony Butler is a radiologist with an interest in developing new imaging technologies. In 2007 he was one of the founders of MARS Bioimaging Ltd, a company formed to commercialise spectral imaging technology. He remains on the board and is the President of the medical division of the company.
Anthony has more than 150 scientific publications. He has won more than 10 awards for his research including awards from the Royal Society of NZ and the Royal Australian College of Radiologists. He is the lead investigator on over $12m of NZ government research grants, and co-investigator on more than $30m other grants.
At Canterbury District Health Board he works as a clinical radiologist. At the University of Otago Christchurch he is Head of the Department of Radiology. He is a CERN alumi and remains a member of CERN's Medipix3, Medipix4, and CMS collaborations. At the University of Canterbury he is a researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Costanza Cavicchioli Lead Engineer - Electronic Hardware at Baker Hughes |
Costanza holds a PhD in Electronics Engineering, and she had her first contact with CERN as a summer student in 2005. After graduating from University in Florence and a short experience in a pharmaceutical company, she has worked at CERN from 2008 to 2014, first as a doctoral student and later as a fellow. Costanza was working on the Silicon Pixel Detector of the ALICE Experiment, doing commissioning, trigger implementation and calibration, on-call expert during the data taking, and microelectronic design for the detector upgrade.
After leaving CERN she started working for the Oil & Gas division of General Electric, later merged into Baker Hughes. There she is a lead engineer, designing electronic hardware and firmware for automatic tools used to inspect oil and gas pipelines, both with magnetic flux leakage and phased array ultrasound technology.
The work she is doing at the moment is the natural continuation of what she did at CERN, and she really leveraged from that experience. Costanza is part of an international team of engineers, and she works on and leads projects ranging from FPGA design to board design to GUI and software development, which are skills she has gained from working at CERN.
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Christian Elsasser Lead P&C Analytics at Swiss Re |
Christian Elsasser joined the Swiss Reinsurance Company in 2015 and developed new approaches to better assess insurance claims by including insights based on external data like satellite images. Since three years he is part of the team at Swiss Re that helps insurers across the globe to better steer their business by developing algorithms based on Swiss Re’s internal models, external data as well as data provided by insurers.
Before joining Swiss Re Christian worked for the University of Zurich at the LHCb experiment between 2009 and 2015. His work focused on the analysis of the decay Bs0 -> mu+mu- , vector boson search in proton-ion collisions and silicon sensor ageing.
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Johanna Fleckner-Barber Blue Yonder GmbH
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Johanna studied physics at the University of Mainz (Germany) and did her PhD as part of the CERN Gentner programme graduating in 2011. As part of her thesis, Johanna worked on the commissioning of the ATLAS tracking software as well as measuring the b-jet cross section. After her PhD, Johanna started working as a Data Scientist for Blue Yonder, one of the leading supply chain companies worldwide. As a Data Scientist, Johanna modelled customer demand in the retail sector, before discovering her talent for Project Management. Johanna has managed the introduction of Blue Yonder’s Automated Demand and Replenishment solution in several customer projects, which included understanding the customer requirements, planning and estimating the implementation effort together with the development team, tracking the development progress against important milestones and communicating timelines, dependencies and progress towards the customer.
Today, Johanna is Senior Product Manager at Blue Yonder and responsible for the User Interface of Luminate Demand Edge and Luminate Retail Replenishment, which form an AI-based end-to-end replenishment solution for the retail sector. In this position, Johanna works directly with the end users to understand their problems, and then in a cross-functional team of User Experience Designers, Software Developers and Domain Experts designs solutions that give transparency, are easy and intuitive to use and support Blue Yonder’s goal of the automated supply chain. Johanna lives near Karlsruhe in Germany together with her husband and two daughters (2 and 5).
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Jacopo Margutti Humanitarian Data Scientist |
Jacopo works for the Netherlands Red Cross, a non-profit organization focused on emergency response to humanitarian crises. He holds a PhD from the University of Utrecht and worked on heavy-ion collisions within the ALICE collaboration. Towards the end of his PhD, he found out about the R&D department of the Netherlands Red Cross, a.k.a. "510", which focuses on data (science), and he started volunteering with them in his free time.
After a brief experience as data scientist at Wolters Kluwer (tax & accounting), he started working full time with the Red Cross. The projects that he now works on are mostly on forecasting the impact of natural disasters, so that humanitarian agencies can take preventive action, and automating the collection/analysis/distribution of information after a disaster, so that people in the field will know what it's needed right when they need it. He thinks the most important skills he acquired during his PhD is critical, analytical thinking, which helps understanding (and solving) complex problems.
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Marco Meneghelli Scientist at Bending Spoons |
Marco graduated in 2009 in Physics at Padua University (Italy).In 2013 Marco obtained the PhD in Particle Physics, after having worked for more than three years as researcher at INFN (Bologna, Italy) and CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), on the search for the Higgs boson at the CMS experiment at CERN, a particle that was actually discovered in 2012 and lead the assignment of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics.After a 2.5 years long experience in banking as Quantitative Analyst, in 2015 Marco landed at Bending Spoons, that at the time was still in the start-up phase. At Bending Spoons, Marco worked as Data Scientist, Data Analyst and programmer, and drove the development of the main research channels of Data Science at Bending Spoons: the market analysis, the measurement and prediction of proprietary apps metrics and the analytics for marketing, both for app store optimization and paid user acquisition.
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Donatella Ungaro Director, R&D at Thermo Fisher Scientific |
After a master’s degree in physics at the University of Bari (Italy), Donatella moved to Helsinki, where she obtained a PhD in Physics from the University of Helsinki, working for several years in the CMS experiment. She joined CERN in 2001 and in 2005 she started a fellowship position in the CMS technical coordination group. In 2008 Donatella joined ADAM SA, a CERN spin-off company focused on the development and construction of the first linear accelerator for proton therapy. She was Managing Director of ADAM until October 2017. From 2017 to 2019 she worked for the foundation of a Swiss start-up to develop dosimeters for interventional cardiology, based on innovative technologies. She won two grants in Venture Kick competitions. In October 2019 she started a position at Thermo Fisher Scientific as Senior Manager of the R&D department and as of October 2020 she has been appointed R&D Director and Site Leader.
Donatella is a musician (she got a diploma in Transverse flute at the Conservatory of music in Bari, Italy).
She is married and has one 9 years old daughter.
