Remigijus Savickas (DOOR Training and Consulting Baltic)
Forum Facilitator
Remigijus Savickas is a trainer and partner of international training company "DOOR Training and Consulting Baltic". Remigijus is a certified creator of learning programs for adults "About Learning", Entrepreneurship trainer in ISM (International School of Management), member of the board in a few companies, consultant - practitioner, who has more than 10 years practice in developing business and trainings. Business managers club facilitator. He specializes in sales, negotiation, personal motivation, presentation, managing changes and does trainings in Lithuania and abroad.

Jonas Paulauskas (Nestlé Baltics, ECR Baltic Co-Chair)
Jonas Paulauskas is a sales Manager in Nestlé Baltics.
Jonas started his professional carier in field of marketing, working both on the agencies and manufacturer sides. More then 12 years ago he joined Nestlé  and moved to Sales functions. During 12 years he gained extensive experiance in Sales, Category Management and business management areas. Was activelly involved in developing distribution chain, managing sales organisation, development of relationship with customers, jointly creating category strategies as well as researching consumers and shoppers behaviours. Currently Jonas is responsible for Foof&Beverages, Confectionery, Culinary and Infant Nutrition categories sales in Baltic region.

Vaclav KOUCKY (Nestlé Česko, Czech Republic)
Vaclav Koucky is a Category Development Manager for Coffee&Beverages in the Czech and Slovakian market .
Vaclav start worked in Delhaize group within private label department. After internal promotion he started work in the  field of space and range department. After that he joined Kaufland as a Space Manager from 2007 to 2009. In 2010 Vaclav joined Nestle as a Category specialist with focus at NDG and Pure soluble coffee.  

Patricia JAKESOVA (University of economics’ in Prague, Czech Republic)
Patricia nowadays works at a university, where she is leading the courses about the category management, wholesale and retail management. Patricia has very extensive retail experience, and during last 20 years, she has worked in many retail management positions at different retailers. She holds in the past position of the Fresh Market Manager at Delhaize group, Category Buing manager at Tesco Stores. And last experiences she had from Ahold where she held the position of the Dry Food Director or the Director Special Project – Hypermarkets. Nowadays she leads lectures at University of Economics and special projects within university.

James Tupper, ECR Learning & Change Manager, IGD.
James manages the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) UK Product & Packaging Waste Workgroup of suppliers, wholesalers and retailer – see box below.  James helps companies to implement ECR practices in the food and grocery industry through sessions and programmes that save them time and achieve step change business benefits.  James joined IGD in 2002.  He creates and facilitates Performance Improvement Programmes which fully engage cross-functional trading partner teams to align processes, increase availability and minimise reworking, escalation, fire-fighting and issue resolution costs.  During over 50 In-store Excellence Sessions in 8 countries across 3 continents, 1000 people for 300 vendors have been helped by James to get first-hand experience of stacking shelves, building promotions and changing ranges and so identify how to improve their supply chain solutions and services to make it easier for retailers to sell more and waste less.  Prior to joining IGD, James worked for Cranfield University for 15 years.  James has 30 years' experience of developing people and business performance in the food and grocery industry across Europe, Asia, Africa and north America. James has undertaken assignments in Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Malaysia, Norway, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, UK and USA.

Simon Moulson, Head of Retail, Linpac Allibert
Simon has worked in the retail packaging industry for more than 20 years and has extensive experience in RTP supply chain solutions. He has worked on initiatives with many of the UK’s major retailers and has developed strategies incorporating Maxipac, folding trays and dollies that have led to substantial cost savings all the way through the supply chain.

Fernando Pereira (Saphety)

Fernando Pereira is the development director of Saphety Sync department. He’s responsible for the Saphety Sync line of solutions, that are target to implement data synchronization at a nation level.

Fernando has more than 15 years of professional experience, the majority of which in the data synchronization area. He started in 1997 in a company named Catalogo Electronico de Produtos dedicated to master data alignment. He has implemented master data alignment projects in several countries, like South Africca, Belgium, Sweden, Venezuela, Spain, Mexico and Greece, always in collaboration with local GS1 organizations. He was also responsible for the development of other electronic commerce and EDI solutions, dedicated to the electronic collaboration and integration of commercial partners.

Jurgita Žalkauskė, Coca-Cola Hellenic Baltic, Country Logistics manager.

Previously:
- Managing director of NT Valdos
- Procurement director at Lietuvos energija ;
- various positions in Procurement at Carlsberg Breweries (Regional lead Buyer for North region, Carlsberg Baltic Procurement manager, SAP BPO (business process owner) for Procurement).

Education: EMBA by BMI (Baltic management Institute)
Vilnius university (Economics, Management of the Production).

Magdalena Lagodzka, Nielsen
Analyst by education and hobby. Graduated Quantitative Methods on Warsaw School of Economics. In Nielsen since 2007. Leads Analytic Consulting Unit for CEE and Baltics, dealing with marketing analyses, based on modelling of sales data. On everyday basis supports FMCG Clients in key decisions regarding pricing, promotions other marketing mix elements.

Presentation will include insights from recent researches performed by Nielsen Analytic Consulting in CEE on promotions:
- How does promotional intensity look
- What implications can high promotional intensity have?
- Do promotional activities bring additional sales?
- How to make promotions more effective?

Kalle Koutajoki – CEO, co-founder
Kalle Koutajoki is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Digital Foodie Ltd. Kalle holds a Master of Science in Engineering and has worked in various marketing, operational management and sales positions. In the past Kalle was the Vice President of marketing & operations for Navicore Ltd. as well as Vice President of eCommerce for the publicly listed Wayfinder Systems. Prior to Digital Foodie, Kalle ran the eCommerce team at Wayfinder with full profit and loss responsibility as well as worked as the general manager of Wayfinder Systems Oy, a subsidiary of Wayfinder Systems Group.

Maciej Kubiak, Country General Manager CHEP POLAND
Maciej Kubiak is President of Polish subsidiary of CHEP, company, which specializes in pallet management and pallet rental services. He joined CHEP in 2001 and has been successfully developing CHEP and building brand recognition on the local market. Prior to his Country General Manager role, he has held various leadership managing Asset Management, Sales and Retail Sales teams where he focused on growing pooling network in Poland and CE countries. Maciej has many years of experience and knowledge in supply chain management.

Maximilian Musselius, Managing Director, ECR Russia
Maximilian is the executive Director of ECR-Russia. Graduated from Moscow State University n.a. Lomonosov, Economics (Master of Management) and Law (Civil Law) faculties. In 2000-2003. - Marketing Director Gambro Sweden AB, in 2003-2004 - Marketing Director, Senior Consultant, Kelis Consulting. Successful organizer and manager of numerous projects and initiatives within Russian ECR - one of the most active organizations within ECR Europe.

Dr eng. Marcin Hajdul
Head of Logistic Expertise Department, Project manager at the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing. Graduated from the Poznan University of Technology, Faculty of Working Machines and Transportation and Faculty of Engineering Management As a recognized specialist in the field of logistics he is the Board member of the European Logistics Association and of the Polish Logistics Association (PTL). At ILiM he is involved in the research, EU and commercial projects as well. He has participated and managed several projects of EU Framework Programme, including those co-funded by FP5, FP6, FP7, INTERREG III&IV.

He has been cooperating with such companies as: PEPSI-COLA General Bottlers Poland, Solaris Bus & Coach, Intermarche, Sweedwood, Unilever, Bonduelle, Nivea, Lindt, Nestle, Energizer, Kompania Piwowarska, Polkomtel, Opoczno.

Teet Ruuval, Metsä Tissue, Sales Manager of Baltic Countries.

Field of operation: tissue and cooking paper products (consumer products)
Previously: Fazer Bakery & Confectionery, Sales Manager of Estonia, Marli Eesti AS, Area Sales Manager.

 EDUCATION
Tallinn Technical University, MBA 
Tallinn College of Tallinn University of Technology, BA, major in marketing
University of Applied Sciences, Tallinn

Jukka Jokiranta (Focusit Finland)
Jukka is a recognized cooperation process and Category Management expert in consumer goods industry and one of the first ECR Learning Programme Partners. Jukka has delivered several consulting projects in retailer-manufacturer cooperation and business development with multinational consumer goods companies in Finland, Russsia and Baltics. Jukka has over 10 years experience in sales and business process development from different industry sectors. Jukka holds an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management

Harry Broman, Sales Unit Manager (Nordic & Baltic countries), K. Hartwall
Harry Broman is a Sales Unit Manager at K. Hartwall and is responsible for the sales and development in the Nordic and Baltic region (Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Baltic countries).
He has more than 10 years of experience in process development in logistics and services and has been a part of the K. Hartwall Global sales and marketing team since 2012.

Jani Peltonen, Account Manager (Sales Finland & Baltic countries), K. Hartwall
Jani Peltonen is a Account Manager at K. Hartwall and is responsible for the sales in Finland and the Baltic countries.
He has more than 10 years of experience in solution selling in logistics and services and has been a part of the K. Hartwall Global sales and marketing team since 2008.

Sven Uustalu
Sven is Product Manager of Telema, the leading EDI provider in the Baltics. His field of expertise is VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) as well as other inventory management related services like Telema MMT (Sales Force Automation system). Sven’s education from the Estonian Business School and his vast experience in marketing and project management have given him good analytical skills and market knowledge. He strongly believes in the future of inventory management related services and is determined to lead the growth. He is currently obtaining a Masters Degree in Supply Chain Management from the Tallinn University of Technology.