Dr. Radhika Bongoni

Aimée Green

Vesko Pehlivanov

Vesko Pehlivanov leads Solution Architecture & Strategy at Sterling National Bank. Sterling National Bank specializes in the delivery of financial services and solutions to business owners, their families and consumers within the communities it serves through teams of dedicated and experienced relationship managers. In this role, Vesko is responsible for providing technical solutions designed to offer effectiveness, efficiency, evolvability, reliability, security, scalability, and resiliency across all security and infrastructure services.

Prior to that, Vesko worked at Credit Suisse for 10 years in various leadership roles in Infrastructure Architecture and Cyber Security across a global footprint of production, non-production and test environments. In his time at CS he introduced emerging technologies and innovative products in software defined networking, network virtualization, data center and cloud networking and security, threat management and incident response, security automation and orchestration, and others. In addition to working closely with Credit Suisse’s engineering and operations teams, Vesko also served as technical advisor to the Technology Investment Banking, Equity Research, and Prime Investments business units.

Vesko has an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University with concentration in Network Systems and Network Security. He is currently based in New York City.

Steve Garson

Marcel Koenig

Jeremiah Ginn

Ellaury Hernandez

Amir Zmora

Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of flexiWAN, the world’s first Open Source SD-WAN & SASE. Before starting flexiWAN, Amir was CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution acquired by YouNow. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company. 

Richard Betts

Richard is director of Sustainability Services at KPMG and a recognized international expert in sustainability. Richard has led a wide range of sustainability engagements in Turkey and over 20 countries across Europe and Asia. He is also a Certified Public Accountant with ACA accreditation and a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW)

Richard has over 15 years of experience with Big 4 consultancies in Turkey and the UK. Over this time, he has led wide range of advisory and assurance engagements relating to sustainability & financial audit. Areas of expertise within sustainability include the following: Climate Change, Low Carbon Transformation, TCFD, Sustainability Strategy & implementation, Sustainability Performance Improvement, Integrated Reporting Advisory, Sustainability Reporting & Assurance, Total Valuation, SROI, Circular economy, Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Bonds, Environmental Due Diligence

Before moving to Istanbul, Richard lived in the UK, Italy and Mexico. He has dual UK-Turkish nationality and speaks 8 languages.

He has extensive experience in sustainability across many sectors including Finance (Banking & Insurance), Food & Beverage Sector, Cement, Glass Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Energy (O&G and Utilities), Holdings, Retail