Bjoern hails from Germany and spent 20 years in Market Research, Analytics and Category Management Europe and Asia.
He started his career in market research in the FMCG space in Germany with Nielsen before joining the Kellogg Company to lead their D/A/CH Category Management team. Since 2012 he is based in Singapore, leading Nielsen’s Pricing Analytics Team in Asia Pacific.
He joined GfK in 2014 and launched GfKs first integrated Analytics practise covering Marketing Mix Modeling and digital & social media analytics. His global and regional experience in GfK includes Sales Effectiveness, Supply Chain Forecasting and Retail Partnerships.
Bjoern pioneered the launch of GfK’s Customer Success Management team in APAC and is now the commercial lead for gfknewron in APAC
Miss. Jeyalakshmi Venkatanarayanan was recognized for her 20+ years of leadership in the ICT Industry and services to the Karnataka channel community.
She is the Founder of Universe Power Systems Bangalore, Universe Business Solutions, Universe Art Foundation.
She is also serving as the Vice President, FITDAK ( IT Association of Karnataka) and serves the ICT Channel Community through the Association.
UNIVERSE ART FOUNDATION (UAF), is a not for profit organization, formed to address the challenges faced by Indian Artists and offers them necessary help to overcome day to day difficulties.
The objective is the help save our indigenous Art & Culture by securing the Artists who are the roots of our Culture.
UAF has following goals:
To ensure that Indian artists do not live in poverty after having dedicated their entire lives to the service of the ancient Indian art forms.
Provide medical facilities to the artists and their families, in cases where they can’t afford them
To provide education opportunities and funding for the children of Indian artists to pursue careers of their choice unfazed by financial difficulties
Too encourage young Indians to take up traditional Indian art forms as a career, by providing talented individuals necessary grants and funding to get excellent training by instituting art fellowships
To provide platform for young artists to launch their career