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Agenda
Sylvie De Wever is General Manager of Goods, Jobs and Services at OLX Group, leading categories that serve millions of consumers across Europe. She joined OLX in 2022 as General Manager of OLX in Europe and moved into her current role in 2024. With extensive experience across Poshmark, Blinkist, eBay, and Accenture, she brings deep expertise in go-to-market strategy, operations, and international expansion, scaling brands and leading cross-functional teams across geographies. She also serves as a board member at OfferUp.
Dr. Andreas Merentitis is the Chief Data Officer Europe at OLX, with over 15 years of experience in data science and machine learning across academia and industry. He has led teams driving innovation in areas such as algorithm optimization, sensor data fusion, and digital marketplaces. A Senior Member of IEEE with over 30 publications and multiple awards, including an IEEE Certificate of Appreciation, he is recognized for his contributions to applied machine learning and data-driven strategy.
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Aleksandra Przegalińska is a Fellow at the Harvard Center for Labor and a Just Economy and Vice-Rector for Innovation and AI at Kozminski University, where she also serves as Associate Professor. She holds a Ph.D. in the philosophy of artificial intelligence from the University of Warsaw and completed post-doctoral research at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence. She heads the Human-Machine Interaction Research Center at Kozminski and is co-author of Collaborative Society (MIT Press). Her research focuses on the future of work, natural language processing, social robots, and wearable technologies.
Marta is the Chief People Officer at OLX Group. As you can imagine, Marta is all about people. She has demonstrated a purposeful career path in the fmcg, retail, telco and tech industry. Driving people through transformation by building winning company cultures and growth opportunities. A passionate mentor, trainer and mentor with the purpose to ignite curiosity and empowerment in people's minds.
Sam Burman leads Heidrick & Struggles global Frontier Tech practices spanning Crypto & Digital Assets, Government & Defence Tech, and Health Tech. He also leads the firm's AI & Technology Officers Practice across Europe and Africa. Sam advises boards and leadership teams at some of the world's leading technology and digital commerce companies on executive search, AI leadership strategy, and organisational transformation.
The primary difference being, we merged our Artificial Intelligence & Data and Cybersecurity practices with our Technology Officers Practice in the Spring, to create a newly expanded AI & Technology Officers Practice.
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Oana Chiru is Director of Product for Jobs & Services at OLX Group, leading specialised experiences across the category. Before stepping into her current role, she held several product leadership positions at OLX, including Head of Product for Pay & Ship and Senior Product Manager for Payment Solutions. Her career includes product strategy and marketing roles at PayPal and mobile.de prior to joining OLX.
Michał Malewski is Vice President of Jobs & Services Europe at OLX Group, overseeing a $150M+ business across the region. He has spent over 16 years at OLX, rising from Business Analyst to VP through roles including Head of Operations at Otomoto, General Manager of OLX.pl, and General Manager of Central & Southern Europe. He built OLX's Jobs and Services categories into market leaders and has led the categories through their AI transformation.
Gertrud Kolb is Chief Technology Officer of Scout24 Group and a member of its Executive Leadership Team. She leads the company's technology strategy across AI, data, architecture and information security, with a focus on building AI-native products and operating models.
With more than 20 years of experience in technology and product leadership, she previously served as CTO at eyeo and held senior technology roles at Axel Springer, including CTO for BILD and WELT's digital brands.
Nicolas Loeff is co-founder and CTO at BrainLogic AI, the company behind Zapia, a personal AI assistant used by more than five million people across Latin America (and now Europe) to solve real-world problems. With two decades of experience, Nicolas has led teams building and deploying large-scale AI models for applications ranging from financial trading to global retail. Before Zapia, he led AI teams at Google and served as Director of Engineering for Search AI at Etsy. A Fulbright Scholar with a PhD in AI, his research in time series, computer vision, and language modeling has earned thousands of citations.
Andrew Garrihy is Chief Marketing Officer at OLX Group, responsible for driving marketing strategy and embedding AI across the function. He previously served as CMO of OLX Autos and Senior Advisor to the company before joining the Executive Team in 2026. Prior to OLX, he held senior marketing roles at Huawei, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Vodafone, leading global teams across EMEA, Asia, and LATAM. His experience spans strategic and technical disciplines, including hands-on work building digital products and embedding AI into day-to-day marketing operations.
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TBA
As a OLX Group CFO and Board Member with experience across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, I help high-growth platforms scale sustainably while navigating complex regulatory landscapes. My expertise lies at the intersection of Capital Allocation, Digital Transformation, and Governance.
