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Christopher Young

Founder and President

Christopher is a delivery focussed senior executive in financial services and wealth management with a proven track record in building high performing teams and delivering large business-critical programs and projects, particularly in relation to front-to-back trading, risk management and global regulatory initiatives. He is the founder of finaplana AG, a training and coaching company focused on educating senior executives on how to transform their organizations using Agile principles and patterns.

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Jean Binder

Vice President

Jean is a senior leader and an award winning author and speaker specialising in project management. Jean currently holds the position of Director, Head of Project Services and IT Collateral Management, at Credit Suisse and is an Executive Lecturer for Project Management at University of Fribourg – Institute for International Management and Technology.

He is also the author of “Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across Borders” (PMI David I. Cleland Literature Award 2008 – Best project management book of the year), a visiting lecturer of Global Project Management at Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU – Norway), a Guest lecturer at IMD Lausanne (General Management Week), is responsible for the “Global Project Management” course in the MATIS programme, (Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchatel) and has previously made presentations in the PMI Switzerland Chapter, Congres de Management de Projet, PMI EMEA Global Congress, IPMA Global Congress and the British University in Dubai.

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Pascal Willi

Secretary / Founder

Pascal is an experienced project, event and community manager. For 20 years, he has been managing projects primarily for international NGOs and in the energy sector. He has extensive experience in quality, process, regulatory, change and culture management. The individual is always at the center of his attention. The constant, interdisciplinary exchange and the involvement of all team members is the key to successful teamwork and the ability to master complex, adaptive assignments in constantly changing environments. He is currently working as a consultant for finaplana AG, a training and coaching company focused on educating senior executives on how to transform their organizations using Agile principles and patterns.

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Prof. Dr. Andres Claudius Pfister

Prof. Dr. Pfister holds the position of Professor of Leadership at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, one of the leading universities of applied sciences in Switzerland.

He is a lecturer in the MAS Leadership & Management (Topics: MbO, Problem Solving, Ethics) and active in several customer specific leadership development programs.

His area of focus includes research and publications on the topics of leadership, ethics and leadership responsibility, destructive leadership, leadership decision making, leadership in architecture and civil engineering,

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