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About our speakers

Bhawana Malhotra (Partner, Egon Zehnder, Singapore) Bhawana leads the Healthcare Practice in APAC and also leads the Firm’s Culture Practice globally. Her work tends to be global in nature and she spends time in the APAC region and also the US market.Before joining Egon Zehnder, Bhawana held several roles at Novartis Pharma including Commercial Execution Excellence for Asia, and Head of Insights and Analytics for the US Pharma business. She also helped launch Cosentyx, a biologic in the US for patients with certain rheumatologic conditions. Previously, she was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company US, assisting clients in the pharmaceutical, medical devices, and health-care services sectors. She also helped McKinsey set up its first off-shore unit in India in 1997. Bhawana began her career at Arthur Andersen in the audit and business consulting group in India.
Bhawana has a Bachelor of Commerce with honors from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women of Delhi University and an MBA in Strategy, Finance, and Operations at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She became a chartered accountant at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Bhawana is passionate about spending time with her family and is also studying to be a vedic astrologer.

Gabriella Snoeck (Executive Search Consultant) has more than15 years of international search expertise within top tier search firms (including Korn Ferry and Spencer Stuart) she is also a Research Trainer and has trained associates at leading executive search firms. She focuses on life sciences, medical devices, pharma and agribusiness as well as legal functions cross industry. She has experience filling key positions in all functional areas including legal, corporate functions, as well as product development, medical affairs, market access & health economics, R&D, regulatory affairs, and quality assurance.
Gabriella has lived and worked in the UK, Germany, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Italy. She is an AIRS Elite Certified Recruitment Expert (ECRE) and AIRS Certified Life Sciences and Biotech Recruiter. She has a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Cambridge, a LLB in Law from Huddersfield University and a Masters in Human Resources from the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development in the UK. Gabriella is fluent in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, with good knowledge of Dutch and Portuguese.

Mikael Zoghbi is a Senior Client Partner and Middle East regional market leader at Korn Ferry for the Global Financial Services and leads its efforts in both the Middle East and Africa. Prior to his current role Mikael established and ran his own executive search business focused on ‘C’ suite appointments with a Middle East focus.
Although a sector generalist, Mikael’s core experience is regional, and he had a twenty year career in corporate and retail banking in the Middle East and North Africa prior to entering the search world. Since 2002, Mikael has worked on search and leadership assessment mandates in retail, commercial and investment banking, Islamic banking. asset management, infrastructure, private equity, Sovereign Wealth Funds, international financial institutions, insurance, pension funds and real estate for some of the region’s most vibrant brands. Other areas of expertise include FMCG, transportation, technology and fintech businesses.
Mikael’s experience of the wider Middle East environment in the banking, industrial and trading industries in the region have proved invaluable to clients who are active in or entering these markets. Mikael holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD. He studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo in 1978 and speaks Arabic, French and Swedish, moderate German and French.