The Jury 2025
On 5 March 2025, the Jury will meet InPerson in Warsaw for the final vote and Jury Dinner. The winners (combined with the Popular Vote via Brella, weighted just 1/3) will be announced and awards presented at the CEE Business Services Awards Gala dinner on 6 March 2025 – at the Hotel Intercontinental in Warsaw.
The following are initial Jury Members for 2025; each year, we rotate at least 50% of our Jury Members.
DENNIS SASSE
Group Finance Director
Group Finance Director
TREVOR HANBURY
SVP, Global Finance
Cencora (Lithuania)
ANDREAS SCHMELZER
Head of Digital Transformation & Services
Porsche Holding
CARLOS ARITZMENDI
Global Finance and Transformation Lead
BIC (Sofia)
JACKIE-LYNN HECHANOVA
Global Finance and Transformation Lead
Unilever (Rotterdam)
RAKESH SANGANI
Founder
Proservartner
JACINTA CARVALHO
Automation
EDP Global Solutions
RUTA KRISCIUNAITE
Head of Global Business Services
Invest Lithuania
ANDREW HALLAM
General Secretary and Founder
ASPIRE
ISTVAN LENK
Managing Director
Eaton (and ABSL Hungary, President)
ALPAR TOTH
Director, Global Process Owner OTC
Pandora
KIM LEANDERSSON
Director
Telia Global Services Lithuania
RAPHAEL SAVALLE
Group CFO
Weleda AG (Geneva)
OSCAR REITSMA
Business Director – EMEA
Transparent
BARBORA KUREJ
Consultant, Investment Projects Department
SARIO (Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency)
ADRIAN BARON
Vice President
ABSL Romania
FREDIS BIKOVS
Managing Director
Live Riga
DAN ZAHARIA
Founder
Fab Lab Iasi (Romania)
ARMAND ANGELI
VP, Digital Transformation and International
DFCG (French CFO association)
ELIAS VAN HERWAARDEN
Principal
Locationperspectives
OLA STELMACH-GRYSZKA
Director, GBS Setups
PWC
PETER RUSINAK
Senior Policy Manager
American Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia
MARTINA ALMASI
Director – Investment Promotion
HIPA Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency
ALESJA KIRCENKO
Chairperson of Board
ABSL Latvia (and Deputy Head, SEB Global Services)
ROMEK LUBACZEWSKI
Partner (retired)
PWC
