Co has had a long business career. As COO, he has led major computer and telecom companies with up to 3000 employees. From 2003 to 2013, Co has been Partner at a Dutch consultancy firm. In that capacity, he advised senior leaders of a wide range of organisations on operational excellence as well as on leadership. His particular strength lies in the ability to translate complex issues into everyday practice, where possible with a pragmatic approach. As a facilitator, Co has taken senior executives on a leadership trail to the wilderness of South Africa for 10 subsequent years. He is still active as a business coach for young leaders in innovative businesses.
Prashant is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, and an Affiliate Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD, a leading graduate business school, where he also directs the INSEAD Africa Initiative. In his previous roles, he worked as the Strategy Leader-Supply Chain at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as Vice President of Healthcare at the William Davidson Institute, and he was on the faculty at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He has also served as a Professor of Supply Chain Management in the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program and as Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. For many years, Prashant has been a member of the expert review committee of the Access to Medicine Index. He is the author of many peer-reviewed scientific publications and his work has also been featured in prominent print and broadcast media, such as the BBC, The New York Times, CNN, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
Prashant holds a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Alabama’s Manderson Graduate School of Business, an MBA in Operations and Finance from the FORE School of Management, and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee.
After graduating as a medical doctor and training at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, Harry worked with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the German Technical ooperation (GTZ) in various positions around the world. Harry has many years of experience as Senior Health Advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Foreigh Affairs and Board member of several NGOs in the health sector. His main focus areas are access to essential drugs, disease control programs and biomedical research for malaria, TB and neglected and poverty-related diseases. Harry contributed to wide-spread use of artemisinin-combination therapy against malaria. Harry is owner of EUVADIS, consultancy in promoting and supporting public-private collaboration in the area of Global Health.
Martine has a passion for Finance, Service delivery and International Management. She has worked for 18 years for TNT Express and Logistics in a variety of roles in Finance & General management and Mergers & Acquisitions leading multi-country organizations and departments. Since 2018, she has been active as end- responsible CFO for middle sized companies. She currently works as Group CFO for Bergman Clinics, active in planned healthcare delivery services in The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Germany. As a student Martine conducted a study on Public Private Partnerships for slum redevelopment. For that purpose, she worked for a NGO in the slums of Mumbai, India. While working for TNT she has been involved in setting up the partnership with the World Food Program called Move the World. Martine holds an MBA from Cornell University (USA) and a MSC in Systems, Transportation and Logistics Engineering from Delft University.
Michel Jacobs works at the Rotterdam based law firm Ploum Lodder Princen and has been a partner since 2004. He specializes in contract and competition law and works in a commercial advisory and litigation practice. His clients are mostly (international) companies and institutions. Michel Jacobs has extensive experience in assessing and negotiating commercial agreements. He also assists companies being inspected by the Authority for Consumers & Markets and/or the European Commission. He heads the practice group Competition Law, and is part of the team Care of his firm. He is also very active as a speaker, and acts as a visiting teacher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in competition law.