European Foodservice Summit 2022

David Bosshart

Rüschlikon, Switzerland

Author, Speaker, Executive Advisor. Dr. David Bosshart was CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies from 1999 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been President of the Gottlieb and Adele Duttweiler Foundation.

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Karl Brauckmann

Essen, Germany

Karl Brauckmann is Managing Director of the Valora business unit Food Service Germany (including Austria and the Netherlands). Having previously worked for Valiant Germany and then managed and successfully sold the family business Behaton, Karl entered the foodservice industry in 2006. His first stop was the fast-growing self-service discount bakery format BackWerk of which Karl became the CEO in 2016. At the end of 2017, BackWerk went to Valora, where Karl took over the then established business unit ‘Food Service Germany’. In 2021, the Swiss retail holding company Valora acquired Backfactory, which too was integrated into this business unit, which currently employs approx. 4,000 people in three countries with sales in excess of €400 m. Since 2020 Karl also serves as head of the supervisory Board at PanPek, Zagreb Croatia - Croatias second largest bakery chain.

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Cyrille Filott

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cyrille Filott is global strategist for Consumer Foods, Packaging & Logistics responsible for setting and executing the research agenda for the Consumer Foods and the Packaging & Logistics franchises within Rabobank. Rabobank is a globally leading Food & Agribusiness bank. He and the team publish research that is relevant to food and agribusiness companies worldwide. Next to that Cyrille is the host of the Consumer Foods-to-Go podcast series. Cyrille spends most of his time discussing sector issues with food&agribusiness corporates. He is frequently invited at C-suite meetings to bring insights and to discuss business strategies in food. Also he is a frequent speaker at industry events. 

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David Henkes

Chicago, USA

David Henkes is a Senior Principal and Head of Strategic Partnerships at Technomic. Since joining the firm in 1996, Dave has conducted and managed a wide variety of engagements across the global foodservice industry and has worked with clients in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He oversees the firm’s Beverage Practice and has worked in nearly every vertical within the broader food industry. Before joining Technomic, Dave honed his international food experience working with Nestle Germany in Frankfurt and was employed as a federal investigator in Washington, DC.

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Christopher C. Muller

Boston, USA

Chris Muller is a leading academic expert in the field of restaurant management. His research has focused on multi-unit organizations, development and growth, and the training of multi-unit managers and leaders. He has held positions at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, UCF’s Rosen College, Boston University, and is currently Courtesy Professor of Executive Education at FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality.  He is an author and has lectured around the globe.

Matthew Robin

Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland

CEO of ELSA-Mifroma, a group of six food companies in Migros Industry. Robin has pioneered Migros strategy, investments and activities in the cultured meat area. Educated in England as a chemical engineer, he pursued a career in Switzerland and the USA in the pharmaceutical manufacturing and medtech area, before moving to the food sector.

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Charly Schillinger

Vienna, Austria

Charly Schillinger is the founder of Swing Kitchen, a vegan Austrian burger chain. The first restaurant opened in January 2015 and due to the great success, the second one followed in the same year. Currently, there are 13 restaurants being operated in the DACH region and for a year now, Swing Kitchen has been the European market leader in vegan system catering in terms of turnover. In order to defend this supremacy, the chain plans to accelerate its expansion and open eight to 12 new stores annually. Originally, Charly was a successful securities analyst and has become a vegan entrepreneur for ethical reasons.

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Arslan Sharif

Uxbridge, UK

Arslan Sharif is the Group Digital & Loyalty Director at PizzaExpress, leading the digital and customer transformation since 2021. Prior to this, Arslan spent 4 years at Costa Coffee, part of The Coca-Cola Company, as Global Digital Director leading all digital activities across UK, China, Europe and Middle East markets. Arslan has a strong and successful track record of building high performing teams and delivering consumer-centric transformation in Digital, Marketing, and Commercial roles spanning a 25-year career in Financial Services, Energy & Utilities and Retail Hospitality sectors. At PizzaExpress, Arslan launched their first loyalty program and has significantly grown the customer base to deliver data-driven personalised marketing.

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Giuseppe Tamola

Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Tamola is the General Manager Europe at sunday, the digital restaurant check out app developed by Big Mamma founder Victor Lugger. Raised on Lake Como, Italy, where his family used to have a restaurant and a hotel, Giuseppe studied in Italy, Germany and Denmark to acquire a Bachelor in Economics and Master in Innovation Management. He was responsible for the South and East Europe business of Zalando before becoming Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at Yoox-Net-a-Porter Group. Giuseppe joined sunday in November 2021.

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Gretel Weiss

Frankfurt, Germany

Gretel Weiss is co-founder and publisher of the two leading trade magazines – food-service (since 1982) and foodservice Europe & Middle East (since 1998). She is a recognized expert with insider knowledge of the chain-restaurant industry. Her background is farming, university degrees in Nutritional Science and Economics.

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Katrin Wissmann

Frankfurt, Germany

Katrin Wissmann is the Executive Editor of the b2b magazine foodservice Europe & Middle East and a long-standing editor of foodservice. She studied journalism and American Studies in Mainz (Germany), Pamplona (Spain) and in Middlebury, VT, (USA). After gaining initial professional experience in print, radio and television, she joined the editorial teams of foodservice and foodservice Europe & Middle East in 2006. Since October 2018, Katrin Wissmann has been responsible for content planning and coordination of Foodservice Europe & Middle East and was recently named the publication’s Executive Editor.

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