Speakers

Marina Morrissey is a highly experienced Talent Acquisition professional whose career spans EMEA, ASPAC, AFRICA and the AMERICA´s. Her expertise is in the field of company growth, having helped over 100 companies during her career as a manager, scaling their businesses and helping achieve their plans for growth. Her experience has covered companies such as the classic IBM´s, Facebook and PayPals of this world, to Public and Semi state organizations as well as Hypergrowth start startups such as Glovo and TravelPerk, the world’s fastest growing SaaS company. Her core expertise lies in anticipating not only the hiring needs, peaks and troughs of the companies she works with but in addition understand how the candidate market evolves as a result of the numerous factors we see having an impact on the changing world of employment.

Connecting talent from around the world to exciting career opportunities at international companies and startups in Lithuania.

Experience:
10+ years working as a Talent Acquisition expert for fast-growing global Fintech and software development companies in Lithuania.
6 years of finding and bringing IT talent to Lithuania.

Shannon is an energetic and driven person, who has a deep passion for building successful strategies, brands and businesses from start-ups, to scale-ups, to large corporates. Most recently she has joined Blonde and Giant as their Strategic Director to drive brand development and strategic storytelling for Startups and VC funds.She enjoys challenging projects and is meticulous in her outcomes and results. She has an entrepreneurial spirit and enjoys new business development and networking. She thrives on building strong relationships and believes in a work life balance. She is highly accomplished with over 25 years of experience working across Africa and Europe. Her expertise ranges across a diverse set of industry sectors such as Venture Capital, Retail, Fintech, Insurance, Telecomms, Retail, Financial Services, Information Technology, Luxury, Leisure, Education, FMCG, Medical and E-Commerce.

Having fun with computers for nearly 25 years. Worked on the topics of software development, primarily for Enterprise Applications. Designing, developing, scaling, and operating the customer-facing digital and data solutions of ZEISS as a Team Leader to provide seamless, personalized user journeys across all web applications and portals.

16 years of proven experience in B2B client services and account mamagement, serving clients on Global and EMEA level. Proud team member of Green Fox Academy, a coding school in Budapest, Prague and Bratislava as General Director with focus on B2B products and clients.

HR Director, coach and consultant with 12 years cross-functional, cross-industry (IT, Banking, FMCG) and international experience.
In the last 5 years acting on HR Lead positions covering employer branding, recruitment, on-boarding, retention, employee engagement, performance management, learning & development, succession planning.
Solid background in HR and business strategy development, implementing HR processes from scratch and change management.
Proficient in brand & product management, consumer engagement with 6 years in FMCG Marketing and Sales on 5 markets (UA, GE, AR, MLD, CH) covering full marketing funnel: awareness, consideration, conversion, loyalty and advocacy.

Passionate about people talents as a core and strongly believe that people are the main asset of a company success.