H.U.G Digital
Next Generation HR

Achim Berg

Achim Berg ist seit 2017 Präsident des Bitkom, dem Digitalverband Deutschlands. Darüber hinaus ist er Partner bei General Atlantic, einem der weltweit größten Wachstumsinvestoren und  hält Mandate im Aufsichtsrat bei Giesecke & Devrient, Flixbus und als Board Observer bei Nucom/ProSiebenSat.1.

Bis 2016 war Achim Berg Vorstandsvorsitzender bei arvato sowie Vorstandsmitglied bei Bertelsmann, hatte Führungspositionen in der Microsoft-Zentrale in Seattle und in Microsoft Deutschland inne und verantwortete als Mitglied des Vorstands der T-Com Marketing und Vertrieb für das Festnetz bei Europas größtem Telekommunikationsunternehmen. Zuvor war er bereits in Führungs- und Vertriebspositionen für Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH sowie Dell Deutschland GmbH tätig. Seine ersten Karriereschritte unternahm Achim Berg in verschiedenen Vertriebsfunktionen bei der Bull AG in Köln.

In Köln erreichte Achim Berg 1989 an der Fachhochschule seinen Abschluss als Diplom-Informatiker. An der European Economic School EAP, Paris, London, Madrid, Rom, Berlin absolvierte er darüber hinaus das European Potential Management Program.

Frauke von Polier 

Frauke von Polier works as people and organizational expert in the tech space for over 10 years and focuses on digital transformation. Being the Chief People Officer for Zalando scaling from 300 to 14,000, a Senior Advisor to  McKinsey and now with SAP, she brings different views to the table. Frauke is currently COO People at SAP SE and responsible with her team for the HR Tech stack, People Analytics, People Experiences and People Strategy for 100,000+ employees.

Lea-Sophie Cramer

Lea-Sophie is Founder of Amorelie, Europe’s most successful love-life brand which was sold to ProSiebenSat.1 in 2015. Lea functioned as CEO of Amorelie until 2019.
She is an active angel investor, speaker, influencer, and advisory board member.

Laura Ryan

Laura Ryan is the Director of International HR at Dropbox, the content collaboration platform that helps keep work organised in the new world of distributed working.

Laura joined Dropbox in 2015 to lead the company’s international people strategy and operations – and her team ensures that Dropbox continues to grow as a great place to work. Prior to this, she spent five years at Google building out their fast growing geo operations function for Europe, leading recruitment activities and building HR policies.

Today, Laura has over 16 years of experience within the HR industry, having previously started her career at the insurance company Aviva, where her commitment to “making work human” was awarded with fast-tracked progression during her seven years at the organisation.

Laura also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Galway University and is committed to her personal mission as an HR leader to shape the way of working for future generations.

Jenny Christina Conrads

Jenny is a charity/ social business consultant, people development coach, performer, media producer and former journalist. She is currently the Head of People & Culture at Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees! She is passionate about social and political activism, interested in human psychology, and has taught improv for businesses and team building for many years following her performing arts training and international business studies.

Sarah Dovlo

Sarah Dovlo worked several years as consultant in advertising and marketing agencies before switching to HR as a social media manager focused on employer branding for Swiss Railways. From 2013 on she was Head of HR Marketing/Early Talent Management for ABB Europe. Since April 2018 she is Global Head of Employer Branding and HR Marketing for Telekom.

Daniel Schober

During Daniel’s studies of international economics, he professionally played American football in Europe and Canada. Since 2012 he has been working for Netlight and has made it his business to find the right people to further develop the Netlight culture in Munich at three locations. He was not only able to contribute to generating growth from 17 employees to now more than 350 „Netlighters“ in Germany, but was also able to deepen his knowledge in recruiting and talent management.

Anna-Lisa Obermann

Als studierte Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin, zertifizierte Wirtschaftsmediatorin, Integrale Business Coach in Ausbildung und vor allem passionierte ‚People Person‘ ist Anna-Lisa seit 2016 beim Berliner Startup Blinkist für den Personalbereich verantwortlich. In dieser Zeit ist das Blinkist Team von rund 35 auf rund 165 Kolleg*innen angewachsen und mehrfach für sein hohes Employee Engagement ausgezeichnet worden, u.a. von LinkedIn und kununu. Die Schwerpunkte ihrer Arbeit liegen auf der stetigen Weiterentwicklung von Selbstorganisation als Managementsystem, wertebasierter Zusammenarbeit auf Augenhöhe, New Work Leadership-Development und dem produktiven Umgang mit Fehlern und Spannungen als Einladung zu kontinuierlichem Lernen.