Mr Rytis Ambrazevičius has 20 years of experience in top management positions at international and local companies, including Omnitel (part of TeliaSonera Group), Mandatum Life Baltics, Sampo Life, Falck Security (now G4S) and SBA Group. For the last 10 years, he held different positions in the boards of directors and currently is an independent board member at Klaipėdos nafta. Rytis graduated from Kaunas Technology University and International Business School at Vilnius University. He is also a graduate of the BICG, having completed professional board member education in 2012 and chairperson education in 2013.
Professor Michael Hilb is President of the Swiss Institute of Directors and Chair of the Board Foundation. He serves on the boards of several listed and privately held companies, foundations, and international organizations.
He is Dean of the Swiss Board School and teaches strategy, entrepreneurship, and corporate governance at universities in Switzerland and Singapore. He has authored and co-authored seven books and more than 50 articles.
Previously, Michael held leadership positions at DKSH, Holcim, and Roland Berger.
He has been a Visiting Fellow at INSEAD and Harvard University and studied business at the University of Michigan, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the University of St. Gallen, where he earned his MSc and PhD.
Jonathan was appointed the IoD’s Director General in October 2019.
He spent 30 years working in the professional services sector, most recently at Grant Thornton International, where he was responsible for the organisation’s interest in China. He is the author of three books about China and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Outside of work his interests include hill walking and fell running. He was a rally team navigator for 20 years and, following two years of training in extreme environments, walked to the North Pole in 2006.
Sandra Gobert holds a master degree in law and certificates in accounting, financial and tax law and management. She is GUBERNA Certified Director since 2010 and executive director of GUBERNA since 2019. She completed Chapter Zero’s Directors Climate Journey in 2021. An entrepreneur at heart, she has been involved in the creation of several enterprises since 1991 and has held executive and non-executive mandates in various sectors. Expert in corporate law, governance and sustainability regulation, she is member of the Brussels’ Bar since 1992. In 1998, she created the E.E.I.G. Law Link – the Global Law Group as well as the law firm Sub Rosa Legal in 2006. In September 2024, Sub Rosa Legal merged with the law firm Andersen in Belgium, of which Sandra Gobert became a partner and member of the executive committee. Since May 2019 she is independent director of Fluxys Belgium SA where she is member of the Corporate Governance Committee and of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. She sits on the board of ecoDa, the European Confederation of Directors Associations and presides ecoDa’s working group on ESG. She is member of the ESG Exchange advisory committee as well as of the advisory committee of Chapter Zero. She is a member of the board of the Corporate Governance Committee.
For her, the organisations of the 21st century are in need of inclusive governance structures, through which committed, competent and courageous people can shape the economy of the future.
Ms Linnainmaa is an expert on corporate governance, company law and securities market law as well as women’s leadership issues. She is the Vice Chair of the Finnish Council of Regulatory Impact Analysis, Past Chair of ecoDa and Past Chair of the European Corporate Governance Codes Network. She has served on several European Commission’s expert groups.
Prior to joining DIF in September 2019, Ms Linnainmaa was Deputy Chief Executive of Finland Chamber of Commerce where she worked since 2000. Before that she gained more than 10 years’ experience in the banking sector.
Irena Prijović, MSc is the Executive Director of the Slovenian Directors’ Association since 2004, with which she has been closely involved since its establishment in 1997. She holds a degree in economics (University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business) and a master’s degree from the Faculty of Social Sciences, where she completed her thesis entitled The Effectiveness of Supervisory Boards.
Her professional work focuses on corporate governance and supervisory board
practices, including the development of governance standards, codes and
recommendations, research, and the certification of professional knowledge required for supervisory board service. She is the author and editor of numerous publications and practical handbooks in these fields. She also works as a lecturer and consultant specialising in corporate governance and supervisory board self-evaluation.
Her previous supervisory board and committee experience includes roles at JP
Uradni list, d.o.o., Športna loterija, d.d., and Petrol, d.d., as well as membership of the Remuneration Committee at DUTB, d.d. and the Accreditation Committee of the Supervisory Board of KAD, d.d. She has also served as an external member of various human resources and nomination committees responsible for proposing candidates for supervisory board positions.
Since April 2023, she has been a member of the Management Board of Chapter Zero Slovenia. She is active internationally as a Board Member of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) in Brussels, the European Corporate Governance Codes Network (ECGCN), and European Women on Boards (EWOB). She regularly enhances her professional expertise through executive education and specialist programmes in Slovenia and abroad, including at Harvard Business School, INSEAD and ecoDa.
