As Global Director for Occupational Health & Safety at Boehringer Ingelheim, I lead international teams and develop strategies focused on health, safety, and employee wellbeing.

With over 25 years of experience across the pharmaceutical, luxury, and construction sectors, I have managed complex industrial projects and EHS programs in Europe, the US, Asia, and North Africa.

As an engineer by training, I’m known for my dynamic leadership, rigorous project management, and strong commitment to building a global culture of safety.

As the co-founder and CEO of Terrafertil / Nature’s Heart, I have spent the past two decades transforming the natural foods industry in Latin America. Building an integrated business that produces, processes, and distributes organic and plant-based products, I led Nature’s Heart to become the leading plant-based brand in Latin America, ultimately joining Nestlé in 2018 as part of its global expansion. Through this journey, I have combined business growth with social and environmental impact, proving that purpose-driven companies can scale profitably.

Beyond Nature’s Heart, I actively invest in and advise innovative and disruptive companies across the food, beverage, technology, and fitness sectors, serving on multiple boards. I specialize in scaling businesses, integrating startups with multinational corporations, and driving strategic growth in high-impact industries. I am also a board member of Nature’s Heart, now the largest plant-based brand within Nestlé’s LatAm portfolio.

In addition to business, I am passionate about transforming education. I am part of the team developing Ecuador’s first dual-education school, a pioneering initiative in collaboration with the German Chamber of Commerce and leading business leaders. This project is designed to revolutionize Ecuador’s education system by integrating academic learning with hands-on professional training, equipping students with the skills they need to thrive in the workforce.

Committed to fostering entrepreneurship, I actively support and mentor founders through organizations such as Endeavor and Ashoka, helping mission-driven leaders develop market-based solutions that create meaningful change.

I have pursued executive education at Harvard Business School (OPM 60), Oxford, and ESADE, and hold a BA in Economics from Duke University and a BS in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Currently, I live in Madrid, Spain, with my wife and children, continuing to build and invest in ventures that shape the future of sustainable business, innovation, and education

An ardent supporter and active ambassador for Making More Health, Uday Bose is an alumni of the MMH Insight Week at Boehringer Ingelheim. With a background in economics, sales, marketing, and business operations, as well as senior management roles spanning Global, Regional and Local positions, Uday brings a depth of breadth of experience to the Social Innovation Hubs Forum.

As Head of International Markets, I lead our global commercial organizations in EMEA, Asia Pacific, Greater China, Latin America and India that deliver >30% of our global revenue with a fooprint of 400+ people across more than a 100 countries. As we face the formidable challenge to build back better from the voluntary Philiips Respironics sleep and respiratory devices recall, our organization is committed to build back better and deliver for our patients, clinicians and partners as we work to improve lives of millions around the world suffering from sleep and breathing disorders.

Over 18 years of working in product and business marketing and sales with Philips and P&G, I've managed consumer and professional businesses across the world, building expertise in global business management, collaborative ventures, retail partnerships, M&A integrations and business model/value chain transformations. 

My leadership ethos revolves around principle-based leadership revolving around a culture of trust, teamwork and principled values, recognizing that exceptional people and teams drive exceptional results.

Beyond business, my passions lie in digital health and technology, consumerization of healthcare and promoting healthy living throgh passions such as running, triathlons and volunteering for non-profit organizations focused on heart health awareness and inspiring others along the way to a healthy lifestyle.

Inna Chilik is a systems innovator and Strategic Learning Co-lead at EIT Climate-KIC, where she co-designs transformative learning processes and facilitates cross-sector collaboration to accelerate climate action in cities. With over two decades of experience spanning sustainability, systems change, and capacity building, she supports mission-driven communities in navigating complexity toward long-lasting impact. Inna is passionate about bridging business and living systems, fostering inclusive innovation, and cultivating planetary mindsets. Her work empowers cities and organizations to align ambition with systemic strategies for equity, resilience, and wellbeing.

I am a transition/growth consultant and former global VP of Strategic Partnership and Venture Investing at Philips BV (Netherlands). I currently mentor global social enterepreneurs for Tallberg Foundation and conduct leadership development workshops for teams.

Industry business professional with a strong academic background, adept at identifying and leveraging opportunities to enhance patient care through cross-functional initiatives.

Extensive experience in Gut Health, Oncology, Immunology, Type 2 Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Clinical Innovation across both Pharmaceutical and Nutrition industries.

Passionate about social entrepreneurship, fostering collaboration, and driving systemic change to empower organizations and movements.

Joanna is a life sciences professional with over ten years of experience in research, development, and alliance management. She currently serves as Executive Director, Head of Alliance Management, BD&L Animal Health at Boehringer Ingelheim, where she leads global partnerships that support the company’s Animal Health strategy.

Since joining Boehringer Ingelheim in 2015, Joanna has held various roles in internal consulting, biologics R&D, and CMC project management. Earlier in her career, she worked at BASF SE in scientific leadership roles and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Sanofi.

Joanna holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Berlin Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Bradford School of Management.

• Background in biochemistry, PhD in molecular biology
• 20 years of pharma and biotech experience (research, business development, licensing & transactions, consulting and strategy)
• Joined BI in 2011
• Experienced agile facilitator and certified product owner
• Worked in Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Singapore, the US and China

Darius is working at iac Berlin - a think&do tank for trust-based and collaborative practices in philanthropy. He is actively involved in coalition building processes and advises social change actors on the design and implementation of networked approaches.

Kelly Rotkewicz is the Executive Director, Sustainability and U.S. Strategy & Operations. In this role, Kelly works across the entire U.S. organization to showcase and drive Boehringer’s strong, long-term commitment to sustainable development. She contributes to the evolution of the global SD4G strategy while simultaneously actioning it locally.

Maria is a business executive with substantial pharmaceutical experience, including various roles within strategy and marketing, globally and locally. In her current role as Chief Sustainability Officer, Maria strives to contribute to Boehringer´s long term commitment to deliver more health to humans, animals and the planet, leading the company´s sustainability strategy. Born in Brazil, educated in Canada, fluent in five languages, Maria now lives in Germany with her family.

A serial social entrepreneur in the field of wellbeing, disability, and mental health. He started his first outfit in 1978 and has conceived of and launched approximately 13 organizations since that time of which he has managed five. The first outfit still going today www.thrive.org.uk and, coming up to date, cofounder of www.elderscouncil.net.

Chris runs his own business www.mentorservices.org.uk and manages a mentoring practice of some 30 clients at any one time. An Ashoka Senior Fellow, recognized by both the Skoll and Schwab Foundations as an awardee Social Entrepreneur, a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Culture), and made an MBE by HRH the Queen in 2000 for services to international disability, mental health, and development.

Tanja Vermeer holds dual Master's degrees in Organizational Psychology and Sustainability and Responsibility. Manager, Coach and Leader in Sustainability and Making More Health. Driving Boehringers' partnership with Ashoka. Owned and operated her consultancy company for 12 years before she joined Boehringer Ingelheim.

I am head of the Robert Bosch Centre for Innovative Health at the Bosch Health Campus in Stuttgart.

Dr. Ilka Wicke is Global Head of Sustainability Social at Boehringer Ingelheim. She leads social engagement as part of Boehringer`s Sustainability Strategy with the commitment to improve the lives of 50 million people in vulnerable communities by 2030.

Integral part of Social Engagements is Making More Health (MMH), which is closely engaging with Social Entrepreneurs and supporting underserved communities in Kenya as well the Social Business initiative, grant-funding and investing into social start-ups in Africa.

She launched the Boehringer Ingelheim Social Engagement Fund (BI SE) in 2021 to support and scale social startups with financial and non-financial resources. Previously, she founded the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF), which invests in early-stage biotech start-up`s as part of Boehringer external innovation strategy.

Dr. Wicke holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and conducted postdoctoral research in oncology at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

As the Executive Director of Commit and a board member of MitOst, my focus is on developing programs and activities that strengthen civil society. These programs show an excerpt of my work.

Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg - https://theodor-heuss-kolleg.de/
Civic Europe - https://civic-europe.eu/
Horizontal school - https://horizontal.school/
Vidnova https://vidnova.org/
Tools for citizens https://civilsocietytoolbox.org/