HLB Survey of Business Leaders 2025 launch event
Powering-up your profitability
About this event
How can organisations power-up their profitability? With cumulative concern within the global business landscape at its highest, we look at the ways in which businesses can overcome their caution and place confidence in innovation, operational and workforce efficiency.
Now into its sixth consecutive year, the HLB Survey of Business Leaders is an annual global piece of research, capturing insight into today’s most pressing business issues through conversations with senior executives from mid-market-sized companies. We surveyed over 1,200 C-suite executives from across the globe to understand the business challenges they face in 2025, and explored how an emphasis on efficiency over expansion, supported by AI, is driving top-level performance.
Join us as we will reveal the 2025 findings of our survey. HLB Global CEO Marco Donzelli and a panel of prominent business experts will engage in a panel discussion to answer your questions around powering up your profitability. Afterwards, the evening programme leaves plenty of room for networking with the panel speakers and other guests.
Date: 30 January 2025
Time: 17.00 – 22.00
Timetable:
17:00 doors open and welcome drinks
17:30 - 18:30 live panel discussion
18:30 - 22:00 networking drinks
Location: WeWork 8th Floor, 10 York Road, London,
SE1 7ND (Opposite Waterloo tube station)
Fee: free
Panellists
Marco Donzelli
HLB Global CEO
Marco has been CEO of HLB International since 2017 and drives the network’s mission to ensure HLB cements its position as a global player in the professional services sector. His international experience and curious, entrepreneurial personality make him a forward-thinking leader for the network.
Marco is a champion for diversity and inclusion in the workforce, as well as being an advocate for workplace flexibility, and drives HLB's purpose as well as its growth strategy. In addition to his role at HLB, Marco is a mentor for technology start-ups at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Tracy Vegro OBE
CEO, The Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment
Tracy, a former City Regulator, joined the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) as CEO in September 2022 from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), where she managed the Innovation, Regulatory, and Education Policy teams.
Awarded an OBE in the 2020 New Year Honours for her contributions to business and diversity, Tracy also chairs the Regulatory Response Unit for LawTechUK, and is a member of the Cabinet Office’s Major Project Leadership Academy and the Leaders of Tomorrow alumni group at Oxford University's Said Business School.
Dr. Oana-Maria Pop
Head of Open Innovation, HYPE Innovation
Oana is an Open Innovation scholar, entrepreneurship lecturer at Eindhoven University, and consultant who is passionate about making collaboration work - as well as heading the Open Innovation practice at HYPE
A social scientist by training and possibilist at heart, she takes great interest in knowledge flows within complex organisations. For the past 12 years, Oana has proudly chronicled, promoted, researched, supported and directly managed the implementation of open innovation projects around the world in industries such as entertainment, healthcare, aerospace, manufacturing and financial services.
John Toon
Technology Strategy Lead, Beever and Struthers
John is an accomplished technology lead with expertise in data analytics, BI reporting, software development, automation, and systems advisory. A Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) and Fellow Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians (FMAAT), John provides firms with strategic guidance on leveraging emerging technologies to modernise systems, mitigate risks, and enhance competitiveness.
Since joining Beever and Struthers in 2015, he has played a pivotal role in developing their systems advisory and digital transformation services. He is a recognised thought leader in technology trends, regularly contributing at industry conferences, collaborating with tech vendors, and shaping the technology strategy for HLB.
Presenter
Lesley Hornung
HLB Global Chief Marketing Officer
HLB’s Chief Marketing Officer and programme lead for HLB’s Global Survey of Business Leaders. Lesley regularly speaks at HLB’s international and regional conferences to shape and deliver HLB’s global marketing strategy.
Lesley holds an MSc. in International Marketing from King’s College London, has a BA in Communications, and a Propaedeutic Diploma in Journalism. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
When and where
When:
Thursday 30 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Where:
WeWork 8th Floor, 10 York Road
London SE1 7ND, UK
Located opposite Waterloo Tube station
Want to learn more?
Visit the HLB Survey of Business Leaders hub to see past research, and regional and sector cuts.
