22 Apr 2020

DIGITALEUROPE launches Executive Advisory Group on Covid-19

DIGITALEUROPE has formed a new high level Executive Advisory Group to inform its COVID-19 policies and to better understand the situation on the ground for digital companies across Europe.

On 21 April, they met with Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, and on Friday 24 April they will meet with Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager.

The group brings together senior executives from a geographical and sectoral cross-section of digital and digitising industries in Europe, covering everything from early-stage SMEs to established multinationals.

Discussion in the group will revolve around DIGITALEUROPE’s recommendations to tackle COVID-19. Our priorities are to create to ensure the survival of Europe’s digital innovative eco-system and the hundreds of thousands of digital SMEs that are struggling during the crisis and to encourage investments that create a stronger and more resilient digital Europe in the recovery phase.

Read the full list of recommendations

DIGITALEUROPE’s COVID-19 response recommendations

Members of the group

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director-General

DIGITALEUROPE
Andreas Cleve Lohmann, CEO

Corti (DIGITALEUROPE Future Unicorn Award Winner 2020)
Anita Finnegan, CEO

Nova Leah (DIGITALEUROPE Future Unicorn Award Finalist 2020)
Anja Monrad, Senior VP & GM Central & Eastern Europe

Dell
Bernd Ohnesorge, President EMEA

Siemens Healthineers
Fabrice Moizan, General Manager for Europe

Graphcore
Francesco Buonarroti, VP Janssen Chief Information Officer EMEA

Johnson & Johnson
Hilary Mine, VP Nordics, Baltics & Benelux

Nokia
Marc Nezet, SVP Strategy & Software

Schneider Electric
Dr. Marcell Vollmer, Senior VP & CIO

Celonis
Marianne Dahl, VP West Europe

Microsoft
Nicola Ruggiero, CEO

Focus Group
Sangpil (SP) Chun, Corporate VP Europe

Samsung
Tamás Laufer, CEO

RacioNet Zrt
Wendy Mars, President, EMEAR

Cisco
Xavier Garambois, VP EU Retail

Amazon