The FPI Screening Board

INGO WELLER
Professor of Human Resource Management at the LMU Munich School of Management

Ingo Wellers research focuses on strategic human capital, particularly the intersection of compensation and mobility, and examines how human capital-based value is created, captured, and distributed among stakeholders. A central theme of his work is responsible management, with a strong emphasis on fair and sustainable compensation systems. Much of his recent research addresses pay transparency and pay information disclosure legislation, its effects on the gender pay gap, and the ways employees and organizations jointly shape fair compensation practices.

His research has been published in leading international management and psychology journals. In addition to his academic work, he has held senior leadership roles at LMU Munich, serves on supervisory and advisory boards in academia and HR technology, and regularly contributes as a reviewer for major research institutions. He is currently co-editing the Research Handbook of Pay Equity and Transparency, forthcoming with Edward Elgar.

LEA GRUBB LONSTED
Head of Reward Transformation, Danske Bank

For more than 20 years, Lea has worked globally in the realm of Organisational Development and Human Resources in large scale private and non-governmental corporations, including Mercer, Maersk and United Nations. She has both worked as a consultant and in internal leadership roles with a focus on creating equitable pay, transparency and developing inclusive cultures.

Lea holds a MSc In International Business and a BSc In Philosophy and Economics.

LUCYE PROVERA
Senior Principal, Pay Equity Leader Europe & UK

With 20 years of international experience across EMEA, EU and global markets, Lucye specializes in designing business-focused rewards solutions and leading large-scale transformation projects. Lucye has worked across life sciences, luxury goods, consumer products, financial services, and energy, bringing versatile, cross-industry insight to every engagement. Lucye currently leads Mercer’s European and UK Fair Pay and DEI practice, supporting clients in meeting and exceeding the requirements of the EU Pay Transparency Directive and advancing pay and career fairness.

Lucye manages a regional team of country and technical experts, overseeing more than 300 projects each year to drive pay equity and transparency across the full employee lifecycle. Under Lucye’s leadership, Mercer has achieved Fair Pay Innovation Lab certification for multiple clients, reflecting a strong track record in fair pay and compliance. Lucye has also been instrumental in shaping Mercer’s European Fair Pay and DEI practice and oversees partnerships with technology providers and law firms to deliver best-in-class, compliant solutions.

MICHELLE SEQUEIRA
EVP Growth Leader, Gallagher

Michelle joined Gallagher in 2025 to amplify impact across Gallagher’s Talent business and the clients we serve to ensure their people and businesses thrive. She has a demonstrated history of business growth and people leadership, having previously been the CEO of a talent and inclusion consulting firm; and having created, and expanded the DEI consulting practice at an HR consulting firm into a globally impactful offering for clients.

She works with clients globally to embed DEI into the DNA of their employee value propositions and employee experience. Michelle has been awarded CIO Views Most Influential Woman in D&I, 2023; and European Diversity Awards Diversity Champion of the year, 2022

NAIMA WARLO
Associate Director in the Work & Rewards practice of Willis Towers Watson

Naima is based in Frankfurt and works in the Work & Rewards practice of Willis Towers Watson.

Her main focus is the area of pay and career equity and she is part of the international WTW Pay & Career Equity expert network.

She has extensive international project management expertise and is an expert in statistical pay equity analysis and data interpretation. As member of the German WTW Pay & Career Equity team she actively builds capability and knowledge among the German Work & Rewards team.

SILVIA PARDO GARRIDO
Partner, Reward and HR Strategy | Lead, ESPERTA Pay

Silvia Pardo Garrido is a senior HR and reward strategist with over three decades of experience driving people and compensation transformation in complex organizations. She built her executive career as Reward Director and HR Director in leading FMCG companies, developing a strong business-driven perspective on talent, job architecture, and reward governance.

For the past 13 years, she has been a Partner at ESPERTA, a consulting firm founded on the principle that science, evidence, data, and technology should guide decisions about roles and people. Silvia has worked with hundreds of organizations across industries, supporting them in designing smarter, fairer, and more defensible people and pay decisions.
She leads ESPERTA Pay, the firm’s compensation practice, with a clear focus on building rigorous and transparent pay models in which criteria are explicit, methodologies are sound, and execution is robust. Silvia brings a strong conviction that pay is never just a number, but a powerful signal of how organizations value contribution, shape culture, and exercise responsible leadership.