Jim Noble
Jim Noble is widely considered to be one of the world’s foremost IT thought leaders. In 2013 he was voted #7 “Most Influential Technology Executive” by Forbes Magazine and in 2012 he was Winner of CIO magazine’s 2012 annual award for technology innovation. During his career, Jim has has...
Fons Trompenaars
Fons Trompenaars is recognised around the world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business. As founder and director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (THT), an intercultural management firm, he has spent over 25 years helping Fortune 500 leaders...
Brian Su
Brian Su has extensive experience in international trade, business development, marketing management, and strategic planning. Prior to founding Artisan Business Group, Mr. Su served Illinois governor Jim Edgar and assisted him in his trade mission to China in 1996 and helped him host a numbers of Chinese government and...
Vineet Nayar
Vineet Nayar is Founder and Chairman of Sampark Foundation and former CEO of HCL Technologies. He is also author of the highly acclaimed management book Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down. With ‘Innovation led large scale social change’ as the central idea, Nayar co-founded Sampark Foundation...
Ian Goldin
Ian Goldin was the Director of the Oxford University Martin School until 2016 which is a unique inter-disciplinary research initiative tackling global future challenges. He is also Professor of Globalisation and a Professorial Fellow at Oxford University’s Balliol College. He is an economist with an international reputation in the...
Nicolas Riou
After a long career in advertising in strategic planning and business he created Brain Value in 2004, a research firm specialising in consumer studies. With a team of 20 people, Brain Value produces studies and advises their clients such as Chanel, Colgate Palmolive, L’Oréal, Mondelez, McDonald’s, Lactel, Accor, Campbell,...
Omari Issa
Omari Issa has extensive business experience at the highest level of both the public and private sectors, having worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. From 2013-16, Issa served as the first Chief Executive Officer of the President’s Delivery Bureau, an institution established to oversee implementation of Tanzania’s...
Jonathan Yabut
Jonathan is the Season 1 winner of the hit pan-Asian reality TV show, The Apprentice Asia hosted by Malaysian business mogul Tony Fernandes. He was the youngest male contestant at the age of 27 and was popularly known in the show for his people skills, leadership and passionate speeches...
Khailee Ng
Khailee Ng is a managing partner at 500 Global, a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies. He has led over 400 investments in startups across Southeast Asia. His team is recognized as a leading technology investor in the region having invested early in...
Mahmoud Kaabour
Mahmoud Kaabour is a multi award-winning director, writer, and lecturer from Lebanon. Now based in the United Arab Emirates, he has emerged as the most distinguished documentary filmmaker in the region. His ground-breaking film Teta, Alf Marra (Grandma, a Thousand Times) screened to packed houses in over 55 cities...
