Gerald Lawless
Gerald Lawless is the recent CEO of Jumeirah Group, leading the team that built it into a global brand. Lawless joined Jumeirah in 1997 as its Founding CEO. He started with a team of less than 30 employees and grew it to more than 14,500 by the time...
Jo Malone
Having established herself as an icon within the perfume industry, it’s evident that Jo Malone has an abundance of business ability and entrepreneurial qualities that are desirable for many in the corporate world. As a sufferer of severe dyslexia, Malone left the educational system at the age of 15...
Azran Osman-Rani
As someone who has built and continues to build businesses and lead teams from start-up to IPO, Azran passionately believes that organisations and corporations can deploy similar structures, focus and creativity that single-minded entrepreneurs have used to create break-through business models and innovative products and services. Azran is...
Jasper Becker
Jasper Becker is the publisher of Asia Weekly which was launched in April 2007. The Hong Kong-based weekly news magazine is circulated in 15 countries and has a staff of 30. It is the first Asian English-language news magazine launched in 30 years. He has been a foreign correspondent...
Lucy Kellaway
Lucy Kellaway is an Associate Editor and management columnist of the FT. For the past fifteen years her weekly Monday column has taken a satirical look at management fads and jargon and celebrated the ups and downs of office life. In her 25 years at the FT, Kellaway has...
Sonja Piontek
Sonja is a visionary, unconventional and highly inspiring executive with years of international experience in branding, marketing and strategy. She is passionate about building brands, creating unforgettable experiences and growing businesses. Sonja has vast experience in Asia as well as working and dealing with HNWI (high net worth individuals)....
Pellegrino Riccardi
For the past 30 years, Pellegrino Riccardi has travelled the globe helping people interact more effectively with one another, especially those who work in a multi-cultural environment. Pellegrino was born in the UK in an Italian family, and has lived in Norway for the past 21 years. His multicultural...
Josephine Fairley
In 1991, Jo Fairley co-founded the pioneering organic chocolate company Green & Black’s (with her husband Craig Sams), which has now gone on to be “bigger than Marmite” (in sales terms) and “cooler than Prada” (according to the four most recent Coolbrands surveys. In 2005, the brand was sold...
R.Gopalakrishnan
R Gopalakrishnan is a non-executive director of Tata Group Parent, Tata Sons, and several Tata companies. He also serves as an independent director of listed companies, Akzo Nobel India and Castrol India, as well as a Sri Lankan listed company, Hemas. He retired from executive positions in Tata in 2011....
Robin Chase
Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur, internet start-up trailblazer and keynote speaker. A decade before Airbnb and Uber, Chase helped kickstart the ‘collaborative economy’ by co-founding Zipcar, which became the world’s largest carsharing service. The big idea was to enable convenient access to a valuable good (in this case,...
