Peter Sands
Peter Sands served as the Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC from 2006-15. Sands joined Standard Chartered from McKinsey where he served as a Partner from 1996. He originally joined McKinsey in 1988, where he worked extensively in the banking and technology sectors in a wide range of...
Gideon Lask
Gideon Lask has been working in E-commerce for almost 20 years. He has built and sold E-commerce businesses for the likes of Universal, HMV and LetsBuyIt.com, but he is currently busy helping other brands and retailers acquire new customers in an altogether smarter way. He’s the Founder and CEO...
Rolf Eckrodt
Rolf Eckrodt held senior positions at Daimler-Chrysler, one of the most respected global automotive manufacturers, for more than 20 years. He had joined Mercedez-Benz in 1966 and had been known for his track record in turnarounds. As an example, as President of Mercedez-Benz Brazil in 1992-96, he carried out...
Chan Kim
W. Chan Kim is The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD, France (the world’s second largest business school). Prior to joining INSEAD, he was a professor at the University of Michigan Business School, USA. He has served as a board...
Edward De Bono
Dr. Edward de Bono is widely regarded as the world’s leading authority in the field of creative and conceptual thinking, and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He has authored 60 books translated into 35 languages on the topic of thinking. His sessions, are invariably sell-outs, businesses, government...
Christian Busch
Prof. Dr. Christian Busch is a world-leading expert on innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and cultivating serendipity. He directs the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University, and also teaches at the London School of Economics. Previously, he co-directed the LSE’s Innovation Lab and co-founded the Sandbox Network, a global community...
Santosh Desai
Santosh Desai is the Managing Director and CEO of Future Brands Ltd, a branding services company that creates and manages a portfolio of brands, and offers consulting services in the brand and consumer space. He is a culture, advertising and brand expert, a social media commentator, and a best-selling...
Wang YiZhou
Dr. Wang Yizhou is now the Deputy Director and senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Known mainly as an expert and professor of international relations, Dr. Wang is also the editor in chief, World Economics and...
Sheena Iyengar
Sheena is a blind Indian American professor at the Columbia Business School who has spent her career studying choice – why it matters, how we choose, and how we can choose better. Raised by Sikh immigrants in Queens, New York, Sheena’s family life provided her with a strict cultural...
Chris Hughes
When Chris Hughes helped hatch Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard, practically the only people sharing personal information on the Web were on dating sites. Morphing into a powerhouse networking site, Facebook now has over 600 million users. Eager to connect like-minded communities to a greater good, Hughes...
