Michael Jordaan
Michael Jordaan, venture capitalist and wine enthusiast, stepped down as CEO of First National Bank (FNB) one of SA’s largest banks with a customer base of nearly nine million, in 2013 to pursue his passion for entrepreneurship. The former banker now heads up a private investment company, Montegray Capital...
Ashwin Sanghi
Ashwin Sanghi is one of India’s five best-selling English fiction authors. His three novels, The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, and The Krishna Key, are all based on historical, theological and mythological themes. He is one of India’s most popular conspiracy fiction writers, and is an author of the new...
Sarah Willingham
Sarah Willingham was born on 21st December 1973. She grew up in Stoke on Trent and was fascinated by business and food from an early age. She was particularly interested in brands and recalls, ‘I was intrigued by how brands become household names, although I didn’t know it as...
Domini Kemp
Domini trained as a chef at Leith’s in London, before co-writing New Irish Cooking and working in the Michelin-starred Peacock Alley, Dublin. In 1999, the Kemp sisters opened the first hugely popular itsa bagel on Abbey Street, which has since been re-located to Arnotts. There are now seven branches...
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,...
Ariane de Bonvoisin
Ariane de Bonvoisin is the Founder, CEO and Chief Change Optimist of First30Days, a New York City-based media company focused on guiding people through all types of changes, both personal and professional and social or global. The company, www.first30days.com currently features 60 life change subjects. With a degree in...
Irene Ang
The poster girl for over-achievement. Running four burgeoning businesses while juggling a successful television career, she is an entrepreneur, entertainer and personality non-pareil. Having worked her way up from humble beginnings, Irene is the quintessential success story; of someone who has reached her acme, and yet shows no signs...
Martha Lane Fox
Baroness Lane-Fox co-founded Lastminute.com, where she and her business partner, Brent Hoberman, came to epitomise the new breed of internet entrepreneurs in London. In November 2003 Martha stood down as Managing Director of Lastminute.com, remaining a non-executive director of the company. She is currently a non-executive director at Marks...
Emmanuelle Duez
Emmanuelle Duez is a serial entrepreneur, the founder and president of WoMen’Up and creator of startup company The Boson Project, a consulting firm which harnesses the power of the young. The Boson Project was selected as one of the six most promising companies of 2014 by August and Debouzy’s...
Varun Agarwal
Varun Agarwal is an Indian first-generation entrepreneur, film maker and author. Born on December 6, 1987, in Bangalore, India, he did his schooling from Bishop Cotton Boys’ School and started engineering in CMR Institute of Technology Bangalore, Karnataka. He decided to drop out of college because he lacked interest...
