Annette Winkler
German-born Annette Winkler is CEO of Smart cars, and one of the three highest-ranking women in the Daimler Group. Her appointment in 2010 signified a major shift in the male-dominated auto industry. In 1995, Winkler began her career with Daimler when she was appointed Head of Public Relations and...
Lara Morgan
Lara Morgan built her own leading global licensing business, Pacific Direct. Over 17 years, she made luxury toiletry products for YSL, Bulgari, Penhaligons, Aveda, The White Company, Elemis and many others. In 2008, she sold her majority shareholding for £20million. Lara now invests her time in fast growth companies...
Scott Goodstein
Scott Goodstein is CEO of Revolution Messaging, the leading digital firm best known recently for running digital strategy and operations for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. The Sanders campaign shattered all expectations among U.S. political experts, overcoming a deep gap in name recognition and support to compete with and...
Rainer Hersch
Rainer Hersch is a comedian and musician who has performed on every major comedy stage in Britain and abroad. He has appeared thirteen times at the Edinburgh Festival, had numerous comedy-concert series at the South Bank in London, featured in comedy clubs all across Europe and in TV shows...
Kinvara Balfour
Kinvara is a director, producer, writer and speaker. Her work spans the worlds of fashion, tech, theatre and film. Kinvara has advised and directed the launch of several major tech start-ups in UK and USA. She hosts conversations with global game changers on stage and directs them on film....
Anna Bance
Anna Bance is the founder of Europe’s leading online rental website, GirlMeetsDress.com, that gives millions of women the ability to hire designer dresses and accessories for a fraction of the price. Girl Meets Dress started out whilst Anna was working for Hermes as Head of UK PR when she...
Nicklas Bergman
Nicklas Bergman has spent the last 25 years working as an entrepreneur and technology investor, mostly focusing on emerging markets, instrumentation, nanotechnology, computing, new materials and new media art. Bergman is strategic advisor to European Commissioner Carlos Moedas and the European Innovation Council, working on a new innovation strategy...
Wayne Hemingway
Wayne Hemingway and his wife Geraldine built Red or Dead into a clothes label that received global acclaim, winning the prestigious British Fashion Council’s Streetstyle Designer of the Year Award for an unprecedented 3 consecutive years in 1996, 1997 and 1998. After 21 consecutive seasons on the catwalk at...
Bob Borchers
Bob Borchers served at Apple as Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for the iPhone. He is currently at Opus Capital where he focused on investments in mobile applications and services as well as adjacent opportunities in both hardware and software. comes to Opus Capital. As part of the original...
Angelo Vermeulen
With a passion for concepts of interstellar travel, Angelo Vermeulen brings together science and art to rethink our present and future here on Earth. He loves to challenge established ideas on how people live and work together, and how they shape the world. Through concrete experiences and anecdotes he...
