Tim Mason
Tim Mason is renowned for launching Tesco’s Clubcard scheme, Tesco Express, Tesco.com, Tesco Personal Finance and Fresh & Easy. He is the former Deputy CEO and Chief Marketing Officer of Tesco, the world’s third largest retailer, and former President and CEO of Fresh & Easy, Tesco’s US business. Mason...
Mishal Kanoo
Mishal Kanoo is Chairman of The Kanoo Group, one of the largest and most diverse family owned group of companies in the Middle East. The Kanoo Group has diversified interests including financial services, shipping, travel, machinery, logistics, oil & gas, ports, power, and chemicals. Mishal is the 4th generation...
David Back
David Back is the co-founder of Zoomcar, the first car rental company in India to focus on “western-style” rentals with no chauffeur. Zoomcar launched in February 2013 with 7 cars in Bangalore. By the time Back left at the end of May 2015, it had grown to over 1,500...
Nazir Razak
Nazir Razak graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Economics and Politics, University of Bristol and obtained a Master of Philosophy in Development Economics from the University of Cambridge. He was a Chevening Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in 2010 and a Transformational Leadership Fellow...
Simon Fraser
Simon Fraser recently completed five years as Permanent Secretary at the UK Foreign Office (FCO) and Head of the UK Diplomatic Service. This crowned a public service career in which he also served as Permanent Secretary at the UK Business Department and in Brussels as Chief of Staff to...
Guy Kawasaki
Guy was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1954. His family lived in a tough part of Honolulu called Kalihi Valley. They weren’t rich, but he never felt poor because his parents made many sacrifices. His mother was a housewife, and his father was a fireman, real estate broker, state...
Andrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev
Andrey Kozyrev was Foreign Minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from 1991-96. Andrey stood by Yeltsin against the hard-line coup and flew to Paris to set up a government in exile when the plotters had not failed within a few days. He later took part in the December...
Isabelle Autissier
During a decade of competitive marathon sailing, Isabelle Autissier demonstrated nearly supernatural sailing prowess and unmitigated bad luck. She is the first woman to sail around the world alone and she piloted a yacht from New York to San Francisco by way of Cape Horn in world-record time. She...
Larissa Tan
Being one of the few female leaders in the technology and automotive industry, Larissa Tan heads up Singapore’s first electric vehicle company, Vanda Electrics. Under her leadership, Vanda Electrics recently launched the Dendrobium, Singapore’s first hyper car and also the world’s first fully electric hyper car with the technical...
Tom Purves
Tom Purves was CEO at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars from 2008 to 2010. Previously, he served as the Chairman and CEO of BMW for North America from 1999 to 2008. He was also Chairman and Regional Manager for the Americas. Tom’s extensive sales background, which includes successfully leading multi country...