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...
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...
Nick Wheeler
Nick Wheeler is Founder and Managing Director of Charles Tyrwhitt, the leading British Brand, and multi-award winning British multi-channel retailer, selling shirts and other clothing. In 2012 he won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year UK award. Wheeler found the inspiration for Charles Tyrwhitt in 1986, while...
Lucian Tarnowski
Lucian Tarnowski is Founder and CEO of BraveNew.com, the intelligent knowledge sharing platform that enables collaborative learning by creating engaging online spaces for professional communities, with the view that communities help break down the knowledge silos across organisations. Tarnowski has been honoured as a Young Global Leader by the...
Ness Knight
Ness Knight is a record-breaking explorer and endurance adventurer who became the first female in history to swim the Thames River in 2013. Ness has traversed some of the most diverse terrain in all corners of the planet, overcoming huge obstacles and extreme conditions in remote environments. Ness’ career...
Marc Amblard
Marc Amblard is the CEO of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), a member-based foundation established to increase the competitiveness of the European economy. EFQM offers training, assessments, recognitions and shares good practices, based on the EFQM Excellence Model, a management framework used by over 30,000 organisations. As...
Mark Britt
Mr. Britt is an experienced leader of technology, content and marketing led businesses. Prior to founding iflix, Mr. Britt served as CEO of Nine Entertainment Co’s digital arm Mi9, where he was responsible for the company’s SVOD investments and portfolio of start-up ventures. Mr. Britt was formerly also, General...
Vijay Govindarajan
Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He was the first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation...
Joseph Yam
Mr Joseph Yam was the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, an organization that he created and headed for sixteen and a half years. After retiring from that post in September 2009, Mr Yam has taken up a number of appointments. Mr Yam, for example, is...
Jonty Hurwitz
Jonty Hurwitz is a leading financial and technological innovator, and a highly successful entrepreneur. He co-founded Wonga.com in 2007; the multi-award winning online micro-loan company, that grew to a staggering scale in just five years. Wonga was voted Europe’s fastest-growing on-line company, and won the Sunday Times TechTrack 100...
