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...
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...
Ruby Wax
After arriving in Britain from the United States in 1977 and training as an actress, Ruby Wax began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company before developing her own brand of highly amusing ‘attitude TV’. In addition to performing and presenting, she has contributed to, written and edited numerous...
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...
Mohammed Johmani
Mohammed Johmani is the founder of the award winning O2 Network. Mohammed is multi-talented, ambitious and passionate about business. He has managed four different agencies in the O2 Network that has billed over US$40 million in less than 6 years, while planning for regional expansion and global reach initiatives....
Ho Kwon Ping
Ho Kwon Ping is Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings, which owns both listed and private companies engaged in the development, ownership and operation of hotels, resorts, spas, residential homes, retail galleries and other lifestyle activities around the world. Born in 1952, Ho Kwon Ping was educated in Tunghai...
Anil Gupta
Dr Anil K. Gupta is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and globalisation. He is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland and a Visiting Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, where he...
Jackie Fast
Jackie Fast is the Founder of Slingshot Sponsorship – an innovative strategic sponsorship sales agency based in Central London with offices worldwide. Jackie Fast started Slingshot from her home in 2010, growing the company to provide services for major brands. The company was recently nominated for 4 ESA Excellence...
Michael Woodford
Michael Woodford worked for Olympus for 30 years, initially for the UK subsidiary, Olympus KeyMed, as a Surgical Salesman, progressing to Sales Manager and Sales Director before being appointed its Managing Director in 1990 at the age of 29. Following a period of dramatic growth for the UK company,...
