Pelle Tornberg
Pelle Tornberg is an innovative and dynamic CEO, who has founded two profitable international media businesses with a current combined market capitalisation of US$ 4.6 billion. These include; Metro International,the world’s largest international newspaper; Modern Times Group, Northern Europe’s (including Russia) largest broadcaster; SDI, which he founded and grew...
Tim Peake
Tim Peake is an astronaut and a former Space Station crew member. His Principia mission was an eventful and busy six months in space. In the first month after his launch Peake conducted a spacewalk to repair the Station’s power supply. Other highlights of his mission saw him drive...
Hugh Herr
Hugh directs the Biomechatronics group at The MIT Media Lab. His research program seeks to advance technologies that promise to accelerate the merging of body and machine, including device architectures that resemble the body’s musculoskeletal design, actuator technologies that behave like muscle, and control methodologies that exploit principles of...
Stuart Rose
Lord Rose is the former Chief Executive and Chairman of the leading British retailer Marks & Spencer. Lord Rose is recognised as one of the leading lights in British retail. He is now Chairman of the internet grocery retailer Ocado along with a number of other non-executive roles. Beginning...
Julie Meyer
A respected expert in investment in digital, high-growth and early stage businesses, Meyer has driven many important initiatives for creating wealth and growth in the European economy, and backed some of the most explosive growth companies of this era. A business adviser, networking expert, broadcaster and business commentator, she...
ALEXANDRA PANAYOTOU
Alex has achieved things that most people deem extraordinary. She has been dealt obstacles many consider insurmountable, yet has overcome these with strength, optimism, persistence and determination. She has a story people consider worthy of sharing. Alex is someone others train to become. Alex is an example of what...
Francois Pienaar
Francois Pienaar is a former South African rugby player, playing for the Springboks in South Africa, followed by a career with the Saracens in England. Whilst playing for South Africa, he captained the side in his first match and in every one of his 29 appearances, culminating in the...
Chris Parry
Chris Parry has an international reputation for his penetrating analysis and stimulating articulation of a wide range of geopolitical, strategic and security themes. He is one of the UK’s top strategic thinkers and forecasters, whose assessments about the future have consistently proved extremely accurate and are considered amongst the...
Ranulph Fiennes
In 1984 the Guinness Book of Records described Sir Ranulph Fiennes as the “World’s Greatest Living Explorer”. His expeditions around the world include Transglobe (the world’s first surface journey around the world’s polar axis) 1979-82; North Polar Unsupported Expedition (furthest north unsuppported record) 1986; Anglo-Soviet North Pole Expedition 1990/91;...
