MICHAEL LESNER
Michael Lesner is the world’s foremost authority on medical innovation. But, he is not a doctor. Not a scientist. Not a researcher. No. He is something else entirely. Michael Lesner is a great translator to millions upon millions of people in search of better health for themselves and for...
Pol Hauspie
Pol Hauspie began his career in accounting. But in December 1987, he and high flying sales manager Jo Lernout decide to start a totally new venture and Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) is born. Both believe in speech and language technologies as the future of computing. The problem is: they...
Philip Hesketh
Philip Hesketh is a multiple award winning professional speaker on the psychology of persuasion and influence. He helps people improve their relationships, increase their sales and hold higher prices. Guaranteed. Philip’s two books on persuasion and influence; ‘How to Persuade and Influence People’ and ‘Persuade’ are both Amazon number...
Jochen Zeitz
Jochen Zeitz is Director of Kering and Chairman of the Kering board’s sustainable development committee. When appointed Chairman and CEO of PUMA in 1993 at the age of 30, he was the youngest Chairman in German history to head a public company. Zeitz attended the European Business School rather...
Nick Bostrom
One of the most important thinkers of our time, Nick Bostrom changes the way we view the big picture—how advances in artificial intelligence and other technologies will reshape the human world, and how present actions affect the future. Nick Bostrom is Professor at Oxford University, where he is the...
Dr. Raj Panjabi
Raj Panjabi was nine years old when civil war broke out in his native country of Liberia. His family fled, eventually resettling in High Point, North Carolina. As a medical student in 2005, he returned to Liberia. He was shocked to find a health care system in total devastation....
Oliver Burkeman
Burkeman is a journalist running a popular weekly column in The Guardian and online, and is a winner of the Foreign Press Association’s Young Journalist of the Year award. He is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking (2012), which explores the upsides...
Nenad Pacek
Nenad and his businesses currently advise global and regional directors of over 380 multinational corporations. He is founder and president of Global Success Advisors (global business and economic advisory) and co-founder and co-CEO of the CEEMEA Business Group corporate service (advisory for regional executives running Central Eastern Europe, Middle...
Julian Caldecott
Dr Julian Caldecott is a world renowned ecologist and conservationist. He has spent more than 20 years promoting biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability around the world. He has contributed to major conservation programmes in Indonesia (protected areas in Siberut, Flores and Central Sulawesi), Malaysia (the Maliau Basin Conservation Area...
Jimmy Choo
British shoemaker Jimmy Choo lent his name to the line of elegant women’s footwear that quickly developed a cult following in the 1990s, despite their exorbitant prices. But there are actually two designer-shoe companies that bear his name— his own custom atelier in London, and the wholesale business with...
