John Teeling
John Teeling is widely regarded as the father of the Irish whiskey renaissance. As a doctoral student at Harvard in 1970 he examined the collapse of Irish whiskey from having about 60% of world sales in 1850 and hundreds of distilleries, to becoming a monopoly in 1973 with less...
Michelle Mone
Michelle Mone (Baroness Mone of Mayfair) was founder of Ultimo Brands International, one of the UK’s leading lingerie brands for the last two decades. Michelle grew up in Glasgow when, at the age of fifteen, her father fell ill and was subsequently declared paraplegic and wheelchair bound for life....
Liz Earle
Liz Earle is known for her passion for beauty, natural health and wellbeing, as well as for campaigning on sustainable health and social issues. The bestselling author of over 30 books covering a wide variety of health, beauty and lifestyle issues, Liz has hosted numerous television programmes and is...
Arnaud Bonzom
Arnaud has been immersed for 10+ years in the startup ecosystem and conducting relevant research since 2013. As the Founder & Managing Director of Black Mangroves, he uses data, analytics, and insights to answer complex entrepreneurship-related questions and to advise Fortune 500 companies and Governments on their startup engagements....
Maurice Saatchi
Maurice Saatchi (Lord Saatchi) was Co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising and is now a Partner in M&C Saatchi. Under his stewardship Saatchi & Saatchi became the world’s biggest advertising agency. It became indelibly linked with the excesses of the 1980s boom and launched an audacious bid to take...
Tony Fernandes
Tony Fernandes, founder of Tune Group, is the Group CEO of Air Asia, Asia’s leading low fare, no frills airline, flying to destinations across the region. Known as the Richard Branson of Asian air travel, he turned the bankrupt carrier into the World’s Best Low-Cost Airline (Skytrax’s coveted award...
Alexander Blass
Alexander Blass is an internationally acclaimed American innovator. He has traveled to 60 countries and appeared in hundreds of media outlets. He is the grand prize winner of the Daily Record’s Top Innovator of the Year Award, which credited him with “revolutionizing charitable giving” for inventing person-to-person “crowd” fundraising...
Alan Sugar
After leaving school in Hackney aged 16, Alan Sugar (Lord Sugar) started selling car aerials and electric goods out of a van he bought for £50. In 1968, he founded Amstrad, and now, over 40 years later, he has an estimated worth of £730 million, and was ranked 85th...
Akanksha Hazari
Akanksha Hazari aspires to empower the underserved and help build a better India. She is m.Paani’s Founder and CEO. Akanksha is fortunate at different times in her life to have been a peace negotiator, sustainable energy consultant, professional athlete and non-profit leader. These adventures have taken her across the...
Alain Vandenborre
Alain Vandenborre is Executive Chairman & Founder of Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange Pte Ltd. SDiX launched the world first global commodity exchange in physically settled diamonds in May 2015 with brokers and trading hours covering London, Zurich, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore and Hong Kong. Mr. Vandenborre founded his first company...
