Philippe Vigoureux
Philippe Vigoureux has spent much of his career in the British group Petroleum (BP) in various sectors and at various positions. Philippe worked in France, the United Kingdom and China. In 1999 Philip returned to Europe as an independent consultant and Transition Manager. Since 1996 Philip has extensive experience...
Megat Zaharuddin
Mr. Megat Zaharuddin served as the Regional Chief Executive Officer/Regional Business Managing Director of Shell Exploration & Production International (Netherlands) covering countries of North Africa, Middle East, South/Central Asia and Russia from 1999 to 2003. He built an outstanding career in the oil and gas industry for 31 years...
Armen Papazian
Dr. Armen Papazian is the 1st winner of the Alpha Centauri Prize, and the founding chairman and CEO of Keipr, a boutique financial modelling and consulting firm, and the founding CEO of the International Space Development HUB. After earning his PhD in financial economics at the University of Cambridge,...
Rene Jaeggi
Rene Jaeggi is a renowned international CEO, having turned around a failing Adidas and saved the German football team FC Kaiserslautern from bankruptcy. Rene began his career in FMCG marketing working for R.J Reynolds and Duracell. In 1986 he became Vice-President of Marketing for Adidas. In 1987 he became...
Bikram Singh
General Singh was Chief of the Indian Army until 2014. During his eventful and distinguished military career of over 42 years, he held a number of key positions in India and overseas. Before taking over as Chief of Army Staff, General Singh was Chief of Eastern Command and before...
Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina is the real life hero of the acclaimed film Hotel Rwanda and the President and Founder of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation. As portrayed by actor Don Cheadle in the film, Rusesabagina saved the lives of more than 1,200 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Rusesabagina served...
Haiyan Wang
Haiyan Wang is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. She is concurrently also the Managing Partner of China India Institute, a Washington, DC based research and consulting organisation with a focus on creating winning global strategies that leverage the transformational rise of China and India. She is a...
Kevin Gaskell
Kevin Gaskell has led three of the world’s iconic brands to new levels of success and managed successful turnarounds of failing international companies. At the age of 32 he was appointed Managing Director of Porsche Cars (GB). Inheriting a business, which was close to, bankruptcy Kevin built a world...
Charlie McCreevy
Charlie McCreevy was the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services from 2004–10. He played a crucial role in overseeing the European financial system, regulations governing the banking system and the development of a single market in financial services throughout the EU. He has a reputation as an experienced,...
Karan Bilimoria
Karan Bilimoria (Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea) is the founder of Cobra Beer. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Karan Bilimoria developed a less gassy, premium lager brewed to perfectly appeal to both ale drinkers and lager drinkers alike and to complement food. Little more than fifteen years later, Cobra...
