Sonja Piontek
Sonja is a visionary, unconventional and highly inspiring executive with years of international experience in branding, marketing and strategy. She is passionate about building brands, creating unforgettable experiences and growing businesses. Sonja has vast experience in Asia as well as working and dealing with HNWI (high net worth individuals)....
Pellegrino Riccardi
For the past 30 years, Pellegrino Riccardi has travelled the globe helping people interact more effectively with one another, especially those who work in a multi-cultural environment. Pellegrino was born in the UK in an Italian family, and has lived in Norway for the past 21 years. His multicultural...
Josephine Fairley
In 1991, Jo Fairley co-founded the pioneering organic chocolate company Green & Black’s (with her husband Craig Sams), which has now gone on to be “bigger than Marmite” (in sales terms) and “cooler than Prada” (according to the four most recent Coolbrands surveys. In 2005, the brand was sold...
Robin Chase
Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur, internet start-up trailblazer and keynote speaker. A decade before Airbnb and Uber, Chase helped kickstart the ‘collaborative economy’ by co-founding Zipcar, which became the world’s largest carsharing service. The big idea was to enable convenient access to a valuable good (in this case,...
Lucian Tarnowski
Lucian Tarnowski is Founder and CEO of BraveNew.com, the intelligent knowledge sharing platform that enables collaborative learning by creating engaging online spaces for professional communities, with the view that communities help break down the knowledge silos across organisations. Tarnowski has been honoured as a Young Global Leader by the...
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...
Mark Britt
Mr. Britt is an experienced leader of technology, content and marketing led businesses. Prior to founding iflix, Mr. Britt served as CEO of Nine Entertainment Co’s digital arm Mi9, where he was responsible for the company’s SVOD investments and portfolio of start-up ventures. Mr. Britt was formerly also, General...
Ness Knight
Ness Knight is a record-breaking explorer and endurance adventurer who became the first female in history to swim the Thames River in 2013. Ness has traversed some of the most diverse terrain in all corners of the planet, overcoming huge obstacles and extreme conditions in remote environments. Ness’ career...
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...
Martha Lane Fox
Baroness Lane-Fox co-founded Lastminute.com, where she and her business partner, Brent Hoberman, came to epitomise the new breed of internet entrepreneurs in London. In November 2003 Martha stood down as Managing Director of Lastminute.com, remaining a non-executive director of the company. She is currently a non-executive director at Marks...