Gordon Hewitt
Gordon Hewitt is Professor of Business Administration, and formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Business and Corporate Strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. His interests cover the fields of global competition, corporate strategy and innovation, and the value added of executive leadership. His work over...
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,...
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...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 21 years as a risk taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical and (mostly) practical problems with probability. Taleb is the author of a multivolume essay, the Incerto (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game) covering broad...
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...
David Reid
Sir David Reid is Chairman of Intertek Group plc, a global quality and safety services group that is listed on the London Stock Exchange in the FTSE 100, Support Services sector and has a network of over 35,000 employees in 100 countries. Intertek is the leading quality solutions provider...
Jean Claude Larreche
Jean-Claude Larreche is Professor of Marketing at INSEAD and holder of the Alfred H. Heineken Chair. His latest book The Momentum Effect: How to Ignite Exceptional Growth has been published in in May 2008 by Wharton School Publishing. In addition to his MBA from INSEAD, Jean-Claude received an MSc...
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...
Fredrik Haren
Fredrik Haren is The Creativity Explorer, a global keynote speaker on Business Creativity, Innovation and Change. He has delivered over 2,000 presentations, lectures and workshops in over 75 countries on 6 continents and has inspired over a million people from the stage to become more creative and to look...
Notker Wolf
Dr. Notker Wolf is the director of the Benedictine Order, a global organisation with over 1,000 monasteries and 25,000 employees worldwide. For the “CEO” of the Benedictines, the maxim “ora et labora” is St. Benedict’s top priority – that is why he calls for more personal responsibility from each...
