Benj Pasek is an award-winning composer who is best known for his work on films such as “La La Land,” “The Greatest Showman,” and for the Broadway musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” which won him a Tony for Best Original Score and Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. Pasek was an Oscar for Best Original Song for “City of Stars,” from... read full bio
Blake Bortles is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. Bortles was born in Altamonte Springs, Florida, and he began his career playing both football and baseball in high school. After leaving high school, Bortles held a Seminole County record of 5,576 career passing yards and 53 touchdowns. He was also considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com... read full bio
Brandon Carr is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent in the NBA. Carr was born in Flint, Michigan, and he began his career playing football in high school where he was named to the All-conference defensive team. He went on to play college football at Grand Valley State where he helped the school win two NCAA... read full bio
Bronson Arroyo is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in the MLB for several years. Arroyo was born in Key West, Florida, and he began his career playing baseball in high school where he was named to the Class 4A all-state first team before going on to sign a letter of intent to play college baseball at South... read full bio
Brad Park is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played as defenseman. Park was born in Toronto, Ontario, and he began his career playing for the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament playing with the Scarboro Lions as well as the Toronto Westclairs and Toronto Marlboros. From there, Park went on to be drafted by the New York Rangers... read full bio
Ben Bruce is an English musician, singer, actor, and clothes designer who is best known for being the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Asking Alexandria. Bruce was born in Wandsworth, London, England, and when he was six years old, he moved with his family to Dubai before later moving back to England at 17 years old.... read full bio
Bloom Twins are a Ukrainian-born English pop music duo that consists of twin sisters Anna and Sonia Kuprienko. The Bloom Twins grew up in Brovary, Ukraine, and began singing and playing instruments when they were around five years old. Later in life, the duo moved to London, where they began to pursue their musical careers and shortly after, they uploaded... read full bio
Blitz Bazawule, also known as Blitz the Ambassador, is a Ghanaian hip-hop rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and visual artist that is based out of Brooklyn, New York. Bazawule was born in Accra, Ghana, and he studied at Achimota School. While studying in school, Bazawule began earning several awards for his work in visual arts, but later in life, found... read full bio
Bruno Giussani is the European Director of TED conferences, an idea curator, writer, and expert on technological innovation. Through his work with TED, Giussani works on global and local events in Europe, multilingual videos, television initiatives, encouraging involvement with members, and more. He is also known for curating and hosting the annual Forum des 100. Apart from his work with... read full bio
Brittany Kaiser is co-founder of Own Your Data Foundation, the #OwnYourData campaign and the Digital Asset Trader Association. Kaiser has previously earned her MA in International Relations from The University of Edinburgh, her LLM in Human Rights from Birkbeck College, University of London, and her Ph.D. in International Law and Diplomacy from Middlesex University. Kaiser began her career working as... read full bio
Bruce Hoffman is a political analyst who is an expert on terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counter-insurgency. Hoffman has earned his B.A. from Connecticut College before going on to earn his D.Phil and B.Phil from Oxford University. After finishing his degrees, Hoffman went on to begin working for the RAND Corporation before leaving to be the senior lecturer in international... read full bio
Brandon Leake is an award-winning spoken word poet, motivational speaker, and artistic educator who has recently gained fame after winning the 15th season of the competition series, “America’s Got Talent,” and for being the first spoken word poet to compete. Through this accomplishment, Leake has also earned the Golden Buzzer award in the first round which led him immediately to... read full bio
Brenda Laurel is a video game designer, teacher, writer, consultant and researcher who is known for being an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games. Laurel was born in Columbus, Ohio, and she has earned her B.A. from DePauw University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State University. She began his career working for CyberVision where she was... read full bio
Bruno Lanvin is the Executive Director for Global Indices at INSEAD where he was also previously the Executive Director of their eLab. Lanvin was born in Valenciennes, France, and is fluent in French, English, and Spanish, and also speaks some Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese. Lanvin has previously worked with the United Nations where he worked with UNCTARD, UN ICT... read full bio
Bertalan Mesko is The Medical Futurist and is the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute, where he helps to analyze how technologies in science can help with reality in medicine as well as healthcare. Mesko is also an author and speaker and he has given talks for numerous organizations and governments which include universities such as Harvard, Stanford and Yale.... read full bio
Bertrand Piccard is a Swiss psychiatrist and aviator who is known for flying balloons. He has been known for being the first to complete a balloon flight around the world which was non-stop alongside Brian Jones. The balloon that the duo flew was called the Breitling Orbiter 3 and he has since gone on to be an initiator, chairman, and... read full bio
Barry Nalebuff is an American author, academic, and entrepreneur who is the Milton Steinbach Professor of Management at Yale School of Management. Nalebuff specializes in business strategy and game theory and has published several books on these topics some of which include ‘Thinking Strategically,’ ‘The Art of Strategy,’ ‘Mission in a Bottle,’ ‘Why Not How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to... read full bio
Bernard Hogan-Howe is an English former police officer who has also previously been head of London’s Metropolitan Police as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Hogan-Howe was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and he began his career working as a lab assistant at the National Health Service. He then moved to police work where he began working... read full bio
Brenda Romero is an American video game designer and developer who is best known for her work on the Wizardry series. Romero was born in Ogdensburg, New York, and is the wife of John Romero, who also works on video games. Romero has previously earned her degree from Clarkson University and she began her career working as a video game... read full bio
Brent Weinbach is an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, and pianist who is based out of Los Angeles, California. He is known for his deadpan delivery and has graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to pursuing a career in comedy, Weinbach worked as a professional jazz pianist as well as a substitute teacher. After pursuing a career in... read full bio
