Cathy O’Dowd is a South African adventurer, author, and motivational speaker who is best known for being the first ever woman to reach to top of both the south and north sides of Mount Everest. O’Dowd grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and began climbing while studying to earn her master’s in media studies at Rhodes University. Her first mountain... read full bio
Alan O’Neill is a businessman who is known for working and speaking as The Change Agent. He is also currently Managing Director for Kara.ie where he worked with clients from business to business and business to client who want to refresh their strategy and culture to reach higher business goals. Through his work as the speaker known as The Change... read full bio
Peter Neumann has been the founder and director of International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and the Professor of Security studies at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Neumann was born in Germany and he began his career working as a radio journalist. He has previously earned his MA in Political Science from the Free University... read full bio
Chanelle McCoy is an Irish entrepreneur and is best known for being co-founder of Chanelle Medical, which is part of the company Chanelle Pharmaceutical Group which is based out of Galway. She is also known for being a dragon on the television series “Dragon’s Den” and is married to Sir AP McCoy. Through her work with Chanelle Medical, her company... read full bio
Catherine Barba is a French entrepreneur and businesswoman who specializes in digital retail. She is also known for her own company, Catherine Barba Group, where she works as a consultant for retailing startups that want to enter the digital market. Barba was born in Rueil-Malmaison, France, and she has studied business at the Ecole superieure de commerce de Paris. Barba... read full bio
Paul Sloane is an interactive lateral thinker and innovation guru and expert on leadership. Sloane is a keynote speaker and author who has published nearly 20 books on lateral leadership and problem-solving. Sloane has also published several books on lateral puzzles which has led him to be named the ‘King of Lateral Thinking Puzzles.’ As a keynote speaker, Sloane talks... read full bio
Leon Kaulaho Siu is best known for being the Foreign Minister for the Hawaiian Kingdom. After the United States admitted to wrongfully taking the Hawaiian Islands, Siu was a big part of setting out to reclaim their island as their own. Siu has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Hawaii for several decades and has been heavily involved... read full bio
Alex Sion is a businessman who has also had experience in technology, marketing, and financial firms. Sion has earned his BA in Political Science from Yale University before beginning his career working as an investment banking analyst at Prudential Securities. Over the course of his career thus far, Sion has gone on to be director of Sapient Corporation, has been... read full bio
Connor O’Leary is a professional cyclist, cancer survivor, and the youngest winner of CBS’s The Amazing Race game show. Through his struggles and triumphs, O’Leary has learned a lot. Now, he shares his insight into overcoming adversity through speaking engagements and his collective, The O’Leary Theory. His projects and speeches are about pushing limits, getting things done, finding a passion,... read full bio
Hermann Simon is an author, management thinker, and has been a chairman of Simon-Kucher and Partners, which is a strategy and marketing consultancy. Simon was born in Hasborn, Germany, and he began his career serving in the German Air Force where he was a fighter bomber squadron 33, and reserve officer. After serving for two years, Simon went on to... read full bio
Mathew Seneviratne is the former Federal Agent in the Australian Federal Police and has also been co-founder and Head of Risk and Compliance for the company Revello. Throughout her career, Seneviratne has been an expert on topics which include counter terrorism, organized crime, smuggling, human trafficking, child protection and cybercrime. Throughout his career, he has gone through several life-threatening situations... read full bio
Tim Sebastian is a British television journalist and novelist who is best known for being the moderator for ‘Conflict Zone’ as well as ‘The New Arab Debates.’ He has also previously been the host for ‘The Doha Debates’ and a presenter for ‘HARDtalk.’ Sebastian has previously earned his BA in Modern Languages from New College, Oxford University, and also earned... read full bio
Ian Scott is a business strategist and authority on leadership, management of strategy, change and knowledge. Over the course of his career, Scott has worked in both the private and public sectors and has been a senior figure for the World Bank for numerous years. Through his time as an adviser, Scott has worked with chief executives, senior management teams,... read full bio
Otto Scharmer is a German specialist on innovation and corporate change who has also been the senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also been co-founder of the Prescencing Institute. Scharmer studied economics at Witten/Herdecke University before going on to earn his Ph.D. as well. Scharmer is also an author who has authored... read full bio
Thomas John Sargent is an American economist who is the W.R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. Through his work in economics, Sargent is a specialist in marcoeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics. Sargent was born in Pasadena, California, and he earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkley, before earning his Ph.D. from... read full bio
Sandro Salsano is an Italian entrepreneur, businessman and investor who has been the chairman of Salsano Family Office as well as the president of Salsano Group. Salsano was born in Lecco, Italy, and he earned degree from Bocconi University before going on to earn his MBA from the University of San Diego, California. He has also taken courses at Harvard... read full bio
Abby Phillip is an American journalist who is best known for her work as a political correspondent and weekend anchor for the outlet, CNN. Phillip was born in Virginia and while growing up, she spent some time also living in Trinidad and Tobago, where her parents are from. She later went on earn her B.A. in government from Harvard University... read full bio
Janjaap Ruijssenaars is an architect and inventor who is known for his innovative projects which include gravity energy, the floating bed, the landscape house and the square house. Ruijssenaars has studied at the Technical University Delft, the University Barcelona, and at the Western State College of Colorado. After finishing his schooling, Ruijssenaars began working with Universe Architecture Ltd before going... read full bio
Michael Rose is a retired British Army general who has a Special Air Service Regiment commanding officer as well as a Commander UNPROFOR Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars. Rose was born in British India and studied at Cheltenham college. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford and Sorbonne. After earning his B.A., Rose joined the Regular Army Coldstream Guards as second lieutenant before... read full bio
Steve Ridgway is a businessman who has been the former CEO of Virgin Atlantic. Ridgway working as the CEO for Virgin for nearly 10 years and during his tenure he helped the company grow from having two 747s to have a 40 long haul aircraft where they would fly over 6 million passengers a year. He also helped the company... read full bio
