Marv Albert, who has more than 50 years of broadcasting experience and is regarded as one of the best sports commentators of his time, has called six NHL Stanley Cup Finals, twelve NBA Finals and eight Super Bowls. After more than ten years as the primary voice of the NBA on TNT, Albert just announced his retirement from Turner Sports. He... read full bio
The Las Vegas Raiders' Maxx Crosby is a defensive end who has twice made the Pro Bowl. Maxx was born and raised in Texas before spending his collegiate years playing football for Eastern Michigan. He played there for three seasons before declaring for the NFL Draft, when the Raiders selected him in the fourth round (106th overall), making it a successful... read full bio
Ben Sasse became a professor and the 13th president of the 170-year-old University of Florida. Ben is devoted to leading Gator Nation through this period of fast change in the nature of labor, technology and higher education. He is a husband, father, historian, Uber driver and football enthusiast. Ben has worked quickly to develop new leadership, build a UF-wide strategic planning project and base UF's... read full bio
The wife of Vice President Mike Pence, Karen Pence, is a mother, an educator and a celebrated watercolorist. Mrs. Pence strives to raise awareness of art therapy and the sacrifices made by armed service men and their families in her role as the Second Lady of the United States. Prior to being elected First Lady of Indiana, Mrs. Pence spent 25 years... read full bio
Rem Koolhaas is regarded as one of the most brilliant, adventurous and imaginative architects in the world. He is one of the most prominent architects in the world and was awarded the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000. Rem didn't start out as an architect by creating a physical structure, but rather by authoring a book. His book Delirious New York is... read full bio
Matthew Hussey is a New York Times bestselling author of Get The Guy, podcaster, confidence coach, relationship columnist for Cosmopolitan magazine and resident love expert on The Today Show. As the leading dating authority and confidence coach for women, Matthew has helped millions get the life of their dreams through his sold-out live seminars, and step-by-step online coaching and training... read full bio
At the age of 18, Carl Leighton-Pope began his professional life by working at the Marquee Club in Soho, London, with artists like Rod Stewart, The Who and Eric Clapton. The start of a lengthy career in the music industry that lasted more than 55 years was those early days as a Mod riding a scooter and shopping on Carnaby Street. In... read full bio
The most frequent holder of world records for the UK is Sebastian Coe, who is also regarded as the finest runner to ever represent his nation. Coe, a London native, started his athletic career with the Hallamshire Harriers team in Sheffield when he was 12 years old. His father served as the team's running coach. At the European Indoor Championship, when... read full bio
Joanna Lumley is an engaging speaker, a captivating host of awards shows and a successful presenter thanks to her quirky flare and intriguing personality. Joanna has starred in over 25 major motion pictures and many television shows for more over 40 years, including Shirley Valentine, On Her Majesty's Service, The Wolf of Wall Street and of course Absolutely Fabulous. She has received a... read full bio
Tiff Needell has been a staple at business events ever since Top Gear beaming his face into over five million households in the mid-1990s. Tiff engages with audiences of all sizes, whether she's speaking at a private event at the Ritz or entertaining hundreds of people at the British Grand Prix. Tiff uses his more than thirty years of racing expertise... read full bio
John is a well-known comedian and actor from Liverpool who also does charitable work. He was employed as a sales representative before quitting to pursue comedy full-time. In just three years, he was entertaining packed houses. With the assistance of Greg Whyte, a LJMU professor of applied sport and exercise science, John cycled, rowed, and ran from Paris to London... read full bio
In addition to eyeglasses, shoes, purses, accessories and weddings, his successful business just debuted a new activewear collection called "Roland Mouret Body." Coming from humble origins, the designer has experienced a variety of challenges in business, including nearly going bankrupt and reclaiming ownership of his own name after losing it. In addition to speaking out against single-use plastic, Roland, a supporter of... read full bio
Co-founder of Metallica, one of the largest rock bands in the world, is Lars Ulrich. Since the band's founding in 1981, he and James Hetfield have shared a vision for the group that has been crucial to Metallica's rise to prominence as one of the most lasting and fiercely independent acts in music history. Through their charitable endeavors through the All... read full bio
As the CEO and founder of The Lion Academy, Dion Jensen is a worldwide influencer who embodies the principles of trauma, transition and evolution. After traveling this path as a soldier, police officer and close protection operator, he founded Success For Soldiers, a global initiative to combat PTSD and suicide. After helping individuals overcome trauma, Dion was recruited to work as the Regional... read full bio
American electrical engineer Robert Kahn collaborated with Vinton Cerf to design the Internet as one of its primary architects. The A.M. Turing Award, the greatest accolade in computer science, was given to Kahn and Cerf for their groundbreaking work on internetworking, which included creating and implementing TCP/IP, the foundational communications protocol of the Internet, as well as for their outstanding... read full bio
Up until 2000, Andrei Kozyrev served as both the Russian Federation's foreign minister and a member of the Duma, the country's legislature. He agreed to join the board of directors of ICN Pharmaceuticals, a US company, and has since joined the boards of several Russian and foreign businesses. At the Moscow Institute of International Relations, he teaches. Andrei holds a PHD... read full bio
Among the greatest creators of the modern era is Ray Kurzweil. He was the primary developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system, the first print-to-speech reading device for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer and the first CCD flat-bed scanner. Along with designing the first commercially available large-vocabulary speech recognition system, he also built the first music synthesizer that... read full bio
Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, is a British scientist who specializes in brain physiology. She studies how the brain creates awareness, the effects of modern technologies on the mind and innovative treatments for neurodegenerative illnesses like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. After completing her DPhil in the Department of Pharmacology at Oxford University, Baroness Greenfield went on to work as a researcher at NYU Medical... read full bio
Poet and professor of German literature Gertrud Höhler has won numerous honors. She has become Germany's most well-known management expert during the past several years. Since 1987, Gertrud has served as an independent businesswoman, consultant to the top fifty German-speaking corporations, and advisor to many of the elite, including the head of Deutsche Bank. She joined the GrandMet board in the... read full bio
Born in Tenerife, Taz is an actor and writer whose parents are from Yorkshire and Sierra Leone. He is currently appearing in the popular Netflix series ONE PIECE as Sanji. Regarding his piece WARHEADS, which explores PTSD in young soldiers, Taz received an Olivier nomination. Right now, he's working on making it a feature. In the recent London Film Festival debut,... read full bio
