Entrepreneur, Designer, Inventor
Entrepreneur, designer and inventor, Karen Welman is passionate about the power of ideas, and uses design as a means to answer genuine human needs and desires.
In 2004, Karen developed and launched the brand 37 degrees, a clothing line for babies that uses NASA-developed material to regulate body temperature. This ...
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all innovations, ideas, brand creations
Engineer, startup-addict, angel investor (of the humble kind)
An engineer, angel investor with Angellab and advisor to seed funds. She set up Incito Ventures for FinanceSE, an angel network for women-led tech start ups, co-founded Protos Capital, a £30m startup VC fund looking to spin out corporate tech assets and was on the Advisory Board of the PoCKet ...
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all things entrepreneurial in mobile & internet, why Europe is the land of opportunities for lean ( & mean) startups
Chairman of Williams F1
Before joining Williams F1 in 2006, he worked on several continents in finance, industry and the law.
After graduating from Eton and Cambridge University, where he was a scholar, Adam began his career with Barclays investment bank, BZW.
Having spent some time in Japan before university, his interest in the ...
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People with ideas about sport and how it can promote social and economic as well as commercial development.
Head of Strategy and Operations, Google Africa
Eugenie Rives is currently Strategy and Operations Manager for Google in Africa. She previously worked in the Silicon Valley start-up sector as well as for Alcatel in Mexico and Sagem in France. Eugenie has also participated to innovative initiatives leveraging the Internet to support communities: the world summit of information ...
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Innovative technologies for Emerging markets, Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharian Africa
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, VC
Lord Stevenson of Coddenham CBE spent the first 20 years post university as a serial entrepreneur; then for 15 years chaired large companies (Pearson plc, GPA plc and HBOS plc); now reverted to entrepreneurial roots mainly through direct investing and a VC company, Loudwater Investment Partners. He also set up ...
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Bright young entrepreneurs with great ideas.
Co-founder of Dressipi, formerly founded Texperts
Sarah is a co-founder of Dressipi, a new shopping and styling service that gives everyone the know-how to look good at all times. Dressipi makes shopping simpler and looking good effortless.
Sarah works on all things that do not involve styling or writing code! She has a slight obsession with ...
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Digital, mobile or fashion entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur, Investor, Teacher
Doug is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years' experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures, both in the US and in the UK. Having appeared in the first and second series of Dragons' Den, Doug is the Founder of School for Startups,and a non-executive director ...
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entrepreneurship,technology, media, cool ideas
Senior Vice President Social Responsibility, MTV International, Executive Director, Staying Alive Foundation
Georgia is the Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility for MTV International, where she is responsible for developing and implementing Public Affairs initiatives across MTV's broad range of channels. Georgia was instrumental in establishing the Staying Alive Foundation in 2004, and was appointed Executive Director in October 2007. The ...
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MBA students, entrepreneurs, people starting at the bottom of the ladder, people with ideas, interesting people, innovators...
Founder of the Maharishi Institute, Co-founder of the Branson School of Entrepreneurship
Dr Taddy Blecher is the founder of the Maharishi Institute in Johannesburg, is CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association, and a pioneer of the ‘free tertiary education movement’ in South Africa. He co-founded the Branson School of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson and has raised over R400 million ...
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Social entrepreneurship;
Education;
University-level/ Tertiary-Education;
Youth Development;
Education for girls;
Poverty alleviation;
Entrepreneurship;
Consciousness-development and Consciousness-Based Education including meditation;
Africa;
Green technologies;
Rural technologies;
Climate change and environmental issues related to poverty
Living happily on $2 per day
Founding Partner and COO, Tyndaris LLP
Tarek Mouganie, a Ghanaian Lebanese national, is a founding member and the COO of Tyndaris, a progressive financial family based in London. Tarek is also the co-founder of Cisse, a company that exports organic ingredients from sub-Saharran Africa.
Tarek started his career as a post-doctorate researcher at the University of ...
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Africa. Food. Triathlon. Investment Funds.
Founder of Stargate Capital and Fund Manager, Chartered Accountant, Banker, Entrepreneur and Business Angel
An active business angel, Gita has held senior positions at NatWest, Arthur Andersen and Gulf Oil before co-founding StarGate. She created the Trapezia funds to invest in women focused businesses and is a fund manager of the Trapezia funds. Gita was identified among the most influential Asians in the 2005 ...
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Boardrooms and governance, entrepreneurship, business issues, cultural understanding, women's markets, global trends,
mentoring, new and emerging markets, business angels, scaleble businesses
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Diplomat, Author, Co-Founder Xing, Founder WeForest
Aspiring to be all we can be is rarely enough on its own. Supplement ambition and aspiration with a solid network and deep insights. This recipe works to assist you to be all you can be.
Bill specializes in listening with a view to opening up channels for people to ...
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CoderDojo, Startup, Philanthropy
I am a charity auctioneer based in New York.
CK Swett, a California native and Duke University graduate, began his career in the art auction world at Christie's in 2006. He joined Phillips de Pury & Company in June 2011, where, amongst many pursuits, he now serves as an auctioneer.
He conducted his first charity auction last fall, and ...
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Charity Auctioneering and the art auction world
Managing Director, Consumer Markets at Callcredit Information Group & Chairman at African Gifted Foundation
Tom is Managing Director Consumer Markets at Callcredit Information Group. He is also Founder and Chairman of the African Gifted Foundation, an African Academy for gifted young people. Tom is Chairman of Hammersmith Academy, due to open in 2011 and set to be one of the UK’s most innovative ...
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technology entrepreneurs; education