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 ...Read More

Nigel Kershaw OBE is Chief Executive of Big Issue Invest and Group Chairman of The Big Issue Company.

Big Issue Invest, part of The Big Issue Group, is the UK’s leading innovative provider of finance to social enterprises that are providing ground-breaking business solutions that seek to dismantle poverty ...Read More

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 ...Read More

Gemma Godfrey is the Chairman of the Investment Committee and Head of Research at Credo Capital Plc. Formerly a Fund Manager for Julius Baer, her team took the fund from a laggard to top decile of performance. She was responsible for Latin American Investments at GAM and has spent time ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

Michael co-founded Firebox.com (multi-channel retailer of gadgets, games and gifts) in 1998 with Tom Boardman. Had a lot of fun scouring the world looking for new products and ideas. Invented the Shot Glass Chess Set along the way (bizarre fusion of chess and alcohol that was a surprise hit ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

Sir Paul has wide international experience in the commercial, public, political and not-for-profit sectors.
He is the Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc and a Director of ENRC plc, of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, of Standard Bank Group Ltd of Johannesburg, of Tempur-Pedic International Inc of Kentucky and ...Read More

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 ...Read More

Zarine is the founder of JustGiving, the online fundraising website. The site launched in 2001, followed two years later by its US offshoot FirstGiving.

Zarine started her professional life at law firm Linklaters. She moved into investment banking in 1984 to join Credit Suisse First Boston’s Asia Pacific team ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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A surgeon, with extensive experience in business strategy and transactions, focussed towards life sciences, healthcare, medical technology and pharmaceuticals.

I have a specific interest in venture capital and start up businesses, with experience of managing several businesses of my own and in establishing, stabilising and growing start up ventures funded ...Read More

Iain has some 20 years experience in corporate finance and investment, gained with Lazard Brothers, Robert Fleming and Fleming Family & Partners. More recently he has been involved as a director and shareholder of a range of emerging and established businesses. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and was called ...Read More

Ann Cotton is the Founder and Executive Director of Camfed International. Camfed (Campaign for Female Education) was established to secure the education of girls and economic empowerment of young women in Africa as fundamental strategies for rural regeneration. In seventeen years, Camfed has grown to become a global leader in ...Read More

Rupert Turnbull is the publisher of Wired Magazine, a Conde Nast publication. He was educated at the University of Bristol and Wellington College. Read More