Alex Stephany is the Founder and CEO of Beam, the world’s first platform to crowdfund job training for homeless people…
Dr Ali Parsa is a British-Iranian healthcare entrepreneur and engineer. He’s the founder and CEO of Babylon, the revolutionary AI…
Andrew Douglass is the Co-Founder and CEO of innovision, a live & virtual event and experiential marketing agency. He has…
Anna Parisi is a marketing consultant whose experience spans branding, PR, marketing communications, sponsorship and corporate responsibility. From May 2011 to…
Anny Tubbs is the Co-Founder of First Move Productions, which makes documentaries about business ethics, ESG and innovation. She has…
Arash Tayebi is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Kara Technologies, a tech start-up based in Auckland, New Zealand. Arash has a…
Arzu is the founder of Headline Diversity, the first and only Diversity & Inclusion consultancy in Turkey. Headline Diversity supports…
Ashish Gadnis is the Co-Founder / CEO of BanQu, which was recently named to the TIME Magazine 2019 Innovations List. …
Brad Jones is the CEO of Wave Money. Brad is an experienced executive specializing in digital finance, mobile money and…
Brandon Burke is Co-Founder & CEO of LegWorks, a Buffalo-based for-profit social enterprise with the mission to enable amputees globally…
Bruno Mahfuz, was elected in 2018 as one of the 35 main innovators under 35 in Latin America by the…
As the founder of Akamae and the Co-creation Fashion Movement, Cara Boccieri lives with remote refugee communities in Mae Hong…
Celia Ouelette is the CEO of Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBI), a nonprofit which works with companies to champion…
Cemal Ezel is the Founder of Change Please CIC, Old Spike Roastery and Coal Rooms Restaurants. Change Please is a…
Chris Miller is the Global Activism Strategy Manager at Ben & Jerry’s, a unique position within the corporate world focused…
Darius Habamenshi is the Managing Director at Abahizi Rwanda, an East-African social entreprise that supplies luxurious handbags to global fashion…
Dave Linton is the Founding Director of Maldug (Making a Difference Luggage), a lifestyle brand raising awareness of the lives…
David Pérez is the Chief Financial Officer at Ruh Global IMPACT, a strategic communications and digital marketing firm enabling businesses…
Debra Ruh is an American business woman and advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities. She founded TecAccess, which…
Durreen Shahnaz is the founder and CEO of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX). As a pioneer in social impact, Shahnaz has…
Elmarié Potgieter is the Founder and Managing Director of RITE Education. She has extensive international experience in leading the development,…
Eric Kim is Co-Founder and CEO at Dot Inc. Since 2015, Dot has reinvented accessibility for the visually impaired with…
Evin Schwartz is the CEO and Founder of Belouga, a digital education platform providing teachers and students with the ability…
Federico Miatton is the Co-Founder and CTO of Fantine.io, where he is currently leading the development of a platform that…
Florian is Managing Partner of Bamboo Capital Partners, Founder of Ryan-Kay and Board Member of numerous organisations. He holds a…
Francesco Piazzesi grew up in Mexico passionate about building communities for families who do not have opportunities to access adequate…
Frida Polli, PhD, MBA is an award-winning Harvard and MIT trained neuroscientist turned entrepreneur. She is the CEO and co-founder…
Gaëlle Mogli is the Founder and CEO of ConnectAID, a pioneer social impact network which combines a humanitarian social media…
George Akilimali is a social entrepreneur and technology enthusiast. He is the founder and CEO of Smartcore, a social enterprise,…
Godspromise Anthony is a social entrepreneur passionate about education. He is the founder of iSkill Network, an ICT hub that…
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James Fellowes is the Co-Founder of The Bridge of Hope, a link between charities with highly employable clients and progressive…
James Mwangi is CEO and Group Managing Director at Equity Group Holdings – a financial services holding company based in…
Jerrica Kirkley is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Plume, an innovative company that provides gender-affirming hormone therapy via…
João Leal is Co-Founder and CEO of Árvore, the largest digital reading platform for basic education in Brazil. Graduated in…
Juliet Namujju is a female changemaker, entrepreneur, fashion designer, wastepreneur, environmentalist and innovator. She is also the founder of Kimuli…
K.Chandrasekhar (KC) is the Founder & CEO of Forus Health Pvt. Ltd, an organisation working on the mission of eradicating…
Dr Kamel Hothi OBE is the Non-Executive Director of TLC Lions, a group of ordinary people who are striving to…
Keely Cat-Wells is an Entrepreneur and Disability Activist dedicated to making social, systemic, and economic change. As the CEO and…
Khadija Jallouili is the CEO of HawKar . She’s a disabled person who has always struggled to be independent and who…
Kimberly Gire is the Founder of Global Women Leaders Strategic Philanthropy and the Chair of the Centre for Global Equality…
Kwame Ajamu was a teenager in Cleveland, Ohio, when he was sentenced to death in 1975 for the murder-robbery of…
Leila McKenzie-Delis is the CEO of DIAL Global, a worldwide movement of people from all cultures and walks of life…
Liz Powers is the Co-Founder and Chief Happiness Spreader at ArtLifting, a business that empowers artists impacted by homelessness and…
Lord (Michael) Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE is Chancellor of Regent’s University London, independent peer in the House of Lords and…
Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is considered one of…
Marie Johnson is the Managing Director of the Centre for Digital Business, an Australian global entrepreneurial thought leader and practitioner…
Mariéme Jamme is a Senegalese-born British businesswoman who works extensively across civil society, government and the private sector to promote…
Marisa Drew is the Chief Sustainability Officer for Credit Suisse and the Global Head of the Sustainability Strategy, Advisory &…
Mark Evans is the Managing Director of Marketing and Digital for Direct Line Group, leading brand transformation at one of…
Martine Cadet is VP Social Impact at pymetrics, a software company transforming the future of work. She leads pymetrics’ advocacy,…
Mauricio Meza is the Co-Founder and CEO of Komodo Openlab, makers of Tecla, an assistive device that enables access to…
Mehdi lives, breaths and dreams all things drones. He has been a drone pilot for the last two years and…
Melis Büyüksan is a Turkish female entrepreneur as the founder and CFO of Medlis Ramps, the first wheelchair ramps manufacturer…
Mike Brady is a forward-thinking business executive, entrepreneur and non-profit leader specializing in using the power of business to drive…
Mohamed is the CEO and Founder of Cure Bionics, a Tunisian-based Medtech startup that offers 3D-printed, muscle-controlled and customisable bionics…
Moky Makura was born in Nigeria, educated in England and has lived in London, Johannesburg and Lagos. She is the…
Nabeel Siddiqui is a civil engineer by profession working on eliminating the global housing problem through better use of technology…
Naziba Naila Wafa is the Co-Founder of Resurgence, a social enterprise that is revolutionising menstrual hygiene in low-income communities through…
Pam is a trailblazing entrepreneur dedicated to changing lives through coffee. “After spending part of her career in advertising and…
Peter Ackred is the Founder and CEO of Disability Sports Coach, a charity that provides award-winning sport and physical activity…
René Espinoza is the CEO at Lazarillo, a free app for the blind and visually impaired which guides users through…
Roberta Ventura left her twenty-year career in Investment Banking and Asset Management in 2016, to run the Social Enterprise she…
Robin is a serial tech entrepreneur and investor. He is CEO and Co-founder of Yoti, the digital identity app, with…
Robson Melo is passionate about education and is the Co-Founder of Estante Mágica, a social impact company that has turned…
Ryan Gersava is a millennial social entrepreneur, educator, and diversity and inclusion champion. He is the Founder and President of…
Samantha Payne is the Co-Founder of Open Bionics; an award-winning startup developing low-cost bionic hands that look and feel good,…
As the Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Program Director of RFK Human Rights’ Compass Investor Program, Sancia Dalley…
Shona is the Director and Founder of Shonaquip (Pty) Ltd. which was first established in 1992. She is also the…
Simba Mubvuma is a lawyer and access to justice entrepreneur from Zimbabwe. A self-taught coder, Simba is Co-Founder at LawBasket,…
Suzy led BT’s award-winning London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games sponsorship, including the BT Paralympic World Cup, media partnerships with…
Uche Kenneth Udekwe is a social entrepreneur, an SDG Advocate and Founder/CEO of Natal Cares. Natal Cares is a social…
Originally from the South of France, Zakia moved to Scotland when she was 21 years old. For several years, she…
