Paul Barnes is the Managing Director of accountancy firm and outsourced finance function, MAP, based in the UK.
His award wins include Xero Most Valuable Professional, Manchester Young Financial Professional and Xero’s Most Innovative Firm.
He is regularly found at Digital Agency events in the UK speaking about Agency Maturity, Growth and Financial Management.
Philippa Hann is an accomplished financial services expert and leader, recognised for her skill in navigating complex legal and regulatory challenges within the financial sector. With over twenty years’ experience as a specialist financial services lawyer, she built a strong reputation for her deep understanding of regulatory frameworks and her work addressing financial wrongdoing.
Now CEO of pioneering financial planning firm, Paradigm Norton Financial Planning, Philippa brings this legal and strategic expertise to bear in guiding the business toward meaningful, values-based growth. Throughout her career, she has championed greater transparency, accountability, and ethical standards across the industry.
Robin Waite is the Founder of Fearless Business, regular speaker at various business events and best-selling author of several bestselling books, including Online Business Startup, Marketing Machine and Take Your Shot.
He puts his decades of business experience to work coaching clients to reach their goals, create more time and increase their revenue.
Robin began his career as a systems analyst for a medical devices company, increasing their turnover by 50 per cent, from £1m to £1.5m.
From 2004 to 2016 he led a successful marketing agency serving over 250 clients. During this time he delivered workshops and masterclasses that helped over 1,000 business owners improve their marketing, product architecture, pricing, websites and digital advertising.
Behind the scenes, Robin is a husband and a father to two young girls, a surfer and Sunday warrior (road cyclist). He holds a Guinness World Record for participating in the largest ever speed networking event, has raised over £5k for a local Children’s charity in the last 4 years and has a goal to help remove 100kg of plastic from the World’s Oceans within the next 12 months via another charity he supports – 4Ocean.
Dr. Melisa Buie is a problem- solver, experimenter, lean leader and thought-challenger. She is the author of “Problem Solving for New Engineers”. Melisa has 30+ years of experience in industry, government and academia. She can often be found hunting opportunities for improvement in manufacturing or playing with data.
Keeley Hurley is a squirrel-herding, glass-half-full, perpetual learning, multipotentialite who has spent her career in the laser industry pivoting to whatever role needed her unique brand of spice at the time while always striving to leave the role, people, company, and industry better than she received it.
Noël Kreidler, a recovering perfectionist, is known for passionately supporting college students in finding and succeeding in careers they love. She is an Associate Director of Career Development at the Santa Clara University Career Center and has 30+ years of work experience in talent acquisition, human resources, and career services.
Nichola Reeder escaped the corporate world in 2012 with over 15 years’ experience in sales, marketing and communications, having worked on brands including Asda, Dolmio, Uncle Ben’s, Heineken & Fosters. Her passion is to help businesses tell their commercial story more effectively, whether through the media, live events or digitally. Within the event industry specifically, she has helped train armies of stand staff, delivered hours of engaging live content and helped event organisers understand how they add more value for exhibitors and visitors.
In a varied career path, Steve Reeder has experienced working within the public, private and charitable sectors, building a range of skills across operations, people management and stakeholder influence at a senior level, before co-founding 12th-Man Solutions.
His specialism is developing creative and workable solutions to help clients secure the outcomes they want. Within events, he is an expert at breaking down operational challenges to bring exhibitors’ vision to life in a way that engages with a visitor but keeps on the right side of Health & Safety regulations and practical restrictions. He’s widely known as ‘Steve’ll-Fix-It’, especially when on-site snags need smoothing out.
Ken’s unique background combines experience in executive development, management consulting, institution building and corporate banking. He has lived in six countries and worked with executives in the public and private sectors around the world. In his speaking engagements and workshops Ken focuses on building high performance organizations through visionary leadership, team effectiveness, creating a winning culture and improving cross-cultural understanding.
Previous to his more than twenty years in consulting and teaching, Ken was Director of Education and Training for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London; and prior to that he was Vice President at Citibank where over an 18-year career he was based in New York, London, Helsinki, Istanbul, Brussels, and the Channel Islands.
He has taught on Executive MBA programs at the Trulaske School of Business at University of Missouri, Aalto University (Helsinki), Koç University (Istanbul) Copenhagen Business School and lectured for Wharton Business School Abu Dhabi. His clients have included Ford Motor Company, Nokia, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Ecobank, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, American Tower, Newmont Goldcorp and Bosch Automotive to name just a few.
He is the co-author of Performance at the Limit, Business Lessons from Formula 1 Motor Racing published by Cambridge University Press (3rd edition 2016) which served as inspiration for an eight-part BBC World television series (2007) titled “Formula for Success.” Performance at the Limit is available in Japanese, Turkish and Chinese.
Ken is also the co-author with Allan Katcher of Managing Your Strengths (2002) which discusses Life Orientations® as a practical strength-based methodology for gaining better self-understanding and developing successful strategies for improving one’s effectiveness with others.
In March 2019 he was selected to join Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches cohort. Worldwide, one of just 160 people from 16,000 applications.
In 1998, Ken was awarded the title of Academician of the Russian Federation by a consortium of seven major Russian universities in recognition for his efforts in establishing a country-wide network of business centers focused on training and supporting small and medium size enterprises. During his career, Ken has been instrumental in establishing teaching institutions in Istanbul, Beijing, Budapest, Moscow, and Tashkent. Representing the EBRD, he played a key role in establishing the Joint Vienna Institute (JVI) in close collaboration with the IMF, World Bank, OECD, EU and World Trade Organization. He was twice the Institute’s Chairman and for over 20 years, Ken taught seminars four weeks a year at the JVI to thousands of executives from countries undergoing major transformation and change.
Ken has been a member of the International Council of the American Management Association, the Academy of Management, and the Association for Talent Development.
A graduate of Yale University, Ken is a citizen of the USA and Finland and splits his time between Helsinki and Boca Raton, Florida.
Author location: Boca Raton, FL, 33496
Dr Jakub Radzikowski is an educator, scientist and culinary professional. With a PhD in Molecular Systems Biology from the University of Groningen and a Grand Diplome from Le Cordon Bleu London, Jakub has built a unique career that spans both the academic and culinary worlds.
Jakub’s experience includes working in Michelin-starred kitchens, such as Marcus Wareing at The Berkeley, and other fine-dining restaurants. He also worked at Kitchen Theory, where he explored the creative side of food through modernist culinary techniques and food design, including conceptual, evidence-based menu creation, culinary research, and concept development for Siemens, The Saudi Culinary Arts Commission, Ambiente, and others.
At Imperial College London, Jakub played a key role in developing the Chemical Kitchen, an innovative transdisciplinary learning and teaching project exploiting the parallels between professional cooking and STEMMB. He also works at KAIKAKU.AI, a London-based technology startup, developing robotics and AI to revolutionise the restaurant business. Jakub lives in London.