Rita Kakati-Shah is an award-winning, gender, diversity, inclusion and career strategist, speaker and advisor to Fortune 500 companies. She is the Founder and CEO of Uma, an international platform that empowers confidence, inspires success and builds leadership and resilience in women and minorities in the workforce.

Rita began her career at Goldman Sachs in London, where she was awarded the Excellence in Citizenship and Diversity Award. She is also a Distinguished Alumna of King’s College London and triple Stevie Awards for Women in Business winner, and judge for the Middle East Awards. Rita mentors managers, C-Suite leadership, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, women in STEM, schoolgirls and university students.

Rita also serves on various committees and advisory boards across the US, UK and India. She has been featured as an expert on multiple international television and news platforms, and publications such as the WSJ and Fast Company. Rita is also a regularly invited speaker and guest lecturer at international academic institutions, corporations and policy forums. Rita also hosts the popular South Asian TV show, The Uma Show, on Mana TV International.

John leads LinkedIn in EMEA & LATAM, driving the company’s strategic direction in the region, fostering business and member growth. John is also the Non-Executive Chairperson of Carne’s Board of Directors. He joined LinkedIn in November 2015 and is based at its EMEA headquarters in Dublin.

John was formerly Vice President at Google, where he held a number of international roles and scaled its EMEA online sales and operations teams from 50 to approximately 5,000 direct employees and contractors. He also served as Head of Google Ireland from 2005 – 2015.

Over 25 years, John has held senior management positions at global technology companies including First Data, PeopleSoft, Adobe Systems and Oracle Corporation.

A Chartered Accountant, John holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin and was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Economic Science by University of Limerick.

Darren Lui is currently the President and Executive Director of Aptorum Group since 2016, a Nasdaq and Euronext listed biopharmaceutical company focused on unmet medical needs research and development. He is also the cofounder of the business and is in charge of business development, business strategy as well as investor relations. He has built a diverse R&D team across UK, Asia and Canada focusing on diseases such as orphan diseases, infectious diseases and woman’s health.

Before founding Aptorum Group, Darren was a Director at the Capital Markets division of Barclays Capital for almost decade, initially in London and subsequently helped develop the teams in Singapore and New York. He also completed his accountancy training at Ernst & Young LLP, UK since 2005.

He is a qualified Chartered Accountant of ICAS, an Associate of the Chartered Financial Analyst Society of the UK and an Associate of the Chartered Institute Securities and Investments.

From 2002 until she decided to take a career break in 2019, Jayne led Amlin’s investment business, where, as CEO and CIO, she directed strategy, governance and operations for their award-winning, global multi-asset, multi-manager portfolios. The team she built from scratch reflected her belief in the importance of all aspects of diversity and the benefits of inclusive leadership. She was also a member of the Group ExCo and a non-executive director for the FTSE50 investment management services company Hargreaves Lansdown.

Before joining Amlin, Jayne was an independent management consultant advising a number of blue-chip companies, whilst completing an Executive MBA at Cranfield School of Management. She was previously Head of International Equities at Halifax Fund Management Limited.

She is a qualified Executive Coach, an Associate of the Chartered Financial Analyst Society of the UK, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

Suki Sandhu OBE is one of the UK’s leading specialists in sourcing exceptional diverse talent, and has been a game-changer within the diversity and executive search arenas for over 17 years.

Suki established Audeliss in 2011; a global executive search firm, committed to levelling the field for executive and non-executive opportunities for women, ethnic minority and LGBT+ candidates. He is also Founder & CEO of INvolve, a global network and consultancy that helps organisations drive cultural change and create more inclusive workplaces.

Suki is a Stonewall Ambassador and launched ‘The Suki Sandhu LGBTQI Asia Fund’ to support activism in Asia. He is also Patron for The Albert Kennedy Trust and serves on the Board of Directors of OutRight Action International based in NYC. He is a Trustee for the Guild of HR Professionals and was awarded an OBE from the Queen in the 2019 New Year’s Honours for Services to Diversity in Business.

Meredith is an ESG, RESPONSIBLE INVESTING AND MWBE consultant and is the award-winning author of Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (And How You Can Too).

She was named one of Inc. magazine’s “17 Inspiring Women To Watch in 2017”, a Distinguished Author by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018, and her book was included on a list of the “Top 15 Finance Books for Financial Professionals” in U.S. News in 2020.

Meredith delivered a TEDx talk in 2018 and testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Diversity and Inclusion in 2019. Meredith is on the Board of Directors for Rock the Street, Wall Street and she provides mentoring for female entrepreneurs in Nashville through the Pathway Women’s Business Centre.

Dr Mary Coghlan is an actuary and medical doctor. In recent times, she has been bringing her skills and experience to bear in the world of predictive mathematical modelling in the Covid era. Some would say her experience is almost perfectly suited to understanding the forecasting complexities of a global pandemic. Her past areas of work include the actuarial, sports administration and clinical medical fields.

She is the mother of a six year old boy and her professional interests and passion are all invested in playing a part in creating a better world for her son and future generations.

Mary runs most days and says that this is where she gets the headspace to do her best thinking and reflecting. Her best advice is “walk a mile in my shoes…”.

Dr. Sam Barke is a sports doctor and orthopaedic surgeon in London. During COVID-19 he has been redeployed to work in an Intensive Care Unit. He is also the Medical Director of Return2Play, a sports medicine company that aims to improve the standard of care in grassroots sport – particularly in schools.

Sam has a particular interest in the management of concussion and has been at the forefront of improving its management in amateur sport and children.

Sam is a passionate believer in the health and social benefits of sport and that by properly managing risk, those benefits can continue to be enjoyed.

Niall joined Polymateria as Chief Executive Officer in January 2018 to tackle the global crisis of plastic waste and lead the company on its mission of advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.

Upon his appointment Niall announced an ambition to “redesign the rules of an entire industry” and create the Tesla of plastics.

Niall is also on the Sustainability Board of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) since June 2019. UKRI brings together the seven Research Councils within the UK funding pioneering research and innovation across the planet.

A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Niall has worked on WEF’s Global Agenda Councils on Sustainable Consumption and Climate Change where he has launched and led initiatives such as Collectively.org and 100percentsport.org.

A keen athlete since his youth, Niall represented Ireland internationally as an 800m runner.

Dominic Jermey (CVO OBE) is Director General of The Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Leading ZSL, Dominic is positioning the organisation as a force for international wildlife conservation, undertaking conservation and science projects in over 50 countries, engaging nearly two million visitors to its world-class Zoos (ZSL London Zoo and ZSL Whipsnade Zoo) on wildlife-related issues and carrying out wildlife science at ZSL’s Institute of Zoology.

Dominic was previously a Director General in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British Ambassador to the UAE (2010-14) and to Afghanistan (2016-17), CEO of UK Trade and Investment and on the boards of both the FCO and the Department for Business, Innovation and Science. As British Ambassador to Afghanistan, Dominic led one of the UK’s largest embassy teams, focussed on fighting terrorism, building accountable Afghan government institutions and providing humanitarian assistance.

Diana The, named in Legal 500’s GC Powerlist Southeast Asia 2017 and again in 2019, is a well-established legal professional with strong business acumen. Based in Singapore with 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, she is known to have a proven track record directing strategic vision, and building and leading legal teams across Asia-Pacific.

She is a prolific speaker in the legal and financial industry and a strong advocate for gender diversity. While holding several leadership positions in various non-profit organizations, she has also spoken at various conferences as an advocate for women in leadership positions.

Diana is also an accomplished athlete in both dressage and showjumping. She has competed at club level and national level, a sport she only picked up 8 years ago. She was also part of Team Singapore when she represented her country in the South East Asian Games 2017 in endurance riding.

Jo Anderson has had a lifelong and enduring passion for wildlife and the great outdoors. After establishing himself as one of East Africa’s leading professional outdoor, trekking and wildlife guides he co-founded Carbon Tanzania in 2007. Carbon Tanzania is a forest conservation enterprise seeking to bring ecologically sound business-wise, results-based solutions to the challenge of tropical deforestation.

Carbon Tanzania is an innovative conservation organisation that provides corporations with the opportunity to purchase carbon credits to offset their carbon footprint. They currently manage three REDD+ projects in Tanzania, protecting approximately 800,000 hectares of wildlife-rich, culturally important and ecologically vulnerable native forests.

Jack Bouroudjian is the Co-Founder and Chief Economist of UCX (Universal Compute Exchange). As UCX’s Chief Economist, Jack helps to identify the intersections of the technology and financial markets and identify financial trends in both spaces. Jack is also a member of the CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace and serves as a consultant to multiple ventures and start-ups including UBIQWIFI, and ISCX.

In addition to his 25 year’s industry experience, Jack is a published author, “Secrets of the Trading Pros”, and has written countless Op-ed’s. He has taken part in over 2000 international and domestic live TV shots including CNBC, CNN, ABC, FOX, Bloomberg, PBS and is currently a market contributor on CNBC.

Jack is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago and is happily married with two children.