Mr. Marks is co-founder and co-Chairman of Oaktree, where he spends most of his time determining and communicating regarding the firm’s strategic posture.  In addition to leading Oaktree, he is well known for the “memos to Oaktree clients” he has written over the last 31 years and his books, The Most Important Thing (2011) and Mastering the Market Cycle (2018).   Mr. Marks holds a B.S.Ec. degree cum laude in finance from the Wharton School and an M.B.A. in accounting and marketing from the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago.  He is a CFA® charterholder; member of the Investment Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; member of the Investment Committee of the Royal Drawing School in London; and Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, where from 2000 to 2010 he chaired the Investment Board.

International supermodel, activist and philanthropist Naomi Campbell is one of the most prolific and influential profiles of contemporary culture. Throughout her illustrious career, she has fronted the covers of more than 1000 magazines and has been featured in advertising campaigns for celebrated luxury houses including Burberry, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino.

Naomi has championed the industry receiving numerous accolades. She was the first black model to appear on the cover of TIME magazine, French and Russian Vogue, and the first British black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue. In 2019, Naomi was honoured by the British Fashion Council with a Fashion Icon Award in celebration of her outstanding contribution to the industry.

Today, Naomi is undoubtedly solidifying her place as a cultural innovator – using her incredible platform and success for positive change across industries around the world.

Chef Björn Frantzén has transitioned Frantzén Group from the drawing table to Guide Michelin in just a few years time.

Born in 1977, his passion for food began with a particularly delicious steak. To this day, Bjorn remember that one steak, served with french fries and béarnaise sauce as his first culinary memory which would inspire him to a career in the restaurant industry decades later. He eventually started his journey in gastronomy as an intern with Chef Christer Lingström at Edsbacka Krog.

Examples of awards:

Three stars in Guide Michelin (Frantzén)
Three stars in Guide Michelin (Zén)
Best Chef Award Top100 2019
Number 21 (2019) on ”World50Best”
Number 12 (2013) on ”World50Best”
”Restaurant Of The Year” in The White Guide
”Gulddraken”, ”Gästdraken” and ”Kockarnas Krog”
”Kockarnas Kock”

Björn is passionate about constantly developing his skills and to become one of the very best. This passion would take him to other top restaurants, such as Chez Nico’s at 90 Park Lane (Nico Ladenis, UK, three Michelin stars) and Restaurant L’Arpege (Alain Passard, Paris, three Michelin stars).

Aside from his passion for cooking, Björn has always been very engaged in charity. Every year Björn hosts a dinner event featuring a handfull of Europe’s most renowned chefs, all to benefit the The Swedish Child Diabetes Foundation.

Darnell Strom is a Partner & Head of the Culture and Commerce Division at premiere entertainment agency, UTA. Strom represents the most transformative figures, brands, and organizations across entertainment, media, sports, fashion, the arts, entrepreneurship, politics, and thought leadership. He works with pioneers whose creative vision shapes culture and recalibrates the ways we see the world.

Prior to UTA, Darnell Strom was an Agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) working with clients such as Dwyane Wade, Will Smith, will.i.am, Trevor Noah, Vice President Joe Biden, and Gayle King. Strom also advised top global brands like Google, YouTube, Salesforce, Target and Nike on talent partnerships and marketing campaigns.

In 2005, Strom was named Deputy Director of Scheduling to President Bill Clinton, working in the former President’s Harlem offices. He served in this role until 2006, when he was asked to create a program that reflected President Clinton’s vision of engaging the next generation of leaders, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs in the work of the William J. Clinton Foundation. Strom formally launched this program in 2007 as the Clinton Foundation Millennium Network. The Millennium Network has been recognized by President Clinton as an essential fundraising component to the future of the Clinton Foundation.

Edward Norton is one of the most celebrated actors of his generation and has starred in, produced, written or directed over 30 films.  He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won the Golden Globe, an Emmy, an Obie and numerous other awards for his performances and productions.

Norton has a substantial parallel career as an entrepreneur, investor and activist in both environmental sustainability and technology ventures. In 2010 Norton co-founded and launched CrowdRise, a crowdfunding platform and fundraising strategic consultant that, within three years, grew into one of the largest charitable crowdfunding platforms in the world. In 2017, CrowdRise merged with GoFundMe to create the largest online charity platform in the world. Norton is also a co-founder of EDO, a company applying advanced data science and machine learning to the development of highly innovative audience engagement signals for the media and advertising industries.

He currently serves as the United Nations Ambassador for Biodiversity and for nearly 20 years he has served as the Board chair of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, a community-based organization working to preserve the endangered wildlife and threatened forest ecosystems in Kenya’s iconic southern rangelands.

Beata Wickbom has been a pioneer in advocating and exploring the opportunities with digital media. With a business degree and a background in the startup world, Beata has spent the last 25 years as an advisor to corporations and organizations on digital strategy and innovation. She is on a constant learning journey, always striving to understand how new technologies are shaping leadership, value creation and our society as a whole. She is also an expert both in designing and leading engaging meetings and was awarded moderator of the year in 2020. She makes sure to spend a lot of time adventuring outside of her comfort zone, preferably in a kayak at sea or on a mountain top.

Michael Frahm is co-founder of Frahm & Frahm and Director of the multi-award-winning Blenheim Art Foundation at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. The Foundation opened in October 2014 with a critically acclaimed Ai Weiwei retrospective, and has since hosted exhibitions by Lawrence Weiner, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jenny Holzer, Yves Klein, Maurizio Cattelan, Cecily Brown and Tino Sehgal. In 2016, Blenheim Art Foundation received the UK Best Innovation Award and the Global Fine Art Award for ‘Best Public Exhibition’ worldwide for Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace in 2017.   

Michael has advised and worked with some of the most important private art collections in Europe and Asia and he frequently provides expert insight into the art market for Bloomberg, CNN, Sky News, and the Financial Times, among others. He is a patron of the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and sits on the Board of Directors of the African Environmental Film Foundation.

Magnus Lindkvist is a trendspotting futurologist and author who weaves together important current trends to forecast what life, society and business might look like in the future.

It is the fantastic timing, storytelling and politically incorrect humour that keep the audience – a global audience – laughing and talking well after his talk ends. He has given in excess of a thousand keynote speeches over the past decade to everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs and civil servants in the Middle East to anyone looking to be inspired and enlightened by trendspotting and future-thinking.

As a writer, Magnus Lindkvist is driven by a relentless curiosity about our mental space where the outside world collides with the human brain. His book Minifesto (2016) tells us why small ideas matter in the world of grand narratives. By sharing a vision of the future we can strive to surround ourselves with as many strange, conflicting ideas that we can in order to immerse ourselves in future possibilities and possible futures. His next book, The Reset Book, will be published in 2022.

With a Master of Science in Business and Economics from Stockholm School of Economics and a degree in film production from UCLA, Lindkvist weaves together the worlds of quantitative insights with the imaginative storytelling of Hollywood. His talks are often described as ‘shows’ or ‘performances’; he calls it ‘intellectual acupuncture’ with the expressed intention of changing our minds with needles of insight, examples and observations.

He has won several awards for his ‘performances’ on stage and for his books, but perhaps the best acclaim ever given was from an HR director in the UK who said ‘Magnus Lindkvist is the best Swedish export since ABBA and meatballs.’

 Joanna Coles, OBE Is the chairwoman and CEO of Northern Star Acquisition Companies II-IV; Northern Star I announced a merger with BARK in December 2020. She is also the Executive Producer of Hulu’s The Bold Type (on Netflix globally), the five season TV drama inspired by her career. She is the former Chief Content Officer of Hearst Magazines, responsible for 300 magazines globally. Coles sits on the public boards of Snap Inc. (Snapchat) Sonos, and Bark. She is also a director of private tech companies Density, and Grover, Europe’s largest tech-rental platform based in Berlin. And the non-profit Women Entrepreneurs New York City, an initiative to expand female entrepreneurship, with a focus on underserved women and communities.

She advises several companies including Cornell Capital, a private equity company; the Swedish payment disruptor Klarna and Bustle Digital Media. She currently has three TV shows in pre- production with Amazon, ABC and FX.

The British-born editor moved to the U.S. in 1997 as the New York Bureau Chief for The Guardian, before becoming the New York Bureau Chief for The Times of London. Coles joined Hearst in 2006 as editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, where she co-produced the Style Network’s unscripted show Running in Heels. She was also the on-air mentor for Project Runway AllStars. She was named editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the world’s largest women’s media brand, in 2012. She was the executive producer of the unscripted series So Cosmo on E! in 2017.

Over the course of her career, Coles has won numerous prestigious awards for journalism and media leadership. She was recently described by The New York Times as “one of the most powerful people in media.” Coles is the author of Love Rules, published by HarperCollins, about relationships in the digital age, now being made into a TV show for FX.

She lives in Manhattan and has two sons, with the author Peter Godwin. 

Alexis Ohanian is a tech founder and venture capitalist. He’s written a national bestselling book, Without Their Permission, and co-founded Reddit, one of the largest websites in the U.S. currently valued at more than $10B. In 2020 he founded Seven Seven Six, a new firm built like a technology company that deploys venture capital with over $750M assets under management.

In 2022 he launched the 776 Foundation to support marginalized individuals and announced a $20M commitment to climate action through his new 776 Fellowship Program. Ohanian is also an advocate for paid family leave and the lead founding investor of the NWSL’s Angel City Football Club.