Lindsey Vonn

The Olympic Gold Medalist Lindsey Vonn is one of the most decorated American ski racers in history and widely regarded among the greatest of all time. Lindsey Vonn is a New York Times bestselling author, philanthropist, producer, entrepreneur, and investor. She lends credibility, product development and creative design services to long term sponsors and business partnerships. Lindsey has been an equity stakeholder in Hyperice since 2013 and works alongside fellow iconic ambassadors to improve the brand’s line of recovery products. She was the first female athlete signed by Under Armour in 2006.

Today, she designs and promotes women’s performance athletic apparel alongside Dwayne Johnson for UA’s Project Rock brand. Lindsey uses her industry and knowledge of high-performance ski apparel to create and market her nascent “Legacy by Lindsey Vonn” ski outerwear collection with HEAD. Through her successful and extended ambassadorship roles, Lindsey has raised brand awareness of additional multi-billion-dollar companies including Land Rover/Jaguar, Red Bull and Rolex. She holds equity positions with Beyond Meat, Oura, YNIQ, Hyperice, UA and Ladder and is constantly seeking out new opportunities for growth and strategic alignment. Lindsey is integrally involved with the operations of her production company, Après Productions, and released her memoir, “Rise: My Story,” in 2022. She has worked on camera for NBC and hosted an episodic series for Amazon Prime.

As with all her projects, Lindsey feels an extreme passion and dedication to giving back and founded the Lindsey Vonn Foundation, which supports young women through scholarships, education, and athletics.

Max Martin

Swedish-born Max Martin began his career at the now legendary Cheiron studios in the mid-nineties, where he began to work with iconic producer Denniz Pop making music for names like The Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Ace of Base, and *NSYNC, ultimately defining the sound of 1990s pop music. With a career spanning over 30 years, Max has worked with Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande, P!nk, Adele, and many more. With five Grammy awards, including Producer of the Year, and 27 Billboard number 1s, the second most of all time, only topped by Paul McCartney, Max Martin was ranked by Rolling Stone as the greatest producer of the 21st century. Martin was inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame in 2017 and has won ASCAP’s Songwriter of the Year a record 11 times. 

In 2019, Max Martin pivoted into a new chapter, co-creating the hit musical & Juliet that began its run on London’s West End, continuing to becoming a hit show on Broadway, Australia, and Singapore, claiming 9 Tony nominations and worldwide critical acclaim.

Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlett is an Entrepreneur, speaker, investor, author and the host of UK’s No.1 podcast ‘The Diary of a CEO’ – an unfiltered journey into the remarkable stories and untold dimensions of the world’s most influential people, experts and thinkers.

Steven is an accomplished investor in the health and wellness space, biotech and blockchain technologies. Known for his innovative and disruptive approach to social media marketing, Steven co-founded Flight Story and launched his own private equity fund, Flight Fund, to accelerate the next generation of European unicorns.
In August 2023, Steven released his #1 Sunday Times best selling book, “The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life”. He joined the BBC’s hit TV show Dragons’ Den, as the youngest ever Dragon in the show’s history.

Steven is particularly focused on inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs and creators from a BAME background. His audience includes young aspiring entrepreneurs, creators, business leaders and high net-worth individuals.

Micael Dahlen

Micael Dahlen has become known as the world’s first professor in happiness, he is the chair of the Stockholm School of Economics Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness, a writer, and a speaker. He calls himself an asktronaut in a universe of questions big and small.

Rashid Johnson

Born in Chicago in 1977, Rashid Johnson is among an influential cadre of contemporary American artists whose work employs a wide range of media to explore themes of art history, individual and shared cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, philosophy, materiality, and critical history. Johnson received a BA in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago and studied for his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Johnson’s practice quickly expanded to embrace a wide range of media—including sculpture, painting, drawing, filmmaking, and installation—yielding a complex multidisciplinary practice that incorporates diverse materials rich with symbolism and personal history. Johnson’s work is known for its narrative embedding of a pointed range of everyday materials and objects, often associated with his childhood and frequently referencing aspects of history and cultural identity. Many of Johnson’s more recent works delve into existential themes such as personal and collective anxiety, interiority, and liminal space.

Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty is a global bestselling author, award-winning podcast host of On Purpose, and purpose-driven entrepreneur. Jay’s videos have been viewed over 10 billion times across social media and he is followed by over 50 million people. His podcast, “On Purpose with Jay Shetty”, tops the charts as the world’s leading Health and Wellness podcast with over 35 million monthly downloads and features influential guests such as President Biden, Oprah, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Lewis Hamilton and Kobe Bryant. Jay’s books, “Think Like A Monk” and “8 Rules of Love,” offer profound insights and have topped bestseller lists. Jay has been featured in publications such as Vogue, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Men’s Health, and The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, he has made appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, TODAY Show, Good Morning America, and more.

Debora Spar

Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Global Business and Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between technological change and broader social structures.

Spar served as the President of Barnard College from 2008 to 2017, and as President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from 2017 to 2018. Before joining Barnard, Spar spent 17 years on the HBS faculty as the Spangler Family Professor as well as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development. A prolific writer, Spar’s books include The Baby Business (2006), Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection (2013), and Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny (2020).

Spar earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and her B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Paola Maugeri

Originally from Sicily and one of the original MTV presenters, Paola Maugeri is one of the most prominent radio personalities in Italy.
“ The Lady of Rock ” (as Paola gets referred to by her fans and music lovers all over the country) has interviewed over 1,300 artists.

In fact her dual passions — music and conscious living — have alwaysbeen underpinned by the words and examples of some of the greatest rockstars she has had conversations with: Bono, Patti Smith, Lou Reed,Coldplay, Roger Waters from Pink Floyd and R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe,to name a few…

She recently moved to Malmö, Sweden, from where she hosts the VirginRadio’s hugely popular “ Long playing stories ” where she invites her audience to experience music through a deeper knowledge. Paola is also Italy’s most passionate environmentalist and out- spoken activists in ecological issues. Twelve years ago – as a true pioneer – Paola and her entire family (three generations) spent an entire year living “net zero“ in Milan. She wrote about this unforgettable, radical experience in a long- selling iconic book called My No-Impact Life (La mia vita a impatto zero).

She also served as Italian ambassador for Italy, appointed by the European Commission, at the Copenhagen summit – COP 15 – for a protocol on climate. Paola has given the first TED Talk in her country on a how to live a sustainable life and has written seven best-sellers books on conscious
living. Topics she, also, talks about in her podcast, PMConfidential, with over 800 k downloads and in her mentoring platform, humans, where, as a life coach, she shares and explores the human experience in an increasingly superficial society. She is one of the most requested and admired key speakers in her field with hundreds of sold out presentations and conferences where she inspires true love for music, conscious living, mindfulness, self-love and social awareness to an ever – growing public.

Susanne Fuglsang

I am a Ecosystem & Partner manager at AI Sweden ( Swedish national center for applied artificial intelligence), Learning Facilitator and Advisor working to create impactful sustainable change through collaboration and learning processes for Innovation Ecosystems, Social Learning spaces and Communites of practices.

Specializing in cross-sectional collaboration and learnings, both triple helix and quadruple helix in the pursuit to bring in new and diverse perspectives and experiential learnings.

I practice a lifelong learning mindset through engaging and contributing in Women in Tech communities, Tech & Startup communities.

Saba Atefyekta, PhD

Co- inventor behind Amferia’s technology.  Holds a PhD in Materials Science from Chalmers University and her thesis describes the antimicrobial platform of Amferia’s technology. Today, she leads business development in human and animal health.