A force in London’s culinary scene and an outspoken activist, Indian-born, British restaurateur Asma Khan has always been a disruptor. Her Michelin Guide-listed restaurant Darjeeling Express, best known for its revolutionary all-female kitchen, has become a favourite of Hollywood A-listers whilst being an oasis and safe space for all women. Through serving authentic, homestyle food in the heart of London, her restaurant has reached the upper echelons of the food scene whilst, at its core, retaining Khan’s unwavering commitment to grassroots social and environmental causes.

TIME magazine recognised her as one of 2024’s 100 most influential people in the world for her pioneering business ethos. She is the chef advocate for the UN World Food Programme and a member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board. Khan has been awarded honorary fellowships by Queen’s College, Oxford University and King’s College London where she also holds a PhD in British Constitutional Law.

Khan was the first British chef to be profiled on Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Chef’s Table and has appeared in shows such as Celebrity Masterchef and Top Chef. She is currently working on Tiffin Stories a six-part series on food and memories. Asma has written two award-winning cookbooks and is currently working on a third. She is a sought-after international keynote speaker.

Kevin Durant is a 17-year NBA veteran and forward for the Phoenix Suns. He is a 2x NBA Champion and Finals MVP, having also won an NBA MVP Award, four NBA scoring titles, three Olympic gold medals, two NBA All Star Game MVP Awards, 14x NBA All-Star, and an NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He was also included in the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.

Off the court, Durant is co-founder of Boardroom, a sports and entertainment company that includes the flagship media network, Boardroom.TV. Founded in 2019 by Durant and executive Rich Kleiman, Boardroom covers the business of sports, music and entertainment, with a special focus on the ways that athletes, executives, musicians, and creators are moving the business world forward. Other projects under the Boardroom umbrella include the critically acclaimed scripted series SWAGGER in partnership with Imagine Entertainment and Apple TV+, the Academy-Award-winning short film Two Distant Strangers (Netflix), and Emmy-nominated documentary NYC Point Gods (Showtime).

Under the Boardroom Sports Club moniker, Kleiman and Durant are majority owners of Major League Pickleball’s Brooklyn Aces and have made minority investments in Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union, National Women’s Soccer League’s Gotham FC, Premier Lacrosse League, Athletes Unlimited, League One Volleyball, and TMRW Sports.

Durant is also co-founder in 35V, which houses over 100 early stage investments across sports, technology, finance, media, and more.

The Durant Family Foundation’s signature programs include Build It and They Will Ball, a global basketball court renovation project with 28 courts completed to date, and The Durant Center, a 10-year, 10-million dollar program in partnership with College Track that helps low-income and underserved students enroll and graduate from college. Durant received the season-long NBA Cares Community Assist and ESPN Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian awards in 2018.

Rich Kleiman is co-founder and CEO of Boardroom, a sports and entertainment company that includes the flagship media network, Boardroom.TV. Founded in 2019 by Kleiman and Kevin Durant, Boardroom covers the business of sports and entertainment, with a special focus on the ways that athletes, executives, musicians, and creators are moving the business world forward. Other projects under the Boardroom umbrella include the critically acclaimed scripted series SWAGGER in partnership with Imagine Entertainment and Apple TV+, the Academy-Award-winning short film Two Distant Strangers (Netflix), and Emmy-nominated documentary NYC Point Gods (Showtime). Most recently, Kleiman announced the launch of Boardroom Advisory, an offering for talent and brands to help them navigate business strategy, content creation, sports ownership opportunities and venture & private equity investing.

Kleiman and Durant are majority owners of Major League Pickleball’s Brooklyn Aces and have made minority investments in Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union, National Women’s Soccer League’s Gotham FC, Premier Lacrosse League, Athletes Unlimited, League One Volleyball, TMRW Sports, and National Cycling League.

Kleiman has been Kevin Durant’s manager since 2013, as well as co-founder in 35V, which houses over 100 early stage investments across sports, technology, finance, media, and more.

Kleiman serves as the Executive Director of the Durant Family Foundation (fka Kevin Durant Charity Foundation), helping underserved and low-income families and youth across the globe. He also sits on the Board of Directors at New Heights Youth, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to sports-based youth development and education in New York City.

Previously, Kleiman helped launch Roc Nation Sports, where he served as Vice President of the agency founded by Jay-Z. Kleiman started with Roc Nation in 2008 as a music manager representing Mark Ronson, Solange, Meek Mill, Wale, and many others.

Satirist and social media comedian The Gstaad Guy uses his characters Constance and Colton to tell semi-fictional tales of the world of High-Net-Worth-Individuals through short-form video content.. With a focus on luxury, connoisseurship, and most of all, the absurdities they often entail, The Gstaad Guy has amassed a large following including the highest concentration of High-Net-Worth-Individuals of any social media page, globally – according to Forbes. Today, The Gstaad Guy is an ambassador of Loro Piana, Audemars Piguet, and Acqua Di Parma, and operates his own jewelry and Rosé wine businesses.

Mattias Klum is an eminent photographer, artist, filmmaker and conservationist, uses his evocative storytelling and visual artistry to link humanity with nature.

National Geographic Photographer and Explorer since 1991. He shaped 13 cover stories for the notable magazine, directed 12 documentaries, published 17 books co-authored with admired scientists (Johan Rockström and Jane Goodall). Honored with ample awards such as Sweden’s royal medal, an honorary doctorate and a Young Global Leader nomination.

To date, Ellie Goulding has earned 10 platinum singles, four #1 UK albums, two BRIT Awards, 2 GRAMMY Award nominations, and a Golden Globe nomination. She has sold over 27 million albums and 218 million singles and amassed 43 billion streams worldwide. Ellie is also one of the most streamed female artists on Spotify with over 8 billion streams. With over 50 million followers combined on her social platforms, she earned YouTube’s Diamond Award with 10 million subscribers on her YouTube channel and over 6.8 billion views globally.

A long-standing activist and philanthropist, Ellie uses her platform to engage young people with global issues.   Her environmental work dates to 2017, when she was awarded the UN’s New Voices Award, and in recognition of her wider activism became a goodwill ambassador for UN Environment. In 2022 Goulding also became a TIME100 Impact Award winner, was named an ambassador for the WWF and was honoured by the UN Association as a Humanitarian of the Year.

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.

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 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 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.