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.

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 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.