Business and Keynote Speakers

Founder of Pacific Direct, supplier of luxury branded amenities to the hotel and cruise markets, which was sold for £20m. She's gone on to investing, training and mentoring business to achieve success. She regularly speaks on her leadership and motivational skills.

Lara Morgan

HR Director with broad experience of a number of sectors including utilities (he is currently at Severn Trent), publishing (Penguin) and retail (Argos). At Penguin he instigated trying to recruit people drawn from outside the usual talent pool publishers draw from (typically Oxbridge, home counties) – they would have the same skill sets, but bring a new approach by having a different life experience. Also speaks on challenges companies face with the millennial generation, in particularly living costs when recruiting in London and major cities.

Neil Morrison

Financier, campaigner, author and mother of nine, Helena has a truly inspirational story of beating the odds in the male dominated industry of finance, she is regarded as one of the worlds greatest leaders. A feminist with a story of beating the odds.

Dame Helena Morrissey

Brilliant science and technology presenter, and a memember of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd.

Steve Mould

was Minister for Sport in Margaret Thatcher’s Government since when he has built an unrivalled reputation for his knowledge of sports administration having been an elite sportsman himself as well as a successful businessman.

Lord Colin Moynihan

Best known for presenting Channel 4's Superscrimpers and as an FT Columnist.

Mrs Moneypenny

Dhiraj is a Co-Founder of Shazam, the mobile music recognition company (acquired by Apple in 2018). He was named one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs by the Financial Times in 2015. In the course of his career, Dhiraj has served in senior roles in media & entertainment, digital business consulting and the charity sector with Save the Children.

Dhiraj Mukherjee

Hayley is recognised as one of the most inspiring young voices within the United Kingdom, an established keynote speaker, consultant and change agent.

Hayley Mulenda

Sara is a British entrepreneur and businesswoman who developed "Buddi", a miniaturised tracking device for vulnerable people and was also the founder of "Confused.com". She was awarded an OBE for services to Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours 2012

Sara Murray

Started Glasses Direct from the living room of his parents' home in Wiltshire while studying for his University finals, and it became the largest online retailer of glasses. After a successful exit from the company he now focuses on his new role as a full-time Industry Head of Retail at Google.

Jamie Murray Wells OBE

Editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, he has also written extensively on international politics and economics. He has been an executive director of the World Bank, is an authority on globalisation and served as Venezuela's Minister of Trade & Industry in the 1990s.

Moisés Naím

Founder and CEO of NY based strategy consulting firms BeyondGlobal. A former adviser to Nouriel Roubini and author of Superhubs: How the financial elite and their networks rule the world.

Sandra Navidi

Senior Independent Director of Dyson and former government minister.

Richard Needham

Former editor of the Sunday Times and BBC political presenter whose shows included The Daily Politics and This Week. Is often asked to chair conferences and speak, either keynote or after dinner.

Andrew Neil

Award-winning expert on Communication, Influence and Leadership. He won the Cicero Grand Jury Prize for Best International Speechwriter 2014 and is a guest lecturer at London Business School.

Richard Newman