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Guy Spier is a Zurich based author and investor.  He completed his MBA at the Harvard Business School, class of 1993, and holds a First Class degree in PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) from Oxford University where he studied at Brasenose College with the British Prime minister David Cameron. 

After completing his MBA, Guy started the Aquamarine Fund which is an investment vehicle inspired by the original 1950's Buffett partnerships, and run with a close replication of the original Buffett partnership rules. The focus is on investing for long term capital appreciation and capital preservation by running a portfolio of equity investments with the goal of acquiring companies with outstanding long-term economics at a reasonable price and where there is a sufficient margin of safety between the company’s market price and its intrinsic value. Typical investors include high net worth individuals, family offices and private banks.

In 2008 Guy made news by bidding $650,000 with his friend, Mohnish Pabrai, to have a charity lunch with Warren Buffett. 

His book, “The Education of a Value Investor” has sold more than 40,000 copies and has also been translated into Hebrew, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Mandarin and Spanish. 

(And yes, per our interview, you'll see that I re-wrote his bio. :) 

Driving incremental sales upwards of $2.5 billion, Curt Simon has worked in over 40 markets for leading global brands.

A professional networker, he's a well-known international speaker (TedX)(48forward Summit)(CES)(SXSW) and moderator, strategist, executer and solution engineer that spends much of his time helping enterprises, incubators, startUps and digital hubs.

Born in Austria, he founded his first digital company in 1994. Since then, he’s followed that up with 16 more along with significant investments in digital organizations all around the world, specifically in the MarTech, Robotic Process Automation, Development, Data, CRM/CDP, ML/AI and Operations fields.

His agency akom360 was acquired in 2015 by Publicis Groupe so he moved to London to lead their global Business Transformation team where he stayed until February 2020. Currently, he lives on a 17th-century farm with his wife and 5 children and is focused on merging the beauty of its past with the promise of everything future digital. He calls himself the Chief Nerd Officer and CEO of C5H, is an advisory board member and consultant, and fervently believes that 'Doing is the new consulting'.

Eve Barlow is a pop culture journalist based in Los Angeles. She grew up in the UK, worked at the forefront of music journalist in London from 2008-2014, and was Deputy Editor of the NME. 

Since 2014, Eve has been a freelance journalist in America, critiquing pop, profiling artists and covering film, music and more for the Guardian, New York Magazine, ELLE, Pitchfork, Billboard, LA Times, Playboy, NYLON, Tablet and many more. She was also a Contributing Editor at Q Magazine from 2015 until the magazine's closure in 2020. 

In recent years, Eve has become a more active voice on Jewish identity and fighting antisemitism via Twitter (@eve_barlow) and Instagram (@evebarlow).

You can check out more examples of Eve's work here. 

Rosanna Lisa Arquette was born in New York City to a show business family. She was the first-born child of five in the third generation of the Arquette acting clan. Her grandfather Cliff Arquette played “Charley Weaver” on “The Jack Paar Show” and was a regular on the original “Hollywood Squares.” 

Her father, character actor Lewis Arquette, was well known as “J.D. Pickett” on “The Waltons.” Her siblings Patricia Arquette, David Arquette, Alexis Arquette and Richmond Arquette all followed her into the family tradition as accomplished working actors. 

She began acting as a child while growing up in a bohemian atmosphere of gypsy-like travel and communes. Her mother, Mardi, was a poet, political activist and therapist who deeply influenced Rosanna’s compassionate world-view.

​Rosanna started working professionally as a teenager and has never stopped. She has appeared in over 70 films, which have earned over $450 million in domestic box office sales. 

Her vast experience in the world of film and television has inspired her to explore and expand her talent as a filmmaker into the realm of directing and producing with two highly acclaimed documentaries, 2002’s “Searching for Debra Winger” and 2005’s “All We Are Saying.” She is currently developing projects for both television and film through her company, Flower Child Productions.
 

As a busy actress, filmmaker and activist, her passion for her work is matched only by her passion for her daughter Zoe Bleu Sidel, husband Todd and her family.

Karen Alpert is the ridiculously  self-deprecating writer of the blog Baby Sideburns. 

She has a half million followers on social media where she entertains parents (and even a few non-parents) every day. If you're tired of seeing moms who post pictures of their perfect, smiling, well-behaved kiddos on social media, Baby Sideburns shows the "other" side of parenting–the messy, scary, painful, challenging, unpredictable side. In other words, reality. 

In 2013 Karen Alpert wrote and self-published her first book, I Heart My Little A-Holes, which made it to The New York Times best seller list and the Top 100 on Amazon the first week it was out.

 It was then bought and republished by HarperCollins. In 2016 HarperCollins published her second book I Want My Epidural Back, which also climbed quickly to the Top 100 on Amazon. In 2021, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is publishing her third book, Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be A-Holes. 

She lives with her two amazing kiddos and a very forgiving husband who lets her publicly share their crazy lives on the Internet every day. 

Rose McGowan is globally recognized for inspiring millions to use their voice.

A catalyst and driving force for change, her name is synonymous with the #MeToo movement. A Time Magazine Person of the Year, she is also the first woman to be named GQ’s Man of the Year. Despite powerful opposition, in 2014 she also founded #RoseArmy, coining the term ‘Cultural Reset.’ 

Rose authored an empowering book, Brave, a NY Times bestseller and the audiobook was nominated Audible’s Top Ten of the Year out of 1.6 million titles. Leaving behind a lauded acting career, her directorial debut, Dawn, was nominated for Sundance Grand Jury prize. In her pursuit of finding creative ways to help others, she most recently crafted a sonic journey in the form of an anxiety-soothing concept album called Planet 9 designed to elevate moods.

An inspirational public speaker, she's given keynotes around the world, from the UK’s Oxford Union all the way to Delhi, India where she shared a stage with President Obama. Rose resides in Mexico where she continues her personal goal of making the world ten percent better – one person, or one million people, at a time.

You can follow her on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook.

Nick Bubb is the Business Development Director at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), one of the world’s foremost wildlife conservation NGOs. It's his passion for adventure that's his driving force.

After leaving University with an engineering degree, he spent 10 years as a professional sailor competing in most of the top ocean races, including the Volvo Ocean Race and racing non-stop around the world on a 110 ft catamaran with 74 days at sea. He sailed solo across the Atlantic and skippered the Shackleton Epic Expedition in Antarctica and avoided tragedy while on it.

With wildlife conservation now his main professional focus, he’s a huge advocate for ‘Time in Nature’ and all the benefits that it brings. A busy man with two young boys he still finds time to jump on his bike, throw a bivi bag in his saddle pack and explore some of the more remote parts of the UK and the world

Nick was the parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in the New Forest, but right now, as he continues with FFI, he’s planning his next expedition. This time his family is all going with him as they've sold the family home and are moving onto a 40 ft catamaran for a trip around the world.

Varin Sachdev has been working as a professional broadcast journalist since 1995.

He's currently on as the news anchor and moderator for TNN Channel 16 (World Today) and FM 101 (101 Morning Call with Varin Sachdev). 

Varin also hosts and narrates the Oscar and other Award Ceremonies live on TV and at special events. Inspired by The Amazing Race, another show he narrates live for Thai audience for the past 28 seasons, he launched his own travel and lifestyles show in 2009, The Nomad, which currently airs on TNN 24 and Travel Channel. 

Carl Loeb and I go way back. Now at Salesforce, we met on the Volkswagen account at Arnold Worldwide many years ago. 

He's been creating brand communications for over 30 years, and he's one of the most talented people I know in the business. 

At Salesforce, he leads the Brand Creative Center of Excellence and oversees global brand awareness campaigns and the development of global guidelines and standards.

Before landing there he created ad campaigns, yes, for Volkswagen. But also for Microsoft, Converse, Mens Journal, Cantor Fitzgerald, and more. His work has won multiple awards, in multiple years, for multiple clients. Citations include the Cannes Lions, One Show, Communication Arts, Art Director’s Club, Effie, MPA Kelly Awards, Archive and Radio Mercury Awards. 

Jacqueline is the President of techUK and the co-chair at the Institute of Coding. 

She sits as a Non-Executive Director on the board of UK technology business Rightmove PLC, on the board of Costain PLC, which is committed to solving the nation’s Infrastructure problems; and also rebalanced her portfolio towards skills by joining the board of professional services provider FDM Group PLC. 

She was awarded CBE in Her Majesty The Queen's New Year Honours 2018 for services to International Trade in Technology.