The LifeLab

Julie Nguyen is an entrepreneur and innovation & marketing leader. She is the Co-founder of CrunchMoms; the first and only dedicated professional platform in the Middle East for women at all stages of their careers and motherhood. A Texan with Vietnamese roots, she has lived across continents and gathered 10+ years of experience in brand, marketing and digital transformation along the way.

Clara Naum is an International Certified Life Coach, esteemed author, and active contributor to an award-winning educational program that has positively impacted countless lives.

Ahmad oversees the strategic direction of the Saudi based retail company, BinDawood Holding. BinDawood Holding manages two key retail chains – BinDawood and Danube – across 85 hypermarkets and supermarkets in major Saudi Arabian cities and employs over 10,000 people across the Kingdom.

Olivier Billon is the founder and CEO of YKONE. After graduating from Sciences Po Paris with a master’s degree in Marketing, he joined L’Oréal Paris as Digital Marketing Manager for the Luxury Division. In 2008, Olivier left L’Oréal in pursuit of his own business venture, YKONE – the world’s first influencer marketing agency to cater to luxury Beauty, Fashion, Travel, and Lifestyle brands.

John D'Agostino is an American business executive and entrepreneur. He is a senior advisor to Coinbase, Chairman of US Asset Management Committee for the Department for International Trade, a lecturer at MIT and Columbia, and a Harvard MBA graduate.

Award-winning journalist, beauty editor and business owner, Liz Dwyer has reported on beauty and aesthetics for over 20 years. Based in Ireland, she has reported predominately at IMAGE magazine, The Irish Times and at at National Irish broadcaster, TV3. She set up Beauty bootcamp in the noughties and PR + Brand Lab in 2015. In 2019, she joined forces with her sister Nikki Dwyer, a corporate lawyer to set up and run Future Beauty Show.

Sophie Smith is the Founder and CEO of Nabta Health, a hybrid healthcare platform for women enabling the accelerated detection, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic diseases in women in emerging markets.

Yinka Martin is an award winning entrepreneur and founder and CEO of HairWeavon, an eCommerce business, with its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.  HairWeavon.com is a marketplace for all products relating to wigs and hair pieces. Yinka’s business, which ships to over 42 countries across the world, supports a community of women and men across the world experiencing hair loss due to cancer diagnosis, alopecia, and other hair loss conditions.   Yinka’s goal, together with her growing team, is to support the hair loss community in whatever she does, and sees the ability to serve this community as a daily privilege.

Amman Ahmed is the founder of MusicForPets, which has been producing music for pets since 2011. Amman founded the platform with the intention of having a positive impact on the mental health of dogs and MusicForPets two main channels RelaxMyDog and RelaxMyCat focus on: 

The success of MusicForPets and Amman’s story has been featured in media outlets across the globe.  With millions of fans worldwide and over 150 million streamed minutes, the platform is a global phenomenon in the pet world. They have proven feedback from the community that their music helps 87% of dogs that try it and their whole library of content is available on YouTube, music streaming platforms and connected TV devices.

James Whelton is an Irish entrepreneur, programmer, and co-founder of CoderDojo, a network of free computer coding clubs for children, which reaches hundreds of thousands of young people in over 110 countries across the globe.   James has built a wide array of software products, served as CTO for several e-commerce and technology companies, along with being a venture capital advisor.  James taught himself coding as a child, spent his teens building software and hacking, and at the age of 18, he co-founded, CoderDojo, along with entrepreneur Bill Liao, while heading up his school's computer club in Cork, Ireland.  Now having just turned 30 years old, James is currently focused on building Conjure, a next-generation behaviour change and achievements platform, to help people to achieve outcomes important to them, identify and build habits conducive to life satisfaction, and help them become who they want to become.