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Oliver Jones

Chayora CEO

Oliver originally qualified as a chartered surveyor and, after completing his MBA at London Business School in the late 1980s, specialised in corporate finance, complex outsourcing transactions and property operating-related investment deals. As a co-founder of Chayora, Oliver’s principal areas of focus include team leadership, investor management, securing tenants and raising the profile of the venture with key stakeholders.

Jim Brathwaite

Drenl CEO

James is an internationally-recognized business leader with operational experience in the media (CEO of Epic Interactive Media plc) and environmental industries (Chairman of SEAL Ltd and former Board Member for the Environment Agency). Jim has been a key proponent of the Innovation and Environmental Industry sectors in the South East region throughout the last decade, as Chairman of SEEDA and Pathway to a Circular Economy in the South East, the successor to European Pathway to Zero Waste for London and South East England Regions.

Isobel Biora

Future Earth Energy CEO

Isobel is the CEO and Founder of Future Earth Energy, a technology agnostic partner for local renewable energy projects. FEE combines technological and market insights, project development skills, corporate finance and private equity expertise to deliver solid returns in a rapidly growing renewable energy industry. Isobel holds a PhD in Energy Policy and is also the author of many publications including a Financial Times Management Report on ‘The Electricity Industry in Spain. She is an experienced leader with exceptional skills in delivering sustainable solutions in complex infrastructure projects. Isobel has significant world-wide experience advising utilities, developers, lenders, investors, investment funds, governments and regulators.

Brian Donnelly

Synapse CEO

Brian founded his first major business, Constellar, in the late 1990s. In the process of growing the business, he migrated to Silicon Valley after being offered US VC funding. Brian took Constellar to a total of 70 major customers and 160 staff before it was profitably sold to IBM. Brian has seen companies, large and small, struggle with spreadsheets to automate business critical operations. The fundamental solution to this problem became the basis of Synapse.

Michael Jansen

CityZenith CEO

An impassioned architect, urbanist and entrepreneur, Michael has founded and led high-growth companies in the US and Asia for more than two decades. He studied architecture at Yale and Cambridge, earned a Fulbright Scholarship and worked as an architect in India and China for several years leading the Asia practices of two major US-based international architecture firms. In 2004, he founded a major BIM services company in India backed by Sequoia Capital which grew to over 500 employees in just 4 years. In 2010, Michael assumed the helm at CityZenith as CEO and embarked on his personal mission to transform life in cities around the globe.

Michael has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and in several major business, government and AEC publications worldwide. He has also received awards for his work, including Building Design and Construction’s ’40 Under 40’ award. In 2014, Michael was honoured as a World Cities Summit Young Leader in Singapore for his life-long contribution to improving sustainability and the quality of life in cities.

James Egan

Shaw Academy CEO

Founder and CEO of Shaw Academy, James spent many years honing his skills in customer acquisition, conversion and retention. In education, especially, James identified two fundamental problems; firstly, that education was too expensive due to the limitations of physical classroom size; secondly, without engagement with students, you are not offering education, instead a library. The answer was simple – digitise the classroom and build classrooms without limits. With Shaw Academy, James has been the global leader in disrupting the centuries-old education industry by offering affordable, accessible education to everyone, everywhere. James is a constant innovator and lives by the passion of EGBET – making everything get better every time.