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Alex is a disabled founder who started his company to design a powered wheelchair by combining his lived experience with industry leading design. Alex has extensive experience in founding and growing a company as a disabled person, specifically in: product development and bringing a medical device to market, raising finance through grants and equity, and forming a team.

Beth Kume-Holland is an award-winning disability inclusion expert and the founder and CEO of Patchwork Hub, a disabled-led social enterprise providing an inclusive jobs board, alongside training and consultancy services for employers.

As CEO of Motability Operations, Andrew Miller oversees the UK’s single largest car fleet. With a proven track record in business transformation through technology, Andrew’s priorities include driving the transformation of Mobility Operations’ electric fleet in line with 2030 targets.

Carolyn Dawson is Chief Executive of Founders Forum Group, overseeing all FF events and businesses, and steering the strategic development of our global network. Previously, Carolyn was President at Informa Tech, a FTSE 100 UK company championing specialists in their core markets. Carolyn led a global portfolio of Digital Media, Research, Events, and Training across a variety of technology sectors and presided over the joint venture between Founders Forum and Informa Tech, prior to her assuming her role as FFG CEO.

Carolyn was recently appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her services to London Tech Week, which she’s led for the past seven years. In this time, she built its global profile and advanced its mission to showcase the best of UK tech. Carolyn is passionate about growing a dynamic and inclusive tech community to realise the positive impact of technology on our world and to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Christine Hemphill is founder and Managing Director of Open Inclusion, a UK-based global consultancy advancing disability and age-inclusive research, design, and innovation. An economist and passionate inclusive insight leader, she empowers organizations to create better experiences for all through lived experience-informed solutions.

Dan Hubert is founder and CEO of AppyWay, launched in 2013 after his frustrations with parking in London. A former creative director, he leads the UK’s most awarded intelligent kerbside platform, helping cities and fleets optimise kerb management for smarter, cleaner urban mobility.

Emma Partlow is a leading voice in accessible travel and transport. She brings industry expertise, policy insight and lived experience to help remove barriers and make transport fairer for disabled people.

As Chief Executive of the National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat), her leadership reflects the organisation’s mission to connect evidence, lived experience and innovation to equip decision-makers to improve accessibility. Through an evidence-led, people-first approach, she shapes industry practice and delivers national and international improvements.

Her research and professional contributions have been recognised through several prestigious awards. She was a Queen’s Baton Bearer in 2022 and named on the 2024 Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 list of the UK’s most influential disabled people, in the Transport, Retail, Service and Hospitality category. In 2025, she was also named Global Accessibility and Inclusion Leader of the Year.

Emma brings a personal and professional commitment to championing accessible transport that delivers real impact and lasting change.

Eric is Chair of Centaur Robotics, a firm reimagining personal mobility. Eric also volunteers as Aging2.0 UK Ambassador, Chair Open Age, and Advisory Board member to RCA’s Design Age Institute. Eric is an honorary associate professor, De Montfort University. Previously, Eric was Interim Director, Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Healthy Ageing.

Jon Fletcher is CEO of Wheelie Good Travel Company and founder of Silver Service Cruises Ltd an independent travel business and member of Protected Trust Services. He is a leading authority on accessible and inclusive travel. Jon is a member of the Spain For All accessibility advisory board of the Spanish Tourism Authority and is an in-demand speaker on Accessible Travel.

Jon has regularly writes for and is featured in the Travel Trade media for his advocacy for change in the travel industry and last year published a groundbreaking report on disabled passenger’s experiences of airport assistance, which led to contributing evidence to the Government about improvements in airport assistance and accessibility.

Jon is also a blogger on accessible travel and podcaster. He is currently working on a new podcast that will focus on innovations in accessible travel which will be released later this year.

Jon is a member of the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100.

The Motability Foundation is one of the largest charitable foundations in the UK – working with Government, industry and the not-for-profit sector to tackle the transport challenges faced by disabled people and champion accessible transport for all.

Joseph’s career began in a call centre, where he was regularly reported for asking customers too many questions. Autistic and deemed ‘trouble’, he was about to be fired but fortunately, someone saw his problem-solving talent, called him an analyst, and that moment jumpstarted his career in technical innovation.

With two decades of leading strategy across technology companies and a passion for improving the world we live in, Joseph is now Co-Founder and CEO of Clu, an ethical-AI that identifies human potential. He also advises government, education, and industry on the skills economy, future of work and economic mobility.

Martyn Sibley is a disability inclusion changemaker, entrepreneur, advisor, and author exploring how societies thrive when everyone is included. His work spans business, media, technology, and policy, with a focus on how inclusive thinking and design can create better outcomes not only for disabled people, but for society as a whole.

As CEO and co-founder of Purple Goat, Martyn leads one of the world’s most inclusive marketing agencies, helping global brands authentically engage disabled audiences and creators while unlocking the £300 billion “Purple Pound.” Purple Goat has become known for combining lived experience with commercial impact, working with major consumer brands across campaigns, strategy, and accessibility.

Alongside this, Martyn is building Purple Changemakers, a platform supporting social entrepreneurs, disabled founders, and purpose-led leaders to turn ideas into real-world impact through storytelling, resilience, partnerships, and sustainable business thinking. Through Purple Collective, he is also helping develop collaborative solutions and campaigns around systemic accessibility challenges, bringing together disabled people, organisations, brands, and policymakers to create practical change where gaps still exist.

Martyn draws deeply from lived experience and over two decades of changemaking, from co-founding Disability Horizons, one of the UK’s leading disability lifestyle publications, to co-building Accomable, the accessible travel startup later acquired by Airbnb. His work and commentary have been featured by the BBC, The Guardian, Forbes, and the Financial Times’ Sifted.

Named one of the UK’s most influential disabled people, Martyn is passionate about ensuring disabled entrepreneurs, creators, and communities are not only included in the future, but actively shaping it. Through speaking, writing, mentoring, and media, he continues to bridge empathy and action across business, culture, and social change.

He is the author of Everything is Possible.

Molly is proud to lead the amazing teams who design and deliver the Foundation’s core £130m+ a year activity across grant-making, innovation and research, as well as the support functions that allow the business to thrive.

Nick founded First Light Fusion during his PhD studies to develop a new method for inertial fusion as a clean, baseload power source. Under Nick’s leadership, the company raised $100M, grew to 100 people, and reached experimental demonstration of fusion. Nick has now started Simfinity, developing the next generation of multiphysics simulation tools. Nick is a Visiting Professor of Practice in Oxford and is proudly autistic.

Prerna Goel is COO at Freedom, a regulated pension-linked fintech focused on later-life spending and decumulation. She has 20+ years across banks, fintechs and payments, including scaling ClearBank from 20 to 300+ people and a prior COO role at Seccl. She also runs Rygur, an advisory practice working with banks, fintechs and regulators globally.

Prerna is a founding member of Project Nemo, which advances accessibility and disability inclusion in financial services and was recognised with the Money20/20 Grand Prix Diamond Award. She is also a NED at Patchwork Hub.

Her work intersects operational delivery and inclusion, with a particular interest in building systems that work for the people they most often exclude.

Rikesh is the Commissioner of the Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre on parttime basis – a UK government-funded initiative to stimulate more market innovation to create more value from the £450Bn spent each year by shaping new markets. Rikesh also provides independent consulting services on transport, innovation and technology and data through Innovate Today to cities and organisations across the world focusing on strategy, assurance, stakeholder engagement, scrutiny, change management and governance.

He is a Special Advisor for leading innovators in the climate tech space including Voi, Waymo, See.Sense and Hayden AI.

Previously Rikesh led Transport for London’s award-winning innovation team to create new value through advances in new technology for London by working with start-ups, corporates, academia, accelerators and venture capitalists. He was responsible for creating TfL’s first Innovation Hub which has delivered some pioneering projects on areas such as air quality, road safety, active travel, enhancing customer experiences to retail and property development. The Hub set out the organisation’s key challenges and problem statements, bringing in the best innovators from across the world in industry and academia, piloting and scaling innovative solutions with the potential to commercialise, as well as establishing the right culture and procurement processes in the company focusing on agility and design thinking to work with market innovators by doing things better, quicker or cheaper. Rikesh was also responsible for TfL’s leading open data which has seen 700 apps powered by TfL data used by 42% of Londoners which is worth £130m per annum. He also was actively involved at TfL during the Olympic Games and COVID-19. Rikesh sits on the London Transport Museum Board as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Data and Digital Board, as well as the Global Urban Mobility Director at Cities Today, the global public innovation think tank serving as Chair on the Transport Innovation Alliance with mobility innovation leaders from across the world. He has also been an Ambassador for London Tech Week between 2020 and 2024. He is currently advising the UNDP on their future of cities through innovation programme. He also serves on the Mayor of London’s Frontier Innovation Board. In academia, he is a Lecturer on Innovation at the Royal College of Arts, London Business School and The Engineering and Design Institute. He is a serving Fellow at the University of Manchester. Previously, he lectured at the University of Oxford, and he co-chaired the Data and Digital Board at the Institute of Civil Engineering. Rikesh also served on the Mayor of London’s Smart London Board from 2016 to 2023. Rikesh has been recognised in the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech in 2019 – 2023, being named one of the top five for sustainability

Rikesh is recognised as a thought leader and speaker on public sector innovation with his practical and academic experience at leading organisations and institutions.

Rikesh is the Commissioner of the Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre on parttime basis – a UK government-funded initiative to stimulate more market innovation to create more value from the £450Bn spent each year by shaping new markets. Rikesh also provides independent consulting services on transport, innovation and technology and data through Innovate Today to cities and organisations across the world focusing on strategy, assurance, stakeholder engagement, scrutiny, change management and governance.

He is a Special Advisor for leading innovators in the climate tech space including Voi, Waymo, See.Sense and Hayden AI.

Previously Rikesh led Transport for London’s award-winning innovation team to create new value through advances in new technology for London by working with start-ups, corporates, academia, accelerators and venture capitalists. He was responsible for creating TfL’s first Innovation Hub which has delivered some pioneering projects on areas such as air quality, road safety, active travel, enhancing customer experiences to retail and property development. The Hub set out the organisation’s key challenges and problem statements, bringing in the best innovators from across the world in industry and academia, piloting and scaling innovative solutions with the potential to commercialise, as well as establishing the right culture and procurement processes in the company focusing on agility and design thinking to work with market innovators by doing things better, quicker or cheaper. Rikesh was also responsible for TfL’s leading open data which has seen 700 apps powered by TfL data used by 42% of Londoners which is worth £130m per annum. He also was actively involved at TfL during the Olympic Games and COVID-19.

Rikesh sits on the London Transport Museum Board as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Data and Digital Board, as well as the Global Urban Mobility Director at Cities Today, the global public innovation think tank serving as Chair on the Transport Innovation Alliance with mobility innovation leaders from across the world. He has also been an Ambassador for London Tech Week between 2020 and 2024. He is currently advising the UNDP on their future of cities through innovation programme. He also serves on the Mayor of London’s Frontier Innovation Board.

In academia, he is a Lecturer on Innovation at the Royal College of Arts, London Business School and The Engineering and Design Institute. He is a serving Fellow at the University of Manchester. Previously, he lectured at the University of Oxford, and he co-chaired the Data and Digital Board at the Institute of Civil Engineering. Rikesh also served on the Mayor of London’s Smart London Board from 2016 to 2023.

Rikesh has been recognised in the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech in 2019 – 2023, being named one of the top five for sustainability.

Rob Haines is co-founder of Founders Intelligence, now Managing Director at Accenture. He specialises in growth and innovation strategy, helping global corporations scale new business models by connecting with technology entrepreneurs and startups. Previously, he led the successful StadiumLIVE startup exit.

Sebastian Espinosa is the Chief of Staff at SmartJob LLC, a pre-seed impact investor and advisory firm. He oversees investment operations, international program execution, and strategic partnerships, including a multi-year initiative focused on building an inclusive mobility startup hub in São Paulo.

Prior to SmartJob and Graduate School, Sebastian worked at Accenture Strategy and Lionpoint Group, advising private equity sponsors, financial services firms, and technology companies on M&A, growth strategy, and market entry.

He holds dual graduate degrees from Columbia University – an MBA from Columbia Business School and an MIA in Financial and Economic Policy from the School for International and Public Affairs – and a BA in History and Economics from Columbia University. While in graduate school, he served as Chief of Staff at 73 Strings, an investment and carbon market advisor for the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Nigeria, and a summer investment associate at the Urban Innovation Fund in San Franscisco.

He grew up in Miami and lives in Brooklyn, New York.