George is the Founder and CEO of Wolf & Badger, the leading platform for independent ethical brands worldwide. Since its participation in Upscale and Future Fifty, George has continued to scale the business into a certified B-Corp and now profitable international retail platform supporting over 2000 independent brands. George has expertise in scaling companies in the US, with this market now the largest for Wolf & Badger. George is a former consultant at PwC and founder of other startups, and is now also an active angel investor.

Perri is the co-founder and CEO of Mastered, a new breed of organisation dedicated to lifelong learning in the creative industries. Over 10 years they’ve supported career development for 6000+ professional creatives from over 95 countries. Their clients include luxury fashion group LVMH, British games developer Sumo Group and artificial intelligence research company Google DeepMind.

Prior to this, she was a commissioning editor at The Guardian and Psychologies magazine and in 2012 she published her first book, Material World (Virgin Books) a guide to craft and the DIY movement, that featured contributions from Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin and 100+ others.

She is also a trustee of The Spitz, a charity dedicated to tackling loneliness and isolation through live music.

Mazdak is CEO and Founder of Avant Arte, a curated marketplace that makes discovering and owning radically more accessible for a new generation. From Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor to Jenny Holzer and George Condo, Avant Arte collaborates with leading contemporary artists to create limited edition sculptures, print editions and digital works, connecting them with the largest community of young art collectors and enthusiasts online. As part of its mission to make art more accessible, Avant Arte collaborates with leading public art institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dia Art Foundation, the National Portrait Gallery and Contemporary Arts Society to raise millions of dollars and create thousands of new patrons to support the work museums do in providing public access to art.

Prior to Avant Arte, Mazdak worked at Rothschild & Co, advising companies on growth strategy, financing and IPOs, before joining leading online music community Boiler Room in 2013 — first as a board member, then as Chief Operating Officer, where he led on strategy and operations, product, marketing and finance, shaping it into the world’s largest online music broadcaster. He is a Trustee of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

“Karen is Chief Investment Officer at Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm with more than $900m under management. Karen leads investment strategy for the firm, working closely with its U.S. and European portfolio of more than 60 early-stage companies and sitting on the boards of Luxury Promise, Moonshot, Fnatic, and EDITED.

Karen has been recognised as one of the leading women in venture capital in Europe. She also chairs ESG_VC, an industry-wide initiative to improve ESG performance in venture-backed businesses involving more than 250 funds in the U.K. and Europe, and she leads INSEAD Venture and Entrepreneurship, a network of alumni of INSEAD who are now the foremost investors and entrepreneurs in Europe.

Karen was previously with the Boston Consulting Group and ran the Watch division of Swiss Army/Wenger. She also has experience with start-ups as both a founder and advisor. Karen has lived and worked in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and has an MBA from INSEAD and a BSBA from Boston University.”

Ivan Mazour is the CEO and Founder of Ometria, a Customer Data and Experience Platform, which helps 200+ fast growing retail brands like Steve Madden, Sephora, Holt Renfrew, Pepe Jeans and Hotel Chocolat better understand and communicate with a billion individual customers. Ometria has raised over $70m in funding from leading global VCs like InfraVia, Octopus, Sonae and Summit, as well as many of London’s leading technology entrepreneurs. Ivan has also invested in over thirty other technology startups, holds degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and in Economics from the Open University, and is a regular public speaker (check out his TEDx talk on why we should all want to share our personal data).