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James Gifford

Head of Sustainable and Impact Advisory, Credit Suisse, Switzerland

Dr James Gifford is the Head of Impact Advisory for Credit Suisse. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of Zurich, where he teaches a joint program with Harvard on impact investing for the next generation of ultra high net worth family members. He was the founding Executive Director of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and led the organisation from inception in 2003 until 2013. Other roles include Head of Impact Investing at UBS and Director of Impact at TAU Investment Management. James has published numerous articles and book chapters on responsible investment, and has a PhD from the University of Sydney on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate sustainability performance.

Mack Gill

Chief Operating Officer and Board Member, Torstone Technology, United Kingdom

Mack Gill is COO & Board Member, Torstone Technology, a leading global cloud platform for financial markets. Previously he was CEO of MillenniumIT, a capital markets software company and subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. Previously, he was President of SunGard Global Technology, responsible for managing SunGard's technology strategy and operations with more than 5,000 employees worldwide. Joining SunGard in 1994, Gill was also President of SunGard Global Services, where he managed SunGard's consulting business worldwide. Additionally, he served as Corporate Vice-President of Alliances, responsible for developing SunGard's business and technology partnerships. Gill serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Quantitative Finance (IAQF). Before joining SunGard, he worked at the United Nations Department of Political Affairs. He holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and a Master's degree from Yale University.

Sadiq Gillani

Chairman, Condor, United Kingdom

Sadiq is Chairman of the advisory board for Condor, the second airline of Germany and also sits on the board of eTraveli, a large online travel agency. He is also an executive coach, applying the tools of Carl Jung. He was formerly a Senior Vice President with Emirates Group and a Lecturer in Management at Stanford, where he started an MBA course on the Travel & Airline Industry in 2014. He was also previously a Senior Vice President with Lufthansa Group, serving as Chief Strategy Officer. He began his career with Bain & Co. in London. He is a Young Global Leader and on the WEF's Global Future Council for Sustainable Tourism. He graduated from Cambridge University with First Class honours and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ian Glasner

Group Head of Innovation, Ventures, and Digital Partnerships, HSBC, United Kingdom

Ian Glasner is Group Head of Venture Investment, Innovation, and Digital Partnerships at HSBC, where he leads the global teams covering AI, digital assets, quantum, venture capital, product incubation and digital partnerships. Previously he served as Managing Director and Chief of Staff for the Global Technology and Operations division at HSBC. Glasner has also held key product and sales roles at Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Apple. Early in his career, he founded a technology company in the restaurant space. Outside work, Glasner is dedicated to philanthropy and has launched two non-profit efforts in Haiti. He currently serves as a Board Member for Global Fund for Children. He holds two BSc degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Business Administration.

Ayla Göksel

Chief Executive Officer, Ozyegin Social Investments, Türkiye

Ayla Goksel is CEO of Özyegin Social Investments, a network of non-profit organisations, including ACEV (Mother Child Education Foundation), Hüsnü M. Özyegin Foundation and Iz Child. These organisations work in the fields of education (infrastructure, programs and policy), early childhood and parenting, womens empowerment, rural livelihoods and post-disaster rehabilitation. The programs and investments have reached 1,4 milion people across Turkey. ACEV’s award winning programs have also been implemented in fourteen other countries in the Middle East, Europe and most recently Asia and Latin America. Goksel is also Trustee of Ozyegin University and serves on the boards of the Education Reform Initiative and Tohum Foundation for Autism. She has been selected a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Senior Fellow of the Synergos Institute, Qatar Foundation WISE Laureate and World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council member. She holds a BSc from University of Bath, MSc from London School of Economics and has conducted fellowships on civil society and non profit organisations at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University.

Neal Goldman

Managing Member, Idyllwild Ventures LLC, Spain

Neal Goldman is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Connectivity Data Systems. He is also Co-Founder of Goode Holdings, an investment holding company with interests in the information technology and financial services sectors that is the sponsor of a US$ 225 million private capital fund focused on investing in middle market consumer companies. Prior to Goode, Goldman was Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital IQ until its sale to McGrawHill/Standard & Poor's. Previously, he was a Managing Partner at Uhuru Capital Management and an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Lehman Brothers and a private equity investor at Lincolnshire Management. Goldman received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he also served as an Adjunct Faculty Member. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Member of the Young Presidents Organization and a Board Member of Hatzalah and the Jerusalem Foundation.

Andrés S. Gonzáles-Silén

Executive Chairman & Co-founder, Asistensi, Spain

Dr. Andres Simon Gonzalez-Silen is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Venemergencia, a conglomerate dedicated to provide health services in Venezuela.
Established in 2004, Venemergencia employs +300 Venezuelans and serves more than 3.5 Million affiliates nationwide on a 24 hour basis. It is composed of five companies and one non-profit organization. The companies focus on emergency medical services; homecare; clinical laboratory; primary care; and technology for telemedicine and mobile health. The non-profit organization educates paramedics in association with the Universidad Simón Bolívar and establishes emergency medical brigades in shantytowns, as a means for developing a sustainable model of emergency care for vulnerable communities.
Dr. Gonzalez-Silen holds an M.D. degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, an M.B.A. from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), and a certificate in occupational health from the Universidad J.A. Páez. During medical school, he gained accreditations as a Paramedic in courses sponsored by the American Heart Association. Lastly, he attended an entrepreneurship short-program at Babson College in the US.
His achievements have been recognised by his induction into the prestigious Forum of "Young Global Leaders-YGL" were he is a member of the Advisory Board and "Global Shapers" from the World Economic Forum, were he was invited to attend the Annual Meeting in Davos 2015, he is an "Influential Leader" of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, “Young Presidents Organization-YPO" 2015, a "Millenium Leader 50-ML50" from the Group of Fifty (G50), "Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2014" from Venezuela Sin Limites and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and was recognised as one of the "50 Influential Leaders of IESA" in Venezuela and was invited included into the "Hall of Fame for IESA Entrepreneurs". More recently he has been honoured with hierarchy of "Major" in the National Firefighter Squad.
He has also been appointed as member of the Board in different organizations: Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración-IESA, Young Global Leaders-Advisory Board (World Economic Forum), Venezuela Sin Límites Foundation (Digitel), Alcarín Group, Salsano Group, Advisory Council of Health of the El Hatillo-Caracas Municipality, Goodwill, Global Dignity and the National Transplant Organization of Venezuela-ONTV.

Ashish Goyal

Portfolio Manager, Balyasny Asset Management L.P., United Kingdom

Senior portfolio manager at Balyasny Asset Management. Global macro investor, with a focus on Emerging Markets and Asia. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2015). The first visually impaired student to have graduated from Wharton Business School, recipient Joseph P. Wharton award, selected by peers, given to one individual who best represents the Wharton Way of Life. Honoured with India’s highest civilian award for a disabled individual – the National Award for the empowerment of persons with disabilities – by the President of India. Has raised thousands of dollars for causes ranging from education of poor children in India to blindness research and international peace. Passionate about theatre and a supporter of the Print Room, a new theatre based in London. Represented the London Metro club in the domestic UK blind cricket tournament.

Christine Graeff

Global Head of Human Resources, Credit Suisse AG, Switzerland

Graduate, European Partnership of Business Schools in European Business Administration. Started career as an investment banker, Corporate Finance team, Kleinwort Benson. Then two years with Burson Marsteller, London. 2001, founding partner, German business of Brunswick, with a focus on communications in the financial sector. Since 2013 Director-General, European Central Bank, running the communications strategy and then setting up the communications for the Single Supervisory Mechanism, the New European Banking Supervisor, and now also in charge of it since 2014. Serves on the board of TalentNomics, a non-profit organization supporting women's empowerment. Member: Generation CEO; German Baden-Badener Unternehmer Gespräche; Atlantik Brücke. Supports various communications networks and initiatives. Honoris Causa Doctorate, Middlesex University (2015).

Felix R. Graf

Chief Executive Officer, NZZ Medien-Gruppe, Switzerland

has been CEO of the NZZ Media Group since June 2018. Previously, he was a member of the executive board of Centralschweizerische Kraftwerke AG (CKW) from 2011 and led the company from 2014 as its CEO. At the same time, he was a member of the Executive Committee of Axpo Holding. Prior to that, he worked for several years in various management positions at Swisscom. Among other things, he was responsible for the Swisscom entertainment services, including Swisscom TV, which he developed together with his team from strategy to mass production. From 1998 to 2002, he led McKinsey consulting mandates in various industries and countries. Graf holds a master's degree in physics and chemistry from ETH Zurich and a doctorate in physics from ETH Zurich. In 2007, he was named Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Anne-Sophie Grouchka

Chief Executive Officer, Solvd GmbH, Germany

Anne-Sophie Grouchka started her career in 2005 as an adviser to Xavier Bertrand, the French Minister of Labour, Employment and Health. She joined the pharmaceutical group IPSEN in 2007 as adviser to the chief executive. From 2008 to 2012, she held the respective positions of adviser, joint chief of staff and chief of staff to Nadine Morano, the then-Secretary of State for Family and Solidarity who become Minister of Apprenticeships and Professional Training. Grouchka joined Allianz France in 2012 as project manager to Jacques Richier, the chief executive officer. In 2013, she was appointed head of strategy and innovative projects. In February 2018, Grouchka was nominated to the executive committee of Allianz France as chief customer officer in charge of claims, underwriting and customer journey. She has also been head of customer relationships and solutions since January 2016.

She is a graduate of the ENS Ulm (Ecole Normale Supérieure), the ESSEC (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) business school and Sciences Po Paris. Anne-Sophie also holds postgraduate diplomas in German studies (Paris IV University) and in International Relations (PhD school of Sciences Po).

Anne-Sophie is a member of the Young Global Leaders Forum - class of 2019.

Carlalberto Guglielminotti

Chief Executive Officer, NHOA, France

Carlalberto Guglielminotti is a serial entrepreneur and since 2013 CEO of NHOA, leading its listing at the Paris stock exchange in 2015 (NHOA:PA) and reaching in 2021 over €450 million market capitalization.
He transformed a technology start-up, Electro Power Systems, into ENGIE Eps, and then to NHOA: a top five global player in Energy Storage, a European leader in e-Mobility thanks to the JV with Stellantis (STLA:PA), and the developer of the largest EV fastcharging infrastructure in Southern Europe, Atlante, a fast and ultrafast charging network enabled by renewables and energy storage.
Guglielminotti has been co-founder of two other successful startups: Blackshape Aircraft and Restopolis, now TheFork (TripAdvisor).

Current Roles:
Guglielminotti is Group CEO at NHOA, Partner at 360 Capital, Chairman of Free2Move eSolutions and member of the Board at:
- Prima Industrie (PRI:IM)
- Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
- Leadersel Innotech ESG Scientific Committee (Ersel)

Education:
He holds an MBA from SDA Bocconi Business School. He specialized in:
• USA (Stanford University and European School of Economics)
• Israel, in Philosophy (Haifa University)
• France, with a LL.B with merit (Université Paris V)
• Italy, with a JD summa cum laude (University of Turin)