Nadeen Matthews Blair is the Founder and CEO of Crescent Advisory Group, which
provides consulting, workforce development , and executive coaching services to help business
leaders bridge the gap between strategies and tangible results. With over 20 years of
experience in strategy, digital transformation, advanced analytics and AI, marketing,
communications, and business development at leading organisations like National
Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited, McKinsey & Company, and JPMorgan Chase,
Nadeen believes digital transformation powered by artificial intelligence presents an
accessible and scalable path for all enterprises to level up their competitiveness.

Recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice for AI and Digital Strategy, one of CIO Views' 10
Most Influential Black Corporate Women to Watch in 2023, among the Top 25 Most
Innovative Bankers in Latin America by FinTech Americas in 2017, and a World
Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2017, Nadeen has a proven track record of
catalysing impact by setting bold aspirations, leveraging digital and AI technologies, putting people at the centre of change, and sharing powerful narratives to inspire action.

Passionate about giving back, Nadeen channels her volunteer and philanthropic
efforts toward initiatives that empower underserved individuals through education and technology. Under her leadership, the NCB Foundation more than tripled the annual
beneficiaries of its education programmes and solidified its reputation as Jamaica's
leading organisation for education-focused philanthropy. The Foundation was
recognized with the Prime Minister of Jamaica’s Medal of Appreciation for Service to Jamaica and The Gleaner Honour Awards for its outstanding contributions in education. During her decade-long tenure, she strengthened the NCB Foundation's governance and forged strategic partnerships.
Nadeen continues her charitable focus through her board positions at the University of Technology, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's Innovation and Digital Transformation Committee, and Jamaica's Digital Transformation Advisory Council.
Additionally, she serves as a mentor for small businesses through RevUp Caribbean.

Nadeen is also a dynamic and engaging speaker and trainer who seamlessly bridges the gap between generations, engaging both young students and professionals and established business leaders with her profound insights on mindsets, continuous learning, and the transformative power of technology. As a leading expert in digital transformation and artificial intelligence, and a champion of education, Nadeen serves
as a beacon of guidance, inspiring her audience to embrace change, become
continuous learners, harness the potential of AI and other innovative technologies, and leverage these tools for personal and professional growth in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

A firm believer in work – life integration, Nadeen is a devoted wife, mother of two girls. She is an enthusiastic user of ChatGPT and other AI applications, enjoys writing, reading, travelling, and culinary adventures. She recently published a children’s e-book entitled “I Am What I Believe.”

Billy Mawasha has been CEO of Kolobe Nala Investment Company (KNI) since April 2019. KNI is an investment holdings company with interests in mining, manufacturing, and energy.

Prior to KNI, Billy was Country Head – South Africa for Rio Tinto and Managing Director of Richard Bay Minerals. He previously held leadership, operational and technical roles at Anglo American (Kumba Iron Ore), AngloGold Ashanti and De Beers. His career has given him deep exposure to mining operations and projects across the Africa continent.

Billy is a Certified Director (IoDSA) and a Non-Executive Director of JSE listed Impala Platinum Holdings, Exxaro Resources and Metair Investments.

In 2017, Billy was selected as a Young Global Leader (YGL) of the World Economic Forum, and in March 2023, he was invited to join the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Responsible Resource Use.

Billy graduated with an Engineering degree from the University of Cape Town and has completed executive development programmes at Harvard Kennedy School, Kellogg School of Management, London Business School and GIBS in South Africa.

BSc (Hons) in Symbolic Systems and MSc (Hons) in Computer Science, Stanford University. Formerly: with UBS Research Lab, Zurich, Switzerland; SRI International; 13 years at Google in numerous positions, including as engineer, designer, product manager and executive, and launched more than 100 well-known features and products; played an instrumental role in Google Search, leading the product management effort for more than 10 years; latterly, Vice-President, Local, Maps and Location Services, Google. July 2012, joined Yahoo! as President and Chief Executive Officer. Member of the Board of Directors, Wal-Mart. Member of the Board of various non-profits, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Ballet and the New York City Ballet.

1999, Bachelor's in Music, University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2006, BA in French, Classics, Media & Writing and 2007, BA (Hons) in Political Communication, University of Cape Town. 2015, Master in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School. With the Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa: Researcher, then National Media Liaison Officer; 2008, stood for public office; 2009, elected to Parliament, DA National Spokesperson and Shadow Deputy Minister for Communications; 2010, Shadow Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform; October 2011, elected DA Parliamentary Leader and Leader of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly by the DA Parliamentary caucus. Mason Fellow and JFK Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Fall Resident Fellow, Institute of Politics, Harvard University; Author in Residence, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Advisor, Apolitical Group Limited. Co-founder, Apolitical Foundation. Fisher Family Fellow in the Future of Diplomacy Project - Harvard University. Co-founder and CEO, Futurelect; Member of Board of Trustees, Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. Member of Board of Trustees, Institute for Security Studies. Board Member, Women Political Leaders. Advisory Board Member, Africa No Filter. Fellow, Keseb Democracy Fellows.

Rhea Mazumdar Singhal is the Founder and CEO of Ecoware, India’s first and largest sustainable packaging company. Rhea was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar, the highest civilian honour for women by the President of India. Rhea is a World Economic Forum ‘Young Global Leader’ (YGL) and a member of the CII National Committee on Women Empowerment & Clean Air. Rhea has attended the University of Bristol, Oxford and Harvard University. Prior to founding Ecoware, Rhea was a senior sales executive at Pfizer Inc., UK .

From the UK, Rhea moved to India where she founded Ecoware with the sole aim of solving India’s plastic menace. Ecoware disrupted the food packaging industry by introducing a fully compostable alternative to plastic. Ecoware is made from the waste of agricultural crops that would otherwise be burnt, thus contributing to debilitating air pollution. One of Rhea’s greatest successes has been persuading the Indian Railways, the largest food service operator in India, to switch to Ecoware biodegradables trays. Rhea has been featured in major national and international publications and has appeared as a speaker at events such as Salesforce and the National Commission for Women in India.

Francesca McDonagh is a member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group AG and is the Group Chief Operating Officer, based in Zurich. She is responsible for steering the strategic development of the bank, including our key operational and cost transformation programs, including focusing on organizational design and bank-wide efficiencies. Francesca also holds functional reporting lines for Strategy, Sustainability, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Group Business Support Services (GBSS), and Procurement.

Francesca joined Credit Suisse in September 2022 from Bank of Ireland where she served as Group CEO from 2017 to 2022. Prior to that, she worked at HSBC for 20 years, serving in a number of leadership roles, including Group General Manager, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, and Regional Head, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Middle East and North Africa. In her two decades with the firm, she worked in Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and the Americas.

Francesca is also a member of the World Economic Forum of Young Global Leaders, Class of 2014. Francesca holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Honours) from Oxford University.

Mariame McIntosh Robinson is a global financial services leader with decades of experience as a P&L leader, investor, board member and advisor to leading companies in the US and the Caribbean.

Mariame currently serves on several regional and global Boards of publicly listed and private companies in Canada and the Caribbean in regulated sectors (insurance, banking, energy, and telecom) ranging in EBITDA up to US$1.3B, including Parkland Corporation (TSX:PKI), Digicel Group, Wigton Windfarm (JMSE:WIG) and Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility. She also Chairs several sub-committees of the Boards including the Investment Committees and HR Committee.

Most recently Mariame was a senior Executive at a late stage fintech firm in the USA for two (2) years, and prior to this was the President & CEO for over six (6) years at First Global Bank in Jamaica where she led the Bank’s successful transformation and strategic pursuit of financial inclusion.

Mariame also spent almost two decades investing in and helping Caribbean businesses to transform; and advising US Fortune 500 company CEOs and their teams on growth strategy and implementation at Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company.

Mariame holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, an MBA from Harvard Business School and a M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University where she attended as the 1998 Jamaica Rhodes Scholar.

She is married with two children.

Seasoned professional in the field of climate change, energy transition and philanthropy. Currently lead climate programme at Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, largest private foundation focused on children and climate.

Formerly: worked on climate change and energy issues, United Nations Environment Programme, Paris; with EcoSecurities, one of the largest carbon offset project developers in the world, from its start-up phase through to its acquisition by J.P. Morgan & Chase in early 2010, as Global Head of Origination, then US Country Director; chief operating officer of a start-up developing high-quality biomass supply chains deriving from existing plantations in West Africa.

BSc in Environmental Sciences, University of Madrid; MSc in Environmental Change and Management, University of Oxford; Executive MBA, London Business School.

Amit is Managing Director and Global Lead - Sustainability Services for Strategic Clients and Commercial Growth at Accenture where he is responsible for growing the sustainability services business at the firm’s top global accounts, embedding sustainability in large transformational deals, and driving select strategic partnerships in sustainability. Amit is a member of the global leadership team tasked with building the end-to-end sustainability services business at Accenture, spanning strategy through execution. Earlier, he advised Accenture's clients and architected new capabilities for driving growth, continuous innovation, and business performance primarily in the Media, EdTech, Food and AgTech sectors, focusing on the CEO and the Board agenda. Previously, Amit was the founder, CEO and Board Director of RML AgTech/Reuters Market Light (later split into FarmBee and other businesses), a globally awarded mobile-led content and commerce business serving farmers, agri enterprises and financial institutions. Amit founded the business in Thomson Reuters, UK and later spun it off raising VC funding and ran it as CEO till it scaled to millions of users, multiple multi-lingual digital products, and B2C and B2B revenue streams. Before founding RML, he held various strategy, operational and investment roles in Reuters, UK, and was also the founding advisor at London Business School to help set up the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. A Young Global Leader (YGL) alumnus at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Amit also sits on WEF's Global Future Council (GFC) on Clean Air. Amit graduated from SRCC, India, did his MBA from London Business School, and has attended YGL Modules on Global Leadership, Public Policy, and Energy Transition at Harvard and Princeton Universities.

Gaurav Mehta is the Founder and CEO of Dharma Life. Dharma Life is a social enterprise working to improve the quality of life in rural India through a women entrepreneurship model that provides low-income households and individuals at the last mile with livelihoods, awareness and access to socially impactful products and services. Since 2009, DL has created 17,000+ DLEs (more than 70% women) and has impacted 14m+ beneficiaries across 50’000 villages in 14 states of India through its interventions, which are aligned to the UN SDGs with a focus on the four areas: energy access and climate change, gender equality, health & hygiene, and livelihood & digital education.

Previously, Gaurav spent three years in the private equity space at General Atlantic, a large growth capital investment firm (until 2008). He focused his efforts on opportunities in the consumer and media, and healthcare sectors across Europe. He also initiated and led General Atlantic’s clean energy efforts in Europe. Prior to General Atlantic, he has worked at Morgan Stanley in London in the investment banking division, where he specialized in European capital products and healthcare investment banking. Gaurav graduated with a BA Hons degree in International Business Studies and French from the European Business School, London. He also has an MBA from London Business School.

Souad Mekhennet is an award winning reporter for The Washington Post’s national security desk and author.
She worked previously for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and NPR.
Mekhennet was a 2012 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a visiting fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as well as the Geneva Center for Security Policy and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
She first reported for The Post in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, delving into the backgrounds of the Hamburg cell and writing on the al-Qaeda threat in Europe, North Africa and the Gulf. She was part of The Post’s coverage of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. From 2004 until 2013 Mekhennet worked at The New York Times where she produced some of the most distinguished reporting on the Bush administration’s war on terrorism and "Inside the world of Jihad."
In 2014 she returned to The Post as a contributor and was upped to staff writer in 2017.
Mekhennet has written four books, most recently her critically acclaimed memoir, "I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad", which the New Yorker described as “an enthralling and sometimes shocking blend of reportage and memoir from the centers of jihadi networks.”
It was included in the 2017 long list for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, received the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, in 2018 she received the Henri Nannen journalism award and the "Boerne Preis" one of the highest literature awards in Germany.

Patricia Menendez-Cambo was formerly the Deputy General Counsel of SoftBank Group International and the General counsel of SoftBank Latin America Fund and the SB Opportunity Fund . Previously she was the Vice Chair of Greenberg Traurig. During her tenure at the firm she also served as Chair of the Global Practice, Chair of the Corporate & Securities Practice, Co-Chair of the Global Energy & Infrastructure Practice, and was a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Previously, Patricia served as Subdirectora General for Telefónica S.A. and General Counsel to a number of their subsidiaries assisting them in relation to their global expansion. The National Law Journal recognized Patricia as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America," one of the "Top 40 under 40" attorneys, one of the “50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America,” and one of the “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America.” Patricia was also by Chambers for "Outstanding Contribution to Gender Diversity," as well as "Outstanding Contribution to the Legal Profession". Patricia is a Young Global Leader Alumni. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of the Americas, Woodrow Wilson Center, the Board of Overseers for the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a member of the University of Miami Board of Trustees. Patricia holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a BA in Economics from the University of Miami. She is active with a number organizations working toward gender diversity and inclusion.