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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)

Matthew Guilford

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Common Health, Philippines

Matthew Guilford is co-founder and CEO of Common Health, a purpose-driven company that uses mobile technology to advance universal health coverage. Through an innovative model that integrates telemedicine, last mile service delivery, and health financing benefits, Common Health improves access to care and reduces out-of-pocket costs for families with complex health needs like pregnancy, early childhood health, and non-communicable diseases. Since launching services in Myanmar in April 2021, the company has grown to serve more than 30,000 members through a blended business model that integrates consumer sales and donor support.

Prior to founding Common Health, Guilford served as co-founder, chief commercial officer, and chief growth officer of Telenor Health, a part of global telecommunications company Telenor Group. Over the course of five years living and working in Dhaka, he helped to scale health coverage to more than five million clients across Bangladesh.

He holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School and a degree in biological basis of behavior (behavioral neuroscience) from the University of Pennsylvania. He splits his time between Yangon, Myanmar and Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Mina Guli

Founder and Chief Water Advocate, Thirst, Hong Kong SAR, China

The founder and CEO of Thirst, Mina is a global leader, entrepreneur and adventurer
committed to making a difference in the world. Following a successful 15-year career in
law, finance and climate change, Mina established Thirst – a YGL initiative non-profit changing the way we think about water.

Since its launch in 2012, Thirst has educated more than 2million students in China, trended
on Chinese Twitter, set a Guinness World Record, run innovation competitions with the
participation of over 700,000 students and now works with thousands of qualified
volunteers and schools across China with the support of the Chinese Government.

Mina is also a keen ultra-distance athlete, having started running only at the age of 22 after
a severe injury. She runs to raise awareness and inspire action around the global water
crisis and in doing so, has set three world firsts. In 2016 in just 7 weeks, Mina ran 40
marathons across 7 deserts on 7 continents, including Antarctica – a continent that left an
indelible impression on her for its critical role in the water cycle. In 2017, Mina ran 40
marathons in 40 days on 6 continents down 6 of the World’s great rivers – to promote the
UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 (water). Along each of her routes, Mina interviews
local people and water experts, putting together a real and very visual representation of the
water crisis we are facing. Currently available in short film format, Mina and the team are
documenting these stories so they are accessible to the millennial generation. Incredible
journeys whose messages about water have reached over 5 billion people.

Concerned about the pace of change, in 2018, Mina started #RunningDry – a campaign
involving her running 100 marathons in 100 days for 1 reason – to make saving water so
famous it’s not just the right thing to do, but the only thing to do. After breaking her leg at
marathon 62, thousands of people in more than 160 cities in over 50 countries and
territories rallied in support, donating their miles and collectively building #RunningDry into
a global movement for change.

Mina is a highly acclaimed public speaker and frequent media commentator, featuring in
hundreds of national and global newspapers, magazines and television programs around
the world including the New York Times, Fox, CBS, CNN, BBC, ITV, ABC, Guardian,
Forbes, Fortune, CCTV, Al Arabiya and has spoken at the UN on several occasions.

She is an advisor to the Chinese Government’s sustainability program, on the Academy for
the US$1miillion Global Teachers Prize, a Board Member for the Global Water Partnership
and a member of the inaugural board of the Antarctic Science Foundation.

In recognition of her incredible achievements, Mina received both YPO Global Impact and
Innovation Awards, was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum,
one of Australia’s most influential women, a “Global Visionary” by UBS and by Fortune
Magazine in 2016 as one of the 50 greatest leaders in the world.

Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir

Managing Director, Festa - Centre for Sustainability and Social Responsibility, Iceland

Hrund is an Author, Speaker and an awarded Sustainability Leader. She is the former Managing Director of Festa - center for sustainability in Iceland, Advisory Council member at Yale's International Leadership Center (ILC), Founding Partner at the Nordic Circular Hotspot, Board Member of Eyrir Invest and author of the book The Art of InnSæi - The Icelandic Way to Harness your Intuition, to be published early 2024 by Bonnier Lagom. Hrund has a broad-based experience, ranging from post-conflict reconstruction and social entrepreurship to the arts. She is the co-Director and Writer, of the feature documentary InnSæi - the Power of Intuition (2016), which explores the art of flourishing, leading and innovating in an age of distraction and transformation, shown world wide e.g. on Netflix. In 2008-2010 she created and directed Prisma - a diploma module, acknowledged by the Nordic Council of Ministers for best responding to 21st century workplace. She is the former chair of the Technology Development fund in Iceland, focusing on innovation. Her career with the UN entails a permanent position (resigned in 2004), being a Programme Manager of UNIFEM (Un Women) in Kosovo after the war, and occasional consultancies, the most recent one in 2020 in Bangladesh. Hrund has a BSc from the University of Iceland, a MSc from the London School of Economics, a Diploma from Harvard Kennedy School and has studied executive leadership at Yale and Oxford Said Business School. Hrund is a WEF Cultural Leader, WEF Young Global Leader and a Yale World Fellow.

Gaurav Gupta

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gabit, India

Gaurav Gupta is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Zomato, a pioneering food technology start-up. He launched the table reservation business and scaled it up across- India, UAE, Australia. Apart from leading advertising sales globally, Gupta played an instrumental role in launching subscription service Zomato Gold and scaling it to one of the fastest growing paid membership programs.

Radhika Gupta

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Edelweiss Asset Management Ltd, India

Radhika Gupta is an Indian business executive. She is Chief Executive Officer of Edelweiss Asset Management. She started at the company as business head of multi-strategy funds and was responsible for setting the strategic direction for the team’s investment, distribution and platform. She is India’s only female head of a major asset manager and has set up the country's first domestic hedge fund. Gupta is a public speaker. A YouTube video of one of her talks, titled “The Girl With a Broken Neck”, has been viewed more than 110,000 times. She is a graduate of the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint degrees in economics from the Wharton School and computer science engineering from the Moore School.

Sanjay Gupta

Managing Partner and Founder, LinkedCap, USA

Informed by his twenty-five years of experience in turnarounds, restructuring and capital formation in Fortune 50 and Forbes 50 contexts, Sanjay provides thought-provoking insight on matters of finance, strategy and governance across a range of disciplines, including family office, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, governance, and business ethics,

Sanjay earned his AB in Philosophy from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and his MBA from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He also studied Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Leadership at the Darden School of Business, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Strategic Financial Analysis at Harvard Business School, and Sustainability Studies at Stanford University.

Eyal Gura

Managing Director, WebTalk Ltd, Israel

Mr Gura is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Zebra Medical Vision, a deep learning medical imaging company that will enable scalable healthcare for the 2 billion people to join the middle class by 2025. Eyal is an Angel investor and previously venture capitalist with Pitango Venture Capital, the largest venture capital fund in the Middle East. Formerly, Co-Founder: PicScout (acquired by Getty Images); PicApp (acquired by Ybrant Digital); The Gifts Project (acquired by eBay). Adviser, WebTeb.com, the leading Arabic medical portal. Member, Advisory Board, Tmura.org. Member of the Board, Latet. Founding Member, Tovanotb.org. Eyal is a faculty member at IDC's Zell entrepreneurship program and a graduate of the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2014 Eyal was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum

Sergei Guriev

Professor of Economics, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France

MSc, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; 1994, PhD; 2002, Dr Sc, Russian Academy of Science. 1997-98, Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2003-04, Visiting Assistant Professor, Princeton University. Since 1998, with New Economic School (NES), Moscow; 2004-2013, NES. Since 2013 - Professor of Economics, Sciences Po, Paris. Columnist, Russian and international business media. Consultant to governments, international organizations. Board member: companies, foundations and think tanks. Author of articles and international journals. Interests: transition economics, contract theory, corporate governance, labour mobility. Recipient of awards.

Natashya Gutierrez

President, Rappler.com, Philippines

Experienced multimedia journalist with a demonstrated history of working in the online media industry. Skilled in digital reporting, breaking news, editing, management, investigative journalism, and content strategy.

As a leader and editor, Natashya built two newsrooms in Asia-Pacific: the Indonesia bureau of multi-award winning newsroom Rappler, and the Asia-Pacific digital news operations for Vice News. Under her watch, the Vice APAC team won several awards for their reporting on human rights in the region.

As a journalist and correspondent, she is trained in text, video, and social media. Natashya is particularly knowledgeable on Southeast Asia, and has lived and worked in Manila, Jakarta, Singapore and Sydney in the last decade. Her work is largely focused on covering women's rights, politics, democracies and disinformation.

Cyrus Habib

Priest, Society of Jesus (Jesuits), USA

2016, elected Lieutenant Governor, at the age of 35. Had previously served in the State House of Representatives and the State Senate, as Democratic Whip and a member of the Democratic leadership team. As Lt. Governor, he is President of the State Senate, serves as Acting Governor whenever the governor leaves the state, and oversees an agency whose key issues include economic development, trade, and higher education. Currently, Co-Chair of the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association. A three-time cancer survivor, has been fully blind since age eight. Parents immigrated to the US from Iran; the first and only Iranian-American to hold statewide elected office in the United States. Graduate, Columbia University, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and Yale Law School. Former Editor, Yale Law Journal. Practiced law at Perkins Coie and served as Distinguished Lawmaker in Residence at Seattle University Law School. Truman Scholar, Soros Fellow, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

May Habib

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Writer AI, United Arab Emirates

May Habib is CEO and Co-Founder of Writer, a leading generative AI platform for enterprises. With expertise in natural language processing, AI-driven language generation and online language trends, she led Writer to be recognized on the Forbes AI 50 list in 2023. Habib’s impressive track record includes securing over $20 billion in investments in technology and investments. She played a crucial role in helping US software companies raise capital at Lehman Brothers. Forbes honoured her in 2018 as one of Cloud 100 Rising Stars for her work at Qordoba. Habib holds an AB degree in Economics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, where she was Associate Managing Editor of The Harvard Crimson. She was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers community (2011-2018).