Hear from world-class Thought Leaders and Innovators as they share their triumphs, their challenges and their stories.
*Speaker job titles were accurate at the time of their participation in the event.
Marvin is the Global Head of the Data Management Lab (DML), formed in 2022 to drive data transformation initiatives that will enable internal and external users to effectively leverage Bloomberg’s world-class data ecosystem. Prior to joining Bloomberg last year, Marvin’s career spanned government and private industry, with a particular focus on fiscal and economic dynamics. Most recently, he drove enterprise computing strategy and training in the New Analytic Approaches team at UBS, a team that partnered with sell-side research analysts to adjudicate investment hypotheses with data. Prior to UBS, Marvin served as a Research Lead at the JPMorgan Chase Institute, a global think tank dedicated to providing analysis and insight for the public good. By using his unique blend of research experience, computational science, and ability to establish and instill new tools and analytic approaches, DML is empowering Bloomberg's data professionals to make their products “ready-to-use” for Bloomberg's users.
Obum has dedicated the vast majority of his 20+ years career to delivering educational programmes that have helped millions of students across the world develop the critical skills they need to thrive in the rapidly changing world.Obum currently leads education efforts at Google DeepMind aimed at building a more diverse, inclusive and responsible AI ecosystem, where people from all backgrounds can contribute to using AI to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges. Previously, he led various education efforts at Google for over 12 years, including co-founding the Google Educator Groups, which has now scaled to ~60 countries.In 2022, Her Majesty The Queen awarded Obum an OBE for services to Computing & AI education, and for championing diversity & inclusion in the tech sector. In 2019, he was featured in the Financial Times' top 10 most influential BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) leaders driving change in the UK's tech sector.Obum is a member of the Governing Council of the University of Essex and a Trustee of UK Youth (UK’s no. 1 youth charity).
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Pamela Maynard is CEO of Avanade, the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. She is passionate about building a people-first culture for Avanade’s 60,000+ global employees while driving sustainable, responsible growth centered around client success. Under Pamela’s leadership, Avanade has put its purpose of making a genuine human impact at the forefront of the work we do for our clients, their employees and their customers. She’s also tied our purpose to the contributions we make in our communities and the planet.
Before being named CEO in September 2019, Pamela was President of Product and Innovation, focused on defining and delivering innovative solutions for our clients. Earlier in her Avanade career she was President of our European organization after serving as General Manager of Avanade UK.
Throughout her career in the technology industry, Pamela has helped clients rethink how they do business, whether it’s to be more resilient in their operations; empower their employees to do more remotely; strengthen customer experience and beyond. She is passionate about using technology as not just an enabler of business, but to support the missions of non-profit organizations and closing the digital divide, especially for young people, so that everyone has an opportunity to participate in the digital world.
Ranil is Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, the largest financial services provider in the UK with 30million customer relationships across the UK. LBG is on a mission to Help Britain Prosper and Ranil’s making sure that’s a well-governed data fuelled journey. Ranil is a Non-Exec Director for the ICO and sits on the Google Advisory Board. Prior to working at LBG he worked across continents at HSBC, Standard Chartered and Commonwealth Bank Australia.
Renee has been part of the tech industry for over 30 years and has built her career delivering high quality software engineering in commercial organisations.
Renee earned a Bachelor’s degree from Penn State University, she holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and is a veteran of the US Army Signal Corps.
In her career, she has been fortunate enough to work with amazing organisations like: Ford Motor Company, Vodafone, Deloitte, NICE, Oxford University, Sky and now ComparetheMarket (the one with the Meerkats!).
She has a passion for building and leading high-performance teams. Renee is an excellent motivator, coach, and mentor, who has a strong track record of developing leaders. Renee is now focused on FinTech for Good with an amazing team of engineers, product managers and other business partners at Compare the Market. Together they will take the brand that everyone loves and make financial decision-making a breeze for everyone.
Renee has many interests her favourites are cooking, sport, sci fi, fashion, Women-in-STEM, art, music and opera, taking her passion a step further by vice chairing for OperaNorth, the largest regional opera company in the UK. Renee has been a supporter of West Ham United Football Club for over 20 years. She loves to travel
and all things orange. Renee now lives with her husband Michael in London.
Seyi (pronounced Shay-Yee Aki-Wo-wo) is a multi award-winning founder and CEO. Before setting up Glitch, Seyi was elected as the youngest Black female Councillor in East London at age 23. It was when she experienced online abuse while in this position that Seyi decided to set up Glitch, to help support women and marginalised communities, and co-design practical solutions with Governments, NGOs and tech companies to make the online space safer for all. Seyi is also a former TED speaker, respected consultant and writer within the political and tech space, and Penguin-published author of How To Stay Safe Online, a digital self-care toolkit for developing resilience and allyship.Seyi sits on the Guardian Council of Yoti, TikTok Trust and Safety Council, is a Gates Foundation Global Goalkeeper, and, in 2020, she was appointed a Knight Fellow of the Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics at George Washington University.In Spring 2022, Seyi was offered an MBE as recognition of her work but made the decision not to accept.
Sharmadean Reid is the Founder and CEO of Beautystack. Her mission is to use technology to economically empower women in the beauty and wellness industries, globally. A former fashion stylist and brand consultant who started WAH as a hip hop magazine for girls in 2006 while still at university. She then founded WAH Nails as a side project in 2009.WAH completely changed the beauty landscape with its millennial voice, feminist attitude and innovative salon space. She then wrote two books, delivered global pop up nail salons for 100s of brands, created a product line with Walgreen Boots Alliance and was awarded an MBE from HRH Queen in 2015 for services to beauty.Alongside all of this she shared her journey by organising business events for young female entrepreneurs culminating in futuregirlcorp.com.In 2016 she opened a dreamy salon in Soho, London, showcasing a Virtual Reality Nail Design app in collaboration with DVTK. She is constantly looking for ways to push the salon experience further through technology.With her experience from WAH, she founded Beautystack, a new way to book beauty through images.
Shelina is Director of Consumer Equality at Ogilvy Consulting. In this first-of-its-kind role, she is pioneering an industry paradigm shift to tackling 'consumer inequality' facing Minority Ethnic groups, in order to drive business growth. An award-winning brand and business leader, she is also Ogilvy's Vice President of Islamic Marketing, and has worked to engage Muslim audiences with some of the world's biggest and best known brands such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and ASOS as well as its most exciting start ups. Shelina is a passionate advocate for businesses and brands to reclaim their creative and commercial superpowers for business growth and societal impact. She is a bestselling non-fiction as well as a children's author, including her most recent kids' book about the British Empire. Alongside all this, as a podcaster, op-ed writer, marketeer and sandwich generation carer, she is working hard as a polymath-in-progress to create social and cultural change.
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From a young age Timo has been heavily influenced by business and technology starting his first company, Alpha Tutoring at 14 and his second EntrepreneurXpress at 17 which he ended up selling 11 months later.
In his second year of university studying Computer Science, Timothy started Fanbytes after seeing how marketing to Gen Z was broken.
Fast forward 4 Years, Fanbytes is a 65 person company helping brands like the Government, Deliveroo, McDonalds and Nike to win the hearts of Gen Z.
Timo is an internally renowned speaker on the topic of marketing sharing the stage with Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix and Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland to name a few as well as a guest columnist for The Guardian, The Drum and Campaign Magazine.
Timo has also used his influence for good, building the Fanbytes fund which invests and funds influencer campaigns for black businesses aiming to erode the cycle of a lack of support and funding for black owned businesses.
Timo’s single mindedness is changing the way the marketing world views Gen Z has drawn a lot of attention with his candid thoughts on marketing seeing him grow an audience of 10,000’s of people on Linkedin.
Tom (aka “TFC”) is a serial entrepreneur who has helped build companies with a combined value of $5B - and he’s not done yet. His fourth startup, Lollipop (https://www.lollipopai.com/), is an AI-driven grocery shopping assistant that does the meal-planning and shopping for you. It aims to change the trajectory of human and planetary health by helping the world make better food choices.
Prior to that, he helped scale Monzo bank to 4 million customers as COO while building their multi-award-winning customer support service and included scaling his team from 30 to 1000 in two years. He also co-founded Curve, an all-in-one card aggregator with several million users and was Founding COO of Osper, a banking app for children.
In his (limited) spare time, Tom has co-founded All In, a community of leading startups and scaleups who have pledged to move the needle on diversity in the tech ecosystem. He also advises the UK Government on tech in his role as Digital Economy Council.
Tom is the proud father of Freddie and Lily and has learnt the hard way the importance of not letting startup building get in the way of being a good Dad and Husband. When he isn’t busy creating companies and parenting, he is a keen pianist, an average but enthusiastic cook, a runner/swimmer and was once a full-time composer. He’s also passionate about mental wellbeing having faced personal tragedy and life-long challenges from close family members with depression and paranoid schizophrenia.
Before catching the startup bug, he spent many years in management consulting with Bain & Co and Accenture. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA from New College, Oxford in Psychology, Philosophy & Physiology. Speaking events: Tom regularly presents keynote talks in return for a small contribution to charity. Topics include: The ability of AI to get your chores done, improve your health and maybe save the planet along the way; Impact of food on health & the planet; Scaling Monzo into a unicorn; Tech diversity / co-founding All In; UK tech ecosystem and the government’s role; and Protecting mental wellbeing/avoiding burnout while balancing intense jobs and parenthood.
