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It all started in 2010 in Barcelona when Andrea Lisbona, the founder & CEO, decided to revolutionise the commoditised industry of hand sanitisers. She decided to take hand hygiene to a whole new level with a visionary team that had a sixth-sense for what was needed. In 2017, Andrea and her team decided to cross the ocean and take over the world from United States market while partnering with Zobele, a multinational manufacturing company as a strategic partnership for growth.

Lifeed is the social impact EdTech company that creates innovative solutions for human capital development, engaging the corporate world to make a real change. Since 2015, it’s been transforming life transitions and caregiving activities - such as parenthood, caregiving or going through a crisis - into an opportunity for personal and professional growth. By mixing digital and real life experiences in an augmented learning platform, Lifeed promotes a continuous learning method that creates work-life synergy, generating wellbeing, engagement and professional efficacy.  Lifeed programs are based on years of scientific research and validated at an international and national level through the scientific committee and academic partners, such as Università Ca’ Foscari, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and Kellogg School of Management. Named by McKinsey & Company as one of the 10 most innovative companies in the world for employee reskiling, today Lifeed’s augmented training is used by over 15,000 people in 70 companies. Over the years, Lifeed and its founder Riccarda Zezza have received various awards, including Ashoka Fellowship (2016), UBS Social Innovation Award (2017) and the Sole 24Ore Social Impact Award (2018).

Natalie Kehren is a Toronto based woman, who is a founder of Holistic World, co-founder, and creator of The Wellness Market, the creator and mentor of the 8-week program Healing to Begin: Breaking Through to Rise, and a pacesetter within the wellness community. Natalie Kehren has always been a dreamer, an all or nothing-er, a seeker of truth, of empowerment, and freedom. After making the choice to live her life as she dreamt it to be, she saw becoming an entrepreneur and business owner as a way to make it possible & merge all her passions into one.​ 

Andrea Reynolds started her career as an accountant with KPMG before joining their Management Consultancy division in London, directing projects for a number of organisations such as GE Capital Aviation, Ryanair, Lloyds Bank and the FCA. Andrea then left KPMG to start her own corporate finance consultancy, where for over 10 years she raised funding for businesses across loans, investment and grants. It is this experience that led to the launch of SWOOP Funding.​

Joanna Jensen is the Founder & Executive Chairman of the UK’s number one baby and children’s toiletry brand, Childs Farm. In July 2020, she also launched an adult brand Farmologie following huge demand from women and parents.  As well as being an entrepreneur, Joanna is a mother of two, Mimi and Bella.  They were the inspiration behind the launch of Childs Farm and the products she created, as they both had sensitive skin and nothing on the market worked.

Claudia Giolitti was born in Caracas Venezuela. She knew she wanted to be a psychologist since she was 15 years old when she found an old psychology textbook in her parents’ bookshelf and was fascinated about being able to understand human behaviour and help others. During her childhood-adolescence years, Claudia’s mother was struggling with depression. Later on, she found out that it was all related to the sexual abuse that her mother experienced when she was a child. Claudia decided to use her own personal experience to empower other young women who were ready to take control of their lives and find emotional and psychological healing from childhood trauma.

Moving Ahead founder & CEO Liz Dimmock has been working in the fields of consultancy, coaching and mentoring for the last 16 years in businesses ranging from 30 employees to 330,000. Having held both commercial, coaching and leadership roles at IMG, KPMG, HSBC (Global Head of Coaching), and GP Strategies (Managing Partner).  In 2012 Liz cycled the entire route of the Tour de France, one week ahead of the men’s race, matching them stage for stage, riding 3,479kms in 21 days. This journey highlighted the inequalities in the sport she loves; the fact that there is no women’s Tour de France (despite the clear physiological ability of women to complete it) was a driving factor in the creation of Moving Ahead. Moving Ahead currently represents the opportunity to make a difference in a space that needs change, and an opportunity to draw on founder Liz Dimmock's passions, subject-matter expertise and experience. It also represents a fantastic opportunity to bring together this exciting team who are global experts in their respective fields.

Alicia Patterson is a pelvic health specialist, somatic therapist and women's health mentor. Beyond talk therapy and modern medicine, women’s health expert, Alicia Patterson, guides you through the holistic practice of accessing your inner power through your pelvic bowl. As the root of your body, your pelvic bowl holds the healing power to restore vitality to your life, overcome past trauma and pain, and ignite your future. Using her own carefully crafted framework for women’s pelvic health, Alicia has successfully guided healing practices for over ten years. 

Canadian based business professor Laura Cole is the founder of Your Latitude, a Canadian solution-focused coaching, and mediation practice, specialising in organisational culture development and change management. Her clients cover a wide range of industries and include academic departments, international franchises, not-for-profit organisations, and the health and financial sectors.  

Karen Holden established A City Law Firm to provide experienced and dynamic solicitors in the City of London, who could think outside the box, whilst delivering at competitive costs.