The Leading Speakers Bureau

Co-Founder of Mr and Mrs Smith

Tamara Lohan is the entrepreneur behind the ‘aspirational but still accessible’ travel brand Mr & Mrs Smith. Tamara, CTO of the company, leads the development team who power the cutting-edge technology behind the website, the booking engine and the iPhone app. She has also launched the brand extension Smith & Family – for family travel. In 2014, Tamara was awarded an MBE for services to the British travel industry.

“The Art of Travel”

[expand title=”In detail”] Tamara grew up between Spain and the UK and studied languages at Oxford University. She caught the travel bug in her teens and her first job out of university took her to Brazil to launch a new energy drink. Tamara worked in marketing for major brands such as Honda, Unilever and Ericsson and honed her technical knowledge through many data-driven projects, including building large CRM databases through online channels. In 2002 Tamara left the corporate world to help run the family business – an exclusive introductions agency called The County Register, which also gave her the freedom to launch Mr & Mrs Smith. The business now has offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Singapore and Ibiza and represents around 1000 of the world’s best boutique hotels.
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[expand title=”What she offers you”]Tamara’s astute and honest speeches enthuse and inform budding entrepreneurs looking to turn their ideas into functioning businesses.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Tamara provides her audiences with very practical take-aways. Her experience and knowledge make her presentations both highly respected and memorable.[/expand]

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Astronaut, Physician, Scientist & Photographer

Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman to fly in space. An astronaut, physician, and photographer, Roberta expanded the horizons of millions when she joined the space shuttle Discovery for its 1992 mission.

“Society needs heroes to rejuvenate, re-energize and renew itself with visions of the possible. That’s what heroes do.”

[expand title=”In detail”] For more than a decade at NASA, Roberta headed an international research team, continuing to find new connections between astronauts recovering from the microgravity of space and neurological illnesses on earth, such as stroke and Parkinson’s disease. Roberta is a member of the Governing Council of icipe, a pan-African institute researching the influence of climate change on the spread of insect borne diseases. She is Co-Founder and President of The Roberta Bondar Foundation, created to inspire all ages and to view and to engage our natural environment in a positive light through the lens of photography. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Roberta’s highly motivationaltalkspunctuated by her stunning photographsfocus on change, social responsibility and our environment. Roberta brings added value with her maturity, wisdom gained from “in the trenches” life experiences, broad educational background and depth of personality.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]By customizing each speech and keynote Roberta will ensure that any event will be extraordinary.
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Former Professional Tennis Player & Commentator

Conchita Martínez is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She is the only Spanish player to have won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon, where she beat Martina Navratilova to win the 1994 title. Conchita also was the singles runner-up at the 1998 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open. She reached a highest world ranking of No. 2 in October 1995 and finished the season in the top 10 for nine years. Conchita won 33 singles and 13 doubles titles during her 18-year career. She is currently the captain of the Spanish Federation Cup team and the Spanish Davis Cup team. She has worked as a commentator for Eurosport SpainCanal+, Marca TV and DIRECTV Sports for Latin American viewers.

“The only Spanish player to have won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon”

[expand title=”In detail”] Conchita is the Spanish national tennis coach, both for male and female players. Since her retirement in 2006, Conchita has devoted most of her time and energy to working as a coach. She has always believed that with dedication and direction one can exceed expectations on and off court. Her passion lies in watching players maximize their potential. Conchita has worked with a variety of different types of players such as Shahar Peer, Janet Husarova and Rennae Stubbs. She also assisted the Australian Tennis Federation working with different players, including Anastasia Rodionova.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Conchita Martinez started her sports consultancy firm with the purpose of helping athletes and companies achieve their dreams and grow exponentially. As a pro tennis player, athletics have always been a great motivation for Conchita. Driven by her passion, knowledge and experience, she collaborates with individuals and businesses so that together they can achieve their goals.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Conchita’s delivery is friendly, professional and extremely engaging. She captivates her audience with her energy and enthusiasm.[/expand]

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Cricketer, Coach, Commentator, Motivational Speaker

Rahul Dravid is a former Indian cricketer, who captained the national Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket teams. He started playing cricket at the age of 12 and later represented the state team at the under-15, under-17 and under-19 levels.

“An internationally acclaimed cricket player”

[expand title=”In detail”] Rahul was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack in 2000 and received the Player of the Year and the TestPlayer of the Year awards at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004.In August 2011, after receiving an unexpected call to play in the ODI series against England, Rahul declared his retirement from ODIs as well as Twenty20 International (T20I), and in March 2012, he announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket. He appeared in the 2012 Indian Premier League as captain of the Rajasthan Royals. As of October 2012, Rahul is the third-highest run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, and the third Indian cricketer to exceed 10,000 runs both in Tests and in ODIs, Wisden ranked him the third greatest Test batsman of all time, after Don Bradman and Tendulkar.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Rahul recollects some of the memorable moments of his cricket career. His speeches are anecdotal in nature and Rahul shares stories of some iconic moment in Indian cricket in a way that professionals can relate to. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An entertaining and inspiring speaker, Rahul is a hugely popular sports personality at a variety of events.[/expand]

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Uber Co-founder, Tech CEO and CTO

Oscar Salazar is a seasoned entrepreneur, senior executive, and investor in numerous successful technology firms. He is one of the three original founders and former CTO of the transportation tech giant known as Uber. He has recently launched Ogon LLC, an advisory company through which he provides strategic, technical and marketing advice to entities such as Rubicon Global Inc., ALEX AND ANI, Sontra Cargo and many others, both in the U.S. and internationally.

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Head of Tropical Nursing, Former Nurse for the International Red Cross

Claire Bertschinger was the young nurse whoinspired Band Aidand subsequently Live Aid, the biggest relief programme ever mounted, after appearing in the 1984 BBC report from Ethiopia surrounded by 85,000 starving people

“One of the true heroines of our times”

[expand title=”In detail”] Claire went on to accumulate vast experience from many years working in emergency disaster relief, primarily in war zones, with the International Committeeof the Red Cross (ICRC). Since retiring from full time field work, she has trained other medical professionals to work in resource poor settings and continually sought to raise awareness of the key issues in global public health. Claire has been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal and was honoured for her inspirational nursing career with the Woman of the Year – Window to the World Award and the Human Rights and Nursing Award. In 2010 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Claire now works at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as Assistant Professor and Director for the Diploma in Tropical Nursing.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]What she offers you Claire’s main theme is that “we can and must transcend our differences, and make humanity, not economics, our highest priority in life”. She decided that with her life experiences so far, she could show the world that an ordinary person can overcome educational, emotional and physical difficulties and still make a difference to our planet. Claire continues her extraordinary work in presentations and lectures far and wide in Europe.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Claire tells of the Ethiopian famine that inspired Bob Geldof and the World to make a change. Claire’s emotional and inspiring stories and anecdotes from around the world educate and motivate her audience. [/expand]

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Former Team Principal, Team McLaren Mercedes & Chairman & CEO, McLaren Group

Ron Dennis was head of the world-beating McLaren Formula 1 team from 1980 to 2009. Having announced his decision to step down as McLaren team principal in 2009, he makes it very clear – he is not retiring, but going to work harder, so that McLaren can “power through this recession”. Lauded as one of Britain’s most successful managers, he is known for combining an obsessive attention to detail with a powerful long-term vision.

“Formula One’s kingmaker…a man rated as F1’s supreme operator'” – The Observer

[expand title=”In detail”] At just 21, Ron Dennis headed up engineering and mechanics for Australia’s triple world Formula 1 champion Jack Brabham. He created the McLaren International team in 1980 when he merged his own company, Project Four, with Team McLaren Limited. The outfit dominated Formula One in the 1980s and at either end of the 1990s, with four consecutive constructors’ titles. McLaren has competed in Formula One since 1966, but it was under Dennis that it achieved dominance in the 1990s, becoming the most successful Formula One team in history at that time, with 148 Grands Prix wins. The team has also claimed eleven Formula One Drivers’ World Championships and eight Formula One World Constructors’ Championships.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Ron Dennis, the ultimate Formula One street fighter, shares with his global audiences his experience and knowledge of how to lead in the fastest, most competitive global marketplace of all. Ron’s McLaren has been called a frictionless machine and he reveals how to create a culture that brings together the top talent from your industry and unites them behind a common goal.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Ron Dennis’ truly captivating and highly motivating presentations are not to be missed. His insights into to the establishing of a world class company, that continually pushes forward the frontiers of technical design and application in many fields of advanced engineering, are relevant to every industry.[/expand]

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Founder of Ohrling Ltd

Antti Ohrling is the founder of Ohrling Ltd, a specialised marketing strategy & go-to-market firm operating in Europe, China and India.He advises companies on how to capitalise on the opportunities in the new, digitally-driven world, by combining digital possibilities with plain common sense often found in brick-and-mortar environment. He is a serial entrepreneur who combines creativity with strategy. He has worked in the FMCG, retail and wholesale, media, advertising, mobile gaming and IT and telecommunication industries.

“Antti’s trademark, in his own words, is to make things happen”

[expand title=”In detail”] Antti has brought Angry Birds to India and Southeast Asia as regional director and has helped to restructure Jolla/Sailfish, an independent mobile operating system working as their COO in Hong Kong. He co-founded Blyk, the first and original ad-funded mobile network, in 2005. He was the CEO of Blyk UK and then the Chairman of Blyk Media India until April 2012. Prior to Blyk, Antti founded Contra Advertising Group, an international advertising group operating in three continents, now part of Touch Worldwide.He is a Fellow at RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce, UK) and Honorary Member of Board in MMA APAC. He is also inventor of over 20 international patents.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Antti draws on his experience as a corporate executive and serial entrepreneur and as someone with exposure to management styles across the world and from large MNCs to sizzling start-ups, to share his perspective on the two distinct styles of management. He takes the audiences through the characteristics and the advantages and drawbacks of both styles.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Through examples, Antti helps the audience understand how to arrive at that vision and create a nurturing environment for innovation in their company. [/expand]

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Complexity Scientist, TED Senior Fellow & Co-Founder of Vibrant Data Inc.

Eric Berlow is an internationally recognised ecologist, complexity scientist and speaker who specialises in not specializing. He is co-founder of Vibrant Data Inc., a company with a social mission to help people think more holistically about complex problems. Vibrant Data is building mappr – a cloud-based, multimedia, interactive network visualization and publishing platform to share stories about how things are connected. Their affiliated mapprlabs leverages mappr to help untangle complex problems that hold the promise of exceptional positive impact for humanity.

“Eric is named among the Top 100 creatives by Origin magazine”

[expand title=”In detail”] He was the founding director of the University of California’s first environmental research center in Yosemite National Park, where he continues to research climate change impacts to protected ecosystems and endangered species. Since 2004 Eric has been a Research Scientist at Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Laboratory, Berkeley CA. He is a TED Senior Fellow and his talk with Sean Gourley was named one of the top 8 data visualization talks on TED.com. Eric earned a BA in Biology from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Ecology from Oregon State University.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Eric applies his work on ecosystems to the business world, to help audiences rethink the way they structure their business. He helps audiences from any industry think bigger, question prevailing wisdom, and better assess their market. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Eloquent and thought provoking, Eric’s presentations are invaluable sources of actionable information that engages audiences around the globe. [/expand]

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CEO& Co-founder, Games2win

Alok Kejriwal is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in launching digital startups and making them profitable. He has been successful in building ventures in India, China and the US. He is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Games2win, one of the largest casual mobile gaming companies in the world. His previous ventures include contests2win.com, India’s first online contesting site and Mobile2win, acquired by Walt Disney in China and Norwest Ventures in India.

“A successful startup digital entrepreneur”

[expand title=”In detail”] Alokholds a master’s degree in commerce from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai. He has vast fund raising experiences,having successfully raised venture capital from some of the world’s leading VCs such as Softbank China, Siemens Acceleration, Clearstone Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. Alok collaborates with like-minded partners to startup companies and pounds the pavement to create rapid business traction. His signature is the ability to create companies that capture tremendous value with minimal capital investment. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Alok actively mentors first generation entrepreneurs looking at starting up on their own and helps them with startup strategy, VC contacts, negotiating funding, introduction to fortune 500 brand owners and media owners.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Alok is a persuasive and charismatic speaker who has a tremendous knack for making business ideas come to life in an easily way.[/expand]

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