Ian Simmons has served as Vice President Business Development, Corporate Engineering and R&D since 2012. He is responsible for validating innovation opportunities for Magna along with developing cooperative relationships with customers as well as corporate venture groups, government agencies, educational communities and other research institutions. He also manages outside investment in partner technology companies to commercialise inventions for the Magna product groups.

Within BMW Mrs. Ouffata is part of the European BMW i Ventures and BMW i Mobility Services Strategy team. In her role as an investment principal she invests in start-ups that offer sustainable innovative mobility solutions which have the potential to improve urban mobility inside and outside of the car.

Shiva heads the Innovation Finance Advisory Division in the EIB. She has been at the EIB since 2003, first in Risk Management, then in its Lending Directorate financing higher risk, innovative projects before joining the Advisory Services Department.
Before EIB, Shiva was Director of High Yield at Fitch Rating Agency developing its European High Yield rating business and worked in the M&A Advisory and Emerging Markets Investment Banking Group at J.P. Morgan in New York and London.
Shiva holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an Executive MBA from London Business School (LBS). In 2000, Shiva co-founded the European High Yield Association (EHYA), which is now part of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME). In 2006, Credit Magazine nominated Shiva to its Top 50 Women in Credit.

Jonathan is venture director at Castrol innoVentures, the innovation and investment team from BP’s lubricants business. He has been in business development roles within corporate venturing and venture investment since the late 1990s. He has held board directorships in several private companies and has been an advisor to a number of technology focused venture capital funds in Europe, US and Israel. Jonathan’s technical training is in Chemistry with a D.Phil from Oxford University.

Ben Luckett is the Managing Director of Aviva Ventures – Aviva’s Corporate Venture Capital Fund. His role is to invest in early stage, high growth potential companies for strategic returns. Ben set up the fund in August 2015 as part of Aviva’s Innovation Strategy.
Prior to this Ben was the Strategy Director for the UKGI Business and has also held roles in Enterprise Risk and Finance.
Ben represents Aviva on the East of England CBI regional council and is actively involved in supporting and mentoring local businesses.
Prior to joining Aviva Ben was Senior Marketing Manager at Centrica where he was responsible for the online channel for British Gas.
Ben started his career at Accenture where he was a change management consultant specialising in Customer Experience Design for Banking and Insurance clients.

Anthony is the CTO of Jaguar Land Rover. He was previously CTO for Group Transmission at Vodafone.

Felix is a serial entrepreneur and the founder & CEO of Drover, a car rental marketplace initially focused on the gig economy. Felix has previously started and exited two other venture-backed businesses, online gaming marketplace GameGoods (2006) and online fashion club Stylistpick (2010). Felix graduated magna cum laude from WHU, Germany’s # 1 business school, in 2006.

Over twenty years of international leadership and management experience in technological innovation from conceptual engineering design and development through to concept sales to create viable business lines for blue chip and start-up companies alike. A proven track record of leading strategy development and execution to deliver rapid and sustained growth in technology, design and engineering businesses.
A mechanical engineer by training his career spanned most branches of engineering before changing focus to join pioneers in the mobile internet world for telecoms, media and entertainment. Now in his sixth year with McLaren Applied Technologies he seeks to capitalise on the convergence of data management, predictive analytics and simulation to deliver high performance design of products and processes in fields as diverse as health, energy, transport and consumer brands.
McLaren Applied Technologies was awarded the Autosport award for pioneering and innovation in December 2015.

MaaS Ltd is bringing into reality the concept of Mobility as a Service (MAAS) by building the world’s first Mobility Ecosystem and Kaj is its CXO and co-founder. Maas Ltd aspires to upgrade the service level of transportation by joining together public and private transportation providers. Collaboration and integration of services will create a seamless and compelling travel experience for everyone, locally and globally.

Chartered mechanical engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Specialised in composite materials and structures, across sectors, from Design through Analysis and Design for Manufacture to Production and End of Life. Majority of experience within the Automotive and Motorsport sectors with additional experience within Aerospace, Defence, Marine, Renewables, Built Environment, Oil & Gas and Rail. Manager of the Engineering and R&D function, including portfolio management, with the skills to direct, manage and deliver research and development along TRL/MRL pathways. Specialist in the technical management of Design, Analysis, Manufacture and Design for Manufacture with lightweight materials and the integration of these functions in product lifecycle development and manufacturing operations.
Twenty years’ experience in F1, reaching the position of Chief Engineer, followed by experience in commercial organisations up to the position of Design & Engineering Director. "In my current role as Chief Technology Specialist – Lightweight Structures for Williams Advanced Engineering, I have the privilege of representing an organisation that has been pioneering in the field of composites and motorsport for over forty years. As the commercial arm of the F1 Team, we at Advanced Engineering are engaged in exploiting the technology and open and innovative culture of William over a wide range of projects and programmes over many important industries."

Gregory Duconge is CEO of VULOG, the leading provider of mobility as a service technologies.
Before joining VULOG, he served as CFO of Powertrain Systems Business Group at Valeo. From 2009 to 2013 he was the COO of Miyowa, a French Tech startup bought out by an American company in January 2012. Gregory is also advisor and investor (seed rounds) in several start-ups.

Miles works in the Growth investments team at Oxford Capital, leading investments in the technology space and has over 15 years of venture and growth experience and a background forming and running new ventures.
Prior to Oxford Capital Miles helped a number of companies with their corporate innovation strategy including ARM.
Miles was Managing Director of Qualcomm Ventures ($500M corporate fund with a portfolio of over 130 companies), leading Qualcomm’s investments in Europe where he invested in Formula E and ChargeMaster as well as Iridigm (acquired by Qualcomm, 10x return), A123 (IPO’d and worth over $2B at its peak, 50x return), Fon and Voluntis.
While at Qualcomm Miles formed and ran an internal incubator and developed Qualcomm’s effort in Augmented Reality, Wireless Charging and Machine learning and has 19 patents applied for around the world. He also spent a number of years setting up and running Product Management teams for Mobile Phones and Display groups at Qualcomm.
Miles holds an MA in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bristol University and an MBA from University of California, Irvine. Outside of work, Miles likes spending time with his wife and two children, outdoor activities including mountain biking, hiking as well as classic cars.

Dominic Riley is the non-executive Chairman of Morgan Motor Company. The company is one of only two motor companies in the world to celebrate over 100 years of continuous trading. Morgan has modernised considerably in recent years and its new electric powered three wheeler (EV3) won car of the show at Geneva 2016. In 2016 the company announced significant investment in a long term development programme with the Advanced Propulsion Centre.

Alex is the CEO and co-founder of Vantage Power, a high tech company started in 2011 to build advanced hybrid and electric powertrains for heavy-duty vehicles, an ambassador for the UK’s Make it in Great Britain “30 Under 30” campaign, and founder of Racing Green Endurance - a project which built the world’s longest range electric car and set a world first by driving it down the 26,000km Pan-American Highway in 2010.
With a passion for inspiring the next generation of engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs, Alex has given over 50 speeches at schools, universities and museums including 2x TEDx talks, 6x Institute of Engineering and Technology lectures, a 4-day outreach programme at the London Science Museum, a lecture at the Royal Institution, and a keynote presentation at the SAE Motors Symposium, Detroit. Alex was also voted one of London’s “25 under 25” by The Evening Standard in 2013, and one of Europe's “30 Under 30” by Forbes in 2016.

Anthony Ashbrook is a technologist and serial entrepreneur with expertise in computer vision and machine learning, and a passion for building and leading great companies. After completing his PhD in computer vision and working as an academic researcher, he discovered a passion for taking leading edge research and applying it to real world problems in a commercial setting.

Chris joined YASA Motors as CEO in December 2011. He has over 25 years experience of building and leading high technology companies in the UK, US and Europe. He previously held the post of CEO at Light Blue Optics, a spin-out company from the University of Cambridge. Chris has a degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and a PhD from Imperial College.

Peter runs Myrtle Software, a Cambridge-based technology company, who are experts in CPU, GPU and FPGA processing solutions where efficiency and data throughput are critical. He wrote and licensed Myrtle’s first commercially available software: a suite of fluid simulation tools used to help produce the chocolate river in Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Myrtle's clients include NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies and it is currently working as part of the UK government’s Autonomous Vehicles program automating the implementation of deep learning algorithms as efficient hardware.

Tom Whitehouse is LEIF’s founder and chairman. He has advised leading environmental investment and technology businesses for the last ten years. Flagship clients over this period include Impax Asset Management, Veolia, Airbus Group, the London Stock Exchange and Mountain Cleantech.
Before working in the environmental technology sector, Tom was a journalist. From 1997-1999 he was Moscow correspondent for The Guardian and from 1991-1997 he was a reporter and producer for the BBC World Service, based in Prague and Moscow.
He is a Contributing Editor at Global Corporate Venturing (GCV), for whom he writes the Clean Deal, a monthly column on environmental and advanced materials venturing.

Tim Lafferty is the Chief Operating Officer of Mawsonia, a publishing, data and events company founded in 2010 which publishes three magazines, Global Corporate Venturing (GCV), Global University Venturing (GUV) and Global Government Venturing (GGV). GCV is the only magazine dedicated to writing about large companies that take minority equity stakes in entrepreneurial businesses. Similarly, GUV covers universities around the world that take equity stakes in their own spinouts, an increasingly important development in the funding of start-ups. GGV writes about how governments support their innovation ecosystems. Mawsonia has the best data available on global venture deals among corporates, universities and governments and holds internationally renowned conferences and awards.
Tim has worked in media for over twenty years. Prior to Mawsonia, Tim was the Director of Marketing and Product Sales for Dow Jones in Europe overseeing brands including The Wall Street Journal, Financial News and Private Equity News. Previously he held senior roles at BusinessWeek and Readers’ Digest following a ten year career as an officer in the Royal Navy. He is based in Mawsonia’s head office in London.