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Max has lived in Hong Kong and China for more than 15 years and is fluent in Russian, Polish, Mandarin and French. He has worked in international business for many years as a commodity trader, an investment banker, and an entrepreneur. In 2018, he set up his own company, MJ Capital, which specialises in cross-border M&A deals in emerging markets.

Max’s spirit of adventure led him to spend two months in China, travelling across the country with his father Stanley Johnson, filming In the Footsteps of Marco Polo – a 4- part documentary series following Marco Polo’s route across China. In the series, for international distribution, Max interviewed contributors, presented pieces to camera (scripted and unscripted) and gained experience of working on a large overseas production.

Max’s first appearance on camera was as a child actor in Julian Fellowes’ BBC production of The Prince and the Pauper and he still has a love of acting.

A keen runner, Max completed the Pyongyang Marathon and also has a black belt in Taekwondo.

Elliott is an award-winning TV news correspondent, master of ceremonies and moderator. A regular on CNN, he received an Emmy for being part of the network’s breaking news coverage of the October 7 attacks. Likewise, he was an integral member of the CNN team that won Overseas Press Club of America’s 2024 David Kaplan Award for Best TV news reporting from abroad.

Prior to working for CNN, Elliott was Bloomberg Television’s Middle East Editor, and before that, the network’s Europe Business Editor. He led coverage of the biggest stories, including the global financial crisis, economic meltdowns in Ireland and Greece, and elections in the UK, Turkey and Spain. In 2008 he was shortlisted for a Business Journalist of the Year award.

From 2003 till 2005, Elliott was the BBC’s South America Correspondent, and before that, the broadcaster’s man in Lima, where he also reported for ABC News, CBS and several major newspapers and magazines.

During his 25-year career in broadcasting, Elliott has also interviewed prime ministers and presidents, including Hugo Chavez, David Cameron and Shimon Peres; business and finance leaders, such as Christine Lagarde and Richard Branson; and Nobel Laureates, like Mario Vargas Llosa.

In 2026, Elliott teamed up with Guy Goma to publish The Wrong Guy: The Inside Story of TV’s Greatest Screw-Up, which explored the Guy Goma BBC interview gaffe.

As an in-demand master of ceremonies and moderator, Elliott has hosted and moderated at scores of business and tech conferences around the world, including LEAP (Riyadh), The Paris Fintech Forum; Big Data & AI World (London); the Global Freight Summit (Dubai); Hong Kong Fintech Week; Sea: The Future (London); and the Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence (Singapore). He lives in London with his two children and his one-eyed dog, Molly.

Felicity Hannah is a highly experienced, multi award-winning journalist, specialising in personal finance, consumer affairs and business. She regularly presents several BBC radio programmes, including Money Box, Money Box Live, Wake Up to Money and You and Yours. In 2022, she co-hosted The Big Green Money Show with Deborah Meaden. On top of those, Felicity is a regular business news presenter for Radio 4’s Today programme and co-presents a variety of other programmes for Radio 5 Live.

Felicity has made several investigative documentaries, including three episodes of Radio 4’s File On 4, Uninsurable Planet on Radio 4 and the enormously successful most recent series of the BBC podcast Understand: The Economy.

Felicity is regularly featured as an expert on television too, including Rip Off Britain, ITV’s Lorraine and BBC Breakfast.

Over her career, Felicity has written for The Times and Sunday Times, The Mirror, The Guardian and The Independent, demonstrating an ability to change her tone and style to suit numerous different audiences.

Felicity won ‘Broadcast Journalist of the Year’ three times in a row at the Headlinemoney Awards and each time the judges praised her warmth and engaging manner. To date, she has secured 11 journalism awards, seven of those for her broadcast work.

Adam Shaw is one of the most recognisable faces in business journalism on television. He is known for bringing a critical but imaginative approach to business journalism. He regularly presents ITV’s Tonight programme – Britain’s most watched current affairs series. Alongside this, Adam presents Money Matters, a weekly slot on Jane and Fi’s show for Times Radio where he helps the public better manage their personal finances. He has also featured on The One Show as the ‘Money Doctor’, helping viewers deal with common financial issues.

Adam is a multi-award-winning journalist including the following: Broadcaster of the Year – Plain English Campaign; Best Broadcast Journalist of the Year – Association of Investment Companies; Financial Broadcaster of the Year – Association of British Insurers; Personality of the Year – Proshare; and Best Business Coverage – Institute of Financial Accountants.

Adam has presented and reported across television, radio, and digital platforms. He wrote and presented Magic Consultants for Radio 4, a five-part series exploring the consultancy industry, and has fronted many editions of BBC One’s Panorama, investigating major business and economic issues. As business presenter on the Today programme, he interviewed a number of FTSE CEOs and global business leaders. Adam was also a regular presenter on Radio 4’s Money Box Live, a contributor to Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch and the BBC One’s Rip Off Britain, and a key face on BBC Two’s Working Lunch. He explored digital innovation in The Internet of Things for CNBC and presented several series of Horizons for BBC World News TV, interviewing figures including Bill Ford and Bill Gates. Other credits include In Business (Radio 4), Wake Up to Money (Radio 5), Business Breakfast (BBC One), and the Woodland Walks podcast, in which Adam interviews celebrities in some of the UK’s most beautiful woods.

Adam has written – and continues to write – for several newspapers including The Independent, The Mail on Sunday and The Metro. Adam has also written and co-authored a number of books including Political Rhubarb, Money and How to Make More of It, Managing Credit, and Investing Basics.

Adam is an established public speaker and often speaks at conferences and universities; credits include Danone Finance Conference and Ulster University’s Careers Summit.

Liam Halligan is a leading economist, author, columnist and broadcaster with extensive business experience. Since 2003, he has written his multiple award-winning weekly ‘Economic Agenda’ column for The Sunday Telegraph – which enjoys a large domestic and international following and has been recognised with a British Press Award, the highest prize in UK print journalism.

Widely read in the City and other financial capitals, Liam has a reputation for prescient economic predictions, often made against conventional wisdom. In March 2021, with UK inflation at just 0.7%, way below the Bank of England’s 2% target, Liam laid out the reasons in ‘Economic Agenda’ why “inflation could soon surge” – a forecast that senior policymakers publicly derided. A year later, inflation had indeed surged to 7%, a 30-year high, before pushing to a 40-year high in the aftermath of the escalation of war in Ukraine.

Similarly, in July 2024, when Keir Starmer was widely described as a “lucky general” following that month’s landslide election win, ‘Economic Agenda’ explained why pressing fiscal constraints and looming bond market turmoil meant that “Starmer’s all-conquering administration could be a one-term government”. Several months later, government debt costs indeed began to spiral upward, culminating in the worst bond market turbulence since the 2008 financial crisis and persistent questions about Labour’s economic competence.

Aside from his writing on economics, Liam also created The Telegraph’s hugely popular Planet Normal podcast, covering broader political and societal themes, which he co-presents each week with fellow Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson. Planet Normal regularly appears in the Apple news podcast top ten global rankings.

Liam’s latest book – Home Truths: The UK’s Chronic Housing Shortage – How it Happened, Why it Matters and How to Solve it – was published in 2021 to rave reviews. The Times described the book as “vivid and lucid, a brilliantly written gem” while the housing charity Shelter said it was “full of eloquence and moral clarity – a call to arms for politicians and campaigners of all parties and none”.

Alongside his roles at The Telegraph, Liam also writes regularly for The Spectator and has appeared several times on flagship BBC programmes – including Question Time, Any Questions and Today. He has also made appearances on Sky News, CNBC, Times Radio, Bloomberg TV, among more.

He previously featured three times a week on CNN Talk, analysing global political and economic news on live television for an international audience.

Earlier in his career, Liam was based in Russia, where he wrote an influential column in The Moscow Times, while covering Russia and the Former Soviet Union for The Economist and The Economist Intelligence Unit. He then became Political Correspondent for the Financial Times (based in Parliament) before spending almost a decade leading the economics and business coverage at Channel 4 News.

Since then, Liam has researched, written, and presented seven Dispatches documentaries for Channel 4 – and has won the Wincott Business Broadcast Award four times, as well being twice recognised as the World Leadership Forum Business Broadcaster of the Year. He has, for many years, served on the judging panel of the Royal Television Society journalism awards.

Alongside his extensive media experience, Liam was a founder board member and partner of a leading asset-management company focussed on emerging markets, helping to manage a $4-5 billion portfolio of investment on behalf of highly sophisticated private and sovereign institutional investors from the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has extensive board room experience and maintains an active pro bono portfolio, not least in the education sector, currently serving as a governor of both The John Lyon School (which he attended on a scholarship) and Harrow School.

Liam is an experienced and sought-after public speaker – who combines widely recognised expertise across economics, finance and politics with personality and humour. He has given keynote addresses to numerous high-level audiences, in person and on-line, in both conference and after-dinner settings, headlining events run by Thomson Reuters, Euromoney, JCB, the CFA Institute, Deutsche Bank and the St Petersburg International Economic Forum among many others.

He has also hosted an array of conferences, often on complex economic and financial issues, for clients ranging from the Association of British Insurers, The Financial Conduct Authority, Eversheds, Microsoft, the Telegraph Festival of Business and the OECD’s flagship 50th Anniversary Forum.

As a leading economics journalist and recognised policy expert, Liam has been called upon to testify in front of numerous committees of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords – on subjects ranging from housing to global central banking, UK trade policy, the future of the BBC and “Britain’s digital divide”.

But his range of experience and expertise, as both a speaker and convener, extends beyond economic and business themes, to include diplomatic and geo-strategic issues too – relating to the UK, US, Europe and beyond. He has a particularly deep knowledge of the post-Communist world, emerging markets more broadly and global energy markets.

Liam holds a first-class BSc. (Econ) degree from the University of Warwick and an MPhil (Econ) from St Antony’s College, Oxford University. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation, a Westminster-based think-tank, and the Economics Department of The University of Warwick.

A citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Liam is listed in Who’s Who, De Bretts and the Dictionary of International Biography.

“Liam Halligan is the best economics journalist of his generation – his writing is always prescient, vivid and lucid”.

Lord Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor.

“Liam Halligan is a one-off – a card-carrying economist, with high-level political access, who can explain complex issues in readable, vivid prose”.

Andrew Neil, Times Radio presenter.

“Liam Halligan is required reading for anyone who wants to understand how our housing market – and the broader UK economy – really works”

Merryn Somerset Webb, Financial Times.

“Many people claim to speak truth to power but very few actually do. Liam Halligan is one of the few – a great and fearless truth-teller”.

Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times.

“What Liam Halligan doesn’t know about the UK economy – and economics more generally –isn’t worth knowing”.

Iain Dale, LBC presenter.

“Liam Halligan isn’t only a brilliant journalist. He is an economist of genuine substance, with deep and widely recognised expertise, who can explain complex ideas to a broad audience better than anyone I know”

Konstantin Kisin, presenter, Triggernometry podcast.

“Liam Halligan is an economist I respect enormously, whose work I have followed closely for many years”.

Lord David Owen, former Foreign Secretary and Independent Peer.

Tim Harford is an economist, award-winning journalist and speaker, TV and radio personality, and bestselling author. His books, most famously The Undercover Economist, have been translated into 30 languages and have sold nearly one million copies worldwide, hitting the bestseller lists not only in the US, UK and Canada but in translation from Spain to South Korea.

Tim is well-known as the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s More or Less (named by The Times as its favourite politics & economics podcast) and the global hit series, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, on BBC World Service and Radio 4. The podcast version has topped the iTunes charts and has been called “superbly informative” by the Sunday Times. Tim also presented the weekly Radio 4 series How to Vaccinate the World which followed the race to roll out an effective vaccination against Covid-19. Tim presented the 10-part series Understand: The Economy for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds and The Economy: What They Aren’t Telling You with Tim Harford for Channel 4, in the lead up to the 2024 UK General Election. Tim also presents the popular podcast Cautionary Tales.

Although Tim is a serious economist – after a career spanning Shell, the World Bank and tutoring at Oxford University, he is now a visiting fellow at Nuffield college, Oxford – his unique talent lies in the humorous touch he brings to his subject. His weekly Financial Times columns have attracted a cult following.

As well as The Undercover Economist, he is the author of nine other books including Adapt, Messy, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, The Next 50 Things, How to Make the World Add Up and the children’s book The Truth Detective.

Tim has also been published in Slate, Esquire, Forbes, New York Magazine, Parade, Wired, the Washington Post, The Times, and The New York Times. He won the 2006 Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in both 2006 and 2016, the Wincott journalist of the year award in 2020, and has been made an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. A regular commentator on TV and radio shows on both sides of the Atlantic, Tim fronted the BBC 2 television series Trust Me. I’m an Economist.

Tim was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to improving economic understanding.

He lives in Oxford with his wife and three children.

Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe was the most senior police officer in the UK. As Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (from 2011 to 2017), he led the Metropolitan Police, an organisation of nearly 50,000 people with a budget of £3.2 billion. He reported directly to the Home Secretary, was supervised by parliamentary committees and had national responsibilities, including leading counter terrorism policing throughout the UK and protecting the Royal Family and senior members of the government both at home and abroad.

He has used his expertise to report for Dispatches on Channel 4. In 2018, he presented Dispatches – Cannabis: Time to End the Ban?. In the programme, Bernard travelled to Colorado, to investigate whether the UK should follow in Colorado’s footsteps and legalise cannabis. After filming, Bernard called for the UK government to establish an expert commission to examine the evidence provided by the programme.

In 2019, he presented Dispatches – Britain’s Knife Crime Crisis: Young, Armed and Dangerous. In the programme, Bernard came face to face with a masked gang member carrying a blade.

Bernard continues to make regular appearances on television (ITV, Sky), radio (LBC), and podcasts.

Bernard’s career has been characterised by high achievement, having successfully delivered numerous strategic objectives and efficiency improvements while holding weighty appointments with substantial responsibilities. He has a wealth of experience in creating cultural change as well as developing and implementing new strategies to transform corporate identities. He has built his success on the simple strategy of Total Policing. This involves a war on crime and care for victims.

During his five-year tenure as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and as Chief Constable of Merseyside he delivered significant reductions in crime. In London, 20% and Merseyside, 36%. In both regions he reduced the murder rates, in London by 25%. Despite a £600 million decrease in police budget, Bernard maintained police officer numbers in the capital – while the rest of England and Wales lost 20,000.

Bernard faced significant challenges when he took command in 2011. London had been rocked by large-scale riots only a month prior, and the organisation was in crisis, having lost half the management board. In spite of these, he planned and delivered a safe city, a safe Olympics and saved £600 million.

During the next five years, the national threat level was set at ‘severe’ and attacks occurred throughout Europe. In the UK, only one terrorist attack got through during his command. He has continued to build the UK police and Security Service partnership, which is recognised as the best in the world with its profound links to neighbourhood-based community policing.

Bernard has extensive experience of policing major public events. These include the successful 2012 Olympics Games, 2008 Liverpool European City of Culture, state visits, the state opening of parliament, many major sporting events, and multiple large-scale political protests on the streets of London.

Bernard was made a life peer in October 2017 and has since taken up his role as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.

Bernard enjoys horse riding and football – he plays five-a-side and supports Sheffield Wednesday. He also loves opera.

Martin Lewis CBE, the Money Saving Expert, is a campaigning broadcast journalist who founded and is now Executive Chair of MoneySavingExpert.com, by far the UK’s biggest consumer website with over 9m people subscribed to his weekly email. His eponymous, now live, prime-time ITV show, launched in 2012 and is now in its 15^th series – it manages to combine a public service remit with high ratings. His podcast is one of the BBC’s most listened to, he is a regular presenter of Good Morning Britain, and resident finance expert on This Morning.

In profile pieces, The FT called him “the most successful journalist in the world, ever”, the Guardian “the most trusted man in Britain” and The Economist said he “has a good claim to be the most influential man in British politics.

Over the years he’s spearheaded major financial justice campaigns including £1bn of bank charges reclaiming back, £10bn of PPI reclaiming back and got financial education on the national curriculum. He was a key voice in the pandemic to improve and communicate state support schemes, and got major policies shifts on energy and mortgages amidst the cost-of-living crisis.

In 2016 he founded and funded the influential Money and Mental Health Policy Institute charity, which he still chairs.

Selected awards include:
– CBE (2022) for broadcasting and consumer rights, OBE (2014) for consumer rights and charity.
– The BAFTA Special Recognition Award (2026) for his TV campaigning work
– Broadcast Awards Special Recognition Award (2024)
– The Outstanding Achievement Award at the Edinburgh TV festival (2024)
– Royal Television Society Special Award for ‘changing an entire genre of journalism’ (2024)
– National Television Awards, inaugural Expert (2022) winner, Top Presenter nominee (2023)
– New Statesman Positive Impact in Society Award (2022)
– Chartered Trading Standards Institute Hero Award (2018)
– Beacon (Philanthropy) Trailblazer award (2017)

Adam Boulton is a pioneering broadcaster and veteran political journalist.

He currently presents Times Radio’s flagship Sunday programme, Adam Boulton with Sunday Morning. He is a freelance commentator for Sky News, the BBC, TRT World, and LBC – as well as several international outlets. Adam appears weekly on The Wrap on Sky News. He also speaks and moderates at conferences and private meetings, most recently at the PLMR Insight event.

Adam writes a regular column for The i Paper. He was formerly a weekly columnist for Sky News Online and Reaction Life, and presenter of the Worldview podcast in association with Englesberg Ideas.

Adam’s insatiable appetite for breaking news, ability to think on his feet and innate analytical skills have seen him host countless hours of live television including rolling Election Coverage from the UK, US, Ireland, France and Germany.

Adam was the founding political editor, then editor-at-large at Sky News. Over more than three decades at the network he reported from every continent with a wide-ranging brief, encompassing everything from politics to popular culture. Programmes he presented included the eponymous weekly show, and post-Brexit, the daily All Out Politics programme and podcast. In 2010 Adam was instrumental in brokering a deal with David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg to stage the ground-breaking General Election Leaders Debates, so far the only UK election cycle in which they have taken place. He moderated the second debate in Bristol, the most watched Sky News programme to date. Adam left Sky at the end of 2021, though continues to work freelance for the channel.

In at the beginning of two start-ups, Sky in 1989 and TV Am in 1983, Adam redefined political news coverage in the UK, harnessing developing technology to introduce on-location reportage, reaction and analysis in real time. Unique at the time, this is now the industry standard. Never shy to speak his mind, Adam’s celebrated on-air spat with Alastair Campbell in the aftermath of the 2010 election is still one of the most memorable moments of that campaign. Adam was a popular choice as winner of the Royal Television Society’s supreme Judges’ Award.

Adam has the distinction of having interviewed every UK Prime Minister from Sir Alec Douglas Home to Rishi Sunak. He has covered all major developments in US politics since the Reagan years, from the USA-USSR Summits through to correctly ‘calling’ the election of President Joe Biden live on Sky News. He was in Washington DC again covering the second impeachment of Donald Trump.

Adam served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Lobby, the elite band of senior political journalists in Westminster, he continues to hold a lobby ticket.

His books include Tony’s Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration, an acclaimed account of the Blair government, and the equally well received Hung Together: The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government. He was the political columnist for The Sunday Times for seven years and now writes for several leading newspapers and periodicals.

An in-demand public speaker, Adam has delivered keynote lectures for multi-national businesses, economic forums, universities, and media companies.

Although best known for his political programmes, Adam has a wide spectrum of interests and is both well informed and witty on a range of subjects. He was a long-serving governor of King’s College London and Sevenoaks School. His TV portfolio includes appearances on such diverse shows as Have I Got News for You, Newsnight, Celebrity Mastermind and Christmas University Challenge. He is proactive on social media, with over 205k followers on Twitter.

Geoff Cutmore is journalist and freelance moderator. He is an internationally recognised face of Business and Finance news, and anchored CNBC’s flagship daily programme, Squawk box Europe, for nearly 30 years.

He has a calm, but persistent interview style which once led Vladimir Putin to describe him as a ‘scary man’ at the St Petersburg International Forum. He has moderated at this event for several years, and while working in Russia conducted a world first and exclusive interview with billionaire oligarch and former English football club owner, Alisher Usmanov.

Geoff has moderated the prestigious Global Economic Outlook panel – among others – and has anchored the WEF forum in Davos for more than 20 years. He also regularly chairs panels at other WEF events in China and Turkey. Geoff also hosted and presented the COP 15 in Denmark (2009).

He has an enduring interest in Asia after working in Hong Kong for nearly a decade. Each year he attends the Boao Forum in Hainan Island and the China Development Forum in Beijing, as well as hosting CNBC’s East Tech West Forum in Guangzhou.

He also fronts CNBC’s Questions for the Future – a debate television show sponsored by Shell and with a live audience, hosted from destinations all around the world.

Geoff regularly anchored and moderated at the annual IMF/World Bank Autumn meeting in Washington DC. He hosted fireside interviews with the Head of the IMF and World Bank.

He has interviewed every President of the European Central Bank, three Governors of the Bank of England, US Treasury Secretaries, Russian Prime Ministers, Chancellors, and many Finance Ministers in Europe.

He regularly interviewed the CEOs & CFOs of the world’s blue-chip companies, and the CIOs, strategists, or asset allocators of the world’s biggest banks, insurance companies, and fund managers. Meanwhile, he has also conducted interviews with celebrities, including Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Ernie Els, Daryl Hannah, and more.

He has reported from and filmed in most major European cities, as well as in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Hainan, Bangkok, Seoul, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City & Hanoi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Lima, New York City, Washington DC, Delhi, Mumbai, Perth, Greenland, Sakhalin, Iceland, Doha, Dubai, and Bahrain.

Geoff has moderated for and spoken at events for: Lombard Odier, Erste Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse, Threadneedle, Henderson Global Investors, City of London Corporation, FSN Capital Partners, YPO Global Leadership Summit, The Atlantic Council, Institute of International Finance, GE Wind Energy, and Dubai Business Forum, to name a few.

Geoff has made regular appearances on MSNBC to breakdown European business stories for an American audience. He has also appeared on Sky News.

In 2004 he published New Market Mavericks to positive reviews. He has contributed to newspapers and periodicals including the Investors Chronicle, The Nation, Money Market and Motorcycle News.

Daisy McAndrew is a freelance radio and TV presenter, reporter and writer. She has 30 years’ experience reporting on UK politics, economics and business, and the British Royal Family.

Daisy has had senior reporting roles at BBC and ITV News including Chief Political Correspondent, Economics Editor and Special Correspondent. She is a well-known face on American TV screens as NBC News’ Royal Commentator.

She has presented Daily Politics, Weekend News, The Heaven and Earth Show, and The World Tonight (Radio 4) for the BBC, Driving Miss Daisy and the O2 Business Show for LBC, The Lunchtime News and Moral of the Story for ITV, Powerhouse for Channel 4, and a number of programmes for TalkRadio & Talk TV.

Daisy is a regular paper reviewer on the BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House, and on Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips. She also appears regularly as a panellist on Sky News’ Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge.

Daisy has appeared as a guest on Have I Got News for You?, The Wright Stuff, Jeremy Vine, Loose Women and Despatch Box, among more, and is a familiar face on ITV’s This Morning, Good Morning Britain and Euronews.

Daisy launched her broadcast career in 2001. She had previously spent a decade working in Westminster, beginning, aged nineteen, as an MP’s researcher. During her time in politics, Daisy wrote for many newspapers from the Press Gallery, profiled MPs in The House Magazine (which she ultimately edited), and worked for Lib Dem Leader Charles Kennedy as his Press Secretary. She was a consultant on the BBC’s A-Z of Politics and edited The Politics Companion, published by Chrysalis books.

Daisy is also an accomplished and experienced keynote speaker and corporate facilitator and host, having compered countless awards and conferences for a wide variety of clients – including many large multinationals, banks, trade bodies and charities. Accolades include ‘Daisy is easy to work with and an amazing professional’ and ‘she kept the audience captivated.’ Credits include hosting the AIC UK and MiP Capital Group Conferences, and speaking at the Propertymark One Conference.

Zoë is a qualified accountant and experienced technology entrepreneur.

She currently runs Bacano.io and is non-executive director to a number of other technology companies. Zoë began her career with Allianz and AIG, before founding several internet ventures; one being a digital media agency that, following an IPO process, she sold to WPP and completed a 4 year earn-out. As European Managing Director of Kenshoo, (an Israeli technology company backed by Sequoia Capital, Arts Alliance and Bain Capital Ventures), Zoë set-up their European operations and took them to market leadership.

Zoë co-founded The Asset Works (an asset leasing industry technology company) and took them through a funding round with facilities management giant OCS. She won numerous major international clients, including Volkswagen Financial Services and BNP Paribas.

Following these ventures, she founded and has run a corporate R&D tax consultancy, Taxrelief.biz, for the past 7 years, before also founding Bacano.io (a fintech platform designed to automate the R&D tax claim process, which has been shortlisted for Innovative StartUp of the Year in the 2023 StartUp Awards).

Zoë has been included on the Women in FinTech Powerlist 2022.

Zoë divides her time between London and Madrid.