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Founder and owner of Teerenpeli Group (Lahti, Finland) a family company with wife Marianne and two already grown up children. After university studies in hospitality business opened his first Teerenpeli restaurant in 1994. The group has now 10 restaurants among brewery and distillery. Board member in banking and small brewers association. Passion for sustainable Nordic whisky region and always looking for a possibility to make better business.

Dan Szor is a native New Yorker who, after working in finance the US and Europe, settled in the Cotswolds with this family. After falling in love with both whisky and the Cotswolds he combined both passions to create the first distillery to make whisky in the region. Eight years on the Cotswolds Distillery is leading the emerging English whisky category and has gone onto to win numerous global awards for its whisky and gin produced at its beautiful brand home in the North Cotswolds. Dan is a founder and active member of the newly formed English Whisky Guild and sits on the executive board of the WSTA.

Following a successful international career with beverage multinationals in general management, commercial and marketing leadership roles including both Campari Group and The Coca-Cola Company, now acting as strategic advisor to the board of a dynamic, premium and ambitious spirits company, Artemisia Absinthe, and its flagship brand – La Clandestine.

Joyce and Raissa de Haas are the dynamic twin co-founders of award-winning UK premium tonic and mixers brand Double Dutch. Since launching in 2015, they have received numerous accolades with Sir Richard Branson supporting their vision by awarding them a coveted Foodpreneur Award. Additional honours include being voted best tonic globally and taking a spot on the prestigious Forbes ’30 under 30’  Europe list. In just a few years, they have build a multi million pound business where most recently also the family Heineken invested a minority stake in.

While the world’s choice of spirits continued to expand, the twins saw a lack of innovation in the market for flavourful, low-calorie mixers. By the end of securing their second master’s degree at UCL, the twins had founded Double Dutch and launched their debut mixers – ‘Pomegranate & Basil’ and ‘Cucumber & Watermelon’ – to rave reviews and numerous accolades. Low-calorie, vegan-friendly and all natural using sustainably sourced flavours, the brand now sells to over 40 countries worldwide.

With a deep understanding of technology transformation across CRM, ERP and Practice Management systems drawing on more than 20 years of experience with blue chip clients. Ben works with the UK’s leading financial and professional services firms as a Microsoft Accredited expert in Business Transformation.

Senior Vice President of Integrated Customer Solutions and Trial Oversight

As Senior Vice President of Integrated Platforms and Trial Oversight at Clario, Tim is responsible for delivering solutions that bring together the Clario portfolio of products to provide exceptional experiences for patients, sites, and sponsors.  His team focuses on minimizing the burden for patients and sites through the delivery of intuitive streamlined applications by uniquely combining traditional eCOA, Respiratory, Cardiac Safety and Imaging interactions in a harmonized ecosystem. Tim has 25 years’ experience of working in healthcare, with a focus on the medical imaging industry. He has held many executive positions, including Product Line Executive, CTO, CSO, and also as President and CEO at ImageIQ, where he led the company’s deployment of software engineering, high-resolution imaging and custom-tailored image analysis, to support the delivery of high-quality imaging data for clinical research

David has worked in the Digital IT Sector helping businesses adopt and improve their business practices and processes for over 20 years. Over this time David has help deploy enterprise-wide solutions to the some of the world’s leading global brands which have resulted in significant, tangible cost savings, better user experiences and business processes. David believes that technology should operate as the vehicle to enable us to focus on what is important so we can put our time and energy executing against our core values and business strategy.