Archives: Speakers

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.

Eric Bull is an Associate and Sustainability Lead at Studio Egret West, based in London, UK. Throughout a 20+ year career Eric has been involved in the delivery of award winning schemes around the world. A passionate Architect and Sustainability Champion, Eric is focussed on social inclusivity and enriching human experience through design, while seeking innovative solutions to offer climate positive outcomes.

Eric joined Studio Egret West in 2019, to work on mixed use masterplan and residential-led schemes. Eric established the studio’s climate change response steering group, to help the studio address the challenges of the emergency of climate and biodiversity breakdown, seeking ways in which landscape, urban design and architecture can provide solutions for a sustainable future.

Alexander started May 1st with Ramboll and is heading the German Energy business.

Prior to that he was for more than 30 years with Siemens and Siemens Energy. There he built up Key Account Management for the largest Power Utilities in Europe for the entire energy portfolio and has most recently led the unit globally. During that time, he has together with his team consulted customers in many countries in their sustainability strategies and supported them in the implementation of projects in renewable energies.

Alexander studied Business Management and has a diploma from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.