Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil is a newspaper editor, publisher, broadcaster and business consultant on media matters working out of London, New York, Edinburgh and France. He has presented both The DailyPolitics on BBC2 and This Week on BBC1 since January 2003.
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Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof is incredibly well informed, not just about African famines and aid organizations, butalso about London and Washington politics, global communications and business. His presentationsare highly provocative and he uplifts and inspires audiences as he motivates through his own personal experiences and the lessons learned from Live Aid.
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Duncan Bannatyne

Serial entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne, or Dragon Duncan, as he is now known, was recently seenon BBC 2's Dragons Den, the latest reality show to hit our screens, but with a twist. He grew up in Clydebank and in his early teens he joined the Navy. He left the Navy at 19 after a disagreement with a commanding officer and lived in Jersey where he gained a reputation as a bit of a party animal.
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Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie was born in Liverpool, UK in 1946 and went to the same school as Beatles George Harrison and Sir Paul McCartney. Much of her education was spent in the Cavern Club listening totheir music. She won a scholarship to Oxford University to read Chemistry; surrounded by Nobelprize winners, she switched to Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Frank Dick

Frank is a former Director of Coaching for the British Athletic Federation and an expert in'Performance Management'. He has been coaching athletes and sports professionals since 1970 andhis prodigies have included Daley Thompson, Boris Becker, Gerhard Berger and Katarina Witt. He iscurrently involved with Denise Lewis, Ronnie Irani, Justin Rose, Marat Safin, Ipswich Town FootballClub and Jean Todt (Ferrari Formula One Manager).
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Ian Angell

Ian Angell is Europe's leading IT guru and visionary. He is Professor of Information Systems at theLondon School of Economics, arguably the most prestigious Information Systems Chair in theUnited Kingdom and a member of the United Nations Steering Committee of Educational, Scientificand Cultural Organization at the Regional Office for Science and Technology for Europe, based inVenice.
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Jacqueline Gold

Jacqueline Gold, Chief Executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox, is one of Britain's mostsuccessful businesswomen and an inspiration to thousands of women. She has been voted the second Most Powerful Woman in Retail by Retail Week, the Most Inspirational Businesswoman in the UK in a survey by Barclays Bank and handbag.com
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Justin Urquhart Stewart

Trained as a barrister, Justin moved into international corporate finance. He specialised inInternational and EC Law (LLB Hons) and worked in Corporate Finance in Africa and Singapore,and then in Marketing with a focus on Electronic Corporate Cash Management in Europe. This led to him helping to found Broker Services in 1986, which later became Barclays Stockbrokers, thelargest retail stockbroker in the UK.
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Karren Brady

Known as the `First Lady of Football` Karren Brady was the youngest Managing Director of a PLC inthe UK and remains the only female MD of a Premiership football club. She explains how the wholebusiness of football has changed beyond recognition in the eleven years that she has been MD at Birmingham. It is no longer just about sport, it is about big business, retail, marketing and payper-view and also innovative community projects.
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Lord Lamont (Norman Lamont)

Lord Lamont was at the centre of British politics for many years. He was a Cabinet Minister underboth Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was a member of the House of Commons for twentyfive years. He was heavily involved in the Thatcher reforms including privatisation that transformed the British economy.
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Paul Torrisi

Expelled from school at 17 years of age, Paul's first job, almost immediately, was working for Ford in Wandsworth until he was 20. He was a highly successful salesman and was responsible for bringing companies such DHL Couriers and TNT into the fold. At 20 Paul joined his father's textile manufacturing company where they made garments for Next, Dorothy Perkins and other major high street retailers.
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Rachel Elnaugh

n 1989 Rachel Elnaugh founded Red Letter Days and in doing so she created the concept of givingexperiences as unforgettable gifts. Today, the gift experiences market in the UK is worth more than£200 million annually and employs thousands of people throughout the country. She had what theUK and international media had dubbed 'the most exciting job in the world'.
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Simon Woodroffe

Author, Dragon's Den TV Panellist, Edinburgh Fringe Show performer, entrepreneur, visionary and founder of YO! Sushi Restaurants. Simon Woodroffe is a charismatic and engaging speaker with a very personal story on how he has built up YO! and the future for businesses in the next century. He has an energising presence and is a charismatic speaker.
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Sir Digby Jones

Sir Digby Jones is the former director general of the CBI. He was considered to be one of the mostsuccessful holders of the post and been an energetic champion of British Business around the worldfor the past 6 years. In 1978, after some time in the Royal Navy, he started his career with acorporate law firm, becoming a partner in 1984.
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Sir John Banham

Sir John was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry from 1987 to 1992. Sinceleaving the CBI, he has been involved in a wide cross-section of companies, in addition to hiscurrent appointments. He was Director of National Power for six years until July 1998 and was theChairman of the Company's Remuneration Committee.
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Sir John Harvey-Jones

Sir John Harvey-Jones is the former Chairman of ICI but is probably better known for the series"The Troubleshooter". Born in London Sir John was educated at Tormore School in Deal, Kent,before going to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He served in the Royal Navy during the war, later working in intelligence appointments and at the Cabinet Office, however no one is quite sureof all his posts.
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