Antonia Alvarez started her first business at 14. She sold custom perfumery and dedicated 50% of its proceeds to a non-profit initiatives in education. Her innovative, philanthropic approach has won her a Global Impact Award and enabled the funding of scholarships, school kits, and community projects.

In 2016 she closed down operations and moved to the US for college at Brown University. At Brown founded the Women’s Entrepreneurship program, and served as Director at Sigma Squared, a global impact entrepreneur community.  Antonia lived in the US for 4 years in ed-tech in Strategy and Product, while she ran her family office based in Ecuador.

In 2022, she co-founded the Nowhere Summit, bringing together exceptional founders, investors, and creators, securing sponsorships from AWS and 27 other organizations. Last year Antonia moved back to Latin America joining the family business as Director of Strategy and Growth in Ecuador.

Today she is the CEO of Florasintesis in Peru, a fragrance and flavors company, and is building an accelerator for CGP entrepreneurs. Her ambition is to reach CPG entrepreneurs beyond Ecuador and Peru, to reach entrepreneurs across all Spanish speaking America.

Linda Hafstad, Founder of Ekte Media, stands out in the marketing world for her unwavering commitment to authenticity. At the age of 17, she ventured into marketing, driven by a deep skepticism towards traditional marketing’s false promises, fuelling her mission for ethical practices. Linda’s dedication is symbolized by her tattoo “Ekte,” meaning “real/true/authentic” in Norwegian, reflecting her core values.

Linda has earned an Outstanding Leadership Award at the Marketing 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas and recognition from Influencer Daily & Yahoo Finance. Her early exposure to personal development, attending her first Tony Robbins seminar at 13, shaped her belief in the power of mindset and hard work in achieving impact. An avid traveler and snowboarding enthusiast, Linda also shares her journey and insights with a TikTok community of nearly 20,000, inspiring others to pursue authenticity in their endeavors.

Ashton Stoop is a designer, engineer and entrepreneur focused on creating assistive technology, such as prosthetic limbs, orthotic braces, and robotic exoskeletons. The goal of his work is empowering people with mobility impairments to live life without limitations. He spent his early career split between doing biomechanics research in academic labs and building assistive products for startups to large enterprises. In 2022, he started his company ‘Adapt’ which is sparking the revolution of the prosthetics industry. Using advances in 3D printing and machine learning, they are creating high-performance prosthetic limbs with affordable, accessible and scalable systems. Instead of going to the clinic, you walk into a sports store with legs and arms in all colours and styles displayed on the walls, with photos of your favourite models and athletes wearing their prostheses. While Ash always had good experience in designing products, he really began to find success when he shifted his focus to designing systems. When good products meet good systems, the world shakes.

Timothy Highnam is a marketer, entreprenuer and strategist. Starting his career age 18, he began working for Deloitte as a Strategy & Operations consultant with only a high school education. He was quickly identified as a star, and at 19 was being flown across Europe and North America to help solve Forture500 companies greatest challenges.

At 21 he launched his first business, T14, a marketing agency and strategy consultancy that did $35m in sales through advertising in it’s first 2 years of business. After a brief spell as a marketing director for an 8-figure online education platform with 50,000 students, where he built their entire in-house marketing team from scratch, Tim is now 24 and creating AI and custom software projects working alongside his best friend and now business partner.

Outside of business, Tim is a boxer and MMA fighter. Based between London and Dubai, Tim travels extensively and spends significant time in the EU (Paris & Warsaw), US (NYC) and Canada (Toronto). Tim cares deeply about people, charity, and helping the world be a better place.

Bosley StFort, Chief Product Officer at Solar Blaze, which has helped thousands of US homes have gone solar. He has partnered with unicorn companies in the industry that currently have no other partners and has become a household name in the solar space. Bosley also manages digital marketing campaigns for companies with over $2 Billion dollars in assets and has created branding strategies for 20+ companies.