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Ian Paradise has more than a decade of experience that informs his approach, leading complex projects from initial concept to successful launch. He possesses expertise across the entire design process, encompassing user research, user experience, meticulous scheduling, planning, and budget management.
Adept at collaboration, he fosters high-performing design teams across various divisions, ensuring smooth development handoffs, insightful reviews, and timely status updates.

Christian Baber is a chemist by training and holds undergraduate and PhD degrees in computational chemistry with a focus on AI techniques to assess the synthetic accessibility of de novo design compounds.

Christian continued this work with a post-doctoral fellowship on the automated design of targeted combinatorial libraries at the Department of Knowledge Engineering, Osaka University, Japan before moving into industry initially as a computational chemist and cheminformatician.

Mandy Cayford has been in the television industry for over 30 years, with wide experience as a Creative Lead for Sky’s in-house agency, Sky Creative, where she directed award-winning on/off air campaigns and channel rebrands before moving into creative operations management.  She excels at facilitating teams to deliver their best work, with simple processes, the right tools with a focus on people and culture. 

Professor Graeme Atherton is Director of the Centre of Inequality and Levelling Up (CELUP) at the University of West London, leads the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON), which is the UK professional organisation for access & equity in higher education (HE) with over 100 universities as members, and has also founded the World Access to Higher Education Network (WAHEN). He is a trustee of the National Union of Students (NUS) and holds visiting professorships at the Centre for Higher Education Research, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur and Amity University London.

Pamela Riquelme is an experienced professional in digital learning and education technologies, with a focus on STEM and digital transformation in academia. She holds a Master's in Educational Technology and a degree in Visual Communication Design, with specialized training in Technological Project Management and Quality of Virtual Higher Education. Pamela is recognized for her strategic, multi-disciplinary approach and has been honored as a W50 Next GEN Leading Woman Fellow at the London School of Economics.

René has been working in the field of enterprise software for more than 20 years. Since 2014, René has been responsible for marketing operations, digital asset management and content management as Managing Director at gateB, leading a team of over 40 technical consultants and implementation experts in these fields. He has extensive experience in consulting and implementing digital asset management (DAM), marketing resources management (MRM), enterprise content management systems (CMS), brand portals and marketing planning & spend management systems.