Ashley Friedlein (He/Him)

CEO & Founder, Guild
Richard Carter

Co-creator/CEO, Switch Education for Business Ltd

Switch Education is committed to learner-centred approaches to digital education by helping learning professionals deliver the best learning experiences and learning outcomes possible. Our focus is on helping them develop the confidence and competence they need to transition from traditional, classroom learning to contemporary digital education. By putting pedagogy first, we remove the mindset obstacles and behavioural blockages that often prevent the creation of dynamic, online learning content, courses and programs. Our design, research and development processes use our 3-stage change model that is underpinned by Social Cognitive Theory, a proven approach through its core focus on boosting learner and educator self-efficacy beliefs. For over 25 years, I have worked as a management educator and leadership development consultant in Business Schools, Consultancies and Not-for-Profits in Australia, USA, Canada and the UK. Launching Switch fulfills my lifelong dream of giving educators, educational leaders, managers and leaders access to the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to thrive. My approach to pedagogy is strongly influenced by social cognitive theory and its core principle of self-efficacy beliefs. Digital technology provides an amazing opportunity to bring my dream to fruition. I've published articles in leading organisational psychology, HRM and education journals and blog regularly on digital education, management and leadership issues.
Paul Thoroughgood

Director, Go-To-Market Effectivenes, LexisNexis

An expert in maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of sales, marketing and client services processes through the alignment of people, process, methodology and technology. I advise Zapnito on commercial best practice, drawing on 20 years' experience in media.
Steven Weiler

CEO & Founder, Sterling Point

As a driven healthcare technology leader, I am passionate about growing organizations and delivering innovative solutions which make healthcare easy, efficient and profitable. I bring progressive leadership experience having planned, built, and operated digital business units and solutions across financial services, care delivery, health plan, product and service organizations.
Thane Kerner

Chief Executive Officer, Silverchair Holdings LLC

I spend my energy creating and evolving business strategies for professional, educational, and scholarly knowledge services, and the technical ecosystem required to execute on those strategies. In the current environment my focus is on actionable business intelligence, tailoring user experience to capture new markets, and optimizing multi-device utility.
Mark Breslin

Lead Associate Consultant, Sullivan & Stanley

As a seasoned business professional I help organisations to solve business problems and develop new business opportunities. I use a hands on pragmatic approach to get things done. My continual focus on user needs and business outcomes helps ensure the end results are what’s needed by each client.
Reda Sadki

Founder, The Geneva Learning Foundation

Reda Sadki is a chief executive with lifelong experience in forging multi-disciplinary teams to invent and execute new ways to lead change. He is the founder and president of the Geneva Learning Foundation, a Swiss non-profit research-and-development organization and think tank. In the past, Reda has worked for the United Nations, primarily for the World Health Organization, and at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the world’s largest humanitarian network, responsible first for the design and production of IFRC’s publications and then for its learning systems.
Simon Burton

Director, Co-Founder, CB Resourcing

extensive information industry and industry analyst expertise
Daniel Pollock

Publishing Consultant, Silicon Guru Ltd

Carolyn Morgan

Founder, Speciall Media

Carolyn Morgan is a strategist and consultant in digital media. She was formerly a strategy and digital director at EMAP, and has launched, acquired, grown and sold specialist media businesses in print, digital and live events. Carolyn now works with media owners as an NED or consultant on their digital strategy, advising on developing business models, creating digital subscription propositions and managing digital transformation. Carolyn frequently writes and speaks on digital publishing strategy, and has an extensive network of innovative media businesses. She has also led acquisition searches and managed the sale process of specialist media businesses.
James Gill

CEO, GoSquared

Susanna Kempe

CEO, Flying Trumpets

A digital, marketing leader with 20+ years experience in international B2B and media businesses, the last 15 of them at Board level. Susanna's digital experience includes being CEO of the iconic WGSN, growing its customer base and profits to historic highs. An American, German, Brit, she understands global markets completely, has worked all over the world and launched businesses in China, Japan and India. Her extensive M&A experience includes buying a whole portfolio of Performance Improvement businesses, data businesses and successful PE exits. Susanna is steeped in events experience. She began her career at IIR and was part of the management team that sold to Informa. There she was the CMO before moving to Emap Networks as CEO, transforming the events business and achieving record profits. She was also a NED of WTG and the interim CEO of Industry Dynamics. More recently while the Global Partner for Content and Marketing at Brunswick Group, she implemented a new digital first strategy, GTM approach and corporate re-brand. Susanna is now the CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation which invests in the education of the underprivileged and under represented in order to break the cycle of poverty, reduce inequality and produce a new generation of leaders. She also has her own boutique consultancy, Flying Trumpets, helping CEOs and Boards position their personal brands and grow their company profits through content, marketing, innovation and digital.
Darren Gough

Founder, Island23

Community Management expert with over 15 years background building digital strategy and driving engagement with diverse audiences. Former Community Manager for MoneySavingExpert.com. Clients worked with include Facebook, Sky, Greenpeace, World Bank, Springer Nature Publishing, Innogy (formerly RWE), Scope, Mind, Society for Neuroscience, Digicel, Vorwerk, Truth Initiative (Mayo clinic), Townsquared, and the NHS.
David Worlock

Publisher, Consultant

Alex Martinez

Founder / NED, Procurement Leaders

Experienced leader, start-up founder and board member with deep expertise in b2b intelligence, membership networks, communities, platforms and events.
Mark Allin

Chairman, William Reed Business Media Ltd.

Mark has 30 years’ experience in scientific, educational and trade publishing, in Asia, Europe and the US. Former CEO of John Wiley & Sons, he led the $120m Atypon purchase. Mark has recently joined Zapnito as a Strategic Advisor and lead Investor in this final seed round.
CTO at Zapnito
Matt Hall

Creative Director, Zapnito

Creative Director at Zapnito. Former Design Lead at Sporting Index and Senior Designer at Informa Business Information. Over 9 years experience in UX/UI design and front end-development.
Steve Thompson

Strategy Director & Advisor, Zapnito

My academic roots are in economics and mathematics and my professional roots are in financial analysis. My background has given me a wealth of experience in research, data interpretation and analysis. I have a close attention to detail, innate curiosity and ‘big picture’ awareness that I use to support the rest of the Zapnito team in truly understanding our customers' businesses. My aim is to ensure that both they and we succeed.
Jon Beer

COO, Zapnito

Hi, I’m Jon Beer, COO and Co-Founder at Zapnito. I help businesses to power Community-Led Growth by translating Zapnito's vision for curated expert communities into your own business objectives.  I have 22 years experience helping technology businesses to deliver digital experiences, so am always open to sharing my insights on making legitimate knowledge and expertise discoverable over the web. Let’s connect!