Ann Hiatt
Ann has extensive experience in Silicon Valley, having reported directly to CEOs Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet) for 15 years. As an executive, Ann specializes in calculated risk-taking, innovation, C-suite efficiency, and people management, in particular, systems designed to embed organizational ambitions.
Ann is also an accomplished investor, author, and speaker. Her bestselling book, Bet On Yourself, was published by HarperCollins in 2021.
Conor Kehoe
Conor is chair of the investment industry’s global sustainability association, the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), with 5,500 members managing $120 trillion in assets. He is also a special advisor at McKinsey and an adjunct lecturer at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. Before this, he chaired the International Integrated Reporting Council, was a member of the G7 Impact Accounting Taskforce, and also chaired the Turing Institute’s AI Fellowship Award Committee.
Conor was previously a software engineer who led McKinsey’s Tech and Telecom Practice in Europe. He’s also known for co-founding McKinsey's Private Equity and Principal Investor Industry (PEPI) Practice and McKinsey Ventures.
Oliver Shah
Oliver is an award-winning former journalist, a member of Board Intelligence's advisory board, and a trustee of the Wincott Foundation.
He spent 20 years in the newspaper industry, including 15 years at the Sunday Times, where he was Business Editor and then Associate Editor. He was named business journalist of the year at the 2017 Press Awards for his investigation into Sir Philip Green’s £1 sale of BHS. He was also named business journalist of the year at the 2017 London Press Club Awards. His first book, Damaged Goods: The Inside Story of Sir Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Death of the High Street, was published by Penguin in 2018.
Oliver left The Sunday Times in July 2025 to start Newcome Advisory, a premium practice advising boards and investors on all elements of reputation.
Jennifer Sundberg
Jennifer, the co-founder and former co-CEO of Board Intelligence, has played an invaluable role in shaping governance best practice in the UK and internationally. She has won numerous awards, including EY London Entrepreneur of the Year, The Times Young Business Woman of the Year, and LDC’s ‘Ones to Watch’, which celebrates the leaders of the UK’s fastest-growing businesses.
Jennifer Sundberg and Pippa Begg are the authors of Collective Intelligence: How to build a business that’s smarter than you, published in 2023.