About us

We founded this Think Tank to help empowering women or non-binary leaders to claim the power to educate Gen AI towards a more human-centric and future-focused orientation. This view is informed by the Founder's scholarly research that advocates the significant roles of human-centricity and future-orientation for managing the innovation process to achieve successful long-term performance. Our Think Tank brings together diverse perspectives and backgrounds and  links industry with academia:

Chair and Founding Members

• Evy Sakellariou (Dr.), Founder and Chair, Innovation Scholar, Mentor, Director, Kingston Business School.
• Georgette Banham (Dr.), Chief Human Resources Officer Eku Energy technology-enabled energy storage business
• Emma Blackley, ex-KPMG Senior Leader, Board Member, and Advisor SMEs
• Gina Connell, Chief Marketing Officer at B P Collins LLP
• Clare Kemsley, Managing Director Hays UK & Ireland
• Karen Kerr, Founder Chicken/Egg & Pioneer of Applied Gen AI
• Michelle Medhat Director of Operations and Strategic Development Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (IKE Institute)
• Efi Naskou, Chief Marketing Officer, Zenus Bank
• Valia Sakkou, Digital Media Commercial Lead | PC | Eastern & Western Europe · Unilever
• Anasol Pena Rios (Dr.), Distinguished Engineer BT Group and Honorary Senior Lecturer School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering University of Essex, UK
• Madeleine Storr, Senior Vice President, Head of Cloud Sales UK at Salesforce