About Us

We founded this Think Tank to help empower women and 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:

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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