Eric is Chairman of Centaur Robotics, a next generation personal electric vehicle designer and service provider. He volunteers as an External Advisory Board member to Royal College of Art’s Design Age Institute and Honorary Associate Professor of Primary Care Innovation at De Montfort University. He also volunteers as the UK’s Ambassador to Aging2.0.

Previously, Eric helped to launch the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund – Healthy Ageing as the Interim Director. He was responsible for scoping the challenge and facilitating collaborations with industry, Government, 3rd sector and academia to unlock opportunities deriving from the UK and global demographic shift. The Healthy Ageing Challenge Fund is a £98 million fund to invest in innovations enabling people to live better for longer. Following this role, Eric went on to become a co-founder of the Secretariat to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Longevity.

Eric is an established innovation professional with a background in large corporations (General Electric, KPMG and IBM) as well as disruptive new startups in technology and healthcare. Eric studied Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from New York University. He is a Freeman of the City of London at the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. He speaks French, completed the Paris, Berlin and New York marathons and is now an avid cold water swimmer.

Colum is a senior design leader with a significant track record of developing inclusive products and services in the private, public and charitable sectors. He has been Head of Design at a range of organisations, including the Ministry of Justice, Sainsbury’s Homebase and the NHS National Patient Safety Agency, where he delivered a multi-partner programme to advance the patient safety agenda for the NHS. He has worked closely throughout his career with marginalised user groups, including those with age-related physical and mental frailty. His
experience includes running the design firms Crabtree Hall and CaulderMoore, as well as his own consultancy and founding the Independent Safeguarding Service CIC. Colum Lowe also spent 15 years helping the Design Council to develop and deliver its flagship
design intervention programme, Designing Demand. He holds an MBA in Design Management from the University of Westminster and originally trained as a product designer at Chelsea School of Art.

Miranda is the lead for the Commons Streams of the National Digital Twin Programme. She is also a member of the Mayor’s Smart London Board and Infrastructure Advisory Panel, trustee at the Centre for Cities think tank, and advisor on digital, data and infrastructure to clients including the award-winning SME See Sense. Her interest is in enabling better decision with the benefits of data and innovative business models.

Previously at Ordnance Survey, she founded and lead the cross functional practice which collaborates with enterprises from the public and private sectors, academic researchers and entrepreneurs from OS’s Geovation community in the use and exploitation of place-based data.
Outside work, she has moved from swimming, to water polo to rugby and is currently trying to improve at hockey, maintaining her position in the team by taking on the role of club ops director.

A media entrepreneur, Hugh co-created Response Global Media in 2007 and has built the company to become one of the world’s most respected sustainable finance media and events companies. As a journalist, he has written extensively on investment, corporate and sustainability issues for international newspapers including The Guardian and The Financial Times.

He has interviewed some of the biggest names in global institutional finance and sustainability.
Hugh has won many journalism awards during his career. In 2020, he won the Outstanding Contribution to Institutional Journalism at the State Street Press Awards. He won the respected Aon Consulting award for European Pensions and Investment Journalist of the Year in 2006.

From 2004 to 2007 he was Paris Correspondent and before that Fund Management Editor at Financial News, part of the Wall Street Journal.
Prior to that he was Political and Economic advisor to the Secretary General of Amnesty International.

Shefaly Yogendra, PhD is a portfolio NED with experience of building organisations, brands, and culturally diverse teams. Shefaly specialises in decision making and brings experience and expertise in deep tech, risk and talent to her governance roles.

At present Shefaly is a Non-Executive Director of JP Morgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust (LSE: JUSC) where she chairs the Remuneration Committee, and of Temple Bar Investment Trust (LSE: TMPL). She is also an independent Governor of London Metropolitan University where she chairs the Audit Committee and earlier chaired the Governance Committee. Earlier she was the COO and an executive director of Ditto AI. She founded the luxury startup Livyora. Her career began at HCL Technologies.

Shefaly was among the “100 Women to Watch” in the Female FTSE Board Report 2016 and holds a PhD in Political Decision Making from the University of Cambridge. She trained earlier in engineering, management, and technology policy.