• Aly Bowman - Chief Product Officer, Thomas International

As Chief Product Officer, Aly Bowman is responsible for drawing together the Product, Research and Development, Marketing, Training and Psychology teams and accelerating their growth on a global scale. Aly's focus is to nurture talent, 'raise the bar' and ensure excellence in performance; when coupled with her belief in Thomas' quality products and solutions, she ensures a laser-like focus upon the delivery of outstanding service to all Thomas customers.

• Angela Spang - Serial Entrepreneur & Business Leader

Serial Entrepreneur, working mum and former ballerina Angela Spang. Angela is the founder of a total of 6 companies including June Medical and The London Medical Academy - LMEDAC. Not only is Angela a successful business woman but she is overtly passionate about making a difference with the companies that she has created. Angela is an award winning Entrepreneur, by which her acolades include:

• Top 30 Most Caring Companies in UK 2017
• WINNER First Women ENTREPRENEUR of THE YEAR 2017
• WINNER of SME Excellence Award 2016
• BUSINESS LEADER OF THE YEAR Award Finalist 2016 and 2017
• Case study for TTIP 2016
• Case Study GROWTH HUB Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) 2016
• BEST NEW BUSINESS Award Winner 2015

Despite Angela’s obvious success she remains humble and advocates that her and her team “are set on making changes for the better and saving lives, that is what really matters the most.”

• Dr Sarah Abbas - General Practitioner and Safeguarding Lead

Dr. Sarah Abbas is a portfolio Doctor who currently works as a general practitioner, is a GP appraiser, a named GP for safeguarding and, assesses mentally ill patients under the Mental Health Act. She has been involved in originating and overseeing a local community group for mothers and children. In her volunteering responsibilities, she is a Governor of Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and performs the role of Child Welfare Officer for High Wycombe Cricket Club.

• Gareth Ainsworth - Manager, Wycombe Wanderers Football Club

Gareth Ainsworth has been manager of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club for more than six years, guiding the club to promotion to League 1 last season against the odds. As a player at the start of his career, he overcame the setback of being released from his boyhood club Blackburn Rovers on his 18th birthday, but battled back to carve out a successful career which took him all the way to the top flight with Wimbledon, also representing Preston, Lincoln and QPR amongst others before joining Wycombe at the age of 36. There, he helped the club win promotion as a player in 2011, and moved into management a year later, fighting the adversity of severe financial restraints, and having no reserve or youth team, to assemble a talented squad with the right blend of youth and experience to achieve a four-year plan to climb into League 1, and the club look well on course to consolidate their position in the third tier this season.

• Shaukat Warraich, Social Entrepreneur & CEO, Faith Associates

Shaukat Warraich is an award winning social entrepreneur and Chief Executive of Faith Associates. He holds a number of leadership roles in the private and charitable sectors facilitating increase in performance and sustainability.

• Superintendent Kevin Brown - Local Area Commander, Thames Valley Police

Supt Kevin Brown joined Thames Valley Police in 1988. He has had a varied and operationally-focused career, having spent the majority of his uniform service as a response officer, Sergeant and Inspector in Berkshire. He also spent three years as a Roads Policing Officer at Taplow. His non uniform roles have included Detective Sergeant on the Force Surveillance Team for five years and Detective Inspector for Proactive teams, where he ran several large covert operations. He then took on the role of Detective Chief Inspector for Protecting Vulnerable People across East Berkshire before becoming the Detective Chief Inspector at Slough. Following this Kevin became a Senior Investigating Officer for major crimes and kidnaps across Thames Valley, successfully investigating many murders and high profile cases. Prior to being appointed Wycombe LPA commander 18 months ago, Kevin was temporary Detective Superintendent Force Authorising Officer, responsible for TVP’s Source Handling and sanctioning covert operations for all of the South East regional forces.