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SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT

HERMINIA IBARRA, DECISION MAKING GURU CHRIS VALASEK IS ON THE
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT NOREENA HERTZ MOVES MOVE FROM UBER TO GM’S
EXPERT, MOVES TO LBS FROM TV TO RADIO CRUISE AUTOMATION

Herminia Ibarra, has recently been Visionary economist, Noreena Chris Valasek, Security Lead at Uber,
appointed Professor of Organizational Hertz has started a new role. She is moving to Cruise. Valasek made
Behaviour at London Business is going to host her own radio show worldwide headlines for his remote
School. Prior to this Herminia was in America on Sirius XM, the biggest hack of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Professor of Leadership and Learning radio network in the US, MegaHertz: where he obtained physical control
as well as Professor of Organizational London Calling. Noreena will be the of the vehicle. Chris will be helping
Behavior at INSEAD. Her current network's first non-US voice and will to head up Cruise’s Autonomous
role embraces educating leaders be sharing her insights on what's Vehicle security team. Cruise is GM’s
through writing, teaching, speaking going on in Europe and the UK with self-driving car company and GM are
and consulting. Thinkers50 placed her listeners as well as providing investing heavily in creating the most
her among the 10 most influential insights into how America is being robust secure systems for safety and
business gurus in the world. perceived by the rest of the world. security of customers.

FUTUROLOGIST ARIC DROMI APPOINTED TO NEW focuses on 10-15-year future scenarios making it tangible
BOARD POSITIONS and most important, make it relevant.

Aric Dromi is a futurologist, digital philosopher and Strategic View Aric’s latest video clip, where he talks about the future
Advisor. Alongside running his own company TEMPUS. of the transport industry and how vehicles will be redefined
MOTU, Aric has been the in-house futurologist at Volvo Cars by thinking software and services first and only then about
Group for some time. This year he has been appointed to the car itself.
two new Advisory Board roles. Firstly he was appointed to
the Board of the NTT innovation Institute Inc. Their purpose
is to uncover ambitious ideas from the vast global network
on NTT Group’s R&D labs and engage in a collaborative
approach to R&D with Silicon Valley start-ups as well as
major corporations. Aric has also been appointed to the
Innovation Advisory Board of UNLEASH. This is a global
innovation lab that brings together people from all over the
world to transform 1,000 personal insights into hundreds of
ideas, and build lasting global networks around the UN’S
Sustainable Development Goals. For our clients Aric
delivers speeches that frame questions and help people
identify and abandon old paradigms and rethink thinking. He

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