Paradigms experts from around the world

Bomo Piri is an inspirational marketing leader with over 15 years of experience building brands and creating customer impact. He’s skilled in brand innovation, emerging platforms, brand revitalization, and turnarounds in fast-moving and consumer-centric digital environments — including tech, gaming, media and entertainment, food and beverage, beauty, and human rights.

Giorgia Lupi is an award-winning information designer whose work synthesizes data and storytelling in innovative ways to create unique brand expressions. Her work reflects her belief that data can make us more human — advancing our intelligence, engagement, and delight. In her practice, Giorgia designs engaging data-driven visual narratives across print, digital, and environmental media to create new insight and appreciation of people, ideas, and organizations.

Brian Collins is co-founder of COLLINS, the independent strategy and experience design company in San Francisco, New York City, and London. COLLINS aims to mix imagination, craft, and technology to build brands that can’t be ignored. Its clients include Spotify, Target, Nike, Disney, Dropbox, Microsoft, Mailchimp, and the San Francisco Symphony. Named by Forbes as a company reshaping the future of brand building, COLLINS was the first design firm to appear on the Ad Age A-List and has been awarded the Design Agency of the Year three times.

Felipe Rocha is a Brazilian designer and creative director based in New York. With over 15 years of experience in various fields of design, he has created culturally relevant work for globally recognized brands — including Netflix, Apple, and Nike — and for notable cultural institutions such as the Sundance Film Festival and PAC NYC. Before founding PORTO ROCHA, Felipe led the design for new brand initiatives and major artist collaborations at Spotify.

Leo Porto is the Founder and Creative Director of NY-based design studio PORTO ROCHA, where he works closely with people and brands to develop branding systems, products, and experiences. Previously, Leo was the Design Director at COLLINS and a Design Professor at the School of Visual Arts.

Cam is a freelance strategist and facilitator who runs transformation processes across multiple sectors and industries. Her previous roles included being an Account Director at Snask — leading projects for clients such as Bang & Olufsen, Klarna, and Wallbaby — and running a development organization in Ghana. Cam taught leadership and communication at Stockholm School of Economics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Berghs School of Communication, and she shared her insights on global stages, including TEDx Stockholm and effective altruism conferences in Nairobi.

Ana Andjelic is a global brand executive, author of “The Business of Aspiration” and has been recognized three times by Forbes for her CMO work. In the course of her career, Ana led, grew and managed brand-driven modern businesses. She earned her doctorate in sociology and is a widely read columnist, speaker and advisor. Subscribe to her newsletter, The Sociology of Business.

Taamrat excels in mining insights that challenge assumptions and inspire fresh approaches to brand experiences, driven by her passion for the intersection of race, representation, and socioeconomic patterns. She focuses on brands that address critical issues like climate change, developing economies, and human rights. With nearly two decades of experience in top brand consultancies, she has developed strategies and advised executives across diverse sectors, including healthcare, fashion, and urban planning.

Emma is a maestro of creative strategy and the Global Head of Creative at Tony’s Chocolonely, the impact company that makes chocolate. She also founded the “She is Creative” newsletter, a weekly Substack supporting and advocating for women in the creative industry.

Lisa has a career spanning over two decades of transforming some of the world’s most cherished brands. As Executive Creative Director, Global at JKR, her strategic vision has played a pivotal role in the global rebrand efforts for clients such as Burger King, Impossible Foods, Nordstrom Rack, and Manischewitz.

Matt Klein is a cultural researcher, Webby-winning writer and advisor to organizations seeking to make sense of our media and social shifts. Klein partners with investors, the UN, journalists, philanthropies, and brands to explain technological change and develop future-proofing strategies. As a Digital Anthropologist, he is currently Head of Global Foresight at Reddit, Resident Futurist with Hannah Grey VC, and author of the publication ZINE.

Claire Houghton-Price is the Development Director and Producer at Pophouse, where she is responsible for transforming the company’s legacy music portfolio into next-generation entertainment experiences. She leads the creative development of new projects designed to engage both loyal fans and new audiences on a global scale.

Claire joined Pophouse two years ago, bringing with her a wealth of experience from her time working on the Harry Potter brand in global franchise development, including six years at Warner Bros. She began her career as a literary agent, where she managed and grew the brands of prominent authors. Now, Claire applies her expertise to the music industry, creating innovative experiences that breathe new life into iconic artists and their legacies.

Kim Nyström is the Brand and Marketing Director at Pophouse, where she leads the long-term brand building of the company’s portfolio of iconic artists, songs, and creative concepts. Pophouse specializes in music catalog investments, working closely with artists and estates to create innovative, artist-centric experiences.

Before joining Pophouse, Kim spent over a decade at The Absolut Group in senior marketing and strategy roles, where she developed global strategies for some of the world’s most renowned spirit brands. Now, she brings this expertise to the music industry, championing a fan-first approach and bridging the gap between traditional branding and the dynamic artist-fan relationship.

Damien is the Creative Director at Figma where he leads their Brand Studio. Over the past two decades, he’s worked on both the brand and product sides (and a few places in-between). Whether it’s running his own practice or working in-house at one of the largest companies in the world, he’s in the pursuit of great design by making the expected surprising, the strange familiar, and the accessible abundant.

Founder and CEO of Frontify, Roger Dudler has proudly led his organization to the forefront of brand management, with a powerful and holistic cloud-based experience. Since Frontify’s beginnings in 2013, he’s been the driving force behind Frontify’s mission and vision, empowering thousands of brands around the world to create, thrive, and evolve.

As Global Head of Brand at Mozilla, Amy brings nearly two decades of experience in defining, transforming, and launching brands, products and services for some of the world’s most influential businesses. She’s led brand transformation work at agencies, in-house and across continents. Balancing creativity and strategy to drive impactful change.

Jolyon Varley is Co-Founder at OK COOL — a (very) creative strategy and production agency. We describe our work as “the human centric articulation of brand”. We turn subcultures into content and humanise some of the world’s most renowned, tier-1 brands such as Nike, Spotify and Disney. We are official strategic and creative partners to TikTok and Meta. I'm interested in what happens at the margins: counter culture + youth energy and the fault lines where high and low collide.

Iona is VP of Brand and Marketing Strategy at Wise, the fintech unicorn that specializes in international money movement. She has 15 years of experience in startup, scale-up, and blue-chip corporate environments, working across various disciplines to build brand equity across every touchpoint of the customer experience.

Nick is a co-founder of agency matchmaking service ASK US FOR IDEAS. They’ve carved a market leading position for themselves over 10 years of pairing the world’s most exciting brands with the industry’s most creatively potent brand, marketing and digital agencies. They make it their business to know the agency landscape better than anyone, understand what ingredients need to be present to allow great work to flourish, and have an 1,000+ strong client list that includes household names like CHANEL, NIKE, Samsung, and WISE alongside a host of the most exciting and disruptive startups of the future.

Alex Bec is the co-founder and CEO of It’s Nice That, Creative Lives in Progress and If You Could Jobs. Over the last seventeen years It’s Nice That has grown from a one-week University project to a globally renowned creative media company that reaches over a 8 million people every month. He has an unwavering passion for giving opportunity and exposure to exciting talent in the creative industry, from established names to rising stars – all three businesses continually strive to support this mission.

The four companies Alex founded alongside Will Hudson; It’ s Nice That, Creative Lives in Progress, If You Could Jobs and Anyways Creative are all now part of the global network, Residence.