About Prosek Partners

Prosek Partners is among the largest independent communications and marketing firms in the U.S. and one of the few domestic, mid-size firms that offers global capabilities through its London office and international network. Specializing in providing a full range of communications solutions to financial and professional services companies, the firm delivers an unexpected level of passion, creativity and marketing savvy. Prosek Partners’ “Unboxed Communications” approach brings breakthrough ideas to every client engagement. Services include digital and traditional media relations, financial communications, investor relations, transaction services, crisis communications and issues management, digital marketing, design and creative services, content creation, publishing, media training and branded entertainment. The firm has been named an Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Company, a “Top Place to Work in PR” by PR News, A New York Observer Power PR firm, and a Holmes Report “Best Agency to Work For” and “Agency of the Year.” Prosek Partners is a certified Woman-Owned Business. For more information about Prosek Partners visit www.prosek.com or follow the agency on Twitter at www.twitter.com/prosekpr.

About Heyman Associates

Heyman Associates was launched in 1989, and has built a reputation as trusted advisors in corporate communications and public affairs. Over the years, as the lines between functions have blurred, Heyman has extended thier expertise into marketing. After more than 30 years building deep relationships with the best companies and the brightest candidates, they know the market. They know the people. They know what it takes to succeed in corporate communications, public relations, media relations, public affairs, social media, crisis communications, executive communications, investor relations, internal communications, corporate marketing, digital marketing, marketing communications, branding, and the full range of specialties across the communications and marketing spectrum. https://www.heymanassociates.com/

About Signal AI

Signal AI is one of the UK’s fastest growing artificial intelligence companies creating pioneering AI solutions to enable better decision making, and in September 2020 was named 23 in the Sage Tech Track 100, as well as the second fastest growing UK AI company. It believes AI is one of the most exciting and significant technological developments of our time.

Signal AI’s platform enables organisations to track defined challenges in real time. From competitive landscape and changes to regulation, to monitoring reputation or supply chain, the Signal AI platform gathers the relevant data and applies its proprietary machine learning analysis, in turn empowering smarter and faster decisions.

Rob Cox helped found Breakingviews.com in 2000 in London. From 2004 he spearheaded the startup publication's expansion in the United States and edited daily Breakingviews columns in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Rob, now based in Zurich, has worked as a journalist in London, Paris, Milan, New York, Chicago and Tokyo. Rob was named Global Editor of Breakingviews in December 2012, three years after it was acquired by Thomson Reuters and became the financial commentary arm of one of the largest news organizations in the world. Rob frequently appears on Monocle Radio and CNBC and his columns have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, USA Today, the Globe and Mail, la Repubblica and other publications. Prior to co-founding Breakingviews, Rob worked as European finance editor, South Europe bureau chief, and as a Wall Street reporter at Bloomberg News. Rob graduated from Columbia University's Journalism School and the University of Vermont, which gave him its Alumni Achievement Award in 2014 for his work on gun violence prevention. In his spare time, Rob plays ice hockey, runs slowly and skis aggressively.

Chuka Umunna is a strategic corporate advisor to companies on business-critical issues that impact on long term value, reputation and narrative – environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in particular.

His principal role is as Executive Director and Head of ESG (EMEA) at Edelman, the world’s biggest strategy and communications advisory firm. Part of the UK leadership, he is based out of the firm's specialist capital markets and financial services team where he spearheads the ESG consultancy practice - he provides advice to senior executive leadership and company boards on the integration of ESG factors into corporate decision making. He works across the wider corporate affairs division too on a whole suite of issues for clients.

In addition, he serves as an external, non-executive director (NED) for Vista Equity Partners and BC Partners, sitting on the board of their portfolio company, Advanced, the UK’s third largest software company. He is also a NED of Digital Identity Net UK, a UK fintech firm in the digital identity sector (having previously served as its Corporate Affairs Director), and sits on the advisory board of Signal AI, a leader in Artificial Intelligence Powered solutions for business and professional services.

Widely recognised as the former Member of Parliament for Streatham (2010-2019), Chuka served in Opposition as the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Shadow Minister for Small Business for several years.

A solicitor by profession, prior to his election to the UK Parliament he worked as a corporate employment lawyer for international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills LLP for several years.

Chuka continues to contribute regularly to a range of publications, including a variety of major UK newspapers and Forbes business magazine.

Andrea Bonime-Blanc, JD/PhD, is CEO and Founder of GEC Risk Advisory and a global governance, risk & ESG strategist, serving a broad cross-section of business, nonprofits, and government agencies. Since 2017, she has served as the Independent Ethics Advisor to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.

Dr. Bonime-Blanc spent two decades as a c-suite global corporate executive at Bertelsmann, Verint, and PSEG. She serves on several Boards and Advisory Boards including Crisp, Cyber Future Foundation, Greenward Partners, Ethical Intelligence, Epic Theatre Ensemble & the NACD New Jersey Chapter.

She is a NACD Board Leadership Fellow and Governance Faculty and holds the Carnegie Mellon CERT Certification in Cyber-Risk Oversight. She is faculty at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs Masters program teaching “Cyber Leadership, Risk Oversight and Resilience”.

Andrea is a global speaker, including at Davos, and is widely quoted and interviewed in the global media. She is an author of 5 books - her latest one, Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value (Routledge 2020), debuted as an Amazon #1 Hot Release in Business Ethics and Game Theory.

She lives in New York City with her family and is an avid photographer and artist.

Alexandra Mousavizadeh is a Partner at Tortoise Media, the slow-news media company founded by James Harding launched in April 2019. Alexandra is the Director of the Tortoise Intelligence team which specialises in global and industry indices and data analytics. Creator of the groundbreaking Global AI Index launched in December 2019, and the recently released Responsibility 100 Index. She has 20 years’ experience in the ratings and index business and has worked extensively across Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Previously, she directed the expansion of the Legatum Institute’s flagship publication, The Prosperity Index, and all its bespoke metrics based analysis & policy design for governments. Prior roles include Sovereign Analyst for Moody’s with specific focus on Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia from 1995 - 2007. From 2013-14 she also covered Sub-Saharan Africa. Alexandra became head of Country Risk Management, EMEA, Morgan Stanley’s London office prior to taking up the role as CEO of ARC Ratings, a global emerging markets based ratings agency. She holds a degree in Economics and mathematics from the University of Copenhagen.

David Benigson is the CEO and Founder of Signal AI, a fast growing UK artificial intelligence company creating pioneering AI solutions to enable better decision making. Signal AI has built their customer base to over 600 of the worlds largest organisations including HSBC, Deloitte, EY, Citi and Barclays, has 150 employees globally with offices in London, NYC and HK, and has raised $50m in venture capital to date. David believes AI is one of the most exciting and significant technological developments of our time and has been recognised for his innovative approach to AI being personally nominated formally as a Forbes 30 under 30, DataIQ 100 Most Influential People in Data, and his TEDTalk on Augmented Intelligence is regarded as one of the most influential on the subject.

With more than a decade working at the heart of the technology industry, Dex Hunter- Torricke has managed communications for some of the most-influential and admired Silicon Valley leaders and corporations of our day. From 2012-2016, he led the executive communications team at Facebook and served as personal speechwriter for Mark Zuckerberg. He then went on to join SpaceX as senior director of communications. He is currently head of communications for the Oversight Board, the independent body that will be making decisions on Facebook and Instagram’s most challenging content issues.

A natural storyteller, Dex has an arsenal of jaw-dropping, one-of-a-kind anecdotes that he uses to illustrate spellbinding lessons about moving to the middle of change to access opportunity, understanding connectivity as a universal force, and embracing the emergence of a global generation. A firm believer that corporations must tap into the challenges presented by technologies moving societies across borders rather than running from them, Dex is exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau.

On stage, Dex expertly combines his experience working for some of the world’s most-innovative and technology-driven brands with his passion for social innovation to help companies shift towards a 21st century business methodology. Dex takes audiences into Facebook’s boardroom, Musk’s open-concept cubicle, the famed Googleplex, and finally to the UN itself to share lessons on what it takes in today’s environment to build highly-effective internal teams, how to use storytelling in modern communications, and what to make of the steady transition from local to global that’s unfolded over the past decade. It’s truly fascinating to hear him talk about lessons learned from playing chess with Mark Zuckerberg in the middle of the night, or the intimidating, singular question asked by Elon Musk in a job interview. With prized insight on framing local problems globally, Dex encourages CEOs and entry-level employees alike to move to the center of disruption in order to innovate and offers practical advice for finding success in a constantly changing world.

In addition to working with Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, Dex formerly served as Google’s first executive speechwriter, supporting CEO Larry Page and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, and is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter. He began his career at the United Nations in 2008 as a speechwriter and spokesperson for the office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and holds a bachelors degree in politics from University College London and a master’s degree in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford.

In November 2016, Dex left his role as head of communications for SpaceX to pursue projects focused on global social change, serving as an independent strategic communications adviser for major technology companies and political leaders in the U.S. and UK. He is continuing to focus on ways to advance human rights and freedom of expression online as head of communications for the Oversight Board Administration.

Jennifer Prosek is the founder and CEO of Prosek Partners, a leading international public relations and financial communications consultancy with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles and Connecticut. The firm ranks among the top 10 independent public relations firms in the U.S., and among the top financial communications consultancies in the U.S. and UK. Prosek Partners was named Corporate Agency of the Year by Holmes Report, has been listed as an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company for nine years running and is ranked among the Top 25 firms in New York Observer’s PR Power List 2018.  

Prosek is a published author and frequent speaker. "Army of Entrepreneurs," her first book, received praise from Columbia Business School, Wharton and INSEAD. Her second book "Raising Can-Do Kids," co-authored with Richard Rende, Ph.D., was published by Penguin Random House in 2015. She is on the board of directors of the Arthur Page Society and BritishAmerican Business. 

Prosek received her MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. in English literature from Miami University.

Ms. Murray is the former Co-Chief Executive Officer of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund with more than $140 billion in assets under management. She was named Co-CEO in 2011, becoming the second-longest serving chief executive in Bridgewater’s history after founder Ray Dalio. She previously served as Co-President and Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining Bridgewater, Ms. Murray held several senior executive roles at Morgan Stanley, which she joined in 1984. From 2005 to 2007, she served as Global Head of Technology and Operations, overseeing more than 10,000 employees and an annual budget of $5.5 billion. She also served on the bank’s executive and management committees. From 1999 to 2002, she served as Chief Operating Officer in the bank’s Institutional Securities Group. Before that, she served as the bank’s Controller and Chief Accounting Officer following its merger with Dean Witter in 1997. Prior to the merger, she served as Controller and Treasurer. She was named Managing Director in 1994.

Ms. Murray left Morgan Stanley in 2002 for three years to serve as Head of Global Technology, Operations and Product Control at Credit Suisse First Boston. There, she oversaw more than 7,000 employees and an annual budget of $4 billion. She was the first woman to serve on the bank’s executive board.

Ms. Murray is an investor in and advisor to several start-up ventures in the artificial intelligence and machine learning spaces, including Credibility, which uses AI to analyze and score content for accuracy based on other available data sources, and Intelligo, which uses AI to automate and optimize diligence processing in financial services.

For her industry leadership and extensive philanthropic work with several distinctions, Ms. Murray has been recognized with many awards, including: the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization Pioneer Award in Finance from the United Nations; the Lifetime Achievement Award from Markets Media; Hedge Fund Journal’s 50 Leading Women in the hedge fund industry; U.S. Banker’s Most Powerful Non-Bank Women in Banking; Irish America Magazine’s 100 Best and Brightest Leaders; Partnership for After School Education’s Afterschool Champion; the Women’s Bond Club Merit Achievement Award; the Legal Momentum’s Aiming High Award; the Urban Stages Humanitarian Award; and the YMCA of Greater New York’s Arts and Letters Award for Outstanding Leadership.

Ms. Murray is a board member of HSBC Holdings plc, the Guardian Life Insurance Company, real estate technology platform Compass, and the Irish Arts Center (An Claidheamh Soluis), and a strategic advisor to Aquarian Holdings, a private holding company. She has also served as a board member for the Business Council for International Understanding, the YMCA of Greater New York, the Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Chicago, the Inwood House in Upper Manhattan, Hewlett Packard, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), OMGEO, Manhattan College and the American Women’s Economic Development (AWED) Corporation. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Manhattan College, where she was the first female graduate to be honored with its De La Salle Medal of Honor.

Matt Brown, President, Americas & Asia-Pacific, Signal AI

Matt Brown is President of Americas & Asia-Pacific for Signal AI, a leading global provider of real-time information and unlimited insight for media monitoring, reputation management and market intelligence. Brown is responsible for operations, revenue and expansion strategies for both regions.

Prior to joining Signal AI, Brown served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Nasdaq's Media Intelligence, Digital Communications and Public Relations services divisions, where he was responsible for global operations, and ultimately led the successful divestiture of all three businesses. Previously, he was Global Head of Sales for Nasdaq's Corporate Solutions business unit.

Prior to Nasdaq, Brown held a variety of revenue leadership positions at Thomson Reuters.

Brown received a BA in Philosophy from Trinity College.

Previously Fabrizio has held numerous senior roles at the UN, including Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, Deputy Special Representative for the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, UN Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Colombia; Director of the Field Personnel Division in the then Department of Field Support in New York; and as Chief of Field Operations and Technical Cooperation in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva.