Forum Radio
A weekly interview with Forum members all around the world.
Episodes
Nathalie Latham (Tamil Nadu) was a documentary film maker and photographer until cancer halted her life. Now, she has re-emerged as an artist, with a beautiful book about her treatment, recovery and emergence into her new phase of life. 'I AM ALIVE" is a testament to resilience and creativity, and how the two intertwine. With eloquence and humour, Nathalie talks to Jessica Fellowes about how it felt to surre...
Elizabeth Linder (Florida/London) has spoken at several Forum events, and we are honoured to have her as our guest this week. She has an extraordinarily insightful mind that manages to encompass the ever-expanding worlds of geopolitics, social media and leadership. She is so clever, in fact, that she although she has worked for Google, YouTube, Facebook and Chatham House, she has never held a position with an existing...
Roozbeh Aliabadi (Lisbon) is an AI education entrepreneur, geopolitical commentator and former military service member with expertise in the Middle East, Central Asia and geo-economics. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, USA Today and now Forum Radio! Roozbeh talks to Jessica Fellowes about his mission to make AI education accessible worldwide, as co-founder of ReadyAI. Roozbeh is als...
Doris loves gemstones. After listening to this episode, you'll understand why – and perhaps have a different appreciation for them yourself. Sitting in her beautiful atelier in Zurich, Forum member Doris Hangartner talks to Jessica Fellowes about her passion for gemology, how she matches personalities to stones, and the changing landscape of gem portfolios with recent discoveries of new and valuable stones.
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The luckiest amongst us will enjoy living to a grand old age, but are any of us looking forward to those years? Zurich member Jan Garde is on a mission to ensure that we are... As founder of The Embassies of Good Living, Jan is building mixed-use developments combining retail, leisure and serviced living in the hearts of the world's most amazing cities. The focus on 'contemporary hospitality' is all abo...
Would you invest in space? Raphael Roettgen (Zurich) talks to Jessica Fellowes about the ever-expanding universe for investment and why you don't have to be a rocket scientist to get into it.
Raphael is the founding partner of E2MC, a space-focused early-stage venture capital firm with over 25 space investments to date. As a pioneering and complex VC, he lectures on space entrepreneurship and finance at several u...
Tracy Hall is a former speaker for Forum in Singapore, talking here to Jessica Fellowes about her devastating experience as ‘the last victim’ of serial conman Hamish McLaren, currently in jail for fraud estimated at the value of $60-80m worldwide. Tracy talks to Jessica Fellowes here about the financial and emotional fall out of realising that the love of her life, the man she knew as Max, had defrauded her of her lif...
Bala Chandra (Dubai) talks to Jessica Fellowes this week about ‘inorganic growth,’ how having a performance psychologist in his staff transformed his company and what Harvard Business school did teach him.
Bala grew up in India and when he first arrived in London as a programmer, he came down to breakfast and couldn’t understand why he was the only person in the room. He had no idea that such a concept as daylight sav...
This week’s episode of Forum Radio is with Parag Khanna. Technically a Singapore member, Parag is perhaps more accurately a citizen of the world, having travelled to more than 150 countries and lived in several of them. A leading global strategy advisor, founder and CEO of Climate Alpha, author of several books – most recently, 'Move' – and a frequent speaker at Forum events, you can hear in this interview a...
Series Two of Forum Radio begins with Erkin Bek. As most of us would like to find a way to prolong the tranquility of our summer rest into our autumn work schedule, Erkin is the one to teach us how to do it. Founder of the All Here Organisation and the World Meditation League, Erkin is a scientifically accomplished meditation practitioner but comes to it from a background as an entrepreneur – albeit one who wanted to ...
Juliet Stannard is our guest this week on Forum Radio. A longstanding member, Juliet moved to Singapore from Britain in 1993, and has built a successful career in property in the region.
Juliet also talks movingly about the tragedy her family suffered in the Asian tsunami of 2004, and how they came through it with the support of friends. Since then, there have been further challenges but Juliet's extraordinary re...
This week is a special edition of Forum Radio – an interview with Forum’s founder, Simon Jacot de Boinod. Interviewed by his wife and co-founder, Jessica, Simon talks about how he came to create Forum and the exciting plans that are now in place for Forum 500, our future iteration of the club, launching in Singapore later this year.
‘I do see an opportunity for Forum 500 to be a think tank of practitioners. With ...
Ziad Salloum (Abu Dhabi) talks to Jessica Fellowes about his legal practice, advising governments and corporations in the UAE and elsewhere, his knighthoods from Italy and the Vatican, and how his father inspired him. Ziad grew up in the UAE – 'I used to be asked if I went to school on a camel' – and discusses the common misconceptions of the region that still exist today, as well as the exciting and fast-pa...
Betsy Pearce (New York) talks to Jessica Fellowes about her work as a lawyer and strategic advisor for creative businesses. In the past, Betsy has overseen deals with fashion giants such as Alexander McQueen and Gucci. She talks about how investors need guidance into how creatives work, and creatives need to understand the demands made by investment – sometimes the twain do not meet!
'Ninety to 94 per cent of inv...
This week's interview is with long-standing New York member John McCormick. Jessica talks to John about his work at InnovaHealth partners, where investment in the healthcare space has brought him to some of the most cutting edge developments in recent years. John also talks about the importance of investing in women's healthcare – notoriously neglected and underfunded – and the new miracle drug, the likes of...
In this week's episode, Jessica talks to Anita Beacroft (Singapore). Born and raised in Sydney, before moving to Tokyo and Hong Kong, Anita began her professional career in finance and property. Following health challenges, she trained in energy healing modalities from Reiki to meditation, and now runs The Ascended Heart, a transformational coaching company. She talks about the unconscious divide between what peo...
Michael Beneville (New York) is a familiar face to many of our members, as the co-founder of Beneville Studios, which hosts Forum breakfasts so brilliantly. An artist, storyteller and futurist, Michael talks to Jessica about his childhood inspirations, LA vs NY, how to ‘step into the shoes of your worth’ and growing a business that has no template. Beneville Studios today has created a wide range of innovative design,...
This week's conversation is with New York member James Greenberg, founder of Greenberg Art Advisory, member of the Whitney Museum Library Fellows and Vice Chairman for The Center for Arts Education. He is also an artist himself, working out of a studio in Greenpoint Brooklyn.
Jim talks to Jessica about his training in art history, finance and law, and how this gave him a different port of entry into the art world...
Daniel Widdicombe (London), CFO of Devolver Digital, and former head of investment banking for CBB (the world's second-largest bank), talks to Jessica about a career that has bridged east and west, the creative and the financial, and his plans to travel as widely as possible.
Daniel told us what he has enjoyed about his Forum membership, too: 'It has broadened my perspectives on business and friendships, an...
Jennifer Schipf (London) is Global Chief Underwriting Officer Fine Art & Specie at AXA XL, which means she sets worldwide strategy for client solutions in the specialised market of fine art underwriting. In her conversation with Jessica, Jennifer talks about inspirational artists, the challenges of intersecting business and art, as well as her own work in the studio.
‘I sit at this very unusual intersection of...
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