Forum Radio
A weekly interview with Forum members all around the world.
Episodes
This is a special arts edition of Forum Radio, part of our regular London arts salons. Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton (London) is a Forum 500 member but is also the author of an astonishing debut, in the vein of William Boyd or Sebastian Faulks, with 'Beyond the Edge of Light' (Penguin). Opening in Munich 1938, the book follows the star-crossed lovers, Missie, who is English (and inspired by Jamie's mother, who worked for ...
For this episode of Forum Radio, we return to one of our early guests, Justin Peimani (London), to talk about his new business venture, Relace. Relace helps companies adhere to regulation, which can be complex and bewildering, but Justin is able to draw on his lawyer training as well as his extensive experience working with tech start ups.
"What was consistently surprising to us is when you think about how core...
How do brands build trust in an age of AI, automation and endless content? In this episode of Forum Radio, Jessica Fellowes speaks to Kristian Alomá (Chicago), a narrative psychologist and brand strategist, about the stories that shape the way customers connect with organisations.
Kristian explains why successful brands begin not with what they sell, but with the problems and aspirations of their customers – an...
For the start of our fourth season of Forum Radio podcasts, we are thrilled to open with a trio of members: Sonya Bekkerman, Sara Bengur and Ivana Tagliamonte. Sonya and Sara, based in New York, work together in their interiors practice, Vastu Puja, which brings together their deep knowledge of art, design and spiritual practice. Simon introduced them to Ivana (who moves between Lake Como in Italy and New York), who...
For our 20th and final episode of the third season, Jessica Fellowes, co-founder of Forum 500, talks to Charlotte Holl, our member with a foothold in New York, LA and Munich. President and co-founder of First Growth Brands, a French sparkling wine brand and family business that Forum 500 members in America have been lucky enough to taste. Produced using the 'méthode traditionelle,' Charlotte is very interesting to h...
This is a great discussion with maths-fiend, Mensa member Rachel Pether (Abu Dhabi), who trained as a journalist before switching to finance. She packed her bags aged 21 and moved from New Zealand to London, to pursue her dream of working for the BBC. Now settled in the UAE, where she has been for almost twenty years, Rachel combines her journalism skills with finance in a number of ways. She is a host on FinTechTV,...
Forum 500 member Manoj Gursahani (Mumbai) started India's first e-commerce travel portal, the beginning of a long career in which a blend of technology with entrepreneurial vision has been the hallmark. Chair of Tiger 21 in his home city, Manoj is an established mentor and coach of high networth leaders, and as co-chairman of the India Business Group, he strengthens India's role in internationa trade and partnership...
This episode sees Jessica Fellowes talking to Sarah Anderson (Boulder), the founding partner of Vault Fund, which principally invests in company builders. Sitting in her round home office – a converted silo – where she lives on 100 acres with her family, Sarah talks with great enthusiasm about the world she works in, one that is very different from the enormous corporations she worked with when...
For this episode, we welcome a longstanding friend of Forum 500, James Arroyo, OBE. James is the Director of the Ditchley Foundation, an organisation established to strengthen democratic relations, to help sustain peace, freedom and the rule of law. The Foundation is based in the magnificent setting of Ditchley Park, a Georgian Palladian masterpiece, one of the last surviving country houses of James Gibb and where t...
Anthony Monckton (London, Vienna) is an expert on risk, security, negotiation and conflict resolution, having served as an army officer before moving into diplomacy, specialising in national security. He talks this week to Jessica Fellowes about ViennEast, the company he established over ten years ago as a risk advisory and due diligency consultancy.
ViennEast deals with a wide range of challenges faced by indi...
This week, we talk to Forum 500 member Hanlie van Wyk (Chicago), a social scientist, psycho-geographer and executive coach working with leaders and teams across borders, resolving polarisation and conflict. All of us, no matter what our industry, have faced something of this nature at some point.
Hanlie talks about how her own upbringing, in which she witnessed first-hand apartheid and the 1994 transition in South Af...
Winston Fisher (New York) is a partner and third generation of the Fisher Brothers, the royal family of real estate in Manhattan, founded in 1915. Winston directs the company’s financing and investing activities, property acquisitions and dispositions and oversees all new development initiatives. One of the most exciting of these being Area 15 in Las Vegas, which was developed with Michael Beneville (NY/LA). W...
Druv Kent – aka ‘Dhruv’ – is a financier turned singer/songwriter, recording in both English and Hindi. HIs 2015 debut saw him become the first Asia-based artist supported by BBC Radio 2 in twenty years. He’s since scored several #1 hits on the World Indie Music Charts, the Euro Charts and the US Top 20. Recently, he featured in Rolling Stone magazine.
Brought up in Kolkata before ...
Forum Radio host Jessica Fellowes talks in this episode with Lindsay Cooper (Singapore) about his transition from finance into the longevity and health sector. Lindsay attempted to semi-retire from business in 2017 but was scuppered when he was tempted into buying a convent in the Cotswolds just before the COVID pandemic. Initially intended as a wellness retreat, the project sparked an interest in preventative healt...
This week, Jessica Fellowes talks to Hanspeter Kipfer (Zurich) about his extensive work in the tech industry, and his more recent transition to support start-ups as advisor and angel investor, focusing on emerging technologies such as AI, Web3 and blockchain. The discussion hones in on the balance between optimism and risk in AI – how prepared is society for the rapid, exponential growth that is coming it...
In this episode of Forum Radio, Jessica Fellowes talks to Kanna Fujita (New York). Kanna is the founder and driving force behind Reforma Medspa & Wellness, Kirei House, and Femly Labo. Together they form an integrated ecosystem at the intersection of regenerative health, aesthetics and luxury wellness. Kanna grew up in Japan, and is known for blending Eastern wellness philosophies with Western science and techno...
This episode of Forum Radio is a conversation with Philippe Teixeira da Mota in Lisbon. Phil is one of Europe's most active fintech investors and now co-founder and CIO of Shapers, a $75 million venture capital firm dedicated to backing early stage fintech entrepreneurs, launched in 2023 with his brother. Before he founded Shapers, Phil was the first employee at Hedosofia, an investment which he helped grow to 80 em...
James Ryan (New York) is the founder and CEO of RYCO Capital, a vertically-integrated real estate investment firm, which acquires, renovates and operates multifamily, mixed-use and office properties in NY and Rochester. In this conversation with Jessica Fellowes, James talks about the human side of real estate: managing hundreds of tenants means understanding their different perspectives and resolving conflicts. The...
In the week in which it was announced that Ananda Pharma has received MHRA and NHS Ethics approval for ENDOCAN-1, their Phase 2 clinical trial testing MRX1 CBD oral solution for endometriosis-associated pain (afflicting 190 million women worldwide), we are delighted to have this interview with the co-founder and CEO, Melissa Sturgess.
Ananda Pharma has not only been taking CBD oil through a standard drug develo...
Forum Radio this week is a conversation between Jessica Fellowes, co-founder of Forum 500, and Velitchka Hristova. Multi-linguist Velitchka has over 20 years experience in wealth management, and has recently established Sineva Family Office, based in Vienna, with much travel in the Balkans.
In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss how to raise financially aware children and Velitchka's work as a 'money coa...
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