FutureWorld - Ambassadors and Associates

About the network

FutureWorld is a collaboration of leaders in business, the professions and community who choose to network to help our clients understand the volatile world marketplace and choose their own futures.

The FutureWorld Global Think Tank is, in spirit and execution, a virtual and fractal network of independent individuals - top business leaders who are rewriting the rules of business in various fields.

We choose to work together to create radical business and personal change. We harness global best-of-breed resources for our clients and we differentiate ourselves through the unique qualities of our synthesis, passionate communication skills and practical application.

We share a common belief in the power of individual thought and action, and the power of the interconnected purpose of a fractal network.

Our shared principles are not tablets of stone, but are etched in each individual's heart and soul. We belong and we resonate.

Our network

Ambassadors & Associates

In addition to Gurus, FutureWorld is supported by a network of Ambassadors and Associates.

These are movers and shakers in their field of expertise who choose to align themselves with FutureWorld by participating in Think Tank sessions and as contributors to MindBullets: News from the Future™. They are a critical interface between theory and practice, whose knowledge and passion provides us with a broad base of inputs and insights, plus a powerful sounding board for new thinking.

They also introduce FutureWorld into their business networks. Some Ambassadors and Associates are working towards becoming fully fledged Gurus within the network.

The FutureWorld (International) ambassadors and associates are:

Philip Spies
Futures Studies specialist, previously Director of the Institute for Futures Research: "We can change the world - a positive future is not a spectator's future, it is a participant's future"

Max Burger
Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur, previously global director of Apax Partners

Radames Soto
Founder, Kinina Ventures, and previously CEO of WallStreetJournal.com

Hans Steininger
CEO MT Aerospace

Theo Pauw
Entrepreneur, previously Joint MD of AFRS, a division of Alexander Forbes Ltd.

Rachel Chan
Founder and Chief Catalyst Innofoco, innovative policy maker, dreamer and doer

Ken Lee
Writer, Strategist, Innovator and Futurist

Luis Toro
CEO, Deloitte Consulting, Mexico and Latin America; and an Amassador for 'FutureWorld powered by Deloitte'

Alan Gross
CEO Gross & Co, Founder of Chefworks.com

Regine Smith
Strategist and Systems Thinker; Media Director – MediaShop

Mpho Makwana
Inspirational raconteur

Philip Marsh
Managing Director and “Chief e-KNOW-vator”, Knowledge Management International

New! Thierry Cassuto
Thierry is President of Both Worlds Investments, a global media business.

Victoria Skye Grulke
New Media Strategist, previously executive at MSNBC in San Francisco, and MSN UK.

Aletha Ling
Head of Global Sales, Fundamo

Gavin Chait
Business philosopher

JP Landman
Respected Policy and Trend Analyst

New! Mohamed Kharwa
Pharmacist, Strategist, Entrepreneur and Optimist

David Ho
Founder of Mastermind Strategy Advisors Limited

Owen Chow
A pragmatic, multi-cultural and multi-disciplined business advisor

Rodger George
Strategist, scenario planner and lecturer

New! Lynn King
Founder of Sage Vision, and a FutureWorld Associate

Ian Goldin
Director of the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University; previously Vice President of the World Bank

New! Alan Matcham
Previously Director of CSC's Leading Edge Forum Executive Programme and Executive Director of the Management Innovation Lab (MLab) at London Business School

Chris Skinner
Chairman of The Financial Services Club & CEO Balatro

Francisco Silva
Strategy & Operations Partner, Deloitte Mexico; and a FutureWorld Associate

Sudhanshu Palsule
Award-winning educator, consultant and leadership coach, one of the leading thinkers in the field of Transformative Leadership.

Nassim Taleb
Author of 'The Black Swan', Professor in Risk Engineering and former practitioner of 'mathematical finance'.

Don Tapscott
One of the world’s leading authorities on innovation and technology, writer and Chairman of Moxie Insight.

Erik Brynjolfsson
Schussel Family Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Director MIT Center for Digital Business; Chair MIT Sloan Management Review

Danie Maritz
Collaboration and Innovation Strategist

Juan Enriquez
Chairman/CEO of Biotechonomy LLC; Founding director, Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School; Fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs

Thomas Malone
Head of the MIT Centre for Collective Intelligence

John Ryan
Director of the Bionanotechnology IRC and Professor of Physics at Oxford University

Rajendra Sisodia
Professor of Marketing at the University of Bentley USA; leading exponent of ‘Conscious Capitalism'

Lisa Talia Moretti
Social media and digital strategist

New! Marc Van Gastel
Marc is Director of Deloitte’s Innovation Center of Excellence. He specializes in innovation, R&D and technology management, strategy implementation and improving organization development and effectiveness.