Founder, Insta Associates

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Nigel has spent the last 15 years helping private and public organisations navigate through emerging,
collapsing and evolving markets. His clients have included blue chips to start ups, and niche domestic
companies to global institutions. His breadth of experience sets him apart as an innovator and strategist where diversity is prized. He uses a combination of strategy, innovation, corporate diplomacy, systems, and design thinking, and has worked with companies across finance, health, built environment, agriculture, space, defence, tech, government and E-NGOs. Nigel’s formal education includes a postgraduate in Strategy and Innovation from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Officer Cadet Training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Co-Founder & COO of Climate Risk Services, Associate Fellow at Said Business School

Stephanie works at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and sustainability; leading and supporting organizations to embed these topics into organizational culture and processes for improved business outcomes. Stephanie co-founded and runs a climate risk advisory & data solutions provider, working with a global client base on embedding climate into strategic decision-making and risk management for financial institutions and corporates. Active in innovation ecosystems, Stephanie has designed, built, and run mentorship programmes for women in STEM, female founders, and early-stage entrepreneurs. She is an Associate Fellow at Said Business School, where she lectures, coaches, and tutors on Strategy & Innovation and Climate & Finance. She completed her Executive MBA with distinction at the Said Business School in 2020, and is a certified Project Management Professional and Professional Engineer.

Independent advisor on Accelerators, Incubators & Open Innovation. Entrepreneur and Fellow at Said Business School.

Charlie is a founder, director and advisor to corporate innovations and start-up ventures. He specialises in
impact-led corporate innovation: how to create and sustain innovation within a big business environment, as well as
customer-led innovation, commercial business model design, technology transfer, go-to-market strategy and the
power or Storytelling to mobilise action. Since 1999 he has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, as well as intrapreneurs in organisations such as BMW, Barclays, BP, Shell, Centrica, RBS, Disney, Pearson, Amcor in UK, USA, India, Africa, and Australia. He also works with innovation teams in not-for-profits including Carbon Trust, Which? Young Foundation and Scope. He was lead innovation advisor to The Intrapreneur Lab 2014-2018, he lectures on the Rethinking Business course at Saïd Business School, is a steering group member for Yunus Social Business, and a UBS Young Academy Fund investment committee member. Charlie is a Co-founder of two award-winning start-ups: DryGro: grows crops using 99% less water; and Origen Power: technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air.

Economic sociologist in the Strategy, Innovation and Marketing Faculty at Saïd Business School and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College.

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Marc's areas of expertise include market and network formation, entrepreneurship, governance, and innovation and technology strategy. His research and teaching focus on the formation of markets and networks in business and social settings. Specifically, he researches how markets are built and the actors who build them. He is also an expert in the areas of governance, innovation and technology and how they interact with markets and networks. Marc has held research affiliations at the Oxford Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, the Global Public Policy Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Center for Organizational Research at the University of California, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication