SOPHIA AHREL
MANAGING PARTNER& MARKETING STRATEGIST
She has developed her international marketing and management expertise in executive roles as Director of New Business & Marketing for award winning global communications agency Weber Shandwick, European Sales & Marketing Director at i-Play raising $50M venture capital. Sophia has held European executive sales and marketing roles with global blue chip software companies including Micromuse, Informix & 3Com, these firms have all been acquired by IBM.
Sophia is a Specialist Business Mentor of The Prince's Trust and sits on a number of strategy and advisory boards for media and professional services organisations. She is a member of The Chartered Institute of Marketing and speaks regularly at business events promoting international market strategy programmes to women entrepreneurs in the UK. Sophia has a BA in Economics & International Business studies from The University of Neufchatel, she speaks 6 languages and live with her family and ponies in Bucks.
LISA SORGE
DIRECTOR & HEAD OF EVENTS
With 20 years’ experience in all aspects of corporate communications, business development, PR & analyst relations, Lisa specialises in opportunity creation within tight startup budgets.
American born Lisa, has gained her marketing and management experience in executive roles for some of the fastest growing technology companies in emerging industries including Vantive CRM, Freefire eCRM, TopTier Enterprise Portal, and Almonde Integrated ALM. All of which have all now been acquired as mainstream technologies in Fortune 100 technology vendors such as Oracle, SAP, and Reuters. As a market evangelist, Lisa has raised the profile and revenues of a variety of startups, seeing them through initial product launch to public offering, and international expansion. Lisa is an Executive Mentor with the Rockstar Group supporting young entrepreneurs. Lisa lives with her family in Surrey. She spends her free time developing property and travelling Europe and the US.
She has developed her international marketing and management expertise in executive roles as Director of New Business & Marketing for award winning global communications agency Weber Shandwick, European Sales & Marketing Director at i-Play raising $50M venture capital. Sophia has held European executive sales and marketing roles with global blue chip software companies including Micromuse, Informix & 3Com, these firms have all been acquired by IBM. 
With 20 years’ experience in all aspects of corporate communications, business development, PR & analyst relations, Lisa specialises in opportunity creation within tight startup budgets.