Carole Stone
Carole Stone was for many years the producer of BBC Radio 4’s flagship discussion programme ‘Any Questions?’, every week inviting the country’s leading figures to answer the public’s questions about the topics of the day. Since leaving the BBC Carole has developed a unique business based on her wide circle of friends and business contacts. Her database now includes details of 30,000 people, and she is the author of two books on what she calls ‘good’ networking.

Working with chairmen and chief executives of large companies and charities Carole brings together politicians, journalists and business people – today’s opinion formers – to discuss issues of mutual interest. She also holds regular ‘salons’ at her home in London’s Covent Garden both to introduce people to each other and to focus on particular topics.

Now, as Managing Director of YouGovStone, Carole will develop these activities. In particular Carole will expand YouGov’s existing ThinkTank of opinion formers, inviting them to consider and provide feedback on the most important issues facing the country today.

Richard Lindley
Richard Lindley reported from around the world for Britain’s national television news service ITN before joining the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama, first as reporter and then presenter.

Richard later worked as a television industry regulator for the Independent Broadcasting Authority, and with his wife Carole Stone set up an independent production company making documentary programmes. He returned to ITN to present the World News.

A past President of The Media Society, Richard now writes about broadcasting issues and has recently published two books dealing with the history of television in Britain.

Ravi Srinivasan
Ravi Srinivasan (ABCP, CBRP) was most recently a co-founder and SVP of Client and Technology Solutions for OfficeTiger LLC (subsequently acquired by RR Donnelley & Sons), a BPO firm providing analytical and judgment-driven backoffice services to major banks, printers and corporations.

He was instrumental in building OfficeTiger’s Business Continuity and Resilience policies and infrastructure across multiple continents. Ravi has a prior career in software development and consulting at Oracle and MicroStrategy. He holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a MS from Stanford University.

Oliver Bradley, CEO and Co-founder, Hedgemedia Ltd.
Oliver Bradley is the leading publisher of online news and information on hedge funds via Hedgeweek. Previously he was one of the founding partners of Interactive Investor, a venture to bring financial information and products to the European retail online audience – the company was listed on both the LSE and NASDAQ in 2000. Before setting up Hedgemedia Ltd, he was a director the IG Markets – an institutional broker – part of the IG Group.

Sunil Gopalan, Director, Hedgemedia Ltd.
Sunil Gopalan is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Hedgemedia Ltd, the leading publisher of online news and information on hedge funds via Hedgeweek, the weekly online newsletter which includes a schedule of monthly special reports; www.hedgemedia.com, the website for hedge fund news, performance and educational resources; and Hedgeweekdaily, the daily online global hedge fund press clippings service. Sunil has been a financial journalist and publisher for over 25 years.