Songo Didiza is a founder and managing partner at Green Building Design Group, a leading Tier 1 Energy Services Company (EsCO) based in South Africa. Equipped with an economics and sustainability background she has led diverse project teams focused on advancing sustainability transitions within infrastructure projects (both public and private sectors). Songo has over 14 years' experience working in the fields of sustainability and the green economy value chains. Within the green economy her experience includes facilitation of renewable energy, energy services and green building project development deals exceeding ZAR 13 b in South Africa. Her publications include the Energy Services Market Intelligence Report (2016 & 2017).

Songo is also involved in several start-up initiatives within the consulting, technology and renewable energy business service offerings sector. She has been voted Sub-Saharan Africa's Energy Innovator of the Year by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) in 2019. The organisation she leads, Green Building Design Group, actively uses smart digital technologies to enable enhanced ESG reporting for real estate and manufacturing asset portfolios. These ESG technology innovations led her to winning the 2023 Proptech Award at the Greenovate Awards (awarded by Growthpoint Properties and the Green Building Council of South Africa).

She currently serves as a SA Real Estate Investment Trust's Association Advisory Member developing an ESG disclosure framework for the real estate environment. She chairs the ESG Track of the Institute of People Management (IPM) in 2023. She is an eco-entrepreneur and philanthropist at heart and is motivated by the desire to have Africa as a global green economy.

Jeremy Ford is the lead Trustee and Director of the Qhubeka Charity's UK and European presence. Qhubeka is one of South Africa's most impactful charities: fabricating and distributing their unique new bicycles to school children and key workers to improve their social mobility - truly the 'S' in ESG, with over 110,000 bicycles now distributed and lives changed.

Whereas most trustees are in place for mainly governance reasons, alongside Jeremy's 'day-job' as Head of BD/Marketing for an elite law firm - Jeremy plays a highly active role in donor relationship development, large event fundraising, media & social media engagement, and actively managing Qhubeka's most high profile global partnership: being the international charity of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes.

In the last 18 months, Jeremy has personally, and through the initiatives he drives, raised over £100,000 for the charity, putting well over 350 children on bicycles. He is already working on a Q1 2024 auction of signed Tour de France winners jerseys; organising a large team of fundraisers for the 'Ride London' 100 mile charity bike ride in May 2024; and major activations during two key stages of the 2024 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes.

Ilana Friedman is an advocate for children's rights, with a passion for early childhood education and development; the most informative, foundation phase years in a human's lifetime, with a focus on education through play & imagination. She is the founder, fairy godmother & Chief Operating Fairy at Magical Moments, a unique non-profit organisation creating "Magical Moments & Extraordinary Days" for hundreds of thousands of abused, abandoned, disadvantaged, impoverished, neglected, orphaned and vulnerable children in the greater Johannesburg region.

For almost 20 years, parallel to Magical Moments, Ilana has been actively involved in personal development and transformation, facilitated and assisted on life changing workshops. As the QuintEssential FairyGodmother Extraordinaire, she incorporates four decades of a myriad careers, including these magical experiences into her coaching methodology as an executive leadership life coach in her business Sublime Satori; utilising her broad based knowledge of human behaviour and the impact of early childhood in the development of a human's lifetime.