Demis Hassabis
is co-founder
and CEO of
DeepMind,
a neuroscience-inspired AI
company which develops
general-purpose learning
algorithms and uses them to
tackle some of the world’s most
pressing challenges.
A child chess
prodigy, Demis
coded the classic game Theme
Park aged 17.
After
graduating from
Cambridge
University, he
founded
videogames
company Elixir
Studios and
completed a PhD
in cognitive
neuroscience at
University
College London.
Science declared
his research one
of 2007’s top
breakthroughs.
He is a
five-time World
Games Champion,
Fellow of the
Royal Society of
Arts, and
recipient of the
Royal Society’s
Mullard Award
and the Royal
Academy of
Engineering's
Silver Medal. In
2017 he featured
in the Time 100
list of most
influential
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Nigel Povah is a former
Occupational Psychologist.
Nigel worked
in-house for several years,
before founding his own Talent
Management Consultancy business,
which he built up over 30 years,
employing around 50 people,
until he sold it to US firm PSI
in June 2017. Nigel is now fully
retired and able to engage in
his long-standing passion for
chess, as well as travel
extensively with his wife.
Nigel is also an International Master and an
ICCF Grandmaster.
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Lee Green is
Managing
Director at KMI
Consultants.
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Interests:
Sports including Tennis, Skiing,
Chess and Yachting |
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Family:
Married
with 4
children |
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Weakness: Cars ... and supporting West Ham! |
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Colm O’Shea
is the Founder and CIO of COMAC Capital, a global macro hedge
fund.
Colm graduated from Cambridge in 1992 and worked as an economist
at Oxford Economics before moving into financial markets. Prior
to launching COMAC Capital in 2006, Colm ran macro trading for
Soros’ Quantum Fund and was a Managing Director in Fixed Income
at Citigroup.
Aside from chess, Colm is a keen
Real Tennis player and is the owner of Holyport Real Tennis
Club.
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Russell Picot
is Chair of the Trustee board of the HSBC Bank (UK) Pension
Fund.
He is a Senior Associate at the
Cambridge Institute of
Sustainability Leadership and
was recently appointed an
Honorary Professor in Durham
University Business School. He
chairs the IIGCC Investor
Practices Programme.
Russell holds an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge and is a
chartered accountant.
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Etan Ilfeld
is a London-based
entrepreneur.
He is founder of Tenderpixel gallery, Tenderbooks, Tenderflix, Repeater
Books, and the owner and managing director of Watkins Books and the Mind
Sports Olympiad.
Ilfeld is the inventor of Diving Chess and the author of
Beyond Contemporary Art. |
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Rajko
Vujatovic
is a Model
Risk consultant.
He is a
former Eggheads
TV quiz winner.
He can hold
his breath for 4
minutes and is a
four-time gold
medallist in the
World Diving
Chess
Championships,
where your
thinking time
for each move is
limited by your
breath held
underwater. |
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Justin
Baptie’s
main business interests are as Managing Director of
Insight Strategic Associates,
a firm of accountants dealing with the SME and HNW market and as
Chairman of Savills Catering, a specialist contract catering company
for schools and care homes.
Always has a few other business ventures on the go
to keep him out of mischief.
Justin tries to recapture his golfing abilities
when possible and hopes he can remember what to do when playing
chess.
Married with two beautiful daughters. |
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Terry Chapman
is a successful
entrepreneur and
former Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of
Terence Chapman
Group PLC,
which floated on the London
Stock Exchange in 1999.
Since his
retirement in
2002, he has
been a keen
amateur chess
player,
achieving the
FIDE Master
title and
reaching his
highest rating
so far (2331) in
2013.
Terry shared the
British
Championship
over 50's title
in Torquay in
August 2019
scoring 5½/7
with a
performance
rating of 2313.
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