An entrepreneur with extensive Board-level experience across the media and emerging technologies industries, Richard Corps currently serves as Head of Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University London. He has an excellent track record of establishing and growing multiple successful businesses, raising significant funding and investment, brokering multimillion-pound commercial deals, and achieving successful exits for entrepreneurs who are ready to sell their ventures.

Corps is experienced in leading innovation strategy, scaling high-growth ventures, and guiding organizations through rapid change. He has special expertise working with small- and medium-sized enterprises to deliver process and strategy, helping them grow and find financial backers across his venture capital network.

After graduating from Northeastern University with a major in international affairs in 2016, Daisy Kendrick founded the nonprofit Ocean Generation, becoming an award-winning social entrepreneur who sought to harness the power of future generations to protect our environment.

Next, Kendrick decided to transition out of the nonprofit sector, so she completed a Global Corporate Compliance master’s degree from IE University Law School in Spain. That led her to taking a business development and compliance role in her family office, responding to new and complex regulatory challenges in different marketplaces in the construction technology, affordable housing, and renewable energy sectors.

While remaining in her family office, in 2024 Kendrick began her entrepreneurial journey into bespoke shirt making, creating her own brand called DaisyK.Madrid, for which she combines the core principles of shirt making and elevates them to a master level, designing shirts that reflect one’s personality, taste, and lifestyle.

A.C. Grayling, CBE, MA, DPhil (Oxon), FRSA, FRSL, is the Principal of Northeastern University London, and its professor of philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. The author of more than 30 books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays, Grayling was for a number of years a columnist at The Guardian, The Times, and Prospect magazine. He has contributed to many leading newspapers in the U.K., U.S., and Australia, and to BBC radios 4, 3, and the World Service, for which he did the annual “Exchanges at the Frontier” series, as well as making numerous appearances on television.

Grayling has twice been a judge for the Booker Prize, in 2014 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, Patron of the Defence Humanists, Honorary Associate of the Secular Society, and a Patron of Dignity in Dying.

Kat Tse is the founder of Terms and Conditions Magazine, a fashion wellness publication she launched in 2023 to inspire and support entrepreneurs in the creative industries. With a background in communication studies and entrepreneurship from Northeastern University, Tse has worked with major brands like G-III Apparel Group and TVB. She is passionate about community building and being a positive influence, dedicated to empowering individuals through her work and events.

Tse was presented with the Empowering Global Change Award from Northeastern University’s 2024 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards.

Estelle Paranque is an Associate Professor specializing in early modern and public history. She joined Northeastern University in 2017, after previously teaching at King’s College London, Winchester University, University College London, and Queen Mary University London.

Paranque has undertaken archival research in the U.K. and in France and is an expert on Elizabeth I of England and her relations with France. She is also an expert on queenship, royal, and diplomatic studies during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has carried out research on other European monarchs including Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands; Henri III of France; Catherine de Médicis; and Elisabeth of Austria, Queen Consort of France. She also has research interests in Anglo-French relations during the sixteenth century, monarchical representations in Europe, and the Valois kings.

She has contributed to award-winning historical documentaries, such as “The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family,” and is the author and editor of seven books, the latest of which is “Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn.”

As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group (UMG), Sir Lucian Grainge has spent his entire career in the music industry and has signed and worked with many worldwide stars, including ABBA, Jay Z, Elton John, Katy Perry, Queen, Rihanna, The Rolling Stones, Sam Smith, U2, and Amy Winehouse, among many others. Over the span of four decades, he has not only pioneered new approaches to the signing and development of the world’s most successful recording artists and songwriters, but he has consistently championed innovative business models and partnerships with a wide range of technology and media partners around the world. He is widely recognized as having laid the foundation for the industry’s return to growth in recent years.

Grainge was bestowed with a knighthood in 2016 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the Queen’s 90^th Birthday Honours list for accomplishments in the music industry and leadership through its challenging times. In 2020, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Billboard named him as the publication’s first-ever Executive of the Decade. Further, for his service to global creative industries, he was awarded Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2010, and in 2011 he was made an Officier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

Joseph E. Aoun, a well-known higher education thought leader and renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University. He has led the global expansion of Northeastern’s signature co-op program, bringing experiential learning opportunities to more than 140 countries. During his tenure, the university has created a global university system spanning 14 campuses across North America and the U.K., increased external research funding sevenfold, and hired more than 800 tenured and tenure-track faculty.

Aoun is the author of numerous articles and books, including Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. He was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French government and is a recipient of the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Academic Leadership Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a past Chair of the American Council on Education. Most recently, he received the Peter J. Tanous Founder’s award from the American Task Force on Lebanon for his exceptional achievements in education.

Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray is Senior Vice President for University Advancement at Northeastern University, where she oversaw the university’s largest ever campaign in 2017, raising $1.4 billion and setting a new a university record. Under her leadership, annual fundraising has increased from an annual average of $20 million to $110 million, including securing a gift for the first named college at the university and a $50 million donation for a second named college.

MacGillivray was also instrumental in attaining four $100 million gifts to launch an advanced technology campus in Portland, Maine. She currently leads the Experience Powered by Northeastern campaign, which—due to unparalleled early success—recently raised its fundraising goal from $1.3 billion to $1.75 billion.

MacGillivray also founded and leads Northeastern’s Women Who Empower initiative, which inspires future generations of trailblazers through its entrepreneurship initiative, events, mentorship, and more.