The Advisory Board at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School brings together distinguished senior leaders from a range of industries who help guide the School’s long-term strategic direction.
They work in close collaboration with the Dean and the School's Management Board.
Alan Jope (Chair)
Alan Jope is the Chair of the Business School Advisory Board, bringing global experience in leadership, innovation and sustainability. He brings over three decades of international business leadership experience, having served as CEO of Unilever from 2019 to 2023, following a global career across the UK, North America and Asia. He currently sits on the Boards of Accenture and the Leverhulme Trust, and serves as Commissioner on the Global Commission on Modern Slavery. A University of Edinburgh graduate, he is also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
Allison Bennington
Allison Bennington is a Partner at PJT Partners, where she Chairs the Activism Defence practice and led the ESG Sustainability & Transition Advisory Practice. She advises the C-Suites and Board Chairs of some of the largest international companies on navigating complex strategic issues and event-driven crises.
Allison began her career as a corporate finance and M&A lawyer and held General Counsel roles at a variety of financial services companies in the UK and US. Prior to joining PJT Partners, Allison was a Partner and Chief Global Relations Officer at ValueAct Capital, a $14 billion activist investment fund.
Allison holds a BA from the University of California Berkeley and a JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.
Ansumana Bai-Marrow
Ansumana Bai-Marrow is a Compliance Executive with 20 years’ experience working at some of the world’s largest financial institutions. He has worked as a regulator, regulatory consultant, buy-side Compliance Officer and a CCO. Ansumana is now UK Head of Compliance at Permira Credit.
Previous roles include Chief Compliance Officer and MRLO at Polus Capital, where he led the Compliance integration work-stream following the strategic combination of leading European credit managers, Cairn Capital and Bybrook Capital. Before that he worked as EMEA Head of Fixed Income, Credit and Cash Compliance Advisory at BlackRock, and VP, Senior Compliance Consultant – EMEA & APAC at Northern Trust Asset Management.
Ansumana holds an MBA from ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School, where he co-founded the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Black Alumni Network. He now chairs the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School Alumni Advisory Council and a is a Trustee Director at Southside Young Leaders Academy.
Cheuk Wan Fan
Cheuk Wan Fan is an award-winning Chief Investment Officer with 31 years of experience in wealth management, asset allocation, investment strategy, portfolio advisory and equity research. Until February 2026, she was Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, Asia, at HSBC Private Bank and Premier Wealth, having previously held senior roles at Credit Suisse, ABN AMRO, Cazenove Asia, BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered. From September 2026, she has also become Adjunct Professor of Wealth Management at the University of Hong Kong Business School. Fan is also an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School MBA alumnus.
Cindy Rose OBE
Cindy Rose serves as the Group Chief Executive Officer of WPP, a leading media and marketing services company operating in more than 100 countries worldwide. Cindy oversees WPP's global strategy, harnessing the company's market-leading AI capabilities, creative excellence, and global client roster.
Drawing on a distinguished career spanning three decades across the technology, telecommunications, media, entertainment, and creative industries, Cindy offers deep expertise in digital transformation and global enterprise. She held senior C-suite positions at Microsoft for nine years, as well as roles at Vodafone, Virgin Media and The Walt Disney Company.
Cindy is an Advisory Board Member at McLaren Racing. In recognition of her substantial contributions to the UK technology sector, she was awarded an OBE in the 2019 New Year Honours. Cindy is a graduate of Columbia University and New York Law School.
Dalya Almuthanna
Dalya Al Muthanna is Managing Director & CEO of Alstom in the Gulf region. She is responsible for overseeing the company's operations in the region, which includes developing and executing on successful strategies to drive sustainable and profitable business growth.
Before joining Alstom, Dalya held executive leadership positions at General Electric (GE) for over a decade, including President of GE in the UAE and global Chief of Strategy & Operations, and President & CEO of the Gulf region.
She started off her career as an entrepreneur where she founded her own company in apparel retail and imported European franchises into the UAE.
Dalya holds a PhD from ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ in Environmental Policy & Business model innovation and an MBA degree from the American University in Dubai.
Don Hoang
Don Hoang is an experienced operator and investor with more than 25 years spanning private equity, venture capital, and high-growth companies. He has served on the Investment Committee at Atomico, one of Europe’s leading venture and growth equity funds, where he helped raise and invest a $1.24bn fund.
Don was VP of Global Business at Revolut, where he built and scaled global operations that enabled the company’s expansion into new markets, while at Uber he led the company’s international rollout across 45 countries.
Don is also a top-performing angel investor and advisor, ranking in the top five per cent of angels (Cambridge Associates). He is also a scout for Sequoia Capital, identifying and backing high-potential start-ups worldwide.
Don holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and a BA from UCLA.
Emma Fox
Emma Fox brings more than three decades of leadership across retail, hospitality and luxury in the UK and North America. She spent six years as Chief Executive of Berry Bros & Rudd, the 325-year-old wine and spirits merchant, driving transformation in a heritage luxury business. Previously, she held senior roles at Asda/Walmart, was CEO of a private equity-backed UK retailer, and part of the Halfords executive team. Emma sits on the boards of Walpole and Musgrave Group, having previously served as Non-Executive Director of Punch Taverns and City Pubs Group.
Faisal Galaria
Faisal Galaria is a technology executive and operator with more than 25 years of experience scaling consumer technology businesses, including Skype, Spotify, Kayak, and Magic Leap. His expertise spans strategy, international growth, partnerships and digital transformation. He is currently a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company and a Non-Executive Director at Netrisk and wefox, and was previously a Non-Executive Director at Starling Bank and Superdry. Earlier, he led GoCompare's 2016 London Stock Exchange listing, served as CEO of Blippar, and was a Senior Partner at Alvarez & Marsal, where he headed the Digital and Media practices across EMEA.
Joanne Linder
Joanne Linder started her career at BAE Systems and had a largely blue-chip career until her MBA, including at Granada and ABN AMRO. She set up her first business when she graduated, having specialised in entrepreneurship, and was a pioneer in personalised web content during the dot-com boom.
Through her current business, Joanne focusses her time on advising and investing in early-stage businesses across the globe that are looking to scale, with an increasing emphasis on social enterprises. She is also an active member of the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School alumni community.
Mahnaz Safa
Mahnaz Safa is a senior finance executive with 30 years of experience in the industry.
Among his previous roles Mahnaz has headed Markets, Europe and America at ANZ. He also served as a Managing Director at Citi EMEA Banking and at UBS, where he led the EMEA Debt Capital Markets business.
Mahnaz serves on the Board of Jefferies International and is a Non-Executive Director of UK Government Investments. He is an ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ graduate with a PhD in Computer-aided Engineering: Artificial Intelligence. He previously served on ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College Council as Champion for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.
Mary Meaney
Mary Meaney serves on the Board of GBL (Groupe Bruxelles Lambert), specialty chemicals company, Syensqo, and Beamery, an HR Tech company helping the world's largest companies to attract, engage, and retain talent at a global scale.
Prior to this, Mary was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company where she served on McKinsey's global Board, led the global Organization Practice, and published a book with co-author Scott Keller entitled: Leading Organizations: Ten Timeless Truths.
Mary was a co-founder of the McKinsey Women’s Initiative, which aims to promote women leaders in business. She is running a Remarkable Women's Program with TeachFirst to support women in education, and co-hosts ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Council's senior women's network.
Mary is also the Founder and President of Solidarite Ukraine, a French NGO supporting Ukrainian displaced people in France.
Mike Shepherd
Mike Shepherd co-founded GrowthPoint, a Silicon Valley-based Investment Bank focused on Technology, and StealthPoint a US Venture Capital firm, which partners with GrowthPoint, focused on Technology in National Security and Intelligence. He is a software engineer and entrepreneur, who is based in Silicon Valley and now advises technology companies with investments and exits. Mike serves on several boards, often as Finance Committee Chair.
Mike’s previous roles include principal at SVB Alliant, conducting software mergers and acquisitions transactions, and Managing Director of the Nextera Interactive division of Nextera through to its IPO.
Mike has been deeply involved with many start-ups, two of which went to IPO and several others have been acquired.
Miguel Veiga Pestana
Miguel Veiga Pestana has over 30 years’ experience in major global corporations and not-for-profit organisations building and protecting reputation, enabling a purpose-led organisation, and embedding sustainability into core strategy.
Miguel previously held the ExCom role of Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of Corporate Affairs at Reckitt Benckiser. He has also been Chief Communications Officer at the Executive Leadership level for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Vice President of Global External Affairs and Sustainability at Unilever.
Miguel provides strategic insight and advice to the Executive Committee and the Board, fully integrating sustainability and reputation building into organisational strategy. With extensive global connections, he brings a wide range of stakeholders to ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School. His international reputation enables him to work at the highest levels with country leaders, investors and CEOs of global businesses and global not-for-profit organisations.
Natasha Foong
Natasha Foong has spent her career across the full spectrum of Singapore's entrepreneurial ecosystem — from policy and institutional investing to founding companies, backing early-stage technology ventures, and today mentoring the next generation of entrepreneurs.
She began at the Singapore Economic Development Board, rising to Head of the Venture Capital Group and Vice President of EDB Investments. She went on to co-found Valuair Ltd, Singapore's first budget airline, and later co-founded IncuVest, an early-stage technology investment platform. She currently chairs the Mentoring Committee at the Philip Yeo Initiative and serves on the Advisory Council of ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Global Singapore.
Natasha is an alumna of the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School.
Naveed Sultan
Naveed Sultan is an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and mentor. He is a professor of practice and co-founded the Centre for Financial Technology and the Centre for Responsible Leadership at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School. He is also an advisor to boards, CEOs, senior business leaders and policy makers on strategy, digital transformation and leadership.
Naveed has wide-ranging experience covering Corporate Finance, Corporate Banking, Transaction Banking, Consumer Banking, Operations & Technology.
In his role as Chairman of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group (ICG) Naveed led digital policy, strategy, and advisory practice. Prior to his appointment as Chairman, he was CEO and Global Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) group, one of the largest and most global businesses in Citi, and in the wider industry.
Naveed holds an MS in Management from MIT Sloan School of Management as well as an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration, Lahore.
Omar Mir, Baron of Thorntoun
Omar Mir is an International Board Member at WWT, where he has led the company’s global expansion and is a prominent figure in AI and advanced technologies.
Omar is deeply committed to social impact initiatives. He serves as the King's Trust International Advisor on AI & Advanced Technology, and Principal Benefactor and Founding Principal of their Campaign “Generation Potential”.
Omar is also Visiting Professor of Practice in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School, where he convenes and leads the Technology Leaders Speaker Series, bringing prominent technology leaders from the UK, Europe and globally to ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, and connecting students and faculty with the people shaping the future of AI, sustainability, health and security.
Sanjay Bahadur
Sanjay Bahadur has held a number of positions at Nestlé, including CFO for the Greater China Region. He currently serves as Member of the Executive Board, Deputy Executive Vice President and Head of the Group Strategy and Business Development function.
The function manages mergers & acquisitions, external partnerships and licensing agreements for the Nestlé Group and oversees the company’s corporate venture capital activities.
Sanjay has extensive market experience having worked in India, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Turkey and China.
Zein Abdalla
Zein Abdalla is the Board Chair of the Mastercard Foundation, one of the world's largest private foundations dedicated to empowering young people across Africa.
An experienced global executive, Zein is highly regarded for his distinguished career at PepsiCo,where he served as President from 2012 until his retirement in 2014, having previously held the roles of CEO and President of PepsiCo Europe.
Beyond the Mastercard Foundation, Zein serves on the Board of Directors of  Cognizant, Inc., where he chairs the Governance and Sustainability Committee, and also serves as a board advisor to  Mars, Incorporated. He is a member of the Board of Directors of  Kuwait Food Company and acts as a non-executive director on the holding board of Majid Al Futtaim Holding LLC.
Zein holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ College, London University.