Val Gooding CBE was Chief Executive of Bupa, from 1998 to May 2008. She was awarded the CBE for services to business in 2002. She has been credited various entrepreneur awards since her Executiveship. Fortune magazine calls her one of the most successful women. She was named as the highest earning female executive in Britain during 2004, being paid more than £1.4 million in salary and bonuses.

Gooding joined BUPA from British Airways where she held a number of executive positions. She is a non-executive director of J Sainsbury plc (since January 2007) and of Standard Chartered Bank plc (since January 2005). She is a member of the Council of the University of Warwick and of the Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School. She is a Trustee of the British Museum, a non-executive director of the Lawn Tennis Association and a non-executive director of the BBC.

Val joined Premier Farnell in June 2011 as chairman.

Steve Tappin (born Harrogate 5 September 1966) is a CEO confidant for the leaders of some of the world's leading companies, the CEO of Xinfu and author of The Secrets of CEOs.

Tappin began his career with the chemical giant ICI. After he left, Tappin was mentored by Sir John Harvey-Jones. He has spent his career either as a CEO hmself or as a managing partner in a number of global professional service firms. Once such business he founded was edengene, a growth and corporate venturing consulting firm. Under Tappin's leadership, edengene won "Best Small Firm" and the "Gold Medal award for client work" from the Management Consultancies Association.

Tappin is a CEO coach and a personal confidant for many of the CEOs from the world's top companies. He is actively involved in many of the top performing global businesses such as Virgin, Deloitte, RSA and Bain Capital. He is also working with CEOs from some of the leading Chinese and Indian businsses applying The Secrets of CEOs. He regularly visits China and is writing a new book about Chinese CEOs, Dream Corporations, Dream Leaders, Dream life, which will be published by Beijing University Press.^{[citation needed]}

Dolph Lundgren (born Hans Lundgren; 3 November 1957) is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist. He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

A graduate in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia in 1982, Lundgren holds a rank of 3rd dan black belt in Kyokushin Karate and was European champion in 1980 and 1981. While in Sydney, he became a bodyguard for Jamaican singer Grace Jones and began a relationship with her. They moved together to New York City, where after a short stint as a model and bouncer at the Manhattan nightclub 'The Limelight', Jones got him a small debut role in the James Bond film A View to a Kill as a KGB henchman.