Mark Hamlin is Chair of Lewis Hamilton Ventures, Lewis Hamilton’s management company.

Born in Johannesburg, Mark was deputy Chairman of Cable and Wireless Communications plc. For the last eight years, Mark has acted as an advisor to a global humanitarian organisation headquartered in New York.

Ajaz founded the design company AKQA aged 21. Today, AKQA is one of the world’s most awarded agencies. With clients that include Nike, Apple and LVMH, AKQA employs around 6,000 people around the world. AKQA is also the winner of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation.

Ajaz won the Spear’s Impact Award for Philanthropy in 2022 for the contribution of his charitable foundation ajaz.org. He also serves on the board of trustees for non-profit organisations including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Virgin Unite, and The Royal Foundation’s Mental Health Innovations. He was made an MBE in 2018. Ajaz has published three books and his essays and publications are available here.

Ajaz has extensive marketing and communications experience as well as experience on the Board of a grantmaking organisation.

Baroness Valerie Amos has been the Master of University College Oxford since September 2020. Prior to this she was the Director of SOAS, University of London. She was a Cabinet Minister, 2003-2007, including serving as Secretary of State for International Development and Leader of the House of Lords. She has also served as UK High Commissioner to Australia.

From 2010-2015 she was the United Nations Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Her interests include foreign policy and development matters, social justice, equality and inclusion as well as education. She is on the board of the Mastercard Foundation, UN Foundation and advisory board the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. She is also Co Founder and Patron of the Amos Bursary.

Aziza Ajak is Principal of The Grange Academy in Bushey. A science teacher by training, she was previously part of the founding leadership team of a new school, helping to establish it as the highest-performing in its borough. Alongside her leadership work, Aziza has served as a trustee on the Teach First Board, contributing to national conversations on education.

Having grown up in a community similar to those Mission 44 seeks to serve, Aziza understands first-hand the importance of opportunity and aspiration. A positive school experience enabled her to progress to graduate and postgraduate study at universities including Durham, UCL, and Imperial College. She is deeply committed to the transformative power of education and ensuring that all young people, regardless of background, have access to it.

Dawid is Co-Founder of Redington, Mallowstreet and 10,000 Black Interns.

Dawid qualified as a barrister and spent 16 years in investment banking. He was named Black British Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018 and is on the Prime Minister’s Business Council 2022.

He is passionate about mentoring young people and helping them learn to speak confidently in public so that they can tell their story and ‘hold the room spellbound’. He believes that every child needs in their life at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about them.

Anne is Vice President, Content at Netflix UK, where she leads the teams across all genres. Prior to this, she was Director of Drama and Sky Studios at Sky UK, Head of Independent Drama at the BBC and Head of Drama for BBC Scotland.  She oversees all Netflix UK commissions including BAFTA, Emmy & Golden Globe award winning Netflix drama The Crown and BAFTA award winning Netflix series Sex Education.

Anne is a trustee of Into Film, as well as a member of the 2018 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. Anne was named Britain’s third most influential Black person in The Powerlist 2023.

Anne has experience in the creative industries as well as experience of organisational growth.

Natacha Minniti is a Managing Director and Head of 23 Wall for EMEA, APAC and LATAM at J.P. Morgan.

In 2023 and 2024 Natacha was named to PAM 50 Most Influential List, earning her place among those individuals that shape the sector and are at the forefront of innovation in wealth management to bring the best to clients.

Ms. Minniti is actively involved in several foundations and philanthropic initiatives, both in the United States and Europe, and she mentors several upcoming founders. She is a strong supporter of the development of women’s talents within the bank, as well as in the financial industry, and is passionate in supporting female entrepreneurship.

Izzy Obeng is an entrepreneur and business consultant. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Foundervine. At Foundervine, Izzy leads a consultancy for creating systemic change in entrepreneurship. Foundervine has launched accelerators in the UK that support early-stage companies, providing entrepreneurs from under-represented communities with mentorship, training, and access to capital. By 2022, Foundervine had helped over 5,000 leaders to start, scale new businesses or raise capital.

Izzy acts as an Advisor to Lloyds Banking Group, Big Issue Invest & Unltd. She has been featured in the BBC, The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and in 2022, Izzy was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Impact.

Matthew Otubu is a Senior Strategist at the Cabinet Office, where he collaborates with fellow civil servants across the UK Government to plan and coordinate the design, development and delivery of the Prime Minister’s domestic and foreign policy priorities through strategic communications and campaigns.

In addition to Mission 44, Matthew volunteers as a Board Member at NCG Corporation – the leading nationwide group of seven colleges enabling social mobility and economic prosperity
through exceptional further and higher education.

Hayaatun is CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation.

She chairs the government’s Business Innovation Forum and St. Andrews Prize for the Environment and co-chaired with Sir Lewis Hamilton his Commission on Black representation in UK motorsport.

Hayaatun is NXD at Laing O’Rourke and the UNBOXED festival; trustee of EngineeringUK and Foundation for Science & Technology; member of the Levelling Up Advisory Council; and advisor to EQL:HER and Lloyd’s Register Foundation. She has been named as one of the ten most influential women in both UK engineering and UK tech. She has a PhD in Biochemistry and was made CBE for services to International Engineering in 2019.