Season 50
The Global Interview Season 50 featuring creatives, leaders, and thinkers.
“I like to be successful, but mostly I love ART and being FREE.”
Charlie French
Charlie French
Intuitive Abstract Artist, Charlie French Fine Art
Charlie French is an intuitive abstract artist who embraces a blank canvas as an adventure in imaginative freedom. He has studied in London, Dallas and Santa Fe and works almost daily in his art studio, currently based in London.
“The universe delivers into your life moments of beauty, a world of opportunity and seasons of pain.”
Simon Alexander Ong
Simon Alexander Ong
Life Coach, Keynote Speaker and Author, SAO Learning Ltd
Simon Alexander Ong is a personal development entrepreneur, coach and public speaker. His clients are from all walks of life, but they share one trait; they all believe that the greatest investment you can make is in yourself. Simon's work has invited him onto Sky News, BBC Radio London and LBC Radio to be interviewed. While in 2018, Barclays UK featured him in a nationwide campaign asking him questions on how families could embrace better lifestyle habits.
“Success is being paid enough to do the work you'd do for free anyway and talking with intelligent, passionate people daily.”
Gilbert Hill
Gilbert Hill
Chief Strategy Officer, Pool
Gilbert is a privacy technologist, entrepreneur and currently Chief Strategy Officer at Pool Data, building an ecosystem for data unions. As a board member, he advises brands, agencies, and crypto projects on data strategy and is a Senior Tutor at the Institute of Data Marketing. After a career in Finance, as MD of a London digital agency, he grew fascinated by the relationship between data, digital marketing and regulation, founding one of the first software products in the PrivTech sector.
“No tool or instruction will ever be more useful than self-learning from your own observations, practice and mistakes.”
Paulo Mendes
Paulo Mendes
Urban Sketcher, Illustrator and Comic Artist
I was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1965, and I studied high school studies at Soares dos Reis Decorative Arts School. My professional life started in 1988 as a layout designer for a phone book company called Páginas Amarelas (Yellow Pages), where I remained for the subsequent 13 years. In 2001 I started a job as a ceramic tile painter (the traditional Portuguese "azulejos"), firstly in another person's studio, and two years later in my own business alongside an old friend until 2006, and from then on my own.
“My paintings are snapshots of moments in time, often idealised and always entirely staged using my friends and family as models.”
Will Rochfort
Will Rochfort
Artist, Will Rochfort Art
Over the past 12 years, Will Rochfort has developed a truly individual style of narrative painting, producing work for a growing number of high-profile clients around the world. As his reputation continues to grow, Will Rochfort now has paintings in a number of private collections across the world.
“No one is perfect, and I am the first to say I am not.”
Jennifer Kumar
Jennifer Kumar
Managing Director, Authentic Journeys Consultancy LLC
My mission is to help you mitigate cultural differences while working on remote, global teams; on-site on an ex-pat assignment. I specialise in coaching accomplished international career professionals like up levelling and localising their communication, leadership, project management and team-building skills using role plays, mock sessions, awareness exercises, and on-the-spot assessments.