Forum Radio

Send us Fan Mail For our 20th and final episode of the third season, Jessica Fellowes, co-founder of Forum 500, talks to Charlotte Holl, our member with a foothold in New York, LA and Munich. President and co-founder of First Growth Brands, a French sparkling wine brand and family business that Forum 500 members in America have been lucky enough to taste. Produced using the ' méthode traditio...

Send us Fan Mail This is a great discussion with maths-fiend, Mensa member Rachel Pether (Abu Dhabi), who trained as a journalist before switching to finance. She packed her bags aged 21 and moved from New Zealand to London, to pursue her dream of working for the BBC. Now settled in the UAE, where she has been for almost twenty years, Rachel combines her journalism skills with finance in a number...

Send us Fan Mail Forum 500 member Manoj Gursahani (Mumbai) started India's first e-commerce travel portal, the beginning of a long career in which a blend of technology with entrepreneurial vision has been the hallmark. Chair of Tiger 21 in his home city, Manoj is an established mentor and coach of high networth leaders, and as co-chairman of the India Business Group, he strengthens India&apo...

Send us Fan Mail This episode sees Jessica Fellowes talking to Sarah Anderson (Boulder), the founding partner of Vault Fund, which principally invests in company builders. Sitting in her round home office – a converted silo – where she lives on 100 acres with her family, Sarah talks with great enthusiasm about the world she works in, one that is very different from the enormous corporations she wo...

Send us Fan Mail For this episode, we welcome a longstanding friend of Forum 500, James Arroyo, OBE. James is the Director of the Ditchley Foundation, an organisation established to strengthen democratic relations, to help sustain peace, freedom and the rule of law. The Foundation is based in the magnificent setting of Ditchley Park, a Georgian Palladian masterpiece, one of the last surviving coun...

Send us Fan Mail Anthony Monckton (London, Vienna) is an expert on risk, security, negotiation and conflict resolution, having served as an army officer before moving into diplomacy, specialising in national security. He talks this week to Jessica Fellowes about ViennEast, the company he established over ten years ago as a risk advisory and due diligency consultancy.  ViennEast deals with a wide r...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we talk to Forum 500 member Hanlie van Wyk (Chicago), a social scientist, psycho-geographer and executive coach working with leaders and teams across borders, resolving polarisation and conflict. All of us, no matter what our industry, have faced something of this nature at some point. Hanlie talks about how her own upbringing, in which she witnessed first-hand aparthei...

Send us Fan Mail Winston Fisher (New York) is a partner and third generation of the Fisher Brothers, the royal family of real estate in Manhattan, founded in 1915. Winston directs the company’s financing and investing activities, property acquisitions and dispositions and oversees all new development initiatives. One of the most exciting of these being Area 15 in Las Vegas, which was developed wit...

Send us Fan Mail Druv Kent – aka ‘Dhruv’ – is a financier turned singer/songwriter, recording in both English and Hindi. HIs 2015 debut saw him become the first Asia-based artist supported by BBC Radio 2 in twenty years. He’s since scored several #1 hits on the World Indie Music Charts, the Euro Charts and the US Top 20. Recently, he featured in Rolling Stone magazine.  Brought up in Kolkata befor...

Send us Fan Mail Forum Radio host Jessica Fellowes talks in this episode with Lindsay Cooper (Singapore) about his transition from finance into the longevity and health sector. Lindsay attempted to semi-retire from business in 2017 but was scuppered when he was tempted into buying a convent in the Cotswolds just before the COVID pandemic. Initially intended as a wellness retreat, the project spark...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Jessica Fellowes talks to Hanspeter Kipfer (Zurich) about his extensive work in the tech industry, and his more recent transition to support start-ups as advisor and angel investor, focusing on emerging technologies such as AI, Web3 and blockchain. The discussion hones in on the balance between optimism and risk in AI – how prepared is society for the rapid, exponential...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Forum Radio, Jessica Fellowes talks to Kanna Fujita (New York). Kanna is the founder and driving force behind Reforma Medspa & Wellness, Kirei House, and Femly Labo. Together they form an integrated ecosystem at the intersection of regenerative health, aesthetics and luxury wellness. Kanna grew up in Japan, and is known for blending Eastern wellness philosop...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Forum Radio is a conversation with Philippe Teixeira da Mota in Lisbon. Phil is one of Europe's most active fintech investors and now co-founder and CIO of Shapers, a $75 million venture capital firm dedicated to backing early stage fintech entrepreneurs, launched in 2023 with his brother. Before he founded Shapers, Phil was the first employee at Hedosofia, an...

Send us Fan Mail James Ryan (New York) is the founder and CEO of RYCO Capital, a vertically-integrated real estate investment firm, which acquires, renovates and operates multifamily, mixed-use and office properties in NY and Rochester. In this conversation with Jessica Fellowes, James talks about the human side of real estate: managing hundreds of tenants means understanding their different persp...

Send us Fan Mail In the week in which it was announced that Ananda Pharma has received MHRA and NHS Ethics approval for ENDOCAN-1, their Phase 2 clinical trial testing MRX1 CBD oral solution for endometriosis-associated pain (afflicting 190 million women worldwide), we are delighted to have this interview with the co-founder and CEO, Melissa Sturgess.  Ananda Pharma has not only been taking CBD oi...

Send us Fan Mail Forum Radio this week is a conversation between Jessica Fellowes, co-founder of Forum 500, and Velitchka Hristova. Multi-linguist Velitchka has over 20 years experience in wealth management, and has recently established Sineva Family Office, based in Vienna, with much travel in the Balkans.  In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss how to raise financially aware children and...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Fellowes talks to Dr Rhea Kotecha (Dubai) about health, longevity and the best porridge to start your day! Rhea studied pre-medicine and psychology at Boston University before completing her medical training as GP in the UK. Rhea's career began under high pressure, as a junior at Lewisham Hospital when COVID first struck. The healthcare system at that time informed th...

Send us Fan Mail London Forum member Roy Moëd and his wife, Yvette Conn, are co-founders of LifeBook Memoirs, a private autobiography service that has produced over 20,000 books since its inception in 2011. They talk to Jessica Fellowes about the psychological benefits for their clients of writing out their legacies, often revealing things that no one in their family knew before! Keen philanthropi...

Send us Fan Mail Elise Madrick (Chicago) talks to Jessica about the huge change she had to bring about in her personal and professional life, and how it led to her establishing Cerené, following her own career path at the Kellogg School of Management and training as a psychotherapist. Those who wish to have a transformation in their own lives are guided by Elise’s team over 108 days to manage the...

Send us Fan Mail Daniel Bernard (Tel Aviv) has enjoyed over twenty years’ experience in the sports’ industry, having built operations, companies and platforms across multiple territories and jurisdictions. Born in London, he has lived in France, Spain and Italy, starting work in television for the Sports Channel. Now, he is looking to create a positive impact on people’s lives through sport, for c...

Send us Fan Mail To begin 2026 and the third series of Forum Radio, we are delighted to be in conversation with our long-standing member and friend, Dr Efraim Chalamish. Condensing his CV is a challenge: Efi (as he is known) lives in New York with his family, but travels around the world frequently as an international economic law professor, advisor and commentator. He has been involved in legal p...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Jessica Fellowes talks to Arnaud Saint Paul (New York/LA/Paris) during Forum 500 in New York. Arnaud's purpose is to help one billion people to open their hearts by pioneering his Heartful Method™. A philanthropist and award-winning serial software, finance, and social impact entrepreneur for more than 20 years, Arnaud has supported leaders around the wo...

Send us Fan Mail Forum Radio talks to Simon Kaye, an Englishman in  New York. Simon is a third-generation transportation professional as CEO of Jaguar Freight, founded by him just over thirty years ago. In this episode, Simon talks about the challenges of international logistics and how these have changed in the last five years, as well as moving from a company that had several offices to managing...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Fellowes talks to David Kirshenbaum (Chicago), founder of MeadeCo, a Chicago-based merchant bank that works with companies on capital needs, business sales, restructuring and strategic connections. Given his extensive professional experience, we discussed the evolution of his career, what he's focused on now and how he believes larger economic and geopolitical trends...

Send us Fan Mail Forum Radio this week talks to Patrick Aisher (Gstaad), an Anglo-Austrian entrepreneur who has been involved in early-stage ventures since 1990. Over the course of his career, he has created or invested in more than fifty companies and has seen exits through IPOs in London, New York, and Madrid, as well as multiple trade sales and licensing deals. Patrick is Chairman of Kinled Hol...