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Aditi is the General Manager of Amazon Launchpad Europe, a programme that helps start-ups and small businesses grow into established brands with the help of a team of professionals that specialise in assisting start-ups along their growth journey, as well as providing additional marketing benefits. Aditi is an experienced business leader who has kickstarted and developed expansion programmes in Europe, the United States and India. Aditi devotes her passion and expertise to creating new business programmes for entrepreneurs and conducting mentoring activities with business incubators.

Andy is a founding member and Managing Director of Virgin StartUp, a non-profit organisation created by the Branson family that aims to help entrepreneurs in the UK start businesses and grow them in their early stages. Before helping to launch Virgin StartUp in 2013, Andy trained as a chartered accountant and worked at PwC and Deloitte, where he specialised in venture capital and private equity. This experience brought a professional perspective to his passion for entrepreneurship. Andy himself has tried his luck with several businesses, from Impact Artworks, an online service for transforming photos into original hand-painted canvases, to My Club Mail, an email service for football fans.

In 2011, Jamie Siminoff created the world's first Wi-Fi video doorbell from his garage. The doorbell has since transformed into what is now known as Ring, a comprehensive home security system that offers effective and affordable home security products and services. In 2018, Ring was acquired by Amazon, whose backing allowed Jamie and his company to continue to innovate and remain at the forefront of the home security industry. Prior to Ring, Jamie founded several successful companies such as PhoneTag, the first company in the world to convert voicemail to text, and Unsubscribe.com, a service that helped users remove marketing emails from their inboxes. Both companies were successfully sold.