Clare Ceprynski

Clare is a retail interior designer. With a Distinction in MA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, she has over 10 years experience working with luxury fashion houses.

Collaborating with Matthew Williamson from 2003, Clare's design for his Bruton Street store won the prestigious FX Design Award and it became the first and only retail interior ever to be featured on the cover of World of Interiors magazine. Following this success, she created all further boutiques for the brand including stores in New York, Dubai and Qatar, and worked on special projects like the 10 Years in Fashion exhibition at London's Design Museum. Parting ways with Matthew Williamson in 2010, she has established her own retail design practice working with luxury brands and private clients around the globe.

Construct

Construct is a London based design studio offering services within branding, graphic design, copywriting, strategy and Art Direction. They like to describe themselves as a design boutique . This reflects their small but beautiful size, their clientele and their dedication to the authentic, the specialist and the sophisticated. Central to this is a commitment to carefully considered, beautifully crafted and, wherever possible, ethical solutions. They think that resonant, sustainable brands rely on intelligent creative positioning, refreshing ideas and engaging visual communications. They believe in Generosity, Responsibility, Independent Thought, Expertise and Listening. They help clients achieve their goals through strategic consultation and art direction, as well as the design of identities, packaging, print, online experience and campaigns.

Clients include Claridge's, Mulberry, Porto Montenegro, ESPA, Jigsaw and Carolina Bucci.

Cindy Palusamy

For close to 10 years, Cindy Palusamy has been an advisor and strategist for some of the leading hospitality and wellness businesses globally. Often partnering with great creative minds, Cindy creates executable business strategies, partnerships and growth opportunities so that entrepreneurs and CEOs can realize their visions.

Cindy's work has spanned many sectors and countries including: developing Hilton's global spa and wellness strategy, concept development work for hotels in the US, Europe and Caribbean, developing a beauty retail strategy for the Middle East for a top retailer and retail and product strategy for two of the top five global beauty companies.

Current and former clients include Hilton Hotels, Porto Montenegro, Brookfield Properties, Marriott Hotels, W Hotels, Starwood Capital, MGM Grand, Kiehl's, Frederic Fekkai, Origins, Biotherm and L'Oreal.

Emma Loisel

With a background in business management, Emma focuses on providing advisory services to businesses as well as managing her own portfolio of company investments.

Her industry experience spans the online sector (technology, media, social media and retailing), health care, consumer product development and business services. Her management expertise includes business leadership and strategy, risk management, marketing and sales, business launch strategies plus general business operations and efficiency management. Emma's investment experience includes merges and acquisition due diligence, plus the commercial structuring of investment and company sale agreements.

Lauren Cochrane

Lauren Cochrane has worked in journalism for the past eight years – as a freelance writer as well as Deputy Editor of i-D magazine and Acting Style Editor at Stella, The Sunday Telegraph magazine. Returning to freelancing at the start of 2010, she now writes for i-D, Vogue, The Financial Times and Wallpaper* about fashion and culture, specialising in trend and new talent features.

A panel member for new talent initiative Fashion East, she has also worked closely with brands including Topshop, Topman, net-a-porter and Coggles on copywriting and editorial projects.

John Hoffman

An experienced executive in retail and consumer goods change management for private investors, Harvard-educated John has held significant operational management and transactional responsibilities.

Working for over 15 years in the investment banking sector, he specialises in the retail sector, and has dealt with brands and businesses including Selfridges, Printemps and Tesco. He formed independent consulting and investment group New Spirit in 2010, he advises brands ranging from Mary Katrantzou to White Stuff, and retailers such as Value Retail and Gruppo Coin, on how to grow their companies. He also orchestrates investments into growing fashion brands – Nicholas Kirkwood is a recent beneficiary of John's work.