Speakers & Performers

Michael Reynolds is the founder of the Marketing Cafe Club on Clubhouse, one of the top ten marketing communities on the platform, and co-sponsor of the Global Coffee Festival.

He's also an entrepreneur whisperer, marketing enabler, Global Studio founder, historical novelist, podcaster, photographer and producer of Emmy award-winning documentary campaigns!

Onyeka is the co-founder of FRUGIRLS, a premium 2nd-hand clothing platform for girls in Africa. She's also the founder of Disruptiv by Design, a boutique branding and marketing agency supporting startups and solopreneurs.

Megan Parry is the Co-Director of Embark Education, a middle school embedded in two businesses - a coffee shop and a bicycle shop.

Adam Carpenter is a global Coffee consultant and entrepreneur, having worked the entire value chain in green trade, roasting, sales, QC, and cafe operations. His main focus is training the next generation of coffee professionals.

Husband-and-wife team Chef Jeffray and Naomi Gardner are Master Chocolatiers and Coffee connoiseurs at Marsatta Chocolate.

Brian Gaffney is a Brooklyn based coffee thinker and drinker. Writing under the moniker “Coffee Adjacent,” Brian is a passionate coffee advocate who is in constant pursuit of opportunities to leverage his expertise to improve the perception of value and distribution of equity across coffee’s value chain. He is a founding board member of the Coffee Coalition for Racial Equity.

Having worked as a marketer for some of the biggest brands in the world, UK-based Richard Liverman helps "make business dreams a reality" through mentoring, business consultancy, marketing, strategy, and sales.

Joyce Yong is the Creative Director at Rothrock Coffee. She specializes in Brand Storytelling through Visuals in both digital and in-person spaces.

Lameen is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the Director of Think at the Future Investment Initiatives (FII) Institute, where he oversees and guides the selection and curation of ideas that will alleviate global societal challenges. His other passion is coffee - for which he has been writing about under his personal blog www.fromcoffeewithlove.com since 2007, and for which he was featured on CNNs website for Drinking Coffee in October 2020.

David has over 30 years’ experience in technology in senior management at international banks (Goldman, Lehman, SCB) and has been a successful founder in multiple Mobile, SaaS, FinTech startups and has worked with UNESCO in West Africa. David was named Future Agro Challenge’s Global Agripreneur of the year in 2018 for his work as CEO of AgUntiy – helping lift low-income farmers out of poverty. David and AgUnity have been globally recognised by the likes of IFC World Bank, UN FAO, Oxford University and more.

David is the Founder /CEO at Davila Kafe and a global coffee entrepreneur.