Beyond Dreams

Ada has spent her life in thresholds. Advertising, tech, governance, art. Now she sits with people between who they were and who they are becoming, helping them slow down, listen and be seen.

Her work is co-produced with the land. It begins with one question: what type of ancestor do you want to be?

Based in the Middle East, she brings two decades of institution-building and curatorial leadership across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, working at the scale of ideas across exhibitions, public programmes, and government policy.

Her curatorial and consultancy record spans seven editions of the Venice Biennale, Art Dubai Digital, Noor Riyadh Festival, AlUla Design Week, the Lumen Prize for Sotheby’s, and the Museum of World Culture, among others. Recent projects include Cosmotechnics: Ding Yi as a Planetary Code for Venice Biennale 2026, Body Machine featuring Sougwen Chung at Palazzo Citterio for the Design Week, and 404_LAND: territory not found, a virtual exhibition produced with HEK Museum in Basel and the Tezos Foundation. A trusted government cultural strategist across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Jordan since 2018, she has also served as founding director of IAM, the UK’s first online research museum dedicated to art and new technology, and of Visiva, a 7,000 sqm cultural district in central Rome.

Scalera lectures internationally at institutions including Kingston University London, IESA Paris, and VCUarts Qatar, holds collaborative affiliations with The Alan Turing Institute and Oxford University, and was named one of the Top 20 Most Inspiring Women in Culture by the NYC Journal in 2023. She works in close curatorial partnership with Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of Media Majlis Museum at Northwestern University Qatar and President of IKT, the international association of contemporary art curators.

Most recently she served as Global Head of Business Development and Government Affairs at SAP SE, where she managed the International Affairs teams, led multinational initiatives in support of SAP business and, over the course of her tenure, introduced SAP’s engagement at major international fora including the World Economic Forum, the Munich Security Conference and the UN General Assembly. Caroline started her career at SAP in executive communications for Hasso Plattner, initiating and running the first global public affairs and CSR programmes there.

As the founder of KingCommunicating, she has provided public affairs and PR consulting to the non-profit sector and orchestrated high-profile events, such as a film premiere attended by Chancellor Merkel. From 2005 to 2008 she established and ran the German office of the World Childhood Foundation for Queen Silvia of Sweden.

Caroline holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University and a Master of Arts in International Relations from McMaster University. She chairs development policy for the German Industry Association, is a guest lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance and sits on the steering committee of the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

She holds an MBA from Bayes Business School at the University of London, and she earned a Doctorate in Leadership and Learning in Organizations from Vanderbilt University, where her research focused on building trust in remote work environments.

A serial entrepreneur in Asia and the United States, Catherine serves on several boards and mentors founders through USC’s Marshall Incubator and Oxford University’s Entrepreneurs Society. Passionate about environmental and wildlife conservation, she spent a year in the Peruvian Amazon working on parrot preservation and eco-tourism. She now lives in Silicon Valley, speaks at events around the world, and consults with government and business organizations.

In 2022, Jennifer stepped away from the wealth management advisor seat to research the axioms of wealth through a future-forward lens. This exploration resulted in the #1 bestseller Invisible Wealth, which offers a timely yet timeless redefinition of wealth.

Now, through Invisible Wealth® Consulting, Jennifer partners with the families and firms choosing to extend the wealth conversation beyond the dollar. Through values-first frameworks (including the 5 Principles of Invisible Wealth®, the Personal Wealth Algorithm™ and the Identity Helix™), she helps current and future wealth holders navigate the rich complexities of wealth and self.

Jennifer is also a frequent speaker on Invisible Wealth and its reflective frameworks. She has spoken at organizations such as The Financial Times, JPMorgan Private Bank, Bernstein Private Wealth, YPO, Family Office Alliance, Family Office Exchange, Microsoft and the Greenwich Economic Forum in Davos. Her insights appear in leading publications, and she regularly shares her perspective through her Substack newsletter, reaching thousands of subscribers. She is US based, with international reach.

She advises grIP Venture Studio, CelineTx, Invitris, Retroviral Proviromics and Bio Art Nutra, and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs and New Rhein Ventures.

Previously she was Chief Business Officer at Galecto, Vice President at cell therapy company Mnemo Therapeutics, a Venture Partner at RA Capital and Executive Vice President at Evotec, where she built its North American investment arm and started an incubator with Samsara BioCapital. She also worked as International Business Leader at F. Hoffmann-La Roche and for Novartis in business development and in commercial.

Stephanie conducted the research for her PhD in biochemistry in the lab of a Nobel Prize winner at Harvard Medical School, and holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.

As a semi-professional violinist, she performs with philharmonic orchestras in Carnegie Hall and other international venues, and runs workshops with live orchestras on what teams and leadership in music share with management.

An investor, entrepreneur, former corporate executive, and award-winning podcast host, Syama combines professional expertise with decades of lived experience as a divorced woman, stepmother, business builder, and creator of financial security on her own terms.

At the center of her work is Capital Agency: self-awareness × personal power × action. Syama believes that wealth is not simply something women earn, inherit, or possess; its potential is realized when they consciously direct their financial resources, knowledge, relationships, experience, and influence toward the future they want to create.

Through her Wealth Expander Framework, Syama invites women to stand in their greatness, lead with curiosity, and expand what is possible for others. As co-founder of Wealth Catalyst, principal at Big Delta Capital, and host of Getting Rich Together, she creates transformative spaces where women build, preserve, and deploy capital with confidence.

Syama’s work moves the conversation beyond financial literacy toward financial self-trust, personal responsibility, and meaningful action, equipping women not merely to participate in the future of wealth, but to shape it.

Her career began in capital markets at State Street, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, followed most recently by global leadership in impact entrepreneurship. She served as the Global Program Director of the Cartier Women’s Initiative, an international program supporting women impact entrepreneurs through financial, human and social capital.

She was also on the investment committee of Next Wave Ventures, an impact venture capital fund investing in early-stage impact businesses, and co-authored Impact with Wings: Stories to Inspire and Mobilize Women Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs.

Today, Wingee is exploring how to help build the ecosystems, narratives and governance needed for AI to advance human flourishing.