Anna Nicolaou,
US Media Correspondent, Financial Times  

Anna Nicolaou is US media correspondent for the Financial Times, where she covers the business of entertainment. Before joining the FT in 2014, Anna worked for Reuters in Brussels, where she reported on the European elections. She previously covered banking for the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper.

Prior to entering journalism Anna worked as a macroeconomic analyst for DRW, a high-frequency trading group. She won the Standard & Poor's award for Economic & Business Reporting in 2014, earning an Overseas Press Club Foundation fellowship.

Anna is a graduate of the University of Toronto, earning a fellowship in Global Journalism, and McGill University, earning a BA in economics.

Jean-Briac Perrette,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Discovery International  

Jean-Briac Perrette is president & CEO of Discovery International, a global leader in real life entertainment with worldwide distribution in both television and emerging digital platforms. Based in London, Jean-Briac oversees and sets the strategy for all of Discovery’s business outside the United States including discovery+, the definitive real-life subscription streaming service launched in the U.S. in January 2021 with more than 55,000 episodes, and internationally, continues its rollout in more than 25 markets. Discovery’s unrivalled global footprint includes an average of 10 channels across 220 countries and territories, forming a collection of world-class brands and global IP.  

Jean-Briac joined Discovery in October 2011 as chief digital officer and prior to this, he spent 11 years with NBCUniversal, most recently serving as president, digital and affiliate distribution, in addition to playing a leadership role in developing Hulu. Before joining NBC in 2000, Jean-Briac was a member of General Electric’s top leadership development program based in London, and at CS First Boston in London and Tokyo. Jean-Briac received his B.A. from Hamilton College, New York.

Kate Ward,
President, VICE Studios  

Kate Ward is President, VICE Studios, VICE Media Group’s international television and feature film production arm. The business encompasses the development, production, financing and distribution of quality English and local language scripted, entertainment and factual content.

Prior to joining VICE media group, Kate was President, International of Refinery29, the leading media and entertainment company focused on women, where she oversaw the company's growth and expansion across both programming and commercial, including the launch of Refinery29’s first international edition, headquartered in London. Since launch, the UK edition has consistently grown its community and has been most recently recognised by Digiday's Media Europe Awards as Publisher of the Year. Kate expanded the international offering in 2016 with the launch of Refinery29's German office and website: a French language edition followed in 2019.

Before joining Refinery29 Kate spent 8 years at the Endemol Shine Group in a variety of roles from Associate Director of Business Development to Head of Commercial and Strategy at Shine TV.

Kate has been named as one of Ad Age's Class of Women to Watch Europe, listed in Management Today's 35 Women Under 35 and selected by The Dots as a creative trailblazer.

James Moore,
Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Vine Alternative Investments

James Moore is a founding member of Vine Alternative Investments and has been its Managing Partner and CEO since inception in 2007. He provides strategic direction and executive management oversight of the firm. Due to his long career in investment banking, Mr. Moore brings many years of senior level transaction structuring expertise and execution leadership to Vine. Mr. Moore sits on the firm’s investment committee.

Mr. Moore's background includes:

• 20 years of structured finance experience, including 16 years at JP Morgan

• Successful track record of developing start-up businesses including: senior member of JPM’s public ABS team that grew the business from a startup to #5 in the league tables during the mid-1990’s; founded ABN Amro’s US term ABS business; and created the US Financial Institutions Banking group for Dresdner Kleinwort

• Originated and structured a broad variety of commercial and consumer structured products, creating over $20 billion of securities

• Head of Asset Backed Securities at ABN Amro, North America, responsible for $20 billion commercial paper conduit funding portfolio, public ABS origination, trading and syndicate and commercial mortgage backed origination, trading and syndicate

• B.S. in Finance and Economics from the University of Delaware