Sam Smith
Sam Smith is an entrepreneur, board advisor, and co-founder of The SuperScalers, a global community helping underrepresented founders scale from £1m to £50m+ in revenue. She was the first female CEO of a City stockbroking firm, leading finnCap from a management buyout to a £50m+ revenue investment bank supporting hundreds of growth companies.
With board roles across tech, private equity, and commodities, Sam specialises in scaling businesses sustainably through governance, strategy, and leadership. She has advised the UK Government’s Taskforce for Women-Led High Growth Businesses, the ScaleUp Institute, and Everywoman, driving real change for diverse founders.
A Chartered Accountant (KPMG) and author of The Secret Sauce, Sam’s awards include National Business Woman of the Future, the City Power Top 50, and Top 100 Financial Rising Stars.
Geeta Sidhu-Robb
“If you can dream it, you can make it happen.”
Geeta Sidhu-Robb is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, activist, success coach. Five-time winner of the Entrepreneur & Businesswoman of the Year award, in 2025 alone she won Disruptor of the Year, Workplace Equity Advocacy, Startup Innovation of the Year, and Women’s Brand Impact Award at the UN.
She founded WCorp in 2024 to certify companies building safe, successful workplaces for women, and WCorp Green Flag 2025 - a pioneering certification and capital model transforming the investment landscape by driving funding towards women-led businesses.
Geeta moved from corporate law into entrepreneurship in 2008 with Nosh Detox, and into coaching in 2014. “Transformational and life-changing”, she coached women leaders across Barclays, UBS, Fidelity, Blackrock and more. After coaching Sam Smith (finnCap CEO) from £15M to an IPO and a £52M exit, Geeta coaches on The SuperScalers, the elite founder-scaling programme created to scale high-growth women entrepreneurs.
An experienced media expert, she’s worked on every prime-time UK television show over the years, including a Netflix show in 2024.
A committed activist, she chairs the Microloan Foundation WDB, was Chair of Montessori Global, and helped lead the anti-Brexit movement as Chair of Open Britain.