Melissa Dewar is the Founder & CEO of The Modernists, which she has grown over the past two years into a leading digital membership for luxury lifestyle experience

Background: Cambridge Master’s; serial founder with expertise in luxury, real estate, and partnerships.

Leadership: Scaling The Modernists, uniting lifestyle, tech, and culture.

Impact: Founded a non-profit on abduction awareness; speaker at TEDx and Miss Universe.

Connor McLean, brings deep roots in the private members' club scene a with a successful exit of his own events business.

Owns a rackets focused private members' club & advises for some of the leading clubs & concierges across the world

Ex Royal Airforce Pilot

Former Unilever Sales Lead

Co-leads a charity that has raised over $10m for humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

Gence has built EMEA businesses from scratch three times, including scaling a sustainability-focused tech company to European market leadership within two years. He has contributed to major milestones, including a successful IPO and acquisitions by Salesforce and Vertex. Gence is experienced in building high-performing international GTM teams, advises startups through Techstars, and invests via Ventures Together. His current focus is applying AI to transform how go-to-market teams leverage client and prospect data to accelerate growth.

Emily joins The Modernists with a background in strategy, marketing, creative branding, and business operations from 6 years in management consulting and a decade in consumer-facing startups. She is currently CMO of Rove Travel, an NYC-based real estate company, and Managing Director of BHB Private, a lifestyle concierge consultancy firm in London, UK. Emily previously worked as COO of ONDA, a members club platform, and VP of Design Strategy and Creative Director at Ruggable, an $800M LA-based home goods brand. Emily started her career at Bain & Company, covering the retail, media, and private equity practice areas. Outside of work, Emily is an avid backcountry skier, design lover, and outdoors enthusiast. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a B.A. in English Literature from Brown University.

Antoine Melon is the co-founder of HOMETAINMENT, a curated platform redefining how people entertain in the space of their choice — offering private chefs, mixologists, musicians, entertainers, wellness experts and more.

After many years in Asia in senior hospitality roles, Antoine moved to London 10 years ago to become UK Director of Soho House Group, overseeing some of their most successful years of expansion. He later joined Artfarm (Hauser & Wirth’s hospitality arm) as COO, further deepening his expertise at the intersection of art, culture, and hospitality.

www.hometainment.co.uk

www.antoinemelon.com