Brighthood

H.M. Queen Silvia is one of the world’s leading advocates for children’s rights. In 1999, she founded the World Childhood foundation which aims to safeguard the right of the child to a safe and loving childhood, and works in particular to improve the living conditions for children at risk of becoming victims of violence or sexual abuse.

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Before becoming United Nations Deputy Secretary-General in early 2017, Amina J. Mohammed was the Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to this, she supported the UN Secretary-General as Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning where she was instrumental in bringing about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Amina J. Mohammed has held several high level responsibilities, including working with 3 successive Presidents in Nigeria as Senior Special Assistant on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), coordinating poverty reduction interventions with debt relief gains of $1bn per annum.

Some awards include: the distinguished Order of the Federal Republic (OFR); 2017 Diplomat of the Year by Foreign Policy magazine; Apolitical 2019’s 100 Most Influential People on Gender Policy; and Africa Report’s 2019 100 Most Influential Africans. She was also profiled by Vogue as one of the 13 female Climate Warriors on the frontline, Fortune named her amongst the World’s Greatest Female Leaders and she is also listed in the Nigerian Women’s Hall of Fame.

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Hans Vestberg is chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon Communications, where he has focused on transforming the businesses 2.0 customer-centric strategy, leading the company to be first in the world to deploy 5G home and mobile technology.

Before joining Verizon in April 2017, Vestberg served for six years as president and CEO of Ericsson. As CEO, he led more than 115,000 employees as the company transformed from a focus on hardware to software and services.

Vestberg is a member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network, where he helped author the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. He is a board member of the UN Foundation and the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative and is a leading voice at technology and global economic conferences.

Vestberg was also a founding member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Broadband Commission for Digital Development, where he led climate-change and digital-health initiatives.

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Jim Cole is a Supervisory Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Nashville, TN. Jim supervises Cyber, Child Exploitation, Human Trafficking and Victim Services for HSI Nashville, which covers the states of Tennessee and Kentucky.

Jim formerly served as the National Program Manager and Section Chief for Victim Identification for HSI. Jim stood up HSI’s Victim Identification Program and Laboratory in 2011 and as a Special Agent and Digital Forensic Agent has been conducting child sexual exploitation investigations for the past 17 years.

Jim managed several Research & Development Projects focusing on digital image/video processing and biometrics related to digital image/video for child exploitation. Jim is a founding member of Project Vic, and is the current Chair of the INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes Against Children.

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Sanjay Poonen is Chief Operating Officer at VMware. Poonen joined VMware in August 2013, and is responsible for worldwide sales, services, support, marketing and alliances. He is also responsible for the Security strategy and business at VMware.

Before VMware, Poonen was president of Platform Solutions at SAP AG. During his more than seven years at SAP, Poonen held several executive-level roles in product development and sales, including leading SAP’s Analytics, Big Data, Mobile and all Industry Business Units, driving many solutions to industry-leading market positions.

Prior to SAP, Poonen held executive roles at Symantec, VERITAS and Informatica, and he began his career as a software engineer at Microsoft, followed by Apple.

Poonen holds two patents as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University; and a bachelor’s degree in computer science, math and engineering from Dartmouth College.

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Michael H. Keller is a reporter and data journalist specializing in technology on the investigative team. Before joining The Times, he worked at Bloomberg News, Newsweek and was a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He got his masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Daniel Taube is Group Ethics & Compliance Officer at SKF. Founded in Sweden 1907, SKF serves 40 industries in 130 countries from more than 100 factories. SKF develops and manufactures solutions for reliable rotation, and is the undisputed leader in the bearing business.

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Susie joined the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in September 2011 as Chief Executive.

Susie is a Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre. She is also a member of the NCA CEOP Command Strategic Governance Group; the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Child Online Protection Working Group and the Broadband Commission Working Group. She’s an Executive Board member of the UK Council Internet Safety (UKCIS).

Susie is a Clore Fellow and was a finalist for a European Woman of Achievement Award in 2004 Susie was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2016 for ‘Services to Child Online Safety’.

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Björn Sellström is Project Superintendent at the National Operative Department, Swedish National Police, with more than 15 years experience of internet related sexual crimes against children.

Working as a teamleader on national level, Björn has been responsible for a numerous cases and has seen many children rescued from the reality of sexual abuse.

Björn also had the opportunity to serve as teamleader at the Crimes Against Children unit at INTERPOL between 2016 and 2019. During this period Björn focused on capacity building to countries not yet approaching the crime area of sexual crimes on children via internet.

Back in Sweden, Björn is currently holding a position as strategic advisor to the Swedish national police in implementing national guidelines to prevent and tackle all forms of internet related sexual crimes against children.

Linda Jonsson is a Researcher, Bachelor in Social Science and Senior Lecturer in social work at Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College. Linda is also the coordinator for the European competence centre for Barnahus, and has previously worked at the Swedish national competence centre against child abuse, Barnafrid. Linda’s research includes all forms of sexual violence against children but especially online sexual abuse.

Anna Borgström is CEO of NetClean. Anna has worked with organisations and governments worldwide since 2009 to combat online child sexual exploitation through introducing and lobbying for the uptake of new and leading technical solutions, which work to save children from harm.

NetClean was one of the first social entrepreneurial businesses in Sweden, and as one of the early employees Anna has had a significant impact on the company’s success and growth. Making a difference through combining social responsibility, ethically sustainable businesses and technology is something that drives Anna and her commitment to the industry.

Anna has studied Computer Science and Economics and has worked with innovative solutions within the Telco and IT industry for 20 years.

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Eva Hamilton was the CEO for the Swedish public broadcasting company (SVT) (2006-2014), during a period that was dominated by changes, digitalisation and an intensive media political debate.

Today she sits on several boards e.g. LKAB, Fortum and Bonnier News. She is the chairperson for Luleå Technical University and for the branch organisation Film och TV-producenterna.