Geography: North America

  • Zoe Jay Hawkins

    Zoe is Co-Founder & Deputy Executive Director of the Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi): Australia’s new independent non-partisan think tank dedicated to technology policy.

    Featured in the Australian Financial Review’s 2025 Women to Watch list, Zoe has experience leading international tech policy initiatives from government, big tech, academic and think tank perspectives. Zoe worked for the Australian government across communications, innovation, and foreign policy portfolios, as a ministerial adviser and in the public service. As a member of Amazon’s International Public Policy Team, Zoe drove whole of amazon digital policy initiatives and represented the company in international organisations.

    An engaging communicator, Zoe speaks internationally on tech policy issues and her work has been featured by The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Economist, Forbes, POLITICO, and Vogue. Zoe is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford and an expert researcher for OECD.AI, having started her career at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

    Zoe is passionate about helping bring the next generation of women up behind her by role modelling confident authentic leadership and actively mentoring young women across international relations and responsible tech policy in Australia and around the world.

  • Verona Johnstone-Hulse

    Verona is an experienced government affairs and policy professional currently leading public affairs for global cyber security firm NCC Group. In this role, she oversees NCC Group’s engagement with UK government and regulatory decision-makers and the wider policymaking community, against a backdrop of the increasing regulation of cyber resilience.

    Prior to joining NCC Group, she led in-house and consultancy public affairs programmes for a range of organisations – from FTSE100 to critical infrastructure, across many sectors of the economy.

  • Verity Freeman

    Verity Freeman is an Associate in Global Counsel’s tech, media and telecoms (TMT) team. She works with clients to help shape their policy and engagement strategy across a range of issues including AI, digital competition, digital economy, online safety and public sector digitisation.

    She previously worked for political intelligence company DeHavilland where she focused on culture, media and sport policy.

  • Varuna Mangtani

  • Tammarrian Rogers

    Tammarrian has over 30 years of experience in the U.S. tech industry, contributing to engineering teams at General Motors, Apple, Microsoft, and Snap. She has led cross-functional teams in IT, Quality Engineering, Release Management, and Globalization.

    Tammarrian was recognized on Forbes’ lists of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech and the World’s Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018. She has also served on advisory councils and boards for organizations like Ada Developer’s Academy, NordVPN, and Northwest Tech Equity Initiative (NWTEI).
    In November 2021, Tammarrian left her role as Snap’s first Inclusive Engineering Director to focus on global collective healing leveraging tech as a catalyst. She founded Sarell with a vision to rebuild trust in tech by elevating social well-being as equally important as traditional success metrics.

    Believing that active listening is key to collective healing, Sarell partners with experts in tech, psychology, social science, and policy to create feedback mechanisms that integrate actionable social well-being metrics, prioritizing customer trust and collective wellness as central to financial success.

    Tammarrian enjoys traveling, hiking, dancing, other people’s pets, and (lots of) moments of stillness. She currently resides in London.

  • Sophie Mitchell

  • Sophie L Parker

    I’m a dual UK/US citizen with deep expertise at the intersection of technology, regulation, and public policy. I’m a strategic leader with a strong track record of advancing trust and safety initiatives, shaping digital governance, and driving global regulatory strategy. I work directly with some of the world’s largest tech platforms, giving me a clear understanding of their challenges and how they can improve online safety outcomes. I excel at building high-impact relationships across government, industry, and civil society to support safer, more accountable digital ecosystems.

    At Ofcom, the UK’s digital and communications regulator, I led the development of multi-year strategic roadmaps and external engagement strategies. I’m skilled at convening expert communities, translating complex regulatory insights into actionable frameworks, and managing high-performing, cross-functional teams. I bring a global perspective and a nuanced understanding of UK, US, and EU digital policy landscapes. I hold a Master’s in Government and Regulation and an MBA Essentials certificate from the London School of Economics.

  • Sophie de Schwarzburg-Gunther

    I am a government relations and business development consultant with a vast and varies experience in a multitude of sectors across the UK, US and Australia currently focused on AI, data centre cooling technology, education, transport, and healthcare.

    My network is significant and I am active in supporting and mentoring those starting in their careers with guidance and introductions.

  • Shruti Kakade

    Shruti Kakade is an Master of Data Science student at the Hertie School. Having a background in Computer engineering, she is interested in AI Ethics, Digital Governance, Responsible AI & related regulations.

  • Sian Wilson

    Sian Wilson is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Day One- a global leader in early careers. Sian is a global leader with over 25 years of experience in growth, skills, tech, policy and strategic organisational development in tech and skills-based businesses.

    Sian is a Fellow of the RSA, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Institute of Employability and Chartered Member of CIPD. She is the Chair of Tech UK’s Skills and Inclusivity Council, sits on the EdTech and Education Council at Tech UK, is a member of the Women in Tech Policy Group, member of the London Corporation taskforce for Women pivoting into Tech, member of the North Est Connecting for Impact Group and Non-Executive Director of Society Matters CIC in Gateshead.