Bryan Johnson Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, writer and author. He is the founder and CEO of Kernel, a brain recording technology company, and of OS fund, an early-stage investor in science and technology companies. He is also the founder and CEO of Blueprint, an anti-ageing project dedicated to stopping then reversing the…
Stan Efferding Stan Efferding is known as the world’s strongest bodybuilder, being both a world record holding powerlifter and an IFBB professional bodybuilder. He is a leading authority on performance nutrition, and is the founder of The Vertical Diet, a performance-based nutritional framework. He has consulted with hundreds of elite athletes across multiple sports. Follow…
Dr Michael Snyder, PhD Dr Michael Snyder is Chair of Genetics and Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University. He is the author of Genomics and Personalized Medicine: What Everyone Needs to Know, and co-founder of JanuaryAI, Qbio, Personalis, SensOmics, RTHM, and Iollo. He lives in Stanford, California. Follow him on X and…
Dr Abbie Smith-Ryan, PhD Dr Abbie Smith-Ryan is an expert in exercise physiology and sports nutrition. She serves as the associate chair for research for the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, the director of the Applied Physiology Laboratory, and co-director of the Human Performance Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She…
Dr Max Pemberton Dr Max Pemberton is medical doctor, journalist and author. He works full-time as a psychiatrist in the National Health Service, specialising in eating disorders and addiction. He has written multiple best-selling books, including Trust me, I’m A (Junior) Doctor; Where Does it Hurt?; and The Marvellous Adventure of Being Human. He lives…
Dr Stacy Sims, PhD Dr Stacy Sims, PhD, is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who aims to revolutionise exercise nutrition and performance for women. She has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers, and authored female-focused performance optimisation books, Roar, and Next Level, which challenge the existing dogma around exercise, nutrition, and health for women.…
Dr Tommy Wood Dr Tommy Wood, BM BCh, PhD, is a neuroscientist and performance consultant to world class athletes in more than a dozen sports. A self-confessed “elite-level professional nerd”, he received an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, a medical degree from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in physiology…
Nick Mitchell Nick Mitchell founded Ultimate Performance in the City of London in 2009 and led it as chief executive until May 2024, when private equity firm Inflexion invested in the business. By then it had 24 company-owned sites across eight countries on four continents and more than 500 personal trainers, built without franchising or…
Robert Irvine Robert Irvine is a celebrity chef, broadcaster, author and philanthropist. He has hosted or starred in Food Network programmes including Dinner: Impossible; Restaurant: Impossible; Worst Cooks in America; Operation Restaurant; and All-Star Academy. He operates two restaurants: Robert Irvine’s Public House at the Tropicana Result in Las Vegas, Nevada; and Fresh Kitchen by…
Nick Mitchell Nick Mitchell founded Ultimate Performance in the City of London in 2009 and led it as chief executive until May 2024, when private equity firm Inflexion invested in the business. By then it had 24 company-owned sites across eight countries on four continents and more than 500 personal trainers, built without franchising or…



