Simon Birkenhead is a chief executive with 30 years experience building businesses and driving commercial success by leveraging his operational, marketing, strategy and e-commerce leadership. He has worked in organisations from the very largest global corporations through to early stage technology start-ups.

Educated at Cambridge University and London Business School, Simon is a former global business leader at Google, where he led teams across four continents. He has also held business leadership positions at 3M, Telefónica and Gartner. Since becoming a CEO he has led a number of global businesses out of the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He is currently Group CEO at Travvia, one of Australia and New Zealand's leading tourism companies, and he is an independent Board director at Matrix Education.

He is author of Managing People, a Penguin Business Experts series book.