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Saxton Global connects you with top international Speakers already visiting the Asia-Pacific region. This live list is updated regularly with high-impact thought leaders, business strategists, and global changemakers available for local engagements while in-market.
Whether you're planning a leadership summit in Singapore, a client event in Mumbai, or a conference in Bangkok, these Speakers offer exceptional value and relevance for your audience.
Martin Brundle: Formula 1 Commentator and Former Grand Prix Driver
Location and Dates: Singapore, 9-11 October 2026. Available for select engagements around the Grand Prix weekend.
Availability: Fireside Chat, Panel, Private Event Appearance, Q&A Session
About Martin:
Across 158 Formula 1 starts and nearly three decades behind the microphone, Martin Brundle has occupied the centre of this sport in a way very few people can claim. His grid walk interviews for Sky Sports have become one of Formula 1's most watched rituals: unrehearsed, high-pressure conversations drawn from drivers, team principals, and world leaders with seconds to spare. That ability to extract the candid and the compelling under intense conditions is precisely what he brings to a corporate stage. In Singapore for the Grand Prix, he is available for events that want the real story of what elite performance looks and sounds like from the inside.
Ruth Buscombe: Formula 1 Race Strategist and Broadcaster
Location and Dates: Singapore, 9-11 October 2026. Available for select engagements around the Grand Prix weekend.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Panel
About Ruth:
Few people have made decisions worth millions in a matter of seconds, with the outcome broadcast live to a global audience. Ruth Buscombe is one of them. As Head of Race Strategy at Sauber for eight seasons, she worked with drivers including Charles Leclerc and helped the team to its best Constructors' Championship result in a decade. A Cambridge-qualified engineer and now an analyst and presenter for Formula 1 and F1 TV, her expertise sits at the intersection of data, risk, and decision-making under pressure. In Singapore for the Grand Prix, she is available for engagements that bring race-tested strategic thinking directly to a business audience.
Popular Topic: "Risk, Decisions and Competitive Advantage"
Formula 1's safety record is one of the most dramatic transformations in sport. What made it possible was not compliance alone, but a shift in how teams relate to risk. This session uses race strategy as the lens for a question every organisation faces: how do you build a culture that manages risk without eliminating the appetite for it? Drawing on eight seasons as Head of Race Strategy and her ongoing work as an F1 analyst, Ruth Buscombe unpacks the decision frameworks that separate teams which participate from teams which compete.
Key Takeaways:
- How high-performance organisations distinguish between managed risk and reckless exposure, and why the line between them shifts with context
- The relationship between psychological safety, learning culture, and competitive output in environments where mistakes are visible and costly
- Frameworks for making faster, better-informed decisions when data is incomplete and time is short
- What Formula 1's approach to failure, blame culture, and continuous improvement reveals about building organisations that are simultaneously more reliable and more innovative
Karun Chandhok: Formula 1 Driver, Broadcaster and Motorsport Advocate
Location and Dates: Singapore, 9-11 October 2026. Available for select engagements around the Grand Prix weekend.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Panel
About Karun:
One of only two Indian drivers to have competed in Formula 1, Karun Chandhok brings a perspective on this sport that is genuinely distinct. A familiar voice across Sky Sports F1, Star Sports Asia, and Channel 4, his broadcasting career has run in parallel with board-level work at Motorsport UK, the FIA's Single Seater Commission, and the FIA's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Born in Chennai, he is both a product of and an active contributor to the sport's increasingly global footprint. In Singapore for the Grand Prix, he represents the full breadth of what it means to compete in, govern, and communicate Formula 1 at the highest level.
David Coulthard: Formula 1 Grand Prix Winner, Author and Entrepreneur
Location and Dates: Singapore, 9-11 October 2026. Available for select engagements around the Grand Prix weekend.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Panel, Private Event Appearance
About David:
Thirteen Formula 1 victories across two of the sport's most dominant teams. A Sunday Times bestselling author. Co-founder of Whisper, one of Europe's fastest-growing media production companies, and President of the British Racing Drivers' Club. David Coulthard's post-F1 career has been as commercially ambitious as his driving record, and his 2018 book The Winning Formula applied two decades of elite sport experience directly to leadership and performance. MBE, podium interviewer on Formula 1's global television feed, and a familiar presence in the paddock: he arrives in Singapore for the Grand Prix with a depth of perspective that crosses every dimension of the sport.
Mika Häkkinen: Two-Time Formula 1 World Champion
Location and Dates: Singapore, 9-11 October 2026. Available for select engagements around the Grand Prix weekend.
Availability: Fireside Chat, Keynote Presentation, Panel, Private Event Appearance
About Mika:
Two consecutive Formula 1 World Championships and one of the sport's most celebrated rivalries. Mika Häkkinen's career at McLaren produced 20 Grand Prix victories and a reputation, acknowledged publicly by Michael Schumacher himself, as the one driver consistently capable of matching him wheel to wheel at full speed. That rivalry reached its peak with a 300km/h overtaking move at Spa in 2000, still counted among the greatest in the sport's history. What makes his story equally compelling off the track is what preceded those championships: a life-threatening accident at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix, and the recovery that followed. In Singapore for the Grand Prix, he brings both chapters.
Ralf Schumacher: Formula 1 Race Winner and Broadcaster
Location and Dates: Singapore, 9-11 October 2026. Available for select engagements around the Grand Prix weekend.
Availability: Keynote Presentation, Fireside Chat, Executive Briefing, Panel
About Ralf:
Six Formula 1 race victories, 27 podium finishes, and an 11-season career that placed him among the sport's leading performers during one of its most competitive eras. Ralf Schumacher built his own record at a time when the grid included his brother Michael, Michael Schumacher, at the height of his dominance, which is itself a study in performance under particular pressure. Now a broadcaster for Sky Sports Germany and a shareholder and mentor within the sport's junior development pathways, his perspective spans the competitive, technical, and commercial dimensions of the sport. In Singapore for the Grand Prix, he brings that breadth to corporate audiences in the region.
Popular Topic: "High Performance for Business"
Drawing on 11 seasons of Formula 1 competition and his current work in broadcasting and driver development.
Formula 1 is not simply a sport. It is an environment where marginal gains determine outcomes, where teamwork operates under conditions most organisations never encounter, and where data, AI, and sustainable technology are already reshaping competitive strategy. Ralf Schumacher translates the lessons of the sport into frameworks business leaders can apply immediately, covering the culture of continuous improvement, data-driven decision-making, the human dynamics of high-performing teams, and the role of emerging technology in building organisations that are built to stay ahead.
Key Takeaways:
- What Formula 1's obsession with marginal gains reveals about building and sustaining high-performing teams across complex organisations
- How the sport's adoption of AI, machine learning, and hybrid technology anticipates the decisions every competitive business will face
- The role of data in real-time decision-making and why quality of interpretation matters as much as volume of information
- How to build a performance culture that is simultaneously competitive, adaptable, and oriented toward long-term sustainability
Jacques Villeneuve: Formula 1 and Indycar World Champion
Location and Dates: Singapore, 9-11 October 2026. Available for select engagements around the Grand Prix weekend.
Availability: Fireside Chat, Keynote Presentation, Panel, Private Event Appearance
About Jacques:
To win the Indianapolis 500, the Indycar Series Championship, and the Formula 1 World Championship places a driver in a category of three in the sport's entire history. Jacques Villeneuve is one of them. His 1996 Formula 1 debut season ended second in the World Championship. He won the title the following year with Williams. The team he co-founded and raced for subsequently became the dominant Mercedes AMG Formula 1 operation. He has since competed at Le Mans, in NASCAR, and across a range of motorsport disciplines, adding to a career that spans the broadest competitive range of any Formula 1 World Champion. In Singapore for the Grand Prix, he brings an exceptional breadth of competitive experience to the corporate stage.
