Uku Lember

Head of Finance at Lightyear

Uku is Head of Finance at Lightyear, having joined the company in its early stages and is responsible for the finance function end to end. His priorities include financial modelling, unit economics & compliance, as well as treasury and risk management.

Uku is a long time investor and has worked in finance for 15+ years. Starting out in consultancy in EY across its Tallinn and Los Angeles offices, he then moved into the startup world — responsible for treasury management, budgeting forecasting and regional expansion in Skeleton and Wise.

Liina Vahtras

Managing Director at Estonia’s e-Residency program

Liina Vahtras is Managing Director of Estonia’s e-Residency programme, offering global entrepreneurs remote access to the world’s most advanced digital nation. With a master’s in e-Governance from TalTech, her career spans public and private sectors, including roles at Pipedrive, Tuum and Nortal. She’s advised two Estonian Prime Ministers and led strategic efforts in tech, communications and innovation. A mother of four, she’s passionate about technology, design, fitness and literature.

Filip Fucic

Founder, Pricing Mentor at Fearless Pricing

Copying competitor prices isn’t a strategy; it’s self-sabotage. Filip Fučić is a freelancer, author, and pricing mentor who leads a rebellion against the undercharging of expertise-based services. With a blend of pricing psychology, positioning strategy, and sharp storytelling, he equips experts on 5 continents with leverage to start charging more for the value they already provide with confidence backed by evidence.

Naomi Feltham

Senior Global Partnerships Manager at Wise

Naomi looks after the business partnerships team at Wise, a group dedicated to building and nurturing relationships with our key business partners. This team works closely with trusted advisers to support small and medium-sized businesses with all their international payment needs.

They provide these businesses with the essential financial tools and guidance they need to succeed in a global market. This makes it a lot easier for SMEs to handle cross-border transactions, get paid by international clients, and pay suppliers abroad without the usual high fees and bad exchange rates from traditional banks.

Gonçalo Hall

CEO at NomadX

Gonçalo Hall is the CEO at NomadX, one of the biggest nomad communities in the world with physical communities in Madeira, Cabo Verde and Brazil.

The Digital Nomads Madeira project was featured in hundreds of publications including CNN, Wired and Washington Post.

He started working with several governments to replicate the project and attract thousands of remote workers and entrepreneurs to some of the most incredible hidden paradises around the world, helping digitising and educating the local population to work remotely from their home town any company around the world.

Gonçalo won the most Innovative project award with Digital Nomads Madeira attributed by Expresso, BPI and Turismo de Portugal.

Frank Sondors

Co-Founder & CEO at Forge

Frank Sondors comes with over a decade of experience in B2B Software Sales. Currently, he's building Salesforge.ai with a global team to give every company the ability to blend their current sales efforts with AI agents to maximize pipeline and drive down cost. In less than a year, they've scaled up from $0 to $3M ARR.

Maya Middlemiss

Founder of Remote Work Spain

Maya Middlemiss is a journalist, author, and consultant with 25 years of experience in remote work and freelancing. She is the founder of Remote Work Europe, where she supports freelancers, jobseekers, and businesses exploring and creating the future of work. As a seasoned host and public speaker, Maya brings clarity, energy, and a global perspective to conversations about independent work and borderless opportunity. A Londoner originally, Maya has been an Estonian e-resident for 7 years, and lives with her family in Eastern Spain.

Ariadna Julià Brunet

Senior accounting expert at Xolo

With more than 7 years of experience in accounting and taxation in Spain, Ariadna has been supporting freelancers in their everyday challenges. In the past 3 years at Xolo, she has focused on helping professionals with a more international profile, answering their questions and making it easier for them to manage their obligations.

Liz Heflin

Host of the Inkwell community

Liz Heflin was that preschooler who already knew what she wanted to be: a writer.

She began writing professionally in 2006, having no idea that the freelance gigs she took on would evolve into a career she is still pursuing—and loving—nearly two decades later. Today, she is a nonfiction book ghostwriter, the founder of Heflin Media Group, and the host of the Inkwell, a community exclusively for freelance writers.

She holds a master’s degree in creative writing and currently lives in Spain on a digital nomad visa with her husband, son, and dog.