Minter Dial is a professional speaker, author and consultant, specialised in branding, new tech and digital strategy. He is the author of two books, the award-winning, best-selling Futureproof (Pearson 2017) and The Last Ring Home (Myndset 2016), a WWII biography, which was turned into an award-winning documentary film he produced and that was shown nationally on PBS and History Channel. He's also published a dozen white papers including The Brand University and Marketing of the 5Es.

A repeat entrepreneur on either side of a 16-year career at L'Oreal (MD Worldwide of Redken, MD of L'Oreal Canada Professional Products Division and ExCom worldwide of the PPD), he has also worked as investment banker, zoo manager and tennis pro. Minter has given over 500 talks and seminars to audiences in five continents. He was voted top 3 speaker out of 150 at the Adobe Summit EMEA three years in a row (2014-2015-2016). He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis and loves languages.

Minter was educated at Eton College (1978-1982), received his BA in Trilingual Literature from Yale University (1987) and gained his MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1993).