Dwain Reid is the Entrepreneurial Engagement & Early-Stage Investment Lead at Forbes Family Group (FFG). In this role, he leads the Cap Table Pitch Competition, FFG's flagship initiative for investing in promising early-stage businesses, with a special focus on supporting underrepresented founders.

In 2024, FFG, under Dwain's leadership, invested over £50k into four innovative ventures, providing them with the capital and resources needed for accelerated growth.

Dwain personally reviews all investment applications, ensuring that the most exceptional founders are identified.

Each year, he oversees a selective review process, giving standout entrepreneurs the chance to pitch directly to FFG's CEO, Dean Forbes.

Additionally, Dwain offers tailored coaching to founders committed to becoming investment-ready, equipping them with strategic insights, connections, and the tools they need to succeed in scaling their ventures.

Aisha Walters is an entrepreneur, founder, and business leader with 25 years of experience in gymnastics, a field she has helped shape at both grassroots and national level.

A former British Champion at Master Class level in Sports Acrobatics, Aisha founded Benchmark Gymnastics in 2009 to empower children through gymnastics, helping them develop confidence, leadership and other key life skills.

Since then the business has gone from strength to strength, partnering with multiple schools across London to inspire hundreds of children, and harnessing close to a thousand members for private clubs outside of schools. 

Aisha is a British Gymnastics tutor, course leader, tutor assessor and internal verifier for British Gymnastics, where she quality assures the standard that is being delivered for their education programmes.

She also sits on two panels for the national governing body - the Recreational Panel and the Coaches Advisory Group – where she concentrates much of her work on development and policy.

In 2025, British Gymnastics recognised Aisha for her outstanding contribution to the field with two awards – the Transforming Lives Through Gymnastics Award and the Learning & Development Individual Practitioner Award. In 2021, Aisha co-founded Camp Fantastic, a multi-activity children’s school holiday camps, the company has expanded to operate in London and South Wales, and in 2025 was named Childcare Provider of the Year in the Wales Prestige Awards and Best Holiday Camp at the E2 Awards of Excellence. 

Aisha is delighted to be a board member for Forbes Family Group and is committed to inclusive education, diversity and empowering everyone, without exception, to succeed.