Interviews of some of the UKs leading Entrepreneurs & small business owners
Claire Young, the straight-talking, no-nonsense finalist from BBC1’s The Apprentice has been using her experience to promote entrepreneurship and enterprise to our younger generation since leaving the show. She is now set to takes that one step further with the launch of the new youth initiative Teenbiz, which provides funding to entrepreneurs aged 13 to 18 years old.
With over 20 years experience in management consulting we asked Rachel Blackburn from the Norwich based US2UConsulting to tell us what inspires her in business and what advice she would give to any one starting business today.
Ajaya Sodha, Chairman of Key Travel, the leading Travel Management Company (TMC) dedicated to the not-for-profit sector joins us to tell us how he has been able to drive the company he founded over 30 years ago to be one of the leading companies in its sector, who inspires him and what he would possibly do differently if he could.
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Give A Grad A Go was started in 2009 by Cary Curtis. Its mission is to provide today’s talented and hardworking graduates with exceptional career opportunities within dynamic ambitious businesses. We find out what motivates Cary and ask if there was anything he’d do differently?
Dragons’ Den veteran Duncan Bannatyne was among the judges who voted business lawyer Suzanne Dibble’s venture Lawyers4Mumpreneurs a winner at the recent national Mumpreneur Awards ceremony.
We caught up with Nicko Williamson founder and MD of Climatecars, to ask what keeps him motivated, what are his ambitions and what real-world advice would he give to those wishing to follow in his footsteps.
After many years leading product development at Sage, Guy took on a commercial role, responsible for customer services and the combination of the two disciplines inspired this new customer service software, we ask him who he admires in business.
We caught up with Natalie Gross, who is the managing partner of Amaze, to ask what keeps her motivated, what are her ambitions and what real-world advice would she give to those wishing to follow in her footsteps.
One of the digital industry’s pioneers, having set up one of the UK’s first digital agencies Hyperinteractive in 1994. Felix is now Managing Director of the UK’s most famous eCRM agency, Underwired Amaze, and a leading authority on digital strategy. We ask him who inspires him.
We talk to Crispin Moger, Managing Director and co-founder of Young Marmalade and Provisonal Marmalade, Britain’s leading insurer of young drivers and ask him who inspires him and what, if he could, he’d change given his time again.
We talk to Henry Amar from fine food distributors, R.H. Amar, the family run business, based in High Wycombe. Henry has been working for the company for 50 years so we find out what motivates him and what advice he’d give to others.
We spoke to Nick Silverwood, who manages all of Plusnet the Yorkshire based broadband providers SME business, and found out what inspires him in business and what he might look to do differently if he had his time again.
We recently came across Phillip ‘Tugg” Gently who has been working with the accounting software provider Kashflow on a series of business motivational videos. We spent some time to get to know the man behind the myth.
We speak to Pierre-Vincent Debatte, who is the President and CEO of the Jouve Group, a century old printing and typesetting specialist that has undergone a major transition from print-based activities to move to the digital marketplace. We find who he admires and what inspires him in business.
