Entrepreneurs/Business

Doug Richard BA FRSA

Doug is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures. He became well-known to the public after appearing in the first two TV series of Dragons' Den. He is the Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge...

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Peter Jones CBE

Dragon and entrepreneur with an interest in everything ranging from telecommunications to Reggae Reggae Sauce. Peter Jones is one of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs. He became a television celebrity through his appearances on Dragons' Den and also his American television show American Inventor. He is...

Peter Jones

Dragon and entrepreneur with an interest in everything ranging from telecommunications to Reggae Reggae Sauce. Peter Jones is one of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs. He became a television celebrity through his appearances on Dragons' Den and also his American television show American Inventor. He is...

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Michelle Mone OBE

Michelle is one of the UK’s most successful female entrepreneurs and founder of international lingerie brand, Ultimo. After working at a marketing job with brewer Labatt for two years she was promoted to their head of marketing in Scotland. Mone had read about a new silicone...

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Angela Rippon CBE

Amazing grey with an illustrious broadcasting career. Gloria trailblazed as the first regular female news reader, inspiring a generation. Radio Angela Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News. She became a regular presenter in 1975....

Angela Rippon OBE

Amazing grey with an illustrious broadcasting career. Gloria trailblazed as the first regular female news reader, inspiring a generation. Radio Angela Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News. She became a regular presenter in 1975....

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Theo Paphitis

Theo is a Cypriot entrepreneur based in the United Kingdom. His ventures include a variety of business organisations: Ryman, Contessa, La Senza, Partners and Red Letter Days. He made the majority of his fortune in the retail sector. He appeared on the BBC business programme...

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Simon Woodroffe

Simon is a British motivational speaker and hugely successful entrepreneur. After a spell in television, he conceived and launched YO! Sushi in 1997. The business established conveyor belt sushi bars featuring call buttons, robot drinks trolleys, Japanese TV, self heating plates and other such novelties....

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Rachel Elnaugh

Rachel is one of Britain's highest profile female entrepreneurs. she came to public prominence as an investor on the first two seasons of BBC Two's TV show Dragons' Den, in which hers was the sole female perspective amongst the five investing entrepreneurs known as the...

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Hilary Devey

Hilary is an entrepreneur, commentator, and award-winning businesswoman who, by launching Pall-Ex, not only created a business network that now commands revenues of £100 million, but revolutionised the pallet distribution industry in the UK. Launched in 1996, Pall-Ex brings together dozens of independent regional hauliers...

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