Category: Profiles

Big ideas are easy to describe. Making them work across complex products, global teams and large organizations is much harder.

Entrepreneur and podcaster Steven Bartlett’s holding company, Steven.com, has been valued at $425m (£320m) after securing major new backing — making him one of the wealthiest Dragons’ Den investors ever.

Mitchel White tells us why in the midst of a global pandemic he decided to create the sister company, Copy Generators, to his marketing agency Reward. 

Martin Donald Murray, CEO and Founder of waterdrop, the world’s first microdrink, tells us why after disrupting the beverage industry across Europe, waterdrop decided to say hello to the UK.

Chris Oldroyd, managing director of Inprotec, a specialised engineering company servicing metal refineries globally, tells us what defines their way of doing business.

Lucinda Carney tells us why after spending 18 years in HR the hunt for a performance management system led her to leave and start Actus Software to fit the need.

Dr Jackie Mulligan, founder and CEO of multi award-winning ShopAppy.com, a platform that showcases and sells products, events, activities and services from local shops and businesses tells us what inspired her to start the company. 

Christina Colmer McHugh, director and co-founder of health tech company Moodbeam tells us how she came up with the idea for the wearable device and companion app after her daughter became anxious at school

Paul Kaniuk, Co-founder & managing director of restoration company ShoeSpa and BagSpa tells us about his vision to create a global restoration business, focused on sustainability.

We spoke to Sergio Weingarten, CEO, Low Cost Glasses, the online prescription glasses retailer about what inspired him to start the company and what, if he could, he’d do differently. 

Paul Russell, managing director of Luxury Academy, a multi-national private training company with offices in London, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam tells us what inspired him to start the company. 

Adam Sharp, CEO of CleverTouch tells us what defines his way of doing business.

Holly Pither, MD and founder of Tribe PR tells us why after working in the industry for over a decade including for HSBC she decided to go it alone.

John Cushing, the founder and CEO of data platform mnAI tells us he admires Stephen Hawkins for the way he had redefined the world of physics and championed the rights of the disabled

Stelios Kounou, Founder & CEO of, software-as-a-service platform, Raffall tells us why Elon Musk inspires him with his ‘nothing is impossible’ mind-set.