Category: Profiles

Ben Brown, CEO & Co-founder, Shopwave tells us what inspires him in business and after selling multi-channel coupon distribution platform VouChaCha to Monitise as part of a £55m deal in 2013 what he has learnt an has done differently with Shopwave.

Andrew Marten is Co-Founder of probiotic Belgian chocolate brand Ohso. In 2013, he was awarded the Investec Food & Drink Entrepreneur Of The Year Award at the House of Commons and he has also won multiple accolades including a Great Taste 2013 Gold Star for the Natural Orange Belgian Chocolate and the No Added Sugar Raspberry Belgian Chocolate Editions. Here he tells us what his influences were when he was starting out.

We talk to Chris Noblet, CEO of Rivo, to find out his inspirations in business and ask if there’s anything he would have done differently given the chance.

Lucy Wright, Co-Founder of Cuckoo Bircher muesli tells us about her motivation and passion for good food resulted in starting the company with childhood friend Anna Mackenzie.

Kerim Derhalli talks to Business Matters about invstr, the app that makes financial markets easier to understand and investing more social than ever before.

Stuart Sunderland, Founder of City Pantry, tells us what has inspired him to drive the company to impressive growth of 29 per cent a month. The service currently delivers over 5,000 meals to London offices every week, with regular orders from giants like Google, Buzzfeed and Spotify, but what would he do differently?

Subrah Iyar, co-founder of Webex and CEO, Moxtra tells us what inspires him in business and why he says that in the early years of a business you need to try and do things differently.

Valentina Chiswick tells us who inspires him in business and why being well funded when you start a company is the most essential starting point

Sachin Bagga, from family firm Sabichi talks to us about his inspirations in business and what advice he would give to anyone starting out in business.

We talk to Neil Joyce, Managing Director, EMEA for Signal and find out what his inspirations in business are ask what he would have done differently given the chance.

We talk to Stuart Sunderland, CEO of City Pantry to find out his inspirations in business and ask what he would have done differently given the chance.

We talk to Adrian Kingwell, MD of Mezzo Labs, to find out what his inspirations in business are and ask if there’s anything he would have done differently given the chance.

We talk to Vairo Kremanis to find what his inspirations in business are and ask what he would have done differently given the chance.

We talk to Laurence Harris, CEO of Trioni, to find out what his inspirations in businesses and ask what he would have done differently given the chance.

Narik Patel, Director of Mobile Merchant Services, PayPal UK joins us and tells us how he masterminded PayPal’s arrival on the UK high street with PizzaExpress in 2011 and what defines his way of doing business and what advice he would give to someone staring out in business.