Chris de Lapuente, former Executive at LVMH and CEO of Sephora, played a pivotal role in scaling the business from €2.5bn to €16bn during his 13 years at the helm of the beauty retailer. He first met ...

A hundred years ago, it would have made no sense to wish somebody a “nice weekend”. There was no “hump day” to give colleagues a mid-week morale boost because there was no defined end to the working ...

Jonathan Spry is co-founder and CEO of Envelop Risk. He started the company in 2016. It has its HQ in Bristol, but also operates in London and Bermuda. It specialises in cyber and emerging risk ...

Last week, we discussed how an entrepreneur had implemented weekly ‘AI Days’ to drive the use of the technology across his 400-strong workforce. This week, I want to introduce you to an entrepreneur ...

Rishi Khosla is a British-Indian entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of OakNorth Bank. He studied economics at University College London and earned a master’s in accounting and ...

The Yellow Pages used to make life easier for everyone. By sorting businesses alphabetically into categories, it streamlined finding products and services and changed how small businesses reached ...

Established in 1998 by Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright, Innocent Drinks started out selling smoothies at a music festival in London. From these beginnings, it has grown into a global ...

Anthony Eskinazi founded the start-up JustPark in 2006, two years before Airbnb launched. Originally called ParkatmyHouse, the idea was to let people rent out their driveways or parking spaces on a ...

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses,” Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, once quipped. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, didn’t conduct focus groups ...

The evidence is clear that dissatisfaction is surging against traditional capitalism, which I refer to as financial capitalism. In recent years, that dissatisfaction has been voiced by not only ...

Having come through a rigorous judging process featuring judges such as Gallagher’s managing director Andy Ferguson, Heat Recruitment CEO Steve Preston, Ovo’s Alison Jaap and Strike Communications MD ...

Nick Grey is the founder and owner of Gtech, which specialises in cordless household appliances. It started out with vacuum cleaners, but has since expanded into products including hedge trimmers, ...