Going from employee to founder was a huge leap of faith. I announced the agency just a few days after turning 26 and like most 26-year-olds, I hadn’t ever owned or run a business before. 

I’m Melissa Gauge, founder of SpareMyTime. I left my corporate role in 2016 to set up a City-based business with a couple of partners and another business by myself, an online platform. 

Chris Adams and his international luxury hospitality consulting firm Ellis Adams Group (EAG) have opened hundreds of hotels partnering with Marriott International to transform locations for The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, W, Westin and Renaissance among others all over the world.

Ceri’s 20+ years of experience working in the commercial and public art realms have inspired her to share her arts industry expertise and guidance to artists and creative professionals via her online coaching, mentoring, courses and community platform.

In October 2017 35 year old Clare Coe and 45 year old Nina Zeilerbauer left top roles at one of London’s leading real estate recruiters to set up Madison Berkeley.

I’m Liz Villani, founder of #BeYourselfAtWork, a global movement dedicated to creating a new narrative about how we work. Work is an opportunity for self-discovery, and the BY@W movement helps people to become their true selves in the workplace.

With 20 years’ combined agency experience, we felt that there was a better way to approach the relationship between the agency and client. At POD Studios, we want to offer transparency and establish long-term partnerships based on both trust and access to senior strategists.

Spencer Gore is the founder and CEO of EMJ, Europe’s leading digital health communications company that strives to play an enhanced role in global healthcare education.

Dana Publicover is Managing Director of Publicover & Co., a sales communications agency. She has worked with NASA, Google, McKinsey and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is the author of Empathy at Scale.

Amelia founded her first business at just 21 years old. Within 12 months of launching, Amelia’s womenswear brand was stocked in 12 retailers and had large retailers like ASOS courting her to sell the clothes.

Florie-Anne Virgile is the CEO and founder of Myth to Measure, a London-based multimedia storytelling agency. Passionate about content and relevance, she is also a producer and news correspondent with more than 12 years experience, producing over 50 documentaries and corporate films in her career.

Karan Shanmugarajah is CEO and Co-founder of WeatlhKernel. Founded in 2015 WealthKernel is a technology firm providing the building blocks for a better and more accessible wealth management industry.

Lee Chambers is a British entrepreneur and psychologist and is the founder of PhenomGames and Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing.

Adam Bradford, 29, is a social entrepreneur and the owner and lead consultant at Adam Bradford Agency.

My name is Mariona Bolohan and I’m a multilingual entrepreneur, running Lotuly a bootstrapped and eco-friendly translation agency along with my business partner who also happens to be my husband, Robert Bolohan, who speaks 4 languages.

I’m Andy Jansons, I founded Jansons Property back in 2003. However, my first business Jansons & Partners expanded in 1990. This was a commercial property agency founded in Uxbridge, currently West London area.

Tony Lysak founded The Software Institute in 2020 and launched its global enablement programme in 2021.

I am Rosie Davies-Smith, the director of UK's first affordable PR platform, PR Dispatch, which is dedicated to supporting independent brands do their own PR.

I’m Cathy Ridley, founder and Group Chairman of MovePlan. Before I entered the world of business, I left my native Yorkshire to work as a long-haul stewardess with British Airways, allowing me to travel the world for four years as a 747-cabin crew member.

Cel is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker and results strategist at Cel Amade, that facilitates and inspires University students and graduates in challenging times to success, by guiding themo achieve outstanding results as they progress on from education to employment.