When Hair Syrup founder Lucie Macloud first told her parents she planned to start selling hair oils, their response was swift. “They said, ‘you won’t be doing this under our roof’,” she recalls, ...

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 ...

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 ...

He leads a US tech firm valued at close to $8bn, but Sanjay Poonen puts his success down to a major career setback. Poonen is CEO of US cybersecurity and AI company Cohesity, based in Silicon Valley.

Chris Galvin set up the Galvin Restaurants business with his brother Jeff in 2005, having already built up a lot of experience in the industry working for others, including Sir Terence Conran. The ...

If you've seen an advert on TV or social media for a chance to win a dream home, then you've probably come across Omaze. Its prizes are stunning properties that wouldn't look out of place on Grand ...

Natalie Campbell is the co-CEO of Belu Water, a social enterprise that provides mineral water, sourced from Wales, primarily to the hospitality industry. Belu Water was founded in 2002 and posted ...

Joanna Reynolds is the CEO of the London-based publisher The Folio Society. She has completely changed the way the business operates since becoming CEO in 2016, returning it to profit with global ...

When Huib Van Bockel decided to quit his well-paid corporate job and set up his own drinks brand in his early 40s, the first person he had to convince was his wife. He presented his plan to her using ...

Loveholidays' CEO Donat Retif talking to Sir Richard Harpin on the Business Leader podcast "It's your baby," says Donat Rétif, chief executive of Loveholidays, on what it's like for a founder to hand ...

Kai Feller, the former CEO of Bark.com, joins Sir Richard Harpin on the Business Leader podcast Kai Feller and his friend Andrew Michael thought up the name for their business in a pub, before it had ...

“Sofas were still sold in a very fragmented, traditional way [in the mid-2000s],” recalls Rohan Blacker, “there wasn’t a dedicated mid-market, you might say.” On the one hand were high-end stores.