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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Supply Chain Management space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sebastien Breteau
Founder & CEO of QIMA
Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global supply chain compliance solutions provider headquartered in Hong Kong. Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with brands, retailers and manufacturers in consumer goods and food to secure and improve the quality of their global supply network. QIMA combines on-the-ground experts in 85 countries for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data. In 2013, Sebastien created the Breteau Foundation, a non-profit organisation which aims to promote digital education for children in developing countries. 18,000 children are now enrolled in its program. Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested in over 30 start-ups globally.
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About Breteau Foundation, QIMA: QIMA is a provider of supply chain compliance solutions to secure, manage and optimize global supply networks.
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Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Simon Cox
President & Chief Executive Officer, Molson Coors Europe of Molson Coors
A Master Brewer by training, Simon previously served as the Managing Director of the UK and Ireland for Molson Coors. He has held a number of senior leadership positions with Carlsberg and Molson Coors since he joined the industry in 1989. Simon joined Molson Coors in 2005 as Director of Supply Chain Strategy, based in Burton-on-Trent and developed increasing responsibility through senior positions as strategy director, then Managing Director – Independent On Premise, before taking over the UK & Ireland business in 2012.
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About Molson Coors: Molson Coors is a beer company and distributor that brews the world’s favorite beer brands.
Daniel Hulme
Co-Founder & CEO of Satalia
Daniel is the CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd) a UCL spin-out that provides AI inspired solutions to solve industries hardest problems. He’s the co-founder of the Advanced Skills Initiative that transitions scientists into industry as data scientists. Daniel has a Masters and Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc; applying AI to solve business/social problems. He lectures in Computer Science and Management Science at UCL and PCL. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions in many companies, he holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation across the globe.
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About Satalia, University College London (UCL): Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Stuart Miller
Co-Founder and CEO of Bybox
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About Bybox: ByBox was founded with a simple mission: to solve the problem of having to wait in for parcels.
Andrew Xeni
CEO, Co-Founder of Fabacus
A highly driven and experienced CEO with a diverse portfolio of business interests. Andrew’s primary focus has till recently been in the family garment manufacturing business, Europride Ltd., founded with his brother. Having supplied most of the UKs largest fashion retailers for over a decade, Andrew understands their supply chain needs. The businesses boast a combined annual turnover in excess of $150m, with over 2,000 employees globally and including vested interests in the full supply chain: Factories in the UK, Eastern Europe, Morocco and Sri Lanka, a UK dye house, a UK knitting plant, fabric import business, and UK printing facilities. Andrew also has two ecommerce brands, Baaclothing.Com and NobodysChild.Com, that compliment his fully integrated vertical manufacturing service. Fabacus is the brainchild of all this supply chain, retail and ecommerce experience. Understanding exactly what is needed to improve each process and make businesses faster and more cost efficient, Andrew alongside his co-founder Ray Noppé, were able to build a suite of solutions. Fabacus delivers optimal efficiency for greater profit through customisable software for business intelligence, data management, relationship management and e-commerce marketing optimisation. To date Fabacus has successfully integrated its solution with the likes of Charlotte Tilbury, Salesforce and Revel. In addition to Fabacus and Europride Ltd, Andrew continues to invest in technology alongside New Look founder, Tom Singh, as well as property development and music interests: Launching his own music label, supporting and developing new talents.
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About Fabacus: Fabacus is a technology business that transforms brand licensing through the power of data.
Martin Bysh
CEO of Huboo
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About Enthuse, Huboo: Huboo helps businesses grow by taking care of all their logistics and eCommerce order fulfillment needs.
Andrew Martin
CEO of ControlPlane
Andrew is a co-founder at https://control-plane.io. He has a strong test-first engineering ethos gained architecting and deploying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and maintenance, he is comfortable profiling and securing every tier of a bare metal or cloud native application, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise clients.
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About ControlPlane: Cloud native consultancy, securing Kubernetes from supply-chain and runtime attacks with a zero trust, continuous security approach.
Fraser Robinson
Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon
Fraser Robinson is Non Executive Director at Taggstar
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About Beacon, Taggstar: Beacon is a digital supply chain and freight platform developed to optimize supply chains with insights and visibility.
Jessi Baker
Founder & CEO of Provenance
Jessi Baker is the founder of Provenance, building the future of supply chain transparency and product trust on the blockchain. She is an Art and Science hybrid, with Master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and Design from the Royal College of Art. She has worked with brands on technology strategy across the US and Europe, including Adidas, The Four Seasons, The Guggenheim Museum, British Airways and Will.I.Am. She is an associate researcher at the Intel Institute for Sustainable Cities and a regular speaker on technology and social business.
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About Intel, Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Alex Hersham
Chief Executive Officer of Zencargo
CEO at Zencargo. Mostly recently spent 4 years building an international shipping and logistics platform at one of the largest Private Equity businesses in the world. Prior to the, he started his career at Goldman Sachs
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About Zencargo: Zencargo is a logistics company that simplifies global trade by offering digital freight services to help businesses thrive.
May Al-Karooni
Founder & CEO of Globechain
May Al-Karooni is the founder of Globechain – an award winning British reuse marketplace that connects corporates to charities and smes to redistribute free unwanted items, creating social impact data to its members. May previously worked within the investment banking and asset management industry, fundraising monies for venture capital, property and hedge funds for the last 10 years totaling over £120 million in funds raised. In 2013 May set up Globechain after seeing a demand for a new online circular economy within the waste management industry after her own employer expressed a need to reuse items in a more collaborative way. Globechain has gained huge momentum growing to 10,000 members with eBay as its mentors and securing contracts with some of the world’s largest brands as well as growing a large network of charities nationally and internationally. Globechain works within the retail, commercial and construction industry and last year diverted 5,100,000 kilos from landfill with items being re distributed within the UK as well as abroad as far as Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kenya, Libya and the Ukraine providing savings of over £1,500,000 to charitable causes.
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About Globechain: Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.
Aba Schubert
CEO of Dorae
Aba is an American entrepreneur and investor in the financial, technology and mining sectors. She co-founded Dorae, the blockchain-enabled global supply chain accountability system, and co-founded Aethel Partners, a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services firm headquartered in London. Aba received a math degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
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About Aethel Partners, Dorae: Dorae is the physical trade cloud.
Justin Floyd
Founder and CEO of RedCloud Technologies
Justin Floyd Recognised as a leading Entrepreneur for almost 3 decades Justin Floyd has founded and invested in a number of innovative businesses. Since 1987 he has been involved in companies that have included Vecta Software Corporation, a leading Cloud Business Intelligence company and the world’s first leasing exchange that generated over $2 billion in transactions over two years. Mr. Floyd is a trusted adviser to a number of Entrepreneurs who’s products and services are changing markets. He is the Founding Partner of RedCloud VC, an investment company that backs entrepreneurs in emerging and developing markets focusing on mobile, cloud and disruptive technologies.
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About RedCloud Technologies: RedCloud believe technology will universally change the way in which services are distributed & accessed by people in new digital economy.
Graham Chipchase
CEO of Rexam PLC
Graham Chipchase has been the Chief Executive Officer of Rexam PLC since January 01, 2010 and served as its Group Director of Plastic Packaging since July 15, 2005. Graham Chipchase is responsible for Rexam Plc’s global plastic packaging business which includes healthcare, closures, personal care and other markets. In that role, he has led acquisition and integration of Precise Technology (USA), Delta (USA), Airpsray (NL), FangXin (China), TruePack (India) with the objective to reach global leadership in selected markets. He has leveraged organic growth through lean enterprise, innovation and global customer management programs across the Sector’s 45 sites worldwide. He served as Finance Director at Rexam Plc from March 10, 2003 to July 15, 2005. He served as Finance Director of GKN plc’s Aerospace Services business. Graham Chipchase started his career with Coopers & Lybrand. Later he joined The BOC Group PLC and served as Corporate Finance Manager since 1990. He served in various positions within Financial Planning and Analysis in both BOC’s US and European subsidiaries including Group Controller since 1999 and then as Director of Planning and Financial Control. He has been an Executive Director at Rexam plc since February 10, 2003. Graham Chipchase has been a Non-Executive Director of AstraZeneca Plc since April 26, 2012. He holds MA in Chemistry from Oriel College, Oxford.
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About Rexam PLC: Rexam produces packaging for top name brands, helping to enhance consumer product experience across the world.
Steve Parkin
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Mayborn Group Ltd.
Steve Parkin is CEO of Mayborn Group and under his dynamic leadership the company has enjoyed massive growth and international expansion. Mayborn’s flagship tommee tippee® brand remains the number one brand in the UK baby essentials market – but, with over 60% of sales now coming via international markets, we’re firmly established as one of the top brands in our sector worldwide. Steve’s drive, innovation and ambition – together with his passion for putting mum and baby at the heart of everything we do – are behind our unprecedented global expansion. Since we entered the lucrative US market in 2010, we’ve gone from strength to strength and we’re now in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. A keen sportsman and committed dad, Steve has an Honours Degree and Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing from Northumbria University.
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About Mayborn Group Ltd.: Mayborn Group Ltd. is a manufacturer and supplier of toddler feeding products.
Ilya Levtov
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Craft.co
Ilya is the founder and CEO ofCraft providing data and analytics on thousands of companies for free to professionals researching their next career move or conducting business development. He started his career at Goldman Sachs in London, then received his MBA from Stanford. Later he joined venture capital firm Venrock in Menlo Park, and then joined Venrock’s portfolio-company Crunchyroll, as EVP. Ilya believes that access to more and better information for professionals and candidates about employers and opportunities, is a key to solving the talent challenges we face today.
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About Craft.co, Digital Supply Chain Institute: Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create stronger supply chain resilience.
Pavlo Tanasyuk
CEO and Founder of BlockVerify
Pavlo is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of BlockVerify. Previously was the CEO and co-founder at Monexy payment system. Pavlo holds MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge Business School and Certificate in General Management from Stanford University. Pavlo was Editor-In-Chief of Information Systems Journal at the London School of Economics. Pavlo is active as a researcher on blockchain technology and its social implications. He presented his work at a number of major international conferences including World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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About BlockVerify, BlockVerify, Spacebit, Spacebit Technologies: BlockVerify offers a Blockchain-based anti-counterfeit solution.
Tom Dawes
Co-Founder & CEO of Valuechain.com
After completing an Honours degree in manufacturing engineering at the University of Liverpool, he undertook a Government funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership to improve production planning and supply chain management at an aerospace precision machining SME whilst studying for a PhD in supply chain collaboration systems. Tom worked on projects with Airbus UK and Westland Helicopters to prototype proof of concept supply chain collaboration platforms. Tom established an aerospace supply chain management company in 2003 and acquired an aerospace surface treatment company in 2005. After trebling the businesses in the first two years Tom established companies in Poland and India to offer surface treatments to the emerging aerospace supply chain in Eastern Europe and Asia. Tom won UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and won the UK Chambers of Commerce Best New Business in 2007.
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About Valuechain.com: Valuechain.com enables global manufacturing customers, suppliers and partners to connect, collaborate and increase competitiveness.
Jack Macfarlane
CEO of DeepStream
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About DeepStream, Eastoir Ventures: DeepStream is a cloud-based procurement platform that allows buyers and suppliers to communicate seamlessly.
Akin Arslan
Founder, CEO of TIRPORT
Akin Arslan is the founder and CEO of TIRPORT.
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About AB PLUS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, TIRPORT, TTT GLOBAL: End-To-To-End Logistics Operation Management, Digital PODs, Instant Vetted Truckers
Philip Ashton
Co-Founder & CEO of 7bridges
From a background in analysis and development in management consultancy (Oliver Wyman) and specialist logistics provision (World Courier), Philip co-founded 7bridges to apply customised AI to logistics operations. MSci Cambridge University.
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About 7bridges: 7bridges is a smart logistics platform that delivers visibility and control over logistics processes.
Julian Bourne
CEO & Co-Founder of Sellar
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About Sellar, Waffle: Sellar is the new trade ordering experience for breweries selling beer directly to trade customers.
Bassel El Koussa
CEO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Bassel El Koussa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Clive Nation
CEO & Founder of Cennox Inc
Former Director of the Travelex Corporation during its rapid growth to a $2 billion Global business. Clive is founder and head of the Cennox Group, with its offices spread across the world.
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About Cennox Inc: Cennox is a Global ATM Services & Fit Out Solutions business.
Haydn Brooks
Co-Founder & CEO of Risk Ledger
Haydn graduated Imperial College London with a degree in Neuroscience and Mental Health. He then joined KPMG’s cyber security team where he specialised in supply chain security and social engineering. Haydn was one of the youngest graduates at a big 4 firm to set up, design, implement, and close, a number of third party assurance projects on behalf of a number of large clients. After a successful consulting career that spanned a number of years at KPMG, Deloitte, and a technology startup, he founded Risk Ledger. Risk Ledger solves the pain around third party assurance and security due diligence. Haydn hopes that Risk Ledger will mean that nobody ever has to experience the pain of running a manual third party assurance programme again.
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About Risk Ledger: Risk Ledger is the world’s most innovative vendor risk management platform, built on the model of a secure social network.
Mark Perera
Founder & CEO of Vizibl
CEO of Old St Labs / Founder of Procurement Leaders / Vizibl co-founder
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About Vizibl: Vizibl’s application puts collaboration, innovation and sustainability at the heart of supplier relationships. Their best in class digital platform enables enterprise organisations to tackle their most ambitious challenges collaboratively with suppliers and partners, to drive mutual value & sustainable business growth.
Ben Fletcher
Co-Founder & CEO of The Mothership
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About Lead Bullets, Oxford Global Resources, The Mothership: The Mothership brings the power of multichannel marketing and digital-first branding to the best consumer products.
Liam Griffin
Founding Family & CEO of Addison Lee
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About Addison Lee: Addison Lee is a private hire services company that provides services through its vehicles for passengers and couriering needs worldwide.
Jose Manuel Moller
Founder & CEO of Algramo
Jose Manuel Moller is the Founder and CEO at Algramo.
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About Algramo: Algramo aims to establish a wholesale relationship with manufacturers of consumer products such as detergents.
Pierfrancesco Ronzi
Co-Founder and CEO of Weengs
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Ian Wheal
Founder and CEO of Breedr
Ian Wheal is the Founder and CEO of Breedr.
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About Breedr: Breedr is a productivity and marketing platform that’s transforming the livestock supply-chain.
Luis Zubialde
Group Chief Executive Officer of Palletways
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About Palletways: Palletways is Europe’s largest provider of express palletised distribution services.
Gus Bartholomew
Co-Founder & CEO of SupplyCompass
Gus Bartholomew is the Co-Founder and CEO of Supplycompass.
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About SupplyCompass: Empowering fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together.
Graham Best
CEO & Co-Founder of ReBOUND Returns
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About ReBOUND Returns: ReBOUND Returns is a global returns management platform.
Paul Haydock
CEO of myParcelDelivery
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About myParcelDelivery: MY PARCEL DELIVERY provides home users, eBay sellers, and businesses with means to deliver their parcels across the U.K.
Noel O’Hanlon
Founder & Group CEO of Genesis Automation Healthcare
Noel has twenty five years of senior management experience. as Director and Managing Director in high tech manufacturing and software technology based companies. He founded Genesis in 2010, to bring best practice processes and innovative technology solution that have been proven in other sectors to Healthcare providers, in order to enable them to improve the quality and efficiency of their patient care. Since then, Genesis has grown to become UK market leaders in point of care traceability and inventory management solutions.
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About Genesis Automation Healthcare: Genesis Automation Healthcare is an IT company that offers healthcare IT solutions.
Jenna Brown
CEO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Brian Bolam
Founder and CEO of Breakthrough Supply Chain
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About Breakthrough Supply Chain, TGMatrix Limited: Breakthrough Supply Chain provides final mile solutions for temperature-controlled food products.
Jay Katzen
Chief Executive Officer of Achilles Group
As CEO, Jay’s focus is to ensure Achilles partners with our customers to deliver the value and insights they expect to help them achieve their goals. That means ensuring that buyers and suppliers alike have every opportunity to benefit from stronger, more open and transparent relationships that help them minimise risk, improve compliance, deliver insights and maximise the value of working together. With more than 30 years of experience behind Achilles, Jay’s goal is to continue to build Achilles as the global leader and partner of choice for supply chain risk and performance management.
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About Achilles Group: Achilles Group provides identification, qualification, evaluation, and monitoring services for managing supply chain risk.
Erik De Kroon
CEO and Co-Founder of Yordex
Erik has a long background in building new businesses, both within larger companies and in startups. In his last job Erik was responsible for launching World pay Online Payments which he and the team took from idea to fast-growing business. Erik has an MSc in Computer Science an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Yordex: Smart Spend Management Software, SaaS, B2B Payment Service
Azhar Hussain
CEO & Founder of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Petko Karamotchev
CEO of INDUSTRIA Technology
One of the founders of the enterprise blockchain/DLT consultancy and development company INDUSTRIA.tech, Petko Karamotchev has 20 years of experience in the financial services and the enterprise IT. Holds degrees from University of Portsmouth, UK and Cotrugli Business School, Croatia. Free market advocate and part-time social theorist.
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About : INDUSTRIA creates enterprise blockchain, confidential computing, process automation, and digital experience solutions.
Max Boender
CEO of Myneral Labs
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About Myneral Labs: Myneral.me offers an all-encompassing platform for the metal and mining sector .
Tersha Willis
Co-Founder & CEO of terrible*
Tersha is a Goldsmiths College graduate with a background in Financial Services, Private Equity, and Fashion. She’s been named on the AIM AltPower 100 Music List and has talked at BBC introducing Live, MIL and AIM Connected. She has been featured on the BBC and C4 as well as in Wallpaper Magazine, Vox and MusicAlly for her progressive views on Merchandise and her uniquely artist-focused work. She is also a finalist in the Creative Industries Entrepreneur of Year in The Great British Entrepreneur Awards, 2019.
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About terrible*: Music Merchandise, Tech, Analytics, Marketplace, Supply Chain
