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Sir Timothy Randall Martin (born 28 April 1955) is an English businessman and the founder and chairman of Wetherspoons, a pub chain in the UK and Ireland.In 2016, Martin actively campaigned for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union and was a strong supporter of Brexit, donating £200,000 to the Vote Leave campaign.
This is a list of entrepreneurs by century. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [ 1 ] This list includes notable entrepreneurs.
Yevhenia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian entrepreneur. Sheikha Alanoud bint Hamad Al Thani, finance executive at the Qatar Financial Centre; Gordon Thiessen, governor of the Bank of Canada, 1994–2001; Yevhenia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian entrepreneur and lobbyist on behalf of her mother, former prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko [21]
Anna Jones (born March 1975) [1] is a British entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of AllBright, a community that connects women at work. She was CEO of Hearst Magazines, UK between 2014 and 2017. [2] [3] Jones was a member of the board of directors for the Creative Industries Federation.
She was also recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013. [43] On 25 March 2013, she was created a Life Peer as Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, of Soho in the City of Westminster, [44] and was introduced in the House of Lords the next day. [45] On 29 October 2015, Lane Fox was ranked 15th on the Richtopia list of 100 Most Influential British ...
Alice Yvonne Bentinck [1] MBE (born 23 July 1986) [2] [3] is a British entrepreneur.Along with Matt Clifford, she is the co-founder of Entrepreneur First, a London-based company builder and startup accelerator.
In October 1995 Tucker began work as a Trainee Account Executive at Publicis, where she had already had a work experience placement for three consecutive summers.Tucker was one of the youngest trainee account executives in London at the time, gaining five years' experience in advertising, working for accounts such as L'Oreal's Luxury Products International division of Prestige and Collections ...
In September 2018, the UK Government commissioned Rose to lead an independent review of female entrepreneurship. [21] In March 2019, the 'Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship' found that only one in three UK entrepreneurs is female and less than one per cent of UK venture funding goes to all-female teams. [22] [23] [24]