Category: Profiles

We get to know Gary Summers, the managing director of Alumet, and find out what motivates and inspires him and what advice he’d like to pass on.

We speak to Tony Pegg, from United Kapital, who provide working capital for SMEs across the UK with an innovative product claimed to be a real alternative to a traditional bank loan by lending against assets like future debit and credit card sales.

FreeAgent has pioneered online accounting since the launch of its service in 2007, rapidly growing a loyal community of thousands of freelancers and small business users. We speak to Founder and CEO Ed Molyneux about who inspires him and how they have managed this growth.

Liberty Marketing is Wales’s fastest growing online marketing agency; owned and managed by Gareth Morgan they have achieved 400% growth in the last year, achieved things that makes some companies 10 years in only 3. We caught up with Gareth to see how he’s managed such success

We spoke to Derrick Watson, director of financial recruitment specialists Watson Moore. With an impressive track record of placing outstanding Finance Directors into high growth, entrepreneurial companies Watson Moore has experienced exponential growth in recent years, with turnover now hitting £2.5 million.

We spent some time in Cornwall with Amanda Barlow, the MD of Spiezia Organics and found out who inspires her in business, what motivates her and why she thinks that Cornwall is one of the best places in the UK to base a business.

We caught up with Ken Primrose, head of growing process instrumentation company ITS, which started as an incubator company and now distributes its products and services all around the world.

Keith Bradley is CEO of HSF health plan, which provides health cash plans to hundreds of thousands of people. What makes HSF health plan unique is their corporate social responsibility policy to donate their profits to medical charities. They gave away £350,000 in 2010 and will be giving away £500,000 in 2011.

We spoke to John Greed, who started John Greed Jewellery, who has two stores in Lincoln as well as a rapidly growing online aspect to the business about what inspires him, and what advice he would give to others.

We caught up with Tatiana Karelina, who started Tatiana Hair Extensions two years ago and plans to expand globally next year to find out how has she done it, on what inspires her, and what advice she would give to others.

We caught up with Saf Ali, who set up Key Properties in 2006 as sideline to his glamorous career as a music exec. With recommendation breeding recommendation, Key Properties soon became a full time business and now boasts branches across the North West, impressive market share and an aggressive national expansion programme for 2011

We speak to Neil Hammerton, CEO of Natterbox, which aims to revolutionise the telecommunications industry with impactful ideas and bespoke Voice Anywhere solutions on what inspires him in business and on what he thinks it takes to drive your company to be the best that it can be.

We speak to Richard Green, of the Compact Media Group on what inspires him in business and on what he thinks it takes to drive your company to be the best that it can be.

We speak to Victoria Brannen, of Maya Asset Management on what inspires her in business and on the support that she receives to make her the envy of every working mother she meets.

As part of our initiative to help profile some of the smaller businesses in the UK, every Friday we accept pitches from business owners who want us to Get To Know Them Better via our Twitter account. @BizMattersMag. This week we chose the pitch from Sophie Hughes from online accountants Mazuma.