Events Image: Julija Nikisena
The Young Masters Awards O
By Kelly Dolan n
Thursday 8th March, Entrepreneur Country set up residence at the Google offices in London to celebrate
talented, innovative entrepreneurs in an intimate
awards ceremony.
Beginning the night’s proceedings with a champagne reception, nominees from all walks of life flooded in and the event started to feel more like a high school reunion, with many of the entrepreneurs already old friends who had supported each other to this pinnacle point of their
career.
Once everyone was seated, Google’s University Programmes Specialist’s Matt Mitro MEA and Monica Mankiewicz shared an inspirational presentation on the plight of young entrepreneurs, with Matt divulging his own entrepreneurial journey running Indego Africa, giving African women long term skills to lift their families out of poverty.
CEO and Founder of Entrepreneur Country Julie Meyer then delivered a powerful speech on what she wished she had known when she was once a budding
Young Master. What
resonated within her speech were 8 key words; Lead, Follow or get out of the way. Julie reiterated that in her
50 entrepreneurcountry
younger days her weakness was a focus on money, but she had come to learn that capital follows ideas and to continue to deliver and communicate, as well as build your strengths early to gain an unfair advantage.
Afterward, the room was gripped with nerves at the announcement of the winners. First up was Best Use of Social Media as sponsored by AVG, with Chris Dodson of Concept Cupboard winning the award for his ability to match talented, creative students and graduates with businesses across his website. The next award was for Best Business Pitch, sponsored by University of Hertfordshire, with Uwe Dreissigacker chosen as winner due to delivering excellent oratory skills and presence when pitching for Inovoiceberry, his latest business concept. The third award was for Most Employable Young Person as sponsored by Google. Winning the award was Adam Allcock, demonstrating a particular level of innovation by founding a computing retailing business as a teen with a turnover of £1.4million. Fourth up was the Innovation Award, sponsored by Smith & Williamson. Ry Morgan
was awarded as winner with Please Cycle, a company combining cycling, digital technology and gamification to help large organisation reward employee cycling. The Young Master of the Year as sponsored by Taylor Wessing was next to be announced, presented to the individual with depth of knowledge, talent and resilience in their pursuit of adding value to the marketplace. The winner was Conor Guy with Envirogreen Recycling, impressing the judges with his ability to grow his business from a team of two people to 45 in just two years, as well as a client base that included Bachelors and Coca-Cola. Last but not least was The People’s Choice Award, sponsored by Ariadne Capital, with Bryan announcing that this particularly exciting category had been won by an individual as voted for by their peers. The award went to Oliver Sidwell of Rate my Placement, setting up the online resource to help students find placements and internships.
We would like to thank everyone that attended and our sponsors – Google, AVG, University of Hertfordshire, Smith & Williamson, Taylor Wessing and Ariadne Capital.
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