Rising Stars – Entrepreneurs 2016

Charlotte at just 24 years of age has founded two companies, Inkpact and OR. She was described in Gadgette as, “ a motivational machine that we have no doubt will be the UK’s next Richard Branson.” She was named this year as one of the Maserati100 and listed as the top 19 young entrepreneurs to watch in 2016 by Startups.

Founded by Charlotte in 2015 Inkpact offers genuinely handwritten communication solutions that enables clients to more effectively attract, engage and retain customers. In the age of impersonal digital communication emails and online marketing are easily ignored but send someone a personalised, handwritten message and you will win their attention.  With Inkpact’s software large volumes of personalised messages are just a click away.

The best bit, each message written gives a mother, ex convict, a vulnerable young women or an elderly person a way to move their lives forward.

Charlotte is also a speaker, an advisor to social enterprises, a huge supporter of women in tech and director of a £50k fund to accelerate student start-ups

Georgie Bullen is a visually impaired GB Paralympian in the sport of Goalball and the Director/Founder of Team Insight. Georgie has been severely visually impaired since the age of five, but has never allowed her disability to stand in the way of doing whatever she wanted, however after the Paralympics the barrier of getting a job seemed almost impossible to overcome as she discovered that over 66% of visually impaired people of working age were unemployed. It was at this point that Georgie decided she needed to be proactive in changing employers perspectives on blind people. So, Georgie chose to combine her passion for Goalball with her determination to raise visual impairment awareness to launch Team Insight. Team Insight delivers thrilling team building and visual impairment awareness training events through the Paralympic sport of Goalball, as well as other blindfolded activities. It is a high impact experience which puts its participants in the shoes of blind people whilst testing the traditional team building aspects of communication, trust and team work. Since its launch, Team Insight has won numerous awards, gained the endorsement of the RNIB and gained clients such as O2, Atos and Great Northern Rail. Team Insight has also now begun to go into schools to help young people learn about visual impairment.

Phoebe Gormley is a 22 year old entrepreneur and owner of the first tailor exclusively for women in the history of Savile Row; Gormley & Gamble. Having interned on the Row and Jermyn Street from a young age, tailoring was always a passion of Phoebe’s. She soon began to realise that there was a gap in the market for bespoke womenswear; elegant, intelligent designs of Savile Row quality and fit. And so she took a ‘Gamble’ – quitting university and using what would have been her final year’s tuition fees to start her own business. She made her first sale in October 2014, from a small office in the City, and can now be founded at 13 Savile Row. Recent accolades include wins at the Women of the Future and Great British Entrepreneur Awards. G&G also benefits from the continued support of The Prince’s Trust and MassChallenge.