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Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards

Established in 2010 to recognise and celebrate alumni who have created successful entrepreneurial value.

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About the awards

 

Successful alumni businesses often go under the radar as ventures burgeon five or ten years down the line. These awards, hosted by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC), recognise our entrepreneur alumni building remarkable businesses and inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Growing a thriving business throws up huge challenges, and current students can learn a lot from those who have overcome obstacles and stuck with it.

The award is also a way of showing that the School’s entrepreneurship programmes have real-world impact, and that what you learn in your time at the School can be applied to your future entrepreneurial goals.

Categories:

    • Early-stage ventures: these are ventures that have been in existence for approximately five years – long enough to have perfected a product, developed a robust business model and are on the cusp of rapid growth. 

 

  • Later-stage ventures: ventures that have been operating for around a decade, by which time they will be well into growth and on their way to becoming ‘established’ (perhaps with an exit in sight). 

 



Judging and criteria

 

The awards are judged by a committee of previous award winners and the criteria includes the venture’s sales and profit levels, proven ability to raise capital, record in creating employment and the inventiveness of its business model.

The winners are immortalised with a plaque in the Ratcliffe Building.



How to nominate?

 

The nominations for 2022 are now closed. Nominations take place during spring term every year.



Contact us

 

For any information about the awards and how to nominate contact the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at IEPC@london.edu

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Congratulations to the 2022 award winners:

Early stage winner: Khalid Baareh DEMBAS2011, Cofounder of iKcon

iKcon is a leading Food Technology and Cloud-Kitchen operator in the MENA region which was acquired by the largest US operator of delivery kitchens, logistics and proximity hubs in November 2021, just three years after its launch.

Later stage winner: Yariv Cohen MBA2005, Co-founder of Ignite Power

Ignite Power connects ‘last-mile’ communities across Sub-Saharan Africa to provide them with clean, sustainable and – most importantly –affordable solar-power home systems, as well as other solar solutions, including irrigation and cooking.

Read more about the 2022 winners

Previous winners

2021

Early-Stage Winners: Nick Doman and Will Pearson Co-founders of Ocean Bottle

Programme: MiM2018

Founded in 2018, Ocean Bottle tackles one of the greatest problems of ocean pollution in two ways. First, it enables consumers to change their behaviour by replacing single-use, non-degradable plastics with a reusable bottle that is smart-chip-activated. Second, the company allocates a percentage of sales to plastic collection by coastal communities, with each sale funding the collection of the equivalent in weight of 1,000 ocean-bound plastic bottles.

Later-Stage Winner: Akshat Garg, Co-founder of DCDC Kidney Care

Programme: SLN2019

As Co-founder and Director of DCDC Kidney Care, Akshat Garg helped create a chain of dialysis centres in 10 states in India, with more than 125 centres and 800+ dialysis machines providing affordable quality dialysis to over 6,000 patients, including many in marginalised areas. With no prior knowledge of the field, Akshat undertook to equip the company with the technical capability it needed to be a successful multi-centre chain and developed stringent operating procedures that have enabled it to achieve an incidence rate of less than 0.5% in terms of transfer of infections across dialysis sessions – an industry-best statistic.

2020

Early-Stage winner: Anuj Srivastava, Co-founder of Livspace

Programme: MBA2003

Livspace is a three-way technology platform for interior design that connects homeowners, designers and vendors (suppliers and contractors) to provide a predictable and trusted home design and renovation service.

 

Later-stage winner: Mark Kornfilt, President and CPO at Vimeo (Co-founder of Livestream, acquired by Vimeo in 2017)

Programme: EMBALS2014

Livestream provided B2B live-streaming. In 2017, Livestream was acquired by Vimeo, the world’s leading all-in-one video software solution. Today, Vimeo’s platform enables professionals, teams, and organisations to unlock the power of video to create, collaborate, and communicate, serving a growing community of over 200 million users – from creatives to entrepreneurs to the world’s largest companies.

2019

Early-stage Winner Gerhard Grueter Managing Director and Co-Founder, Lawson Conner

Programme: IEP2002

Lawson Conner is a regulation technology firm and outsourced compliance services champion, serving a blue-chip client base in the financial services sector, globally.

 

Later-stage Winner: Richard Downs CEO Iglu.com

Programme: MBA1998

Iglu.com is Europe’s largest retailer of cruise and ski holidays. A one stop shop for cruise and ski products in a live, simple to use website backed up by product experts.

2018

Early-stage Winner: Franz Thomas Fuerst Managing Director / CEO WebID solutions GMBH

Programme MBA 1996

WebID solutions GMBH is the initiator of a fully AML-compliant video identification and is now positioning itself to become one of the premier players in the global identity management space. They provide seamless online processes for identification and signature anytime, anywhere, from any device. WebID has created a brand new space with AML-compliant video identification, receiving approval from the German Federal Ministry of Finance as the first company ever. WebID was also the creator of the first signature service based on the Qualified Electronic Signature as defined by the eIDAS regulation, enabling a real-time online lending process for the first time in Central Europe.

 

Later-stage Winner: Saurav Chopra CEO and Co-Founder Perkbox

Programme: MBA 2004

Perkbox is a cloud-based employee perks and engagement platform serving business of all sizes. Perkbox believes that happy and engaged employees perform better and stick around for longer. To that end, they’ve created a platform that rewards and recognises employees to help build happier, more productive company cultures. 

  


2017

Le Cab - Benjamin Cardozo MiM2011

Feedzai - Nuno Sebastiao SEMBA2009

2016

Move Guides - Brynne Herbert MBA2012

Brightwave - Charles Gould JEMBA2006

2015

Vagabond wines - Stephen Finch MBA2005

Dharma Life - Gaurav Mehta MBA2010

2014

Martinhal Beach Resort & Hotel - Chitra Stern MBA2000

WorldRemit - Ismail Ahmed DLEMBA2010

2013

Tortilla Mexican Grill - Brandon Stephens MBA2005

Dr Thom - Dr Thom Van Every MBA2002

2012

Encore International - Mark Dickinson MiFPT1998

OmniComplete - Simon Schneider MBA2007 and Janeen Chupa-Brimacombe MBA2007

2011

Research Now - Chris Havemann MBA1999

QualitySolicitors - Saleem Arif MBA2005

2010

Regent's Park Healthcare - Anil Ohri SEMBA1999

NX Bakery Group - Ian Zilberkweit MiFPT2000

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Akshat Garg, Nick Doman and Will Pearson win the 2021 LBS Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards

The award for early-stage entrepreneurs has gone to ocean Bottle co-founders Will Pearson and Nick Doman, while Akshat Garg scooped the award for later-stage companies for co-founding Delhi-headquartered DCDC Kidney Care. 

LBS Alumni Anuj Srivastava and Mark Kornfilt receive the 2020 Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards

Livspace co-founder Anuj Srivastava MBA2003 and Mark Kornfilt EMBALS2014, co-founder of Livestream, have been recognised by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IIE) for their entrepreneurial achievements. 

2018 Accomplished Entrepreneur Award Winners Named

LBS alumni Franz Thomas Fuerst and Saurav Chopra are recognised for creating exceptional entrepreneurial value

Lawson Conner and Iglu Founders Recognised By LBS

A former hedge fund partner and a frustrated skier, who both turned stumbling blocks into successful businesses, have been recognised at the Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards.

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