Seven Years of Business Ambition
We created The Top 50 programme to champion ambition, beyond our investments. In the last seven years, we’ve profiled hundreds of the UK’s most ambitious business leaders.
Meet The Top 50 and Ones to Watch from 2024 and previous years.
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How does it feel to be part of The LDC Top 50?
Watch Janette Martin, CEO of Talos360 discuss the phenomenal impact being featured in The LDC Top 50 had on her business.
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for The LDC Top 50 2025
The LDC Top 50 celebrates the founders, CEO and managing directors championing who are demonstrating remarkable ambition and driving the UK economy forward.
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The Top 50 2024 Event
We hosted 250 guests at The Top 50 celebratory event at BAFTA in London on 9 October, to celebrate The UK’s Most Ambitious Business Leaders of 2024 – the night was full of networking, making connections and celebration.
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Ambition: It’s why we’re here
Get an inside look into the stories of ambition, resilience, innovation and growth that defines The LDC Top 50.
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The award has changed my life. It’s given me this incredible platform and opened up so many amazing opportunities. The LDC Top 50 gave me the confidence to think big and I now have a network to help me scale.”
Where Are They Now?
The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders programme has celebrated 350 exceptional individuals since its launch in 2018.
In our ‘Where Are They Now’ series, we reconnect with some of our alumni to find out what happened next in their growth journey, the impact of being part of the programme, and what their ambitions are now.