Seven Years of Business Ambition

We created The Top 50 programme to champion ambition, beyond our investments. In the last six 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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What is the impact of being in The LDC Top 50?

Hear from CEO Martin Flick on how being featured in The Top 50 raised the profile of him, his business and team.

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for The LDC Top 50 2025

The LDC Top 50 celebrates the founders, CEO and managing directors of some of the UK’s fastest growing companies.

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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.”

Emma O’Brien
Founder, Embridge Consulting

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.

Where Are They Now: Robin Skidmore, founder of Journey Further

Where Are They Now: Graham Wylie, executive chairman of Medical Research Network

Where Are They Now: Emma O’Brien, founder of Embridge Consulting

Where Are They Now: Nagma Ebanks-Beni and Nima Beni, Prima Cheese

Where Are They Now: Russell Attwood, founder of Route 101

Where Are They Now: Spencer Gore, founder of EMJ

Where Are They Now: Ashmeet Kandhari, CEO of Rex Brown

Where Are They Now: Dan Berry, CEO of UNRVLD

Where Are They Now: Jennifer Davidson, founder of Sleek

Where Are They Now: Diptesh Patel, founder and CEO of UBDS Group

Where Are They Now: Katrina Hutchinson-O’Neill, Co-Founder and CEO of Join Talent

Where Are They Now: Dale Parmenter, founder of DRPG

Where Are They Now: Rod Aaron Gammons, CEO of Rotolight

Where Are They Now: Jake Karia, Founder of Jake & Nayns’

Where Are They Now: Dan Williams, CEO of Orean

Where Are They Now: Michael Gietzen, CEO of Identity

Where Are They Now: Sara Lou-Ann Jones, Founder of Centre of Excellence

Where Are They Now: Bahman Rahimi, Founder and CEO of BDR

Where Are They Now: Simon Goodenough, chief executive of DSP

Where Are They Now: Chris Bagnall, founder of Transmission

Where Are They Now: Praveen Karadiguddi, founder and CEO of Scrumconnect

Where Are They Now: Chris Pritchard, founder of AVK

Where Are They Now: Margot Cooper, founder of Limbs & Things

Where Are They Now: Justin Whitston, founder of FOD Mobility Group