THE LDC TOP 50
MOST AMBITIOUS BUSINESS LEADERS
The Top 50 – in partnership with The Times – champions tales of ambition, inclusion, sustainable impact, innovation and international growth. It reveals the driving forces behind growing medium-sized businesses from every sector and region of the UK economy.
Nominations for The LDC Top 50 2022 are now closed, visit back in October where we will reveal the UK’s most ambitious business leaders.
Celebrating UK business success
Now in its fifth year, The LDC Top 50 showcases inspiring individuals who are driving forward some of the UK’s most successful and fast-growing mid-sized firms. Meet the previous years’ ambitious leaders here.
Meet the 2022 judges
Meet the business experts who will deliberate and debate The LDC Top 50 in 2022: CEO Carl Castledine who chairs the panel, Nisha Katona MBE, Founder of Mowgli Street Food restaurants and The Mowgli Trust, Jan Steele Co-Founder of Lucid Group, resident editor Kate Bassett and LDC’s John Garner.
Meet the 2022 judges : Meet the judges Meet the judges
Top tips for entering
Want the inside track on how to improve your entry? Last year’s Innovation Award winner Praveen Karadiguddi and the UK’s Most Ambitious Business Leader Emilie Vanpoperinghe share their Top 50 top tips.
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Emilie Vanpoperinghe
Founder, Oddbox
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Top 50 news
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The LDC Top 50 2022 judges revealed
26 May 2022
LDC extends deadline for UK’s Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders Awards to 31 May
3 May 2022
‘Future Facing’ – Winner of The LDC Top 50 award for Innovation 2021 features in The Times
5 Apr 2022
‘Wonky Is Beautiful’ – The UK’s Most Ambitious Business Leader of 2021 features in The Times
16 Mar 2022
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