Business Leaders Awards
Meet The LDC Top 50 2022
This year’s Top 50 celebrates leaders who put purpose at the heart of what they do. Those committed to making a bigger impact – championing tales of ambition, inclusion, sustainable impact, innovation and international growth.
Meet The LDC Top 50 2022I’d like to congratulate all of The Top 50 for 2022, especially our award winners! They demonstrate the positive impact of ambition and show exactly what British business leaders are made of.”
John Garner Managing Partner, LDC
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 JudgesWhile all of this year’s Top 50 business leaders are winners, some of them have excelled in several crucial areas, from sustainability to people-first cultures and innovation.
The individual award winners from the Top 50 2022 show that ambition is alive and well in all corners of the UK.
Martin Rae
Founder, Cloud Nine
CEO of Yorkshire-based haircare firm Cloud Nine, Martin wowed the judges with his innovative and sustainable – including a truly unique approach to recycling.
Read moreThis year’s Top 50 celebrates leaders who put purpose at the heart of what they do.
Those committed to making a bigger impact – championing tales of ambition, inclusion, sustainable impact, innovation and international growth.
Meet The LDC Top 50
Over 750 nominations received. More than 200 interviews conducted. We’ve left no stone unturned to find The Most Ambitious Business Leaders of 2022. Watch the film to find out more.
Watch the videoMeet the leaders behind tomorrow’s mid-sized firms; growing businesses that are making a big impact.
Gary Robson
Managing Director, Sure Purity
With a background in chemical engineering, Gary discovered an issue with CO2 quality in the global beverage market. After two years of development, Sure Purity launched filtration product Carboguard in 2019 – now embedded into the gas supply systems of some of the largest beverage plants in the world.
Kevin Donaghy and Susan Fitzsimmons
CEO and Chief Customer Officer, AuditComply
Andrew Pinnington and Michael Ribaudo
Chief Revenue Officer and CEO, CyberIAM Holdings
Rimi Thapar and Manav Thapar
Co-Founder & CEO / Co-Founder & Managing Director, LoveRaw
Andrew Vickery
Managing Director, Thirsty Work