Q2: Top 20 Dynamic CEOs in 2022 UK  Edition

“Some men see things as they are and say ‘Why?’, I dream things that never were and say ‘Why not?’”
Words to live by, as said by Dr. Ashkan Pitchforth, CEO of South Cliff Dental Group, who does not conform to what is standard or routine. Once a project is completed, it is forgotten, and he focuses on the future and the next idea.

Clare Ducksbury is an inspirational leader, an advanced thought-leader in the mass claims/class actions space, and most importantly, a pioneering leader who strives to educate her team to progress collective action knowledge and expertise within their respective disciplines. Clare is a people person with a particular focus on ensuring the core values of Case Pilots are reflected in everything her team does.

Helen Fisher is a business psychologist who specialises in helping organisations become more effective through their people. Described as logical and analytical, an ingenious thinker and long-range planner, and good at anything that requires rapid reasoning, Helen is direct, results-oriented and thorough.

When you meet Jamie Lundy, CEO of Seven Layer, his charisma and passion for the product is evident. This energy is contagious, and his vision for the brand inspires others to adopt the same mentality.

Jamie Thomson started a typical bootstrapped company with a simple idea and two employees, but it wasn’t an easy ride but rather a crash course in understanding one’s weaknesses. Through his experience, Jamie guides budding entrepreneurs and those around him, sharing his knowledge and story.

Julia Martin has relentless energy and celebrates the benefits of her neurodiversity. She uses creative thinking and problem-solving to see the bigger picture and create smaller steps to realise those ambitions. She can fit double a normal workload into five days and motivate staff to achieve things they didn’t think were possible.

Manager and investor with over 25 years of international experience in the financial sector, Lorenzo Vangelisti is Partner and CEO of Valeur Group, an independent Firm he founded in 2010. With headquarters in Lugano and operations in Zurich, Geneva, London, Paris and Luxembourg, Valeur Group is specialized in asset management, investment advisory, research, trading, investment solutions, and real estate services.

The world of insurance processing has become complex, fragmented, and disconnected, with rising fixed high costs, requiring high levels of management, impacting underwriter potential, and impeding business growth and profits. It’s time to look to the future and bring change to liberate industry and its talent, ready for the 21st Century and the platform era.

Prash Theva has been a transformational force behind Tigerbay International’s success and growth in the last ten years.

Roy Henderson’s background as a decorated combat officer in the South African Navy, together with his MBA, has given him the decisive leadership qualities to bravely lead Green Cell Technologies® (GCT®) from a start-up to where it is now, a successful global commercial entity. Razor sharp insight, coupled with a fair share of sheer bloody-mindedness and absolute belief in what he and co-founder Jan Vlok are doing, has kept them going and growing over the years.

The Westway Trust is a 23-acre estate in trust for the benefit of the community. Venu Dhupa is the leader who has brought a different vision to running this dual enterprise. “Rather than thinking as a property company that deploys its resources for social goods, we are a social goods company that earns it’s income from property,” she explains.