Rachel Elnaugh - Business Mentoring

Rachel Elnaugh is the entrepreneur who created the market leading experiences brand Red Letter Days at the age of 24.

Rachel has also become a respected Business Mentor and won the IAB Champion for Entrepreneurship in the UK Award for 2008 and was runner up for the SFEDI Supporter of Enterprise Award for 2009.

Rachel is also an Ambassador to the Princes Trust & lives in Bakewell in Derbyshire wth her husband Chris and her five sons.

• Visit www.rachelelnaugh.com for more info

Phil Hall - PR

Phil Hall is an award winning journalist. He was Editor of the News of the World for five years, Britain's biggest selling newspaper. From here he moved to take up the reins at Hello! magazine where he was Editor in Chief.

He later became the Editorial Director of Development for Trinity Mirror, Europe 's largest newspaper publishing group and in his time there was responsible for the launch of several new magazines.

He has held influential positions on the Press Complaints Commission, first as a senior representative of the newspaper industry and then for an unprecedented second time as a representative of the magazine world. Recently he has also been a judge in the highly prestigious UK Press Awards.

Phil makes regular television and radio broadcasts and is a media expert to the BBC, ITN, Sky News, Radio 5 Live, LBC to name but a few.

He has worked with many celebrities and high profile people over the years including Pierce Brosnan, Celine Dion, Bob Geldof, the President of Ecuador and Heather Mills McCartney.

Having made the switch to PR, founding PHA Media in 2005, Phil is one of the most in demand PR practitioners in the industry and has advised high profile clients including Gordon Ramsay, Manchester City FC and Simon Dolan.

• Visit PHA Media now at www.pha-media.com
• Read Phil's Raw business Entrepreneur 12 blog here

Brad Rosser

Brad believes passionately about start-ups & entrepreneurs are the future of any country.

Start ups drive innovation and employ millions of people. But the path to entrepreneurial success is not easy. Only one in five start-ups survive through to their 0th birthday and only a small percentage of those actually get sold.

Brad believes it is tragic that so many entrepreneurs invest so much time and effort on promising start-ups that ultimately fail when, in most instances, failure is simply the result of either not receiving advice or being given poor guidance.

Brad has made it his mission to help entrepreneurs launch the their businesses successfully, survive the perilous first 12 months, and then grow and prosper.

In an age of reality television shows that present business and entrepreneurs as greedy, back-stabbing, megalomaniacs, Brad's no nonsense, practical, down-to-earth, highly effective, and empowering advice is a much needed change.

• Click here to read Brad's full profile
• Visit Brad's website www.bradrosser.com

Emma Wimhurst

Emma became a self-made millionaire from the success of her biggest enterprise to date: Diva Cosmetics, which was founded after she spotted a gap in the market for colour cosmetics at the height of The Spice Girls fame in the late 90s.

Following a 10 year career in-house at Revlon, Emma seized the opportunity to nurse her entrepreneurial itch and Diva Cosmetics was born.

Emma's style is totally unique - and she has been referred to as the "Mary Poppins of Business" - she won't stand for any nonsense!

Emma says that she puts the success of Diva Cosmetics down to the following of 7 key Business Disciplines. She bases her business mentoring around these 7 key areas - and when other businesses were seeing and feeling the difference in the way they worked and benefiting from increases in turnover and profit, she decided to write BOOM! 7 disciplines to CONTROL, GROW and ADD IMPACT to your business.

Emma is regularly asked to contribute to the UK press and still gets a thrill when she see's her name in print! She have been on LBC Radio and in 2009 was one of the Big Shots in the BBC Show Beat The Boss.

• www.emmawimhurst.co.uk

Sharon Wirght

In the five year history of the BBC Dragons Den, it is hard to remember a more perfect pitch than that of Sharon Wright. Single mum from Scunthorpe gave a flawless pitch that earnt the name of the "Dragon Slayer". Sharon Wright was featured showing an ingenious, yet simple product named the Magnamole™ that she invented to solve problems that most cable, phone, electrical and repair companies face every day. The product helps installers to guide a cable through walls without needing to use unsafe methods like a wire hanger. A demo video of the product can be found on her website www.magnamole.co.uk Sharon has since secured a more substantial offer to buy shares of her business with Tony Larking of TL Audio, gaining more money for far less equity of her business. Sharon and Tony have an interest in a small Spanish restaurant "Espania" on George Street St Albans. Sharon has grown from strength to strength with confidence since appearing on Dragons Den and has many exciting new challenges ahead.

In recent weeks, Sharon has agreed to collaborate with Melior Community College in her home town of Scunthorpe. This will involve sponsoring the school, which specializes in Business and Enterprise, to provide the funds to help promote young people into business. The new Business suite at the school, a brand new school being rebuilt under the Building Schools for the Future programme, will be called "The Sharon Wright Business Foundation."

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Jeremy Webb - Finance and banking

Jeremy worked for 34 years with Barclays, he last 20 as a Corporate Manager, looking after (over time) some 950 customers of all different sizes and sectors. Success involved understanding the where, when, why and how of each business and bringing his financial and commercial expertise to leverage their business expertise for mutual benefit. In his early career Jeremy was an Operations Manager responsible or HR, Health & Safety, Training and Assessment. He also has had 2 years of experience dealing with Internal Audit as well as time spent managing Sales Teams.

• Read Jeremy's latest column here
• Click here for Jeremy's full profile
• Click here to read Jeremy's Entrepreneur blog

LINDA BURKE MCSP Lic Ac - Master NLP Breakthrough Coach and trainer

Linda graduated as a Chartered Physiotherapist in London in 1979 and reached the top of her profession within 3 years.

Upon launching her private practice close to Harley Street, she had the privilege of working along side top Harley Street consultants, gaining immense knowledge and expertise.

In 1986 she returned to her native N Ireland to bring up her family, and created the Integrative Wellness Centre where she integrates her science background with ancient wisdom techniques, state of the art technology and quantum spiritual philosophy…a very powerful combination!

• For more info on Linda's services visit www.lindaburke.co.uk
• Read Linda's latest article here
• Read Linda's own blog here

Robert Copping - Business Planning and Success

After graduating in Physics, Robert began his career with British Aerospace as a Technical Engineer and progressed to the project management of multinational defence contracts. In 1990, Robert became Commercial Manager of a subsidiary of the Rank Organisation and when the company was bought by Schroeder Venture Capitalists in 1996 he became Global Projects Director.

• Read Robert's column on ,Why should your business be the 1 in 10 to succeed?,
• Click here to read Robert's full profile

Lord Russell Moore - Home Working and second income

Russell has been involved in the internet for many years and has come across his fair share of home working and second income companies. Since his first computer, a Sinclair Spectrum, Russell has had an unquenchable thirst for the internet and this year has decided to concentrate on providing quality information to assist others succeed online and also make some extra income in the process.

• Read Russell's column on the 'pros and cons of online second income business'.
• Click here to read Russell's full profile

Anton Nyman

From a young age Anton had a growing interest in computers. his early interest covered anything from building one from scratch to networking them together. After producing a number of personal websites, he thought that the fees being charged were far too high to have them hosted. Anton did some background research and this was when his company, Ultimate Web Hosting, was born.
Click Here for Anton's full profile.

Philip Wicks - Health & Safety

Philip founded Atlantic Bridge in 1995 to help business meet the every increasing needs European Regulatory Compliance regarding Health & Safety. Since then, the company has assisted companies in the USA, Europe and in the UK.

Philip is well placed to offer advice on all areas of Health & Safety from risk assessments, CE Marking, product safety, to acting as an Authorised Representative for Europe.

• Read Philip's article 'Having construction work done?'
• Visit Philip's website - link to www.atlanticbridge.co.uk

Bryan Jones

Bryan is a certified Master Practitioner of NLP and a certified NLP Business Coach. His qualifications were gained after many months training with such notable trainers as Robert Dilts, Ian McDermott, Jan Elfline, Suzi Smith and Tim Hallbom. Like all good coaches Bryan has coaching himself on a regular basis. His unique qualities have been described as strategic, focussed, intuitive, professional and committed.
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David Klassen - Personal Development & Motivation

David is the Managing Director of Inspired Working, a niche consultancy that specialises in successfully resolving people and performance problems in London. David strives to get the best our of people and one of his clients recently won the Fast Business Growth Award by implementing his system.

Over the last 20 years David has worked at the sharp end with hundreds of businesses in London and he has seen what works and what doesn't. He is a regular speaker for the Open University MBA Alumni Continuous Professional Development Programme.

As a relentless learner he is continuously honing and developing his skills and he loves to relax by scuba diving, kite surfing, practicing yoga, listening to live Jazz and hosting dinner parties.

• Read David's article 'Keeping delegation simple.'
• Visit David's website www.inspiredworking.com

Yvonne Morton - Personal Development & Motivation

An experienced management accountant, a qualified adult and further education tutor and an accredited coach, Yvonne is well placed to offer advise to any and all business owners having both worked in and run successful businesses both in the public and private sectors. Yvonne's company, whYaRe Inspired, deals with bookkeeping, team building, creative thinking and inspirational presentations for a wide range of business sectors and clients.

• Read Yvonne's 'Team Building article'
• Visit Yvonne's website www.whyare.co.uk

Albert Wright - Business support authors and speakers review

Albert Wright is a late flowering business e-book, DVD, mp3 and proper book author, business seminar speaker, trainer, Business Angel Investor, business seminar junkie and Millionaire Mentor. He is not just any business adviser, he is an ex Marks and Spencer's adviser. More accurately, he worked for M & S for over twenty years, mainly managing food buying departments and undertaking major projects, which involved dealing with supplier businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Over his time in business Albert has dealt with Business Plans, Profit Improvement, Finance Raising, Business Angles, Money, and a lousy investor!

Albert's mission is to accelerate the growth of 100 businesses a year through the Millionaire Coaching Academy and over the next few months, Albert will give a review of the many different people and companies touring the Business Support Seminar circuit and the publishing world.

• Read Albert's first review here
• Visit the Millionaire Coaching Academy www.millioinairecoachingacademy.co.uk

Bob Young - Telecoms

Bob's dream is to be as successful in business as he was as an employee putting in to practice for other companies what he have accomplished throughout his career as an employee.  With the experience of being on both sides of the fence from 30 users to 450 Bob is aware of the different stages of change and wants his company to develop and assist other small companies through these changes and be confident that the service provided is second to none.

During his working life Bob has always been involved in some form of communications spanning back to the days of using Morse Code during his time is the RAF.

As well as telecoms, Bob is well versed in all areas of business and regularly writes about his view on the current stories and business issues of the day.

• Read Bob's 'Broadband - The 'up to' statement' article
• Visit Bob's blog - www.ytel.uk.com

Catherine Strong - Corporate Events

Following an eclectic career background as Director Level PA, Event Manager and Sales Coordinator in both the private and public sectors, Catherine established 4 Most Occasions Ltd in 2008 to provide a bespoke planning and coordinating service for anyone organizing an event from Weddings, Special Occasions, Christmas Parties to Corporate AGM's and Networking events.

Bristol born and bred, Catherine obtained BA Hons Degree in Ancient & Medieval History from Cardiff University, and Chartered Institute of Marketing qualifications from Filton College.

• Read Catherine's latest article here
• Visit 4 Most Occasions on the web www.4mostoccasions.co.uk