Jazz Shapers

This Saturday, Jazz Shapers is back! And joining Elliot to kick off the new season is Sarah Turner, co-founder of Angel Academe, an angel investment network supporting female-founded tech businesses. Sarah talks about her journey of disrupting the...

Jasmine Richards is an author and the Founder of Storymix, the children’s fiction development “studio" with a social purpose. Jasmine joins Elliot to talk about storytelling as activism and her journey to tackle the lack of diversity in children's books.

Serial entrepreneur Charles Dunstone is the co-founder of mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse, and the founder of broadband and TV provider, the TalkTalk Group. Charles joins Elliot to talk about his rebellious nature, his huge respect for the...

Serial entrepreneur Mike Welch OBE is the Founder of blackcircles.com and tirescanner.com, the online tyre retailers. Mike joins Elliot to share how running a tyre business from his childhood bedroom (and night-shift work in a local Tesco) led to...

Tim Fung is the founder and CEO of Airtasker, a digital marketplace connecting people who need work done, with trusted, local people who want to work. Tim joins Elliot to tell us why he's the eternal optimist, and of the profound impact that giving...

James Gordon is the Founder of Digico and the CEO of Audiotonix, creators of digital mixing consoles for Live Sound, Theatre & Broadcast. James joins Elliot to talk about his 'love affair' with music and the power for him of dyslexia; of seeing things...

Damian Bradfield is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of WeTransfer, the content sharing platform. Damian joins Elliot to chat about how great creativity comes from intuition, and what that means for him and his business - and indeed for all of...

Adam Sebba is the CEO and Co-Founder of luxury travel provider, The Luminaire. Adam joins Elliot to talk about his aim to 'make intellectual travel cool," and how his 7 years as a Captain in the British Army helped shape his approach to life and business.

Serial entrepreneur George Bevis is the Founder of Tide, a financial services platform for small businesses, and the founder of CanDo - a social ventures incubator. George joins Elliot to talk about the optimism and hunger that drove him to ‘fix...

David Whitmarsh is the CEO of Standard Gas, the energy-from-waste technology business. David joins Elliot to talk about how a sense of adventure has taken him from the British Army's parachute regiment to co-leading a technological breakthrough with...