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10th Asian Achievers Awards Winners 2010
Gold Award for Young Entrepreneur of the Year Riz Navsarka Riz Navsarka is the Managing Director of MesmerEyez cosmetics (Navsarka Ltd). It is the UK's leading and the worlds most innovative cosmetic coloured contact lens company. As a teenager Riz grew up in one of the most deprived areas of the U.K, Hillflields in Coventry. Starting at the age of 20 whilst studying he turned the £200 gained from a university loan, into to a multi-million pound business in less than 5 years. The company has grown drastically,175% whilst in a recession. MesmerEyez is available across the UK and around the world with distributors from Beijing to Iceland. It has revolutionised the cosmetics industry by bringing coloured contact lens to the mass cosmetic market with innovative designs, daily disposables and the worlds largest range of colours. Worn in London Fashion Week and seen in Vogue and Grazia, MesmerEyez has become a brand synonymous with eye colour change.
Gold Award for Achievement in Media, Art & Culture Anjali Bulley Anjali Bulley is the Managing Editor of V&A Publishing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, previously Senior Editor at the National Portrait Gallery, London. V&A Publishing is one of the world's leading Museum publishers, with an outstanding reputation among experts and academics and the commercial market, particularly the fashion list, which is one of the market leaders. Her recent key achievements include British Asian Style: Fashion and Textiles and Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts. She said, “May I take this opportunity to congratulate Mr C.B. Patel and the team at Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar for their efforts in hosting a truly professional awards ceremony. I would also like to thank my very supportive family who have encouraged me at every step of my career. I have been immensely fortunate in my publishing career to not only work within my dream role of editorial management of academically respected, beautifully illustrated art and photography books, but also to work in two world renowned institutions, the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. I sincerely hope that the inclusion of recognition of Media, Art and Culture in the Asian Achievers Awards will encourage more young British
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Asian Achievers Awards 2010 Asian Voice & Gujarat Samachar
Asians to pursue careers in book and other media publishing, and to participate more widely in the Culture, Heritage and Arts sectors in our society. This award should therefore serve as an acknowledgment of the wider Asian community's rich and unique contribution to the arts and cultural heritage of the United Kingdom.”