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WE’RE INSPIRED BY SUCCESS, AND POWERED BY KNOWLEDGE

This issue is packed full of inspiration, so pack it in your holiday suitcase and take your time reading our stories of success from amazing business people who unashamedly do things their way. Move over Frank Sinatra.

From the maximalist TV celebrity (and more business savvy than he might want us to think) Laurence LlewelynBowen to the Arkell’s brothers who are propelling their gorgeous, historic Wiltshire family brewery into its 181st year. Then there’s Dr Rajarshi Banerjee (known to almost everyone as Banjo), who is pioneering AI-driven imaging to improve medical diagnosis with his Oxfordshire business Perspectum, and Steve Butterworth who, along with Zoe Colosimo, is helping the UK’s biggest companies give more efficiently to good local causes through their technology platform Neighbourly. We also meet Andy Collop who is leading one of the UK’s most forward-thinking sports and agricultural universities and colleges.

Our front cover feature is Technology Takes Off. Feel guilty about flying? Well don’t beat yourself up. UK aviation can grow and meet its commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, say experts, thanks to advances in sustainable aviation technology, with some innovative companies across the region determined to make it happen.

Our second feature is on life sciences, one of the most valuable economic sectors in the UK which can help dig us out of our economic gloom as well as saving lives – if we keep investing.

Elsewhere in the magazine are stories of success, a few admissions of temporary failure, but everywhere there’s determination and dedication.

Zero-emission flight won’t happen overnight, nor the burden of disease disappear fast, but as the 15th century Coventry-born and Oxford-educated poet and writer John Heywood said: “Rome wasn’t built in a day”, and more pertinently, he wrote a second bit that mostly gets forgotten “… but they were laying bricks every hour”.

So let’s all lay bricks. Success is built on firm foundations.

Nicky Godding Editor

Kirsty Muir Head of Print and Advertising

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