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Perween Warsi is the Founder of S&A Foods, Indian cuisine.

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Perween began making samosas in her kitchen and selling them around Derby.

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25 years later, her company S&A Foods - named after her sons Sadiq and Abid - manufactures a range ready meals for UK and overseas customers. The company has 500 employees and can make more than 1.5 million meals a week, under one roof at the factory in Derby.

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Perween was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Jubilee Honours list in 2002.

Emma Elston is Director and Co-Founder of UK Container Maintenance, which provides waste container refurbishment services.

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Emma founded the business in her spare room with her husband in 1998. She has since expanded the company into a national operation, employing over 80 staff and refurbishing around 80,000 waste and recycling containers per year.

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Emma was named Vitalise Businesswoman of the Year 2012.

Allister Heath is the Editor of City A.M., the daily business newspaper distributed in and around London and digitally.

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Under his editorship, the paper has grown to a print circulation of 130,000 copies per day.

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Allister was born in France, moving to the UK for university. He contributes regularly to a range of media on business issues.

Ignaty Dyakov is a professional Russian language tutor and consultant.

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Originally from St Petersburg he came to London in 2008 where some time later he established Russia Local, a language-based consultancy, which helps international businesses expand in Russia. Russian language training is where the company started and is still a core element of the business. Ignaty's clients are now based in the UK, France, Luxembourg, China, Hong Kong and Russia and work in many different industries.

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He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (UK) and the UK Trade and Investment Advisory Network.

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Ignaty is married and enjoys reading, playing chess and learning to play golf.