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Michelle Mone is co-owner of designer lingerie brand Ultimo. She grew up in Glasgow, leaving school at 15 with no qualifications. Her first job was at Labatt Brewers, where rose to head of sales and marketing by the age of 22. She launched Ultimo in 1996, and the company now supplies Debenhams, Next, Littlewoods, House of Fraser, Selfridges and many others.

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Michelle was awarded an OBE in 2010.

Along with his father and brother, Kuldip Sahota is co-founder of Mr Singh's.听The company's听first product was a chilli sauce based on his father's recipe, and was made out of听the family听kitchen for many years. In 2010 Mr Singh's听appeared on the 大象传媒 programme High Street Dreams, which in turn lead to a contract with Asda. However within a year听the company听hit serious problems and was forced to cancel the contract, and in 2011 it nearly went bust. Since then听Mr Singh's听has secured outside investment, sales have increased sharply, and the three founders have gone full time.

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Kuldip studied at Central St.Martin's College for a while, before dropping out and taking up a job at Burberry. He also worked as a stockbroker and property investor before turning his attentions full time to Mr Singh's听last year.

Following a degree in Law and Japanese, Emma joined international accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, where she set up the firm's Inward Investment practice that attracted overseas companies to locate in the UK.

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In 2000, Emma left to start her first business, Techlocate. After 15 months the company was successfully sold to Tenon plc. The experience of starting, growing and selling a business from home gave Emma the idea for Enterprise Nation, which she launched in 2006. It has since expanded to become a small business community of over 75,000 people who access content, events and funding - online, in print and in person.