BBC ‘Dragon’ Backs Stelios Award
Julie Meyer, from Dragon's Den.
Araidne Capital boss Julie Meyer is the latest addition to the judging panel that will pick the winner of this year’s £50,000 Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneur.
Julie – best known from the BBC’s Dragon’s Den series, said: “I am always excited to meet entrepreneurs who are committed to overcoming the odds to make their business succeed.
“It is a particular honour to be given the opportunity to judge these awards and to encounter so many great entrepreneurs who have had to fight even harder to rise above the challenges involved in starting their own business,” she added.
“It is this added determination and creativity which make their businesses stand out from the crowd and I am proud to be in a position to help identify the winner for 2010,” she said.
Julie will be joining Sir Stelios, Daniel Franklin (Editor of the Economist), Helen Loveless (Daily Mail) and last year’s winner John Pickup of Amputees in Action.
The 2010 winner will receive the award at the Growing Business Awards, to be held at the Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square in London on 25 November 2010.
More: visit www.disabledentrepreneur.org. Entries must be received by 3 September.