Black British Business Awards announce 2021 finalists
Finalists have been revealed for this year’s Black British Small business Awards, an yearly event that celebrates the achievements of some of the UK’s top corporate bosses and business people.
Now in its eighth 12 months, the awards highlight “exceptional business talent” throughout six industries: arts and media buyer and luxurious start out-ups economical products and services specialist products and services and STEM (science, tech, engineering and maths).
Among the the 39 businesspeople shortlisted are Taponeswa Mavunga, director of Africa at Sony Songs Uk, Akima Paul-Lambert, litigation husband or wife at Hogan Lovells, and Edgar Chibaka and Jamal Tahlil, co-founders of Leeds-based mostly security firm 1st Reaction Group.
Sophie Chandauka, co-founder and chair of the awards, claimed: “Our finalists have delivered remarkable business price throughout sectors in unstable markets, where by business people in individual have been decimated.
“They have been strategic advisors to their corporations and boards as international businesses are challenged by buyers to address systemic racism.
“Despite the pandemic and social unrest, they are fiercely aggressive, inventive and commercially savvy. They are international in their outlook and ambition, and represent the extremely most effective of remaining British in a post-pandemic, post-Brexit Europe.”
Segun Osuntokun of regulation firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner was named black British businessperson of 2020 at past year’s ceremony.
