Jazz Shapers

Jeremy King: Founder and Chair of Attest

Jeremy King is the Founder and Chair of Attest, a consumer research platform. Jeremy joins Elliot to talk about how he helps brands better understand the customers they don't yet have, and what it means to him to turn his greatest passion into a brand new business, Ocean Orchestra, on a mission to save the oceans using software.

Lex Deak: Founder of QVentures, co-founder and CEO of Basket

Serial entrepreneur Lex Deak is the founder of QVentures, a Venture Capital firm, and most recently co-founder and CEO of Basket, the ecommerce start-up, aiming to revolutionise the online shopping experience. Lex joins Elliot to share the defining moments from his childhood and why he's always felt confident launching businesses in so many different industries.

Ed Foy: Co-founder and CEO of PRESS Healthfoods

Ed Foy is the co-founder and CEO of PRESS Healthfoods, the plant-based health food brand. Ed joins Elliot to talk through the dark days and breakthroughs of trying to bring an LA trend - cold-pressed juice - to the UK.

Sandrine Zhang Ferron: Co-founder and CEO of Vinterior

Sandrine Zhang Ferron is the co-founder and CEO of Vinterior, the online vintage and pre-owned furniture marketplace. Sandrine joins Elliot to chat about how searching for a designer chair the same colour as her cat's eyes, led her learn to code and launch a company offering an alternative to flat-pack, short-life furniture.

Maya Moufarek: Founding Chief Marketing Officer of Pharmacy2U

Maya Moufarek is Founding Chief Marketing Officer of Pharmacy2U, the NHS-approved online pharmacy and Founder of the growth consultancy, Marketing Cube. Maya joins Elliot to talk about how her French-Lebanese-Russian roots have shaped the way she's supported hundreds of tech founders to build their brands.

Alex Bomberg: Founder of International Intelligence Limited

Alex Bomberg is the Founder of International Intelligence Limited, the security and intelligence company. Alex joins Elliot to talk about how his childhood (with his parents fostering many children) led to his focus to protect others, in the British Army, the Royal family and now in the world of global intelligence.

Amanda Thomson: CEO and Founder of Thomson & Scott

Amanda Thomson is the CEO and Founder of Thomson & Scott, creators of Noughty, the premium non-alcoholic wine brand. Amanda joins Elliot to talk about leaving her broadcasting career to study wine in Paris, and her challenge of creating her own fine wines and champagne without all the sugar and chemicals.

Scott Harrison: Founder of The Six Pack Revolution

Jazz Shapers is back, and to kick off the brand new season Elliot is joined by Scott Harrison, founder of the fitness programme, The Six Pack Revolution. Scott talks honestly about overcoming the deep impacts of the childhood bullying he experienced and how he created a life-changing programme supporting tens of 1000’s of people across the world to improve their fitness and mental well-being.

Anthony Fletcher: Founder of Believe in Science

Anthony Fletcher is the founder of Believe in Science, a scientific Research and Development business on a mission to take the junk out of junk food. Anthony joins Elliot to talk about how his time at Innocent Drinks and as CEO at Graze led to him launching his own business and their first brand - Urban Legend, aiming to reduce (and perhaps one day remove) the sugar and fat from doughnuts.

Naz Nankali: Founder of Powertutors,

Naz Nankali is the Founder of Powertutors, a UK tutoring agency. Naz joins Elliot to talk about her struggles with dyslexia (while growing up as an Iranian in Ukraine) and how the impact of a maths tutor led to her launching her own business, aiming to help every child and young person believe in themselves.

Gush Mundae: Founder of Bulletproof

Gush Mundae is the founder of Bulletproof, a brand design agency with eight studios across the globe. Gush chats to Elliot about the racism he experienced as a child and how graffiti and hip-hop culture were the sparks that led to a multi-million-pound business.

Lemon Fuller: CEO and Founder of Lemonade Dolls

Lemon Fuller is the CEO and Founder of Lemonade Dolls, the UK lingerie brand. Lemon talks to Elliot about her switch from a life of singing and dancing around the world with Beyonce and Justin Bieber, to growing a disrupter brand, despite having no background in lingerie, fashion or business.

Helen Tupper: Co-founder and CEO of Amazing If

Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a company on a mission to make careers better for everyone. Helen joins Elliot to talk about how the traditional career ladder no longer reflects the unpredictable, changing world of work and we need to embrace - as she says - a squiggly career and invest more successfully in our development.

Carol Shanahan: Co-founder of Synectics Solutions

Carol Shanahan OBE is the co-founder of Synectics Solutions, the software company countering fraud and financial crime, and co-owner and Chair of Port Vale Football Club. Carol joins Elliot to talk about how moving her company next door to Port Vale's stadium, led to her love of the community and her drive to help transform the struggling club.

Jeff Kofman: Founder of Trint and war correspondent

Jeff Kofman is an Emmy-winning reporter, war correspondent and Founder of Trint, the automated speech-to-text technology. Jeff joins Elliot to talk about his 30 years reporting some of the biggest stories of our times and how he's turned a long-standing frustration into an international business.

Matthew Jones: Founder of Bread Ahead

Matthew Jones is the Founder of Bread Ahead, the artisan bakery and baking school. Matthew joins Elliot to chat about his life and work, from the intense Michelin kitchens of the 80’s and 90’s to starting his first successful business (despite chaos behind the scenes), and launching the now international Bread Ahead, driven by a passion for teaching the art of baking.

Mary Bonsor: Founder and CEO of Flex Legal

Mary Bonsor is the founder and CEO of Flex Legal, a platform connecting law firms and in-house legal teams with lawyers and paralegals on demand. Mary joins Elliot to chat about her mission to make the legal industry more diverse, inclusive, and flexible.

Tony Pepper & Neil Larkins: Co-founders of Egress

Tony Pepper and Neil Larkins are the co-founders of Egress, the British data security company. They chat with Elliot about how their friendship has underpinned their success and shaped their approach to protecting organisations from ever-adapting security risks .

Max Dubiel: Co-founder of Black Sheep Coffee

Max Dubiel is co-founder of coffee business Black Sheep Coffee, and co-founder of Redemption Roasters, the coffee brand and prison roastery aiming to reduce reoffending through coffee. Max joins Elliot to chat about the huge impact of belief and purpose on an organisation and its people.

Molly Johnson-Jones: CEO & Co-founder of Flexa

Molly Johnson-Jones is the CEO and co-founder of Flexa, a platform connecting job-seekers with companies offering flexible working environments.Molly joins Elliot to chat about how getting fired (after asking if she could work from home 1 day a week due to her auto-immune disease) has led to her revolutionising the way that people find jobs.

Floyd Woodrow: ex-SAS soldier,  founder of Quantum Group & creator of coaching programme Compass for Life.   

Floyd Woodrow MBE/DCM is an ex-SAS soldier, founder of Quantum Group (a fintech and security investment incubator) and creator of coaching and development programme Compass for Life. Floyd joins Elliot to talk about becoming one of the youngest soldiers ever to have been selected for the elite SAS, and why he believes focusing on your super strengths (more than your weaknesses) is the key to success.

Rachel Watkyn: Founder of Tiny Box Company

Rachel Watkyn OBE is the Founder of Tiny Box Company, creating sustainable, ethically-sourced gift packaging. Rachel joins Elliot to share her tales of overcoming incredible adversity and how she's now Dragon Den’s most Successful Female Entrepreneur to date.

Giles Fuchs: Founder and Chairman of Office Space in Town

Giles Fuchs is the Founder and Chairman of Office Space in Town, the flexible workplace provider, and founder of ‘No or Low alcohol’ brand, Gunner Cocktails . He's also the owner of the iconic, art deco Burgh Island Hotel. Giles joins Elliot to chat about all of this, and his drive to prove to his dad that failing his A Levels wouldn’t define him.

Emily Bendell: Founder and CEO of Bluebella

Jazz Shapers is back! To kick off the new season Elliot welcomes back Emily Bendell, founder and CEO of lingerie brand Bluebella. Emily was last on Jazz Shapers in 2012 and tells Elliot about the challenges of growing a non-conforming lingerie business, and her successful campaign to get the Garrick Club to allow female members for the first time in its 193-year history.