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The Great British Entrepreneur Awards has been celebrating the stories of exceptional entrepreneurs for over a decade.

The accolades don’t always go to the biggest businesses. We pride ourselves on celebrating incredible stories of passion, tenacity, courage, innovation and disruption from entrepreneurs running businesses of all sizes and at all stages.

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Andrew Marsh

Vistage Chair

Having led multi-million-pound businesses, Andrew is a renowned specialist in business.

Transformation and scaling businesses with an impressive track record of repeatedly creating sustainable growth.

He has over 20 years of experience as a Managing Director of companies across a wide variety of sectors, including Retail, Telco, Oil, Financial Services, Public Sector, e-commerce, ITO, Customer Services, Utilities, SME sectors and Charities/NfP.

Since 2014, Andrew built a successful Non Executive portfolio leading to several high return exits, which includes investing in the visions of various entrepreneurs in the North East.

Andrew is also a Vistage Chair, which is proven to be high-impact and effective in driving leadership development in scaling businesses – officially endorsed by the ScaleUp Institute in its 2018 review.

Companies who joined Vistage over the past five years grew 2.2x faster than average small and medium-sized businesses and in the 2009 recession, Vistage members grew 5.8% compared to peers declining 9.2%

Andrew also mentors for the North East LEP and Durham Business School MBA programme and is an advisory board member of the Experience Bank (A NfP enhancing the Non-Executive capabilities for entrepreneurs and scale ups).

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