Black British Business Awards announce 2021 finalists

Finalists have been unveiled for this year’s Black British Business Awards, an yearly celebration that celebrates the achievements of some of the UK’s best company bosses and business people.

Now in its eighth calendar year, the awards emphasize “exceptional business enterprise talent” throughout six industries: arts and media customer and luxury commence-ups financial services expert services and STEM (science, tech, engineering and maths).

Among the 39 businesspeople shortlisted are Taponeswa Mavunga, director of Africa at Sony Audio British isles, Akima Paul-Lambert, litigation companion at Hogan Lovells, and Edgar Chibaka and Jamal Tahlil, co-founders of Leeds-dependent safety agency First Response Team.

Sophie Chandauka, co-founder and chair of the awards, reported: “Our finalists have shipped tremendous commercial price throughout sectors in risky markets, in which business people in certain have been decimated.

“They have been strategic advisors to their companies and boards as world companies are challenged by investors to deal with systemic racism.

“Despite the pandemic and social unrest, they are fiercely competitive, inventive and commercially savvy. They are world in their outlook and ambition, and stand for the really best of being British in a publish-pandemic, publish-Brexit Europe.”

Segun Osuntokun of law agency Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner was named black British businessperson of 2020 at final year’s ceremony.