Hey, no words of ours can match Dawn’s own website. The Flowcrete founder is the most colourful woman in UK manufacturing. But we’re proud to say that Real Business magazine wrote about Dawn way before she became famous.

Then, we called her “the funky Gibbins". And she still is.

www.dawngibbins.com

Peter is the founder and chairman of Phoenix plc, a creative agency located in a Victorian chapel in Leatherhead.

His background is in sales and marketing in the house building, estate agency and financial services sectors.

His book, HEMP - The Highly Effective Marketing Plan was published in 2004 and is now available in eleven languages. You can learn a few more quirky things about him at www.pheonixplc.com

John Timpson is the chief executive of Timpson Ltd, the UK's leading chain of shoe repairers and key cutters. He and his son James currently preside over one of the most respected names in British retailing.

John has been a regular contributor to Real Business magazine for more than seven years. During that time, we have worked with him to publish two books - Dear James and Cobbled Together.

You can read more about them (and order them) at our store. And you can also visit www.timpson.co.uk to order some of his other books.

Margaret is a true all-rounder: an entrepreneur, CEO, writer and public speaker. She has run software and media firms in the UK and the US and currently sits on the boards of several small companies.

She blogs for The Huffington Post . Her two books, How She Does It and The Naked Truth, make for fabulous, challenging reading.

She has been a contributor to Real Business magazine for several years and is also co-chair of our very own First Women Awards. You can learn more about Margaret at her website.

Ross is a freelance journalist and columnist on The Spectator, The Times and the Sunday Telegraph.

He is the author of The Great Before, a satire on the anti-globalisation movement, and How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations that are Strangling Britain, published by Harriman House, about the lunacy of red tape.

He has been a regular contributor to Real Business magazine for several years. We like his acerbic, witty style: hope you do, too.

Seb Bishop, the charming, chiselled-featured entrepreneur, pioneered pay-per-click advertising as we know it back in 2000 with his firm Espotting.

He’s now president of MIVA, one of the largest online advertising networks in the world – and one of the youngest presidents of a NASDAQ-listed company.

www.miva.com/uk

Clive has been in the motor trade for more than 25 years. He is CEO of Clive Sutton Premier Marques, one of the UK's leading independent car dealerships, based in St John's Wood, London, and has become a purveyor of "cars to the stars".

If you want to obtain the most desirable cars in the world, ­ or if you want a trenchant opinion about business, ­ Clive's your man.

www.clivesutton.co.uk

Dan McGuire is the managing director of Broadbean Technology, the world’s fastest growing distributor of online job adverts. McGuire recently picked up the gong for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at our Growing Business Awards, wowing our judges with his gung-ho attitude and impressive sales stats.

Hear the voice of Britain's entrepreneurial youth and check out his news from the front line.

Richard is a high-velocity entrepreneur. We featured him on the cover of Real Business magazine last year (you can read the full article on Richard and Velocity Drinks here).

Cool, energetic, and a Geordie to boot, Richard is the face of young, entrepreneurial Britain.

www.velocitydrinks.com