Entrepreneurs

Niccolò Barattieri di San Pietro, CEO at Northacre

Niccolò Barattieri di San Pietro, CEO at Northacre

We recently spoke to Niccolò Barattieri di San Pietro, Chief Executive Officer at Northacre. With more than 18 years experience within the world of exclusive international real estate, Niccolò's blue-chip background provides a driving force for Northacre’s ground breaking projects. Northacre offers a unique product in London’s property market, and with architecture at their heart, they...

Daniel Austin – ASK Partners

Daniel Austin – ASK Partners

Introduction We chat with Daniel Austin, the CEO and co-founder of Ask Partners, a boutique residential and commercial property lender. What did your career look like before ASK Partners? Before co-founding ASK Partners, I spent 13 years at Investec Bank, heading up the origination division of the structured property finance team. After the global financial crisis, I noticed a gap in the UK real...

Sue Edmonds: CEO at Capital Letters

Sue Edmonds: CEO at Capital Letters

We chat with property expert Sue Edmonds, the CEO of the socially responsible, not-for-profit property company Capital Letters about their unique offer to Londoners, landlords, and investors. What is Capital Letters? Capital Letters is a unique socially responsible, independent, not-for-profit company set up by London boroughs to find safe, secure, good quality affordable homes for Londoners who are...

Dragons Den Applicants – The Handbag Spa

This week Luxury Showplace caught up with Freya and Judy Bass from The Handbag Spa in Harrogate and discussed their recent appearance on the BBC's Dragons Den programme and what the future holds for their handbag restoration company. Whose idea was it to start the Handbag Spa and what was the inspiration for it? The Handbag Spa is a family-run business, mother and daughter team. Judy Bass has a...