The entrepreneurs in the New Year honours


Posted: Fri 1st Jan 2016
Entrepreneurs were well represented in the Queen's New Year honours for 2016. Here's a list of who got what.
DBE (Dame)
Natalie Sara Massenet, MBE. Internet entrepreneur and founder, Net-A-Porter Group. For services to the fashion and retail Industries.
CBE
Samir Desai. Co-founder of peer to peer website Funding Circle. For services to financial services.
Jacqueline Gold. Chief executive, Ann Summers and Knickerbox. For services to entrepreneurship, women in business and social enterprise.
Anthony Charles Preston. Founder, Pets at Home. For services to UK business, entrepreneurship and philanthropic service to charity.
Caroline Helen Theobald. Founder and managing director, Bridge Club Ltd. For services to business and entrepreneurship.
Caroline Helen Theobald. Founder and managing director, Bridge Club Ltd. For services to business and entrepreneurship.
OBE
Giles Andrews, co-founder of peer to peer lender Zopa. For services to financial services.
Amanda Boyle. Founder and chief executive officer, Bloom VC. For services to business.
Simon Devonshire. Entrepreneur. For services to enterprise, enterprise promotion and humanitarian issues.
Nicola Ann Gott. Founder and director, She's Gott It. For services to women in business and female entrepreneurship in the north-east.
Kala Patel. Managing director, Kiddycare Limited (nurseries). For services to the childcare business.
Philip David Shadbolt. Managing director, Zeta Specialist Lighting. For services to business and innovation.
MBE
Rebecca Bright. Founder, Therapy Box. For services to app development for people with communication difficulties.
Helen Broughton. Co-founder and director of people and standards, Danbro. For services to small businesses and sole traders and to the community in Lancashire.
Malcolm Copley Hall. Founder and managing director, Hall-Fast Industrial Supplies Ltd. For services to business.
Alison Lewy. Founder, Fashion Angel. For services to the fashion industry.
Wendy Penelope Maxwell. Founder, Chill4Us Carers. For services to carers.
Rekha Mehr. Former entrepreneur-in-resident at Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. For services to enterprise.
Judith Ower. Founder and chief executive, Playmob. For services to entrepreneurship.
Clare Frances Sutcliffe. Founder and chief executive, Code Club. For services to technology education.
Emma Jane Lewis Woods. Owner, Duncombe Sawmill. For services to rural business and skills in North Yorkshire.
Order of Merit
Sir James Dyson. Founder of Dyson. For services to industrial design.
British Empire Medal
Aatin Ashok Anadkat. Managing director, Hotel Maiyango, Leicester. For services to entrepreneurship.
Ailsa Elizabeth Button. Founder, the Gemmery Mother and Toddler Group, Walton on Thames, Surrey. For services to children and families
