Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Brunel Alumnus, Deepak Tailor, has been presented with a prestigious award at the 2015 Great British Entrepreneur Awards. The ceremony, which took place in November, saw Deepak (Business and Management – Marketing 2010) collect the award for ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year (26-30)’.

The award was presented in recognition of Deepak’s hugely successful website www.latestfreestuff.co.uk, which is one of the UK's leading freebie sites reaching up to 500,000 consumers a month.

This is not the first accolade Deepak has received this year. His business was also named in the Top 100 Startups of 2015 by Startups.co.uk in May.

Deepak’s award rounds off a highly successful year for Brunel entrepreneurs with recognition for lots of alumni including:

• Solveiga Pakstaite’s Bumpmark food label
• Sam Etherington’s Aqua Power Technologies,
• Claire Eluka’s Premae Skincare
• Alumni of the Year Greg Duggan and Damien Kennedy’s Wheyhey ice cream
• Rita Trehan’s Rita Trehan LLC
• Rajan Dua’s Stars Key and Hutch
• Harriet Kelsall’s HK Bespoke Jewellery
• Sophie Hibbert’s Hibbert Harwood