UK judging panel 

Simon Rogerson

CEO, Octopus Group

Simon Rogerson

Simon is the founder and Chief Executive of Octopus Group. Octopus is a group of entrepreneurially minded businesses, each built on the belief that people deserve better.  Founded in 2000, the business has grown to 1,500 employees, two million customers and more than £2bn of annual revenue.                        

Simon graduated from St Andrews University with a degree in French. After university, he joined the graduate training programme of Mercury Asset Management but left midway through this training to set up Octopus at the aged of 25.