Bristol bosses have swept the board at this year’s South West IoD Awards, which celebrate outstanding talent in the region’s boardrooms.
Directors from city firms won four of the five main awards at the ceremony, which took place at Ashton Gate last night.
The winners were:
- Director of the Year: David Gilroy, director of Conscious Solutions, the Bristol-based leading provider of digital marketing services to law firms,
- Young Director: Simon Brown, managing director and owner of Bristol-based research and development tax credit consultancy ForrestBrown,
- International Director: Merle Hall, managing director of Bristol-based Kinneir Dufort, which specialises in product, packaging and service design for companies around the world, including Bosch, Coca-Cola and Thales,
- Third Sector: Louise Mitchell, CEO of the Bristol Music Trust, created in 2011 by Bristol City Council to manage the city’s iconic Colston Hall music venue and take a regional overview of music promotion and formal and non-formal music education,
- Corporate and Social Responsibility: Andrew Scott, managing director of Weston-super-Mare-based Ascot Group, which takes in Purplex Marketing, Insight Data, a specialist provider of B2B marketing data, and Business Leader magazine.
More on this story, with photos of all the winners will appear in next week’s Bristol Business News e-bulletin.
Pictured below, the award winners with IoD director-general Stephen Martin, centre
