Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin.
This week Ellen Green, director of Blue Badge Company, answers our 10 questions
What was the LAST: 
Film you watched? Kingsman: The Secret Service – very fun and silly!
Book you read? Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande – a fascinating book that argues we should focus less on prolonging life and more on making it meaningful.
Music you bought/downloaded? Lianne La Havas Green & Gold
Concert or play you went to? Gifford’s Circus – Moon Songs
Sporting event you attended? Does my boyfriend’s football team count?!
Holiday you went on? Lemnos in Greece, I learnt how to windsurf
Restaurant you ate in? Jamie Oliver’s Italian in Manchester – the most amazing building
Thing that annoyed you? Lack of sleep
Thing that made you laugh out loud? My own stupidity!
Piece of good advice you were given? Hold your nerve
Ellen Green graduated from Dartington College of Arts with a first-class degree in Arts and Cultural Management and then went on to be business manager for Power Amp Music, an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) financing artists. The fund was an innovative alternative to record label funding, raising more than £4m and signing lucrative deals with artist such as Madness and Charlotte Church. In 2011 she made her first Blue Badge wallet and, armed with e-commerce and online marketing skills, she executed the launch of the product, developing the sales channels and managed distribution. Now, aged just 30, Ellen is sole director of the fast-growing Blue Badge Company and one of the country’s most dynamic young female entrepreneurs with a string of awards to her name. Under her leadership, Blue Badge Company has sold more than 100,000 of its wallets across the UK.
