Award Winners

Winners of the Awards were announced on 14 October 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 

Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner 2010

Tony is Betfair's Chief Technology Officer and joined the company in 2009. He is a highly experienced industry-veteran having spent over 25 years building and running successful global technology businesses in the e-commerce and entertainment sectors.

At Betfair he has been tasked with turning the company's UK-centric technology infrastructure into a global one. He has been a key component behind the company's recent global recruitment drive which has this year seen his technology team grow to over 600 employees.

Prior to joining Betfair, he was CIO of Vodafone's mobile content division in London before moving back to the US to take up the CIO position at Motricity in North Carolina. Tony graduated in Information Systems from Nashville State Technical Institute

Betfair is the world's largest international online sports betting provider and the world's biggest betting community, offering a broad range of sports betting, poker and games products to more than 3 million registered customers. Launched in 2000, Betfair pioneered online person-to-person sports betting by developing a market place called the "Betting Exchange", which allows customers to bet at odds sought by themselves or offered by other customers and thereby eliminates the need for a traditional bookmaker. The Betting Exchange has fundamentally changed the sports betting market by offering customers better pricing and more choice and flexibility. It is based on proprietary technology which is capable of simultaneously matching large numbers of customers and transactions and provides a fully integrated real time clearing and settlement system. In the year ended 30 April 2010, Betfair processed on average more than 5 million transactions per day on its Betting Exchange - more than all European stock exchanges combined.


 

Schroders Innovation Award Winner 2010

Boris graduated from Ecole Des Mines (Engineering School) and has an MBA from HEC Paris. He started Spartoo directly after university at the age of 23 years old. He is now 28 years old.

Created four years ago, Spartoo.com is the European leader in internet footwear sales with over 1,000, 000 regular customers and over 10 million unique visitors (Nielsen, July 2010).

The company offers a unique consumer experience through its large choice of brand name shoes (more than 400 brands & 15 000 styles) and has been consistently recognized by the market for the exceptional quality of their customer service.

Spartoo operates in more than 20 countries including France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Italy.