The Spectator’s Economic Disruptor of the Year Awards 2019, sponsored by Julius Baer, are open for entries at www.spectator.co.uk/disruptor. The Awards salute innovative, high-growth businesses from every part of the UK that are disrupting their marketplaces in terms of price, choice and accessibility and have the potential to achieve national and international success.
Meanwhile, here’s the fourth of our series of inspirational personal stories about the entrepreneurs behind the winners of our 2018 Awards. Martin Vander Weyer talks to Irene and Philip McAleese, whose company Limeforge makes the See.Sense range of smart bike lights and was our regional finalist for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Entrepreneurship is a second career for Irene and Philip McAleese. It’s also a mission, Irene told me: ‘We wouldn’t be doing it if it didn’t give us the chance to do something good for health, through cycling, and the environment.’
Born in Australia, she used to be a management consultant with Accenture in London; Philip, who hails from Northern Ireland, was ‘an IT guy’ with a major commercial bank.
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