The Spectator’s Economic Disruptor of the Year Awards 2019, sponsored by Julius Baer, are now open: the entry form is at
www.spectator.co.uk/disruptor. We’re looking for innovators from across the UK who are disrupting their marketplace in terms of price, choice and accessibility — and have the potential to scale up, nationally and internationally. Meanwhile, in the second of our series of inspirational stories about the entrepreneurs behind some of Britain’s fastest-growing ventures, Martin Vander Weyer talks to Jonny Ohlson of Touchlight Genetics, a London regional finalist in last year’s awards.
You might imagine that the founder of a company at the forefront of advances in the manufacture of DNA would be a white-coated boffin whose career was nurtured in university laboratories. But 55-year-old Jonny Ohlson of Touchlight Genetics is as far from that archetype as he could be: his formative years were spent in advertising with Saatchi & Saatchi and his previous venture was as a partner in the members’ club Soho House.
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