The Press - York

David Beattie, senior partner, Quantum Estate Agency

10:41am Tuesday 1st November 2011

GOLF-mad estate agent and valuer David Beattie hasn’t been playing as often as he would like just lately and that suits him fine.

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Rob Burns, managing director of digital agency 9xb.com

9:43am Tuesday 4th October 2011

STARTING out at 16 years of age working in a cattle market, then as a builder’s labourer and for the civil service, Rob Burns finally found his calling in design and print and set up 9xb.com in 2004.

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Jim Sanderson - Eco Flooring and Restoration UK

10:25am Tuesday 6th September 2011

JIM Sanderson invokes all the elements - fire, earth, wind or water - to make his busy life complete.

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Elaine Ball, managing director of Measurement Devices Ltd (MDL), York

10:59am Tuesday 2nd August 2011

STARTING working life breaking in race horses in Texas helped prepare Elaine Ball for taking the reins at the family business in York.

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Jane Cook, managing director of The Rocking Horse Shop

2:43pm Tuesday 5th July 2011

FOR Jane Cook, what began as a nightmare ended in happy horses.

Dr Paul Gibson, chief executive, Pure Net

12:37pm Tuesday 7th June 2011

IT IS a busier day than most for Dr Paul Gibson and his 22 staff at the award-winning IT firm PureNet.

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Mike Thomas, centre manager at York Designer Outlet

4:02pm Tuesday 10th May 2011

IF retail therapy is a shortcut to sanity, then Mike Thomas, 53, must be the sanest man alive.

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Iqbal Chowdhury, general manager of York-based Bengal Brasserie Group

10:32am Tuesday 5th April 2011

FIRST there came the dearth of US tourists in the wake of 9/11, then the York floods, then a fire. Then the economic downturn came to test Iqbal Chowdhury.

Philip Thake of HPH Chartered Accountants

12:27pm Tuesday 1st March 2011

A CAREER change set chartered accountant Philip Thake on the path to becoming one of York’s best-known business figures and helped shape his management style.

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Liz Philip, principal of Askham Bryan College

11:39am Tuesday 8th February 2011

LIZ Philip is a countrywoman to her fingertips – an equine expert, an award-winning point-to-point racer, trained in agricultural business studies and now principal of Askham Bryan College, one of Britain’s finest land-based learning institutions.

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Duncan Williams, Partner – Williams Investment Management LLP

11:51am Tuesday 2nd November 2010

DUNCAN Williams is not your typical boss. He prefers to see himself presiding over an old-fashioned democracy in which he and his three partners take decisions jointly.

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LHL Group managing director John Denton

10:47am Tuesday 5th October 2010

FIVE years after the merger which created the LHL Group – one of Yorkshire’s biggest independent firms of surveyors and architects – John Denton, its managing director, is preparing for the next stage in its development.

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