The Spectator’s Economic Disruptor of the Year Awards 2020, sponsored by Julius Baer, opens for entries on Thursday 5 March. We’re excited to hear from entrepreneurs in every sector and region of the UK whose products are changing their markets in terms of price, choice or technology, and have potential for international growth. And in this third year of these high-profile Awards, we’re also looking for outstanding examples of social impact.
Meanwhile, we’ll present a series of inspirational stories behind 2019’s Disruptor finalists. First, Martin Vander Weyer meets Brendan Hyland, of WFS Technologies, the subsea wireless communications venture that was the winning entry for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
We could hardly have found a better Disruptor champion for Scotland and Northern Ireland than Brendan Hyland, a native of Belfast (and engineering graduate of Queen’s University there) who’s now a veteran Scottish entrepreneur, having built two major technology businesses at Livingston in Midlothian.
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