National HR Services company, The Curve Group, is celebrating the inclusion of co-owner Lyndsey Simpson in Young Guns, the 10th annual list of the UK’s hottest entrepreneurs aged 35 and under, named by Growing Business magazine.
Lyndsey Simpson, Co-owner, The Curve Group, said, “I’m honoured and delighted to be part of the Young Guns ‘Class of 2012’, an incredibly talented, ambitious and tenacious group of people that inspire me to build further on The Curve Group’s successes.”
To be considered, companies must have annual revenues of more than £1m and/or must have raised £250,000 or more of external funding. Previous winners have included the founders of some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurial businesses, including Innocent Drinks, Crussh, Maximuscle, Nails Inc., Figleaves.com, Agent Provocateur and Notonthehighstreet.com.
A high-flyer in the world of Financial Services, Lyndsey spent eleven years undertaking a number of global leadership positions in the Banking and Insurance sectors before coming on board as a co-owner in The Curve Group in 2007. Eight of those years were with Barclays, where her experience covered senior roles in sales, strategy, M&A and proposition development across Barclays’ Retail, Wealth, Commercial and Corporate Banking divisions.
Crimson Publishing’s Editorial Director, Ian Wallis, said: “The quality, diversity and uniqueness of entrepreneurial companies bursting through in the UK never ceases to astound. Starting and growing a fast-growth company is highly risky, exciting and most of all, damned hard work. Despite that and the backdrop of a tough economicclimate, there’s no shortage of good entrepreneurs finding gaps in sizeable markets. This list celebrates entrepreneurial endeavour in glorious Technicolor.”
One of the questions asked of the 2012 winners was about the effects of the recession on its businesses. 88% of those that responded said the recession has had a neutral or positive effect on their business. This is certainly true of The Curve Group which, rather than downsizing and ‘digging in’ as many recruiters did, saw an opportunity to grasp a new opportunity and invested in employees as well as new systems and infrastructure to launch two new business areas – Outsourcing and Outplacement - which fit the new economic landscape. Thanks to this vision and drive, the business became stronger and more future proof than ever before, with business divisions that can sustain the group in badtimes as well as boom times.
