Brighton Businessman announced as one of UK’s young entrepreneurs

Last week Rob Hill CEO and Founder of Brighton based award winning events organising company; The Eventa Group: Henheaven.co.uk, thestagcompany.com and Eventa.co.uk was revealed as one of the UK’s most outstanding entrepreneurs aged 35 and under according to Growing Business and featured on the ‘Young Guns’ Class of 2014’ list.

Recognised at an awards luncheon held at the prestigious Kensington Roof Gardens, this year’s crop was made up of 54 entrepreneurs behind 30 of the country’s fastest-growing firms.

The Class of 2014 join an alumni already containing the founders of 330 businesses named since the Young Guns awards began in 2003.

The Young Guns Class of 2014 is as follows:
• Ross Bailey (22) – Appear Here
• James Uffindell (34) – Bright Network
• Malachy Guinness (25) and Woody Webster (35) – Bright Young Things
• Adam Goff (30) – Capital Living
• Matthew Hayes (34) – Champions (UK) plc
• Daniel Land (30) and Jeremy Sanders (29) – Coco Di Mama
• Willam Shu (34) and Greg Orlowski (35) – Deliveroo
• Sam Rickett (34) – Everlution
• Ed Brown (28) and Griff Holland (31) – Friska
• Timo Schmidt (29) and James Carter (29) – Gousto
• Alex Depledge (33), Tom Nimmo (30), and Jules Coleman(28) – Hassle
• Jamie (24), Roddy (20), and Ellie Keeble (18) – HECK FOOD
• Arnaud Bertrand (29) and JunJun Chen (31) – HouseTrip
• Chris Morton (32) and Sebastjan Trepca (31) – Lyst
• Daniel Callaghan (32) and Adam Riccoboni (32) – MBA & Company
• Robert Jakobi (29) – Metcalfe’s Food Company
• Dean Fankhauser (29) and Vincent Thome (33) – Nuji
• Nick Hungerford (34) – Nutmeg
• Jamie Ward (35) and Neil Harmsworth (34) – PayasUgym.com
• Adam Taylor (32) and Lexi Tamasan (26)– PetShopBowl.co.uk
• Cassandra Stavrou (30) and Ryan Kohn (30) – PROPERCORN
• Graham Cook (32), Daniel Shellard (31) and Ian McCaig (33) – Qubit
• Jeff Lynn (36 – 35 at time of judging) and Carlos Silva (34) – Seedrs
• Samy Trigui (32) – Senscraft
• Jackie Fast (30) – Slingshot Sponsorship
• Adam Pikett (33), Victoria Walton (31), Luke Pikett (31), and Rhys Jones (30) – SportPursuit
• Jane ni Dhulchaointingh (35) – Sugru
• Michael (31) and James Eder (32) – The Beans Group
• Rob Hill (35) – The Eventa Group
• Liam James (27) and Matt Green (26) – The iOutlet

Rob Hill commented:
“I am honored to be recognised as one of the UK’s outstanding entrepreneurs and be part of the Young Guns alumni. It has taken a lot of hard work over the last ten years to grow the Eventa Group to where it is today. With a strong team of employees and innovative management team- I am looking forward to further development of the business and expanding into other fields”.

The award winning Eventa Group was founded in 2004 by Rob Hill and his business partner Nick Shuff (39) and has seen remarkable growth over the last 3 years.