
Professor Dylan Jones-Evans OBE is the co-founder of IDEAS which is responsible for the UK Start-Up Awards, the UK Fast Growth Index, the Great British Entrepreneur Awards and Ideas Fest.
A passionate advocate for start-up and scale-up businesses, he was appointed as the first professor of entrepreneurship in Wales in 1996 and has held senior posts in several universities. He is currently visiting professor at Turku University in Finland and Aston University in the UK.