Podcast: Great British Design: The Creative Charge | BODW 2020

03 Dec 2020

Great British Design: The Creative Charge | BODW 2020

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The Great British Design series features on-location videos of 14 creative thought leaders from the UK, who share how design can address topical challenges and change the world.

 

Speaker Info:

 

Guy Salter OBE MVO

Chairman, London Craft Week, UK

 

Dubbed Mr. Luxury by the press, Guy Salter OBE MVO is a long-standing specialist investor and retailer. He started out at the Arcadia Group, gradually moving from Fast Fashion to luxury, with a spell in between working for HRH The Prince of Wales.

 

Salter has been CEO or an investor in a range of retail & technology businesses, including Asprey Group, BazaarVoice, Laurent-Perrier Champagne, Tanner Krolle, Garrard and, most recently, Monica Vinader, Nyetimber, Hamilton and Hare.

 

His pro bono work includes fifteen years leading Walpole, which represents the British luxury industry. In 2015, he founded London Craft Week, the annual ‘Beyond Luxury’ Showcase with over 230 events spread across London. In 2012, the Prime Minister appointed him Vice Chairman of the GREAT Britain Campaign and he is also Chairman of the GREAT Festival.