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Business, Corporates, Financiers & Entrepreneurs

NEW Tevin Tobun Tevin is chair of the charity Inspirational You, which is set
2020 up to empower BAME students, leaders and entrepreneurs.
Founder and CEO,
Gate Ventures Group He is a life patron of the Springboard Charity, which focuses
on getting people from disadvantaged backgrounds into jobs
in the hospitality sector. He sits on the board of governors for
Without Tevin Tobun’s Gate Ventures Group, some of the his alumnus, Middlesex University – he is the only black board
country’s biggest retailers, including Fortnum & Mason, member despite the population being more than 60 per cent
Makro and the Tesco-owned Booker Group, would have a ethnic minority – and is a board member of the hospitality
huge problem moving food around the metropolitan areas group Arena.
of England. GV Group is the biggest black-owned last-mile He was Highly Commended at the IOD Young Director of the
food logistics firm in the UK and boasts all three as clients. Year awards, a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year at the Black
Tevin founded the parent company, GV Group, in 2001 British Business Awards and saw GV Group named overall
– just months after graduating from university. It has Supplier of the Year and Innovative Company of the Year at the
grown to become a multi-sector business boasting 300 MSDUK awards in 2012.
employees. Recently the Group has moved into the oil and Tevin launched the Tevin Tobun/GV Scholarship in 2015,
gas sector with a supply vessel business and is the majority which offers funding to four young people from disadvantaged
shareholder in a tech start-up called Rout’d Technology. backgrounds to support their university studies.

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