Welcome to this, the fifth and last of our podcasts for the Spectator's Economic Innovator of the Year Awards for 2021, sponsored by Charles Stanley Wealth Managers.

I'm Martin van der Weir.

I'm the business editor of The Spectator.

If you've been following this series, you've heard me speaking to you from Leeds and Exeter and London and from our Midlands podcast from Birmingham.

We're now today meeting the last four of 27 finalists

for this year's awards out of a total entry of 151 from right across the UK. And as I said,

I think after the Exeter meeting earlier this week, one of the very good things we've had this year

is we've had entries from quite remote places and small towns really spread out all across

the country. So probably even more so today we've got a couple of entries from the Highlands of Scotland, which we're pleased to see, just as we saw

some entries last week from Cornwall, from Somerset, and we've had them from Redcar, from

Scarborough, from Durham. So there's enterprise going on all over the country. Anyway, I'm delighted

to be joined again this year by two now veteran judges

of this competition. So I'm just going to ask first Irene McAlees, would you like to reintroduce

yourself very briefly?

Yeah, so hi everyone. My name's Irene McAleese. I'm co-founder of C-Sense. We're a cycling

technology and data company based in Northern Ireland.

And happy to say we are previous winners of this award for the Northern Ireland and Scotland category.

So I'm delighted to be back here again today to Judge.

Thank you. And Ian Ritchie.

Yes, my name is Ian Ritchie. I live in Edinburgh. I am an angel

investor. I've invested in over 50 start-up companies personally, but I'm also involved in the venture

capital business. As a non-execate to the chairman of Tern PLC, and we invest in IOT companies.

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