Welcome to this, the fourth podcast in our series of podcasts talking about the finalists for the 2019 Spectator Economic Disruptor of the Year awards sponsored by the private bank Julius Baer.

Today we're in Manchester and we're meeting the four finalists chosen out of quite a large entry this year

for the Northwest, Manchester and Wales. And we had four fantastic presentations

over lunch just now, and we've now come together with the judges for this region with me.

I have guest judge Hugh Campbell, who's a founder and managing partner of the Investment Bank,

GP Bullhound. We have Gordon Scott, who's a founder and managing partner of the investment bank GP Bullhound. We have Gordon Scott,

who's a regional director of Julius Bear, myself, Martin van der Weir, business editor and columnist

for The Spectator. Joining us down the line on the phone, also we have Stuart Stuart Marks who is a venture capitalist here in

Manchester and in London who is our additional guest judge. The first one we heard from the

company is called Intellisant. Its product is called Howes, H-O-W-Z z and it is in the business of elder care dementia care it's a piece of

technology which is a sensor in the home that can sense the patterns of behavior of an elderly

person whether they change or show some unusual feature, such as

whether a person is late to get out of bed one day or several days in a row or display some

other behaviour that can be sensed by electronic sensors fed back to their family or to their carers or to their

GPs and so on. This is in a relatively early stage. It's on the brink of commercialisation.

It's being road tested with utility companies. It has applications that could combine with insurance companies

and with the NHS and so on so we're not inviting Stuart Marks to comment on this one

because he declared an interest he he has followed this company closely and was an early

stage investor in it so Stuart won't be commenting,

but I'll invite our first guest, Judge Hugh Campbell, to tell us what he thought of the presentation,

which we heard from Jonathan Burr, the chief executive and founder, Hugh.

Yeah, I thought Jonathan gave a very interesting presentation.

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