Bold Woman Award
UK 2025 Shortlist

Veuve Clicquot has announced the finalists for the 2025 Bold Woman and Bold Future Awards. Now in its 53rd year, the awards are the longest-running international recognition of female entrepreneurship, celebrating exceptional UK women in business.

Bold by Veuve Clicquot supports and amplifies the voices of women business leaders, inspiring future generations to be even more ambitious.

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Bold Woman Award Finalists

The Bold Woman Award honours exceptional and audacious women who have demonstrated both institutional and personal success. The finalists were chosen by an independent panel of judges.

Discover below the Bold Woman Award finalists

Julia Hogget
Dame Julia Hoggett, DBE

BOLD WOMAN AWARD FINALIST

Julia Hoggett joined the London Stock Exchange Group in April 2021 and is CEO of London Stock Exchange plc and Head of Digital and Securities Markets for LSEG. Despite a challenging environment, Julia’s leadership has resulted in the London Stock Exchange remaining a leading global exchange and the number one venue in Europe for raising equity capital, with more raised in London in 2024 than the next three European exchanges combined.

Anne Aslett

BOLD WOMAN AWARD FINALIST

As CEO of the Elton John Aids Foundation, Anne has grown the charity's annual global revenues from roughly $1 million to $30 million. This has enabled the Foundation to grow significantly and in 2023 it dispersed the largest value of grants in its history, reaching more than 280,000 people in 42 countries.

Anne Aslett
Vivien Wong
Vivien Wong

BOLD WOMAN AWARD FINALIST

Vivien Wong founded Little Moons in 2010, and over the past 15 years has transformed it into a globally disruptive ice cream brand. Today, Little Moons is available in 36 countries worldwide, and was honoured with the Queen award for export in 2022. Vivien attributes the success to bold, disruptive thinking, and audaciously taking on the big players like Unilever, General Mills and other global corporations who have dominated the ice cream sector for the last forty years.

Bold Future Award Finalists

The Bold Future Award celebrates inspirational and ambitious up-and-coming female entrepreneurs. The finalists were chosen from a field of hundreds of applicants.

Discover below the Bold Future Award finalists

Ayesha Ofori

BOLD FUTURE AWARD FINALIST

Ayesha is the founder and CEO of Propelle, the UK’s first female-focused investment platform designed to empower women to build financial confidence and wealth. An experienced wealth manager and former executive director at Goldman Sachs, Ayesha managed over half a billion pounds for ultra-high-net-worth clients before launching Propelle.

Ayesha Ofori
Insiya Jafferjee
Insiya Jafferjee

BOLD FUTURE AWARD FINALIST

Insiya is the co-founder and CEO of Shellworks, a company breaking the reliance on petroleum plastics through its innovation Vivomer, a world-first sustainable packaging material. If nature made plastic, this would be it. After working at Apple and learning how to manufacture at scale, Insiya started Shellworks to solve the plastic waste crisis by creating materials that behave like plastic in use, but without creating adverse health or waste impacts.

Nina Mohanty

BOLD FUTURE AWARD FINALIST

Nina is the founder and CEO of Bloom Money, a fintech company creating financial tools for immigrant communities. Before Bloom, Nina worked for the Obama Administration at the US Embassy in London and built products at Klarna, Starling Bank, and Mastercard. Bloom Money’s flagship product, Bloom Circles, digitises traditional community savings clubs, providing secure and accessible tools to help immigrants build financial resilience and generational wealth.

Nina Mohanty
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Bold by Veuve Clicquot becomes a program redesigned for more inclusion, more impact, and more international visibility. A program structured around key phases throughout the year, around the world, with the Bold Woman Award at the heart of it all (previously known as the Business Woman Award).

This award will continue to highlight women entrepreneurs, make them visible and give them a voice. Our mission? To identify the Role Models of today and tomorrow. The women who inspire through their own journeys. The women whose names will become synonymous with boldness.

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