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For more than five decades, Veuve Clicquot has championed women who lead with vision, courage, and determination.
On 20 May 2026, hosted at Dovetale at 1 Hotel Mayfair, the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Awards brought together guests from the worlds of business, culture, and entrepreneurship to celebrate a new generation of female leaders shaping the future of British business. Now in its 54th year in the UK, the Bold Woman Awards remains the longest-running international recognition programme of its kind, spotlighting women whose ambition, innovation, and leadership continue to redefine entrepreneurship.
This year, the 2026 UK Bold Woman Awards honoured Smruti Sriram with the Bold Woman Award, recognising her transformative work in sustainable packaging and ethical manufacturing. Alisha Fredriksson received the Bold Future Award for her pioneering work developing carbon capture technology to help decarbonise the shipping industry.
As a second-generation entrepreneur, Smruti Sriram OBE, has continued her family's business, becoming the go-to supplier to world-class brands and retailers, from Selfridges and London Fashion Week to Dior and beyond. The business is an award-winning vertically-integrated manufacturer of reusable merchandise and sustainable packaging that has been at the forefront of reducing single-use plastic bags and packaging. To date, over 30 billion single-use items have been estimated to have been eliminated thanks to Smruti and the business.
Seabound is a London-based startup decarbonising global shipping by developing modular carbon capture equipment for ships. Seabound has pioneered a new category of climate technology, completed two world-first pilots with top-tier shipping companies, and raised over $10M in equity and grant funding from Lowercarbon Capital, Y Combinator, the UK Department for Transport, and the European Space Agency.
The award’s judging panel features a mixture of 15 industry leaders and networkers, including Kristina Blahnik, CEO of Manolo Blahnik; Bridget Lea, Managing Director of Allwyn UK, Matt Penneycard Co-founding Partner at Ada Ventures; and Pip Jamieson, founder of The Dots.
The Bold Woman Award honours exceptional and audacious women who have demonstrated both institutional and personal success.
Joining Pizza Express as CEO in 2022, Paula MacKenzie has over 20 years’ experience in transforming food and beverage companies. Known for her ability to put emotion into brands both locally and internationally, Paula, who previously was UK & Ireland MD at KFC, led the brand through transformation, accelerating revenue growth and helping to define food innovation, restaurant design and category-led chicken welfare.
Entrepreneur, changemaker, and social innovator, Kanya King CBE is a cultural architect whose vision has reshaped British music, culture, and opportunity for three decades. The MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin) is Europe’s largest and most influential celebration of Black music and culture. Since its launch in 1996, Kanya has built MOBO from a single awards night into a multi-layered cultural ecosystem that spans music, talent development, education, heritage, enterprise, and community impact.
The Bold Future Award celebrates inspirational and ambitious up – and – coming female entrepreneurs.
At just 28, Marisa Poster has turned PerfectTed into a £50M ARR powerhouse, transforming matcha from a niche wellness trend into a mainstream movement and building a world-leading matcha brand. Alongside co-founders Teddie and Levi Levenfiche, she is rewriting the rules of the global matcha market. In under four years, they scaled from kitchen-table experiments to 30,000+ retail locations across 50+ countries, making PerfectTed the undisputed leader in matcha today.
Josephine Philips is the Founder and CEO of SOJO, a UK-based B-Corp platform for clothing repairs and alterations, launched in January 2021. Her mission is to promote circularity in fashion by tackling the widespread lack of accessible and convenient tailoring. SOJO offers scalable alteration and repair solutions for e-commerce and retail brands including GANNI, Selfridges, and Marks & Spencer embedding sustainability directly into their aftersales experiences.
Bold by Veuve Clicquot is an international program born in 1972 and designed for greater inclusion, greater impact, and greater visibility for women business leaders.
Built around numerous moments of exchange and inspiration, Bold by Veuve Clicquot encourages generations of women to be ever bolder.
