Entrepreneurial Winner 2011

Entrepreneurial Category Winner

Nicolas Holzherr

Age: 25
Job Title: Founder
Company: QRky Ltd

Nicolas graduated from the University of Aston with a FirstClass Honours degree in international business and modern languages, where he was founding president of the ‘Students in free enterprise’ society that runs projects in the local community. In 2009, he founded three companies: QRky Ltd, which used quick response technology to link digital contact and multimedia data; Recip.ly, which links recipe websites with online supermarkets; and Co-Go Coffee Ltd, which sells high-quality, ethical takeaway coffee. Named Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 by Midlands Business Insider magazine, he is a guest lecturer at the University of Birmingham’s Business School and also at Birmingham City University.

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