The British Enterprise Financial institution’s chief government, Louis Taylor (pictured), has been awarded a CBE for providers to enterprise and commerce within the King’s New Yr Honours Listing 2025.
Moreover, Catherine Lewis la Torre, former chief government of the Financial institution’s business subsidiaries, British Affected person Capital and British Enterprise Investments, and interim chief government of the British Enterprise Financial institution has been awarded a CBE for providers to enterprise.
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And Judith Hartley, former chief government of the Financial institution’s business subsidiary, British Enterprise Investments and interim chief government of British Affected person Capital, has been awarded an MBE for providers to enterprise.
“I’m delighted to have obtained this Honour from His Majesty,” mentioned Taylor. “Importantly, it highlights the genuinely excellent and productive work completed by so many colleagues over time at each UK Export Finance and the British Enterprise Financial institution within the service of UK enterprise and commerce, and I thank them for that.”
Lewis La Torre mentioned: “It’s really great to be recognised for the affect achieved for companies throughout the UK arising from the totally different roles I held on the Financial institution. The unwavering assist of my groups, friends and colleagues was the important ingredient which made the profitable supply of formidable outcomes doable. This was true whether or not I used to be serving as interim chief government of the British Enterprise Financial institution, appointed by the Secretary of State for Enterprise to steer the Financial institution although the Covid disaster, or because the foundational chief government of British Affected person Capital, launched to deal with the market failure for scale-up capital within the UK and, in my first position as chief government of the British Enterprise Investments, resetting the funding technique to supply a broader vary of lending and credit score choices for SMEs.”
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Hartley mentioned: “I’m actually thrilled to obtain this honour in recognition of providers to enterprise. Supporting the UK’s smaller companies has been a continuing all through my profession, and I couldn’t have achieved any of this with out the good colleagues and management groups I’ve labored with at British Enterprise Investments, British Affected person Capital and the British Enterprise Financial institution.”
The British Enterprise Financial institution is the UK’s financial growth financial institution, supporting entry to finance for smaller companies throughout the nation through greater than 200 supply companions. Its programmes assist over £17.4bn of finance to over 64,000 smaller companies, as of the top of March 2024.
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