With a declared passion for business, making money and establishing start-up companies, Leon Doyle, the self-proclaimed ‘Start-Up Guru’, has started several business ventures over the past 15 years. From his humble beginnings as a ‘charming, genuine and honest’ paperboy and lorry driver from Leeds, he is now the CEO of MYMA, the IoT cloud that powers the smart home range WifiPlug, with the ultimate aim of reducing their energy bills. He was once described as the ‘Huddersfield takeaway tycoon’, but he now has a reputation to gather audiences at entrepreneurial speaking events the world over.
He came to prominence in 2009 when he appeared on the online spin-off of the popular TV show, Dragons’ Den, pitching his business, Master Menu to the onlooking Dragons. Doyle began the business – which compiles takeaway menus into a single brochure – when he was still at Huddersfield University. Though he didn’t earn an investment, the Dragons described him as 'presentable and dynamic', so Leon certainly made the right impression. Indeed, far from deterring him from his entrepreneurial pursuits, for Leon, this initial setback was just the beginning. He then competed on the hit BBC TV show, The Apprentice, in 2010. Despite hearing the infamous words, ‘You’re fired!’ from Sir Alan sooner than he would have liked, he was nevertheless the nation’s favourite.
Leon has a long list of start-up successes to his name including the 0800Divert app, designed to enable people to make cheaper calls to freephone numbers from their mobile phones, and TipTech iGloves, which enable people to use their smartphones and tablets in the winter months without ‘freezing their fingers off’. Leon cites Richard Branson and Apple as ‘inspirational’ and he is making waves to put himself in a similar bracket in the coming years.
Over the past 15 years, Doyle has proved himself to be a determined and resilient entrepreneur, the ideal guest speaker at any business or digital event. Indeed, many blue-chip companies have already been inspired by his TV tales and entrepreneurial escapades; Leon has been hired to talk at speaking events by Smart IoT London, EIA Startup, Business Link and VentureFest, as well as numerous universities.
This inspiring and motivational speaker is just the kind of speaker you should hire for your business-related conference. Through his proven business acumen and his charismatic personality, Leon certainly has what it takes to inspire your audience.
