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Who Imran Savas is

Imran Savas is the Founder of Tape UK, a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, TED speaker and social advocate. He is one of the most compelling and distinctive voices in British public life today — on entrepreneurship, values-led leadership, faith and identity, social justice, and what it actually means to build something from nothing.

He is not a commentator. He has done it. That is what makes him worth covering.

Key facts

25 awards and accolades since founding Tape UK in 2019
400k+ social media following including politicians, celebrities and cultural influencers
99% client retention rate at Tape UK
Two major corporate acquisition offers declined — in 2019 and again in 2025
Four clean water projects funded through Tape UK's philanthropic programme
TED Talk promoted to TED.com alongside Bill Gates, Simon Sinek and Mel Robbins
Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 and 2026
Raised in a single-parent household on benefits
Founded Tape UK with no clients, no funding and no team

The story in brief

Raised in a single-parent Mauritian household on benefits, Imran understood the language of bills, sacrifice and survival before most children understood arithmetic. He refused free school meals — not out of pride but dignity. With no roadmap and no role models who reflected his world, he became his own.

In 2019 he founded Tape UK with no clients, no funding and no team and within months turned down a major corporate acquisition offer to protect the mission. When COVID struck in the first year of trading, he told his entire client base not to pay and continued serving them throughout lockdown. He turned down a second major offer in 2025.

Tape UK is now a nationally recognised, multi-award-winning platform serving small businesses across the UK — entirely self-funded, with a 99% client retention rate, and a built-in philanthropic programme funding four clean water projects, a tree-planting programme and a newborn baby support incubator.

His TEDx talk Leaders of Tomorrow was promoted to TED.com, placing him alongside Bill Gates, Simon Sinek and Mel Robbins. He has received 25 national accolades. His social following of 400k+ includes politicians, celebrities and cultural changemakers.

In 2024, accepting Entrepreneur of the Year at the MBCC Awards — defeating Gymshark's Ben Francis MBE — he wore a Palestinian keffiyeh and used the stage not for self-celebration but to speak for humanity. The room gave him a standing ovation. He did the same again in 2026.

He has used every stage he has earned to speak for those who do not have one.

What Imran speaks to on air

These are not topics he has read about. They are things he has lived.

Entrepreneurship — Building a business with no money, no investors and no safety net. What the journey actually looks like beyond the highlight reel.

Values-led leadership — Why integrity is a competitive advantage. How to lead in a way that builds genuine trust rather than just performance.

Humanitarian advocacy — On the responsibility that comes with a platform, and what it looks like to use visibility for something that matters.

Faith and identity in modern Britain — What it means to be a British Muslim entrepreneur navigating identity, community and public life with authenticity in 2026.

Diversity and inclusion — What genuine equity looks like inside a business, and why most initiatives fail to deliver it. Spoken from the inside, not from a report.

Social impact and philanthropy — How profit and purpose coexist, and why businesses that embed giving from day one consistently outperform those that bolt it on later.

Resilience — The honest account of what sustained entrepreneurship costs, and what it actually takes to keep going when the business and the world are both testing you at the same time.

Selected media coverage

BBC 

ITV

BBC Radio 

M&S 

Anthony Walker Foundation
Co-op Live Manchester
London Islamic Cultural Society
British Muslim Heritage Centre
Manchester Metropolitan University
Queen Mary University of London
The Ivy London
Hotel Rafayel, Battersea
MBCC Awards
Department for Work and Pensions
TED / TEDx

UK News Group

FC Urban 

Mastercard 

UEFA

The Sunday Times
All About Cheshire Magazine

Awards and recognition

2026 — Entrepreneur of the Year, British Zariah Awards — 25th accolade since 2019
2026 — Nominated, Entrepreneur of Excellence, National Diversity Awards, Airbus-sponsored category in association with HSBC UK
2025–26 — Judge, MBCC Awards, alongside representatives from The FA and The King's Trust
2025 — Featured in official MBCC 10-year publication alongside Annie Lennox, Levi Roots and Benjamin Zephaniah
2025 — Nominated, Most Inspirational Entrepreneur, Multicultural Inspire Awards
2025 — Nominated, Entrepreneur of Excellence and Role Model of the Year, National Diversity Awards
2024 — Entrepreneur of the Year, MBCC Awards, defeating Ben Francis MBE of Gymshark
2023 — Immortalised in LEGO, Chester Market
2023 — Nominated, two National Diversity Awards
2022 — LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders, Sunday Times
2022 — Featured, See Me Be Me campaign, M&S and Anthony Walker Foundation
2021 — Shortlisted, Most Influential Business Person of the Year, MBCC Awards
2020 — TEDx speaker, Leaders of Tomorrow, promoted to TED.com
2020 — Nominated, Positive Role Model Award, National Diversity Awards, honoured alongside Marcus Rashford MBE
2019 — Founded Tape UK

Press assets

The following are available on request:

High-resolution photography — professional headshots and event photography for approved editorial use

Video — broadcast-quality footage available for documentary, editorial and news use. Includes event appearances, award ceremonies and speaking engagements

Speaker profile — one page, suitable for event programmes and conference listings

Booking Imran for broadcast

Imran is available for television appearances, radio interviews and features, podcast guest slots, panel discussions and debates, documentary contributions, and award show hosting and presenting.

He does not give rehearsed answers. He gives real ones. Real answers make great content.

Response within 24 hours for all press and broadcast enquiries.