Anthony Impey MBE is a serial entrepreneur and experienced business leader with a track-record in starting, building, and operating businesses and not-for-profit organisations in the tech and skills sectors.

He started his first business at school and went on to build several businesses including Touchbase Network and Technology House.  As founder and chief executive of Optimity, he built one of the UK’s leading providers of fixed-wireless internet services and a multi award-winning apprenticeship programme.  He also founded TechCity Stars and Tech Up Nation; not-for-profit organisations that helped disadvantaged young Londoners kickstart their careers in the tech sector.

He is chair of the Federation of Small Business new policy think tank, the UK government’s Apprenticeship Stakeholder Board and the Mayor of London’s Apprenticeship Advisory Group.

He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours for Services to Apprenticeships and Small Business.