Stephanie Hussels, a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Cranfield School of Management, has joined the judging panel for the Growth Investor Awards to find the Growth Investor of the Year.

As part of her role at Cranfield she is the Director of the full-time MBA course and Co-Director of the Business Growth & Development Programme (BGP), the longest established owner-manager programme in the UK. Stephanie has a passion for early stage and growth companies, and will be looking at how finalists have demonstrated impact on their development. Besides working with entrepreneurs, Stephanie cooperates with charities and firms on how to encourage and implement ‘intrapreneurship’. Her current research focuses on entrepreneurial resilience and business survival.