Peter Kelly
Peter Kelly said he set out to found his own business after “every authority figure in my life was dictating what I should do and how I should behave”.
That business, initially run out of his garden shed, became Softcat, a provider of IT infrastructure and services, and was set up with a democratic ethos in mind: employees would vote for managers, and on their colleagues’ salaries.
Kelly stepped down from his role as non-executive director of Softcat (and retired his unofficial title of ‘minister of fun’) in October 2015, just before the business launched an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. However, he still owns a 32.6% stake in the business, the value of which has grown fourfold since listing.
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