[2] It is a membership and charitable organisation formed of men and women connected with the City of London who have invested their own time and financial resources in establishing and running successful businesses and enterprises.

Its motto is Dare, Create, Succeed On 20 October 2020, the Court of Aldermen met to publicly determine the progression of the Guild of Entrepreneurs to a Company without Livery.

About this time, the city was recapturing some of its ancient trading origins alongside its established global role in financial and professional services.

The repurposing of once large banking halls, the growth of the business centre market and the development of technology were again making the city and the surrounding area more accessible to new types of entrepreneurial activity including media, textiles, communications, retail and leisure.

The membership of this group included a number of liverymen of the city’s Livery Companies, and from amongst them and others, the Founding Committee of the proposed Guild was drawn.

The event was attended by the then Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, Masters and Clerks representing over half of the city’s (then) 110 Livery Companies, as well as numerous guests.

The objectives of the company are to: An entrepreneur will have identified new market opportunities, sourced and organised the required people and resources, and experienced both the risks and rewards associated with such ventures.

Past Masters 2014-2015 Sir Paul Rupert Judge 2015-2016 Daniel Edward Doherty (died in office 16 March 2016) 2016-2017 Catherine Karen Jolly 2017-2018 Lee John Robertson 2018-2019 Hon.

Peter Lionel Raleigh Hewitt JP 2019-2020 Richard Paul Lowe 2020-2021 Lars Bendik Andersen 2021-2022 Judy Hadden 2022-2023 Gary Dixon 2023-2024 Mark Norman Huxley FRSA