Tech entrepreneur Ben Towers was just 27 when he was awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours list. He’s the founder of Happl, an AI-native employee benefits platform for global companies. With offices in London and New York, Happl is backed by Y Combinator – the Silicon Valley incubator that helped launch Airbnb and Reddit – as well as notable investors including Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo and GoCardless. He was awarded an MBE for services to the startup business community, after founding his first business at just 11 years old and being identified as ‘one of the UK’s most exciting entrepreneurs’ by Richard Branson while still a teenager.
