Brian O’Sullivan, founder and main govt of Zeus Packaging has been named the global and overall 2021 EY Entrepreneur of The Yr.

Zeus is 1 of the largest privately owned packaging companies in Europe. It employs far more than 670 folks, has business models in 26 nations around the world and annual revenues of above €300 million.

Mr O’Sullivan originally funded Zeus by marketing properties he experienced invested in for the duration of his studies and employing all of his own price savings. Since then, he has led the enterprise as a result of sizeable growth, both organically and by way of acquisitions that have been financed by credit card debt instead than exterior financial investment. He is now trying to find to expand turnover to about €500 million in the coming a few a long time.

Mr O’Sullivan allow out a significant scream of joy on phase soon after acquiring the award. His information to budding business owners was a person of “resilience, work, make certain you have heaps of frequent sense, lots of cop on and that you’ve received a purpose and once the objectives are achieved you go on. Tomorrow early morning it is all about what we do in Zeus…it’s about preserve likely and driving ahead.”

The businessman received his awards at a virtual ceremony on Thursday with an viewers of much more than 2,000 individuals.

The 24 finalists for this year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards collectively hire a lot more than 3,900 people and make earnings in extra of €1 billion.

Other winners on the night wereAimee Connolly, founder of Sculptured by Aimee, who was named emerging entrepreneur of the calendar year, and David Henderson, controlling director of…