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Joseph Valente

Instagram: @mrjosephvalente_

Series: 11

Finished: Winner

Instagram followers: 101,000

The 11th winner of The Apprentice lives and breathes for business. Not only did he start his own Impragas business at the tender age of 22, but the company would grow to become the UK’s largest independent boiler installation company.

After winning the hit BBC show, the ambitious entrepreneur was named in Forbes’ 2018 prestigious “30 under 30” list, wrote his own bestseller – the snappily titled Expelled from the Classroom to the Billionaire Boardroom – started his Social Entrepreneur Podcast and was even named in Forbes’ 2018 edition of the prestigious 30 under 30 list.

Dom Walbanke

Dom Walbanke

Dom Walbanke is a feature writer for Growth Business and Small Business, focused on matters concerning start-ups and scale-ups. He has also been published in the Independent, FourFourTwo magazine and various...

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