Robert Leggett, 36

Managing director

Omni Resource Management Solutions

Greatest professional achievement: Starting Omni RMS as a 24-year-old with a £30,000 overdraft facility from Whiteway Laidlaw bank and reaching revenues of £1m within 12 months.

Current business goal: To increase Omni’s revenues by £40m to 2010 and profits to £2m and to become Europe’s leading recruitment outsourcer.

Leggett is one of those characters who seemed destined to run his own business from an early age. The son of an estate agent, he started running his first venture — an agency offering waiters and crockery for hire with marquee events — while still at school. He eventually dropped out of college because he was spending more time organising events than studying, and gained a brief (if ill-tempered) apprenticeship with newspaper entrepreneur-turned-golf course proprietor Eddy Shah. However, he rates the fact that he managed to get Altrincham-based Omni RMS — a company which offers complete outsourcing of an organisation’s recruitment function — off the ground at the age of 24 as his biggest coup. Since then Omni RMS has continued to grow, and the business now finds staff for the likes of Allied Irish Bank, French Insurance giant Groupama and US software firm Sungard.

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