Laura Ward-Ongley MBE, is founder of EXEAT, the UK’s most exported luxury tennis wear brand for women and winner of Start-Up Entrepreneur of The Year and Global Start-Up of The Year. Handmade in the UK from pioneering sustainable fabric and dubbed 'the fashion editor's favourite tennis brand', EXEAT’s critically acclaimed ‘haute courtwear’ can be seen on tennis, padel and pickleball’s most stylish players and found in the world’s most eminent private sporting clubs. Previous to EXEAT, Laura spent 18 years as an award-winning global marketing executive working with clients including Unilever, Vodafone, British Airways, Coca-Cola, Diageo, Jaguar-Land Rover, Audi, L’Oreal, P&G, H&M, News UK (The Times), Associated News (Mail on Sunday), Hearst and Ralph Lauren.