Professor Graham Shapiro is an award-winning British inventor, designer & digital entrepreneur. A Fellow member of The Chartered Society of Designers, Chartered Institute of Marketing and The Royal Society of Arts. Freeman of the City of London. Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Westminster, Professor in Practice at the University of Dundee, Ambassador of Innovation for The University of Cambridge, Chairman of Arcet Global. Graham invented the interloopmailer® and Reggie®.
For 30 years his company Graham Shapiro Design (GSD®) has created online and offline visual communication for some of the world’s most respected companies, including Apple, Bentley, Liverpool F.C, Rolex, Samsung and The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award He has won numerous design and business awards, including UK Technology Entrepreneur of the Year 2016; Finalist GB Entrepreneur of the Year 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2024; a gold Stevie award as Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018.
He is also the founder of The Graham Shapiro Foundation. A Charity that’s aim is to establish a real way to support mental health, wellbeing and to inspire innovation and young entrepreneurialism in the UK. Winning NonProfit Organisation Awards 2025, receiving the accolade for Young Persons’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Charity of the Year in the United Kingdom.