Shaf Rasul, Dragon on BBC online Dragon's Den

IT and property entrepreneur Shaf Rasul, www.shafrasul.com, is one of Scotland’s most successful businessmen. He now features in an online version of the BBC’s Dragons Den alongside American Julie Meyer and host Dominic Byrne of the Chris Moyles Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

Edinburgh-based Rasul has an estimated wealth of £48million, according to the recent Sunday Times Rich list. His core business interests include optical-media distribution business E-Net Computers which he established in 2000. It is now the largest storage media distributor in Europe and one of the biggest byers of optical storage products in the world.

As well as expanding E-Net Computers, Rasul has developed a venture capital investment portfolio, worth in the region of £30million, which focuses on property, asset management and internet technology. Rasul - who is a guest columnist for the Scottish Sun and The Hirer - also has an arm dedicated to management buy-ins and buyouts which provides teams with the funding, bying power and exposure to the supply and distribution networks required to expand their business.

Steve Briggs, Operations Director, Law At Work

Steve Briggs has been involved in employment law since the late1970s, and conducted his first employment tribunal case in 1977. Since then he has worked in advisory, representation and teaching roles in the public, private, and voluntary sectors.

In 1993 he set up Central Employment Advice Project, an innovative employment law representation project in central Scotland. In 1996 he moved on to head up the employment law wing of a business advisory service run by a major financial services organisation. In 2001 he joined Law At Work where he holds the post of Operations Director. He has conducted several hundred employment tribunal cases on behalf of claimants, and a smaller number on behalf of respondents.

He also has considerable experience of EAT appearance work, and a number of the cases he has worked on have been reported. Between 1988 and 1993 Steve worked in journalism, and wrote widely on law, education and politics. He continues to write for publication on an ad-hoc basis, for print and web media.