A dragon was invited to a school’s own Dragons’ Den style event.

Jenny Campbell was part of a star-studded panel at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School on March 7 and helped judge a number of innovative and entrepreneurial ideas that were presented by the Elstree pupils.

She was joined by former Dragon Piers Linney, and former Habs’ student Magnus Djaba, now CEO at Saatchi & Saatchi. The show was presented by Sonali Shah.

Dragons’ Den is a television show which provides an opportunity for budding entrepreneurs to present their business ideas to a panel of five wealthy investors.

CryptoCorp won the prize after they fought off competition from three rivals with their pitch for an unhackable cloud-based data storage space.

Year 10 pupils Manav Pannekanti and Daniel Rivlin’s idea was inspired by an incident two years ago.

Manav said: “Two years ago my computer was compromised in a Ransomware attack and it astonished me that multinational businesses can still be so easily hacked today. I saw a gap in the market and was delighted to pitch to such high-profile people.”

Following the event, Ms Campbell said: “As an ambassador for Young Enterprise, I’m very passionate about supporting young people to be successful as individuals, particularly in business. The competition is a great idea and all the teams did very well. I thought all the boys were confident and credible.”

Mr Linney added: “I wanted to return to Habs to support the next generation of entrepreneurs and was once again very impressed with the quality of presentation and research into market opportunities for each product, as well as the ability of the students to answer questions under pressure. Each team showed a great understanding of business, entrepreneurship and the impact of new technologies.”

It was Habs’ second Dragons’ Den style show, which took place during National Careers Week and was the idea of another ‘old boy’, Khilian Dodhia.