New Year Honours 2023
Octavius Black CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Co-Founder and lately Chief Executive Officer • MindGym and Co-founder
“For services to Entrepreneurship, to Business, to Life Sciences and to the Community.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
For services to Entrepreneurship, to Business, to Life Sciences and to the Community.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
31 December 2022
The KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
C.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Octavius Orlando Irvine Casati BLACK
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, MindGym and Co-founder, ParentGym
For services to Entrepreneurship, to Business, to Life Sciences and to the Community.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63918 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2023- Role at the time
- Co-Founder and lately Chief Executive Officer, MindGym and Co-founder
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- London, Greater London
“For services to Entrepreneurship, to Business, to Life Sciences and to the Community.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 106 times in the New Year Honours List 2023 — about 7% of the list.
In their area
454 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Greater London.
What organisation were they with?
Co-Founder and lately Chief Executive Officer, MindGym and Co-founder.
How widely is this recognised?
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Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2023
London Gazette (official record), issue 63918, notice 4246382. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2023).
Published 30 December 2022.
Location (London, Greater London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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