Vanilla Blush CEO, Nicola Dames, has expressed her delight at being nominated as one of the top twenty business women to watch. 

Responding to the news that the Scottish Business Insider has named Dublin-born Dames as one of the "Women to Watch", Nicola said: "I am surprised and chuffed and humbled, and more." 

Dames added: "There are huge numbers of great business people workign away quietly across Scotland and the United kIngdom, and I am just delighted to have been given such a compliment. I just hope that all the hard work is a sign to others that they can also set up and run their own businesses."

A former Intesnive Care Nurse, Dames concluded: "I'm very much a business person, but I never forget my great training and former career with the NHS."