Peter Jones, CBE (born 18 March 1966) is a British
entrepreneur and businessman with interests in mobile phones,
television, media, leisure and property. He became a television
celebrity through his appearances on the BBC Two show Dragons' Den and on his American television show American Inventor. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours
Businesses
His second venture was a computer business where he manufactured PCs
under his own brand. In his mid twenties, he opened a cocktail bar in
Windsor based on the Tom Cruise film Cocktail. However, he lost £200,000 after deciding to sell it. According to an interview with The Times, Jones's computer business failed when he was in his twenties, and he was forced to give up his three-bedroom home in Bray, his cars, and had to move back in with his parents.[3] He then joined Siemens Nixdorf.[4]
After Siemens, he set up his next venture Phones International Group in April 1998.[5]
He started humbly by sleeping on the office floor but business soon
grew. The firm experienced explosive growth with revenue totalling
£14 million by the end of the first year and £44 million by the end of
the second. The company was one of the fastest growing businesses in
Europe. Group turnover for 2005/2006 was in excess of £150 million.[citation needed]
In the summer of 2005, Jones teamed up with another Dragons' Den star, Theo Paphitis, to buy the gift experience company Red Letter Days from fellow panellist Rachel Elnaugh, under whose ownership it had collapsed.
He has also created other businesses between 2004 and 2008, including
firms such as Wines4Business.com, an online retailer specialising in
the sale of wine and champagne to corporate clients and Celsius, a
specialist recruitment business.
His investments resulting from his appearances on Dragons' Den
include Wonderland Magazine (a luxury lifestyle and culture magazine),
Square Mile International (which provides data services for marinas and
later sold to BT), The Generating Company (a contemporary circus company), Concentrate Design (which creates products to help pupils concentrate at school), iTeddy and Reggae Reggae Sauce.[6]
He owns a TV production company called Peter Jones TV, and his
business portfolio also includes a range of property investments (his
nine properties include a Portuguese villa that he bought from DJ Chris Evans[3] and a property in Beverly Hills, California).
In 2009 Peter Jones founded the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy
(formally NEA) as a way to improve the entrepreneurial capabilities
within the UK. The Peter Jones Enterprise Academy (PJEA) is a centre of
excellence for enterprise and entrepreneurship and has several campuses
throughout the UK including Amersham, Sheffield, Manchester and Oxford.
Peter Jones sold part of Phones International Group, Wireless Logic, for £38 million in 2011.[7][8][9] Phones International Group retains Data Select, the other part of the group
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