Jamie Waller Deca-Millionaire Talking Unsexy Business

 In this episode, Jeannette talks to Jamie Waller who is a serial entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and much more. He talks about how he shook up the debt enforcement sector. 

Jamie and Jeannette speak about why and how he wrote his book Unsexy Business which celebrates under-rated businesses. Ones that are essential and successful, but not appreciated. They also discuss how to overcome the lack of social mobility in the UK. As well as how he managed being betrayed in business.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Jamie Waller is an entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. His book: Unsexy Business tells the story of his own life as a child of a charity for disadvantaged children, The Imps, and his business career which includes being held hostage at gunpoint in Leicester and being stabbed outside his home in East London. 

In 2016 he sold his first business, JBW Group to the publicly listed Outsourcing Inc, and in 2017 sold his second business to the same buyer. He now has an investment portfolio of 13 UK private equity companies, including an advisory company he acquired outright in 2017 and his third start-up that he founded in 2019. Jamie is Chair of The Prince’s Trust, Enterprise Network a charity that supported him as a young child, donor to The Imps a charity he was a member of for 11 years and sits on the advisory board of Breast Cancer Haven, a charity that helps people like his mum who suffered and died with cancer in 2014.

Unsexy Business Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unsexy-Business-Entrepreneurs-Businesses-Extraordinary/dp/B07SF7RNFS/

LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamie-waller-0b04063