Peter Jones
Peter Jones was born in Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom on March 18th, 1966 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 58, Peter Jones biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
When he was just 16 years old, he started a company in which he built personal computers under his own name. However, after deciding to sell it to IBM, he lost £200,000. Jones once said that his computer business died in his twenties, when he was young; he was forced to part of Bray's three-bedroom house and his cars; and then had to move back in with his parents. He joined Siemens Nixdorf later this year.
He opened a cocktail bar in Windsor based on the Tom Cruise film Cocktail in his mid-twenties.
After Siemens' purchase, he started Phones International Group in April 1998.
Jones acquired Red Letter Days from another panelist Rachel Elnaugh, who was previously on Dragons' Den, in the summer of 2005.
Between 2004 and 2008, Jones operated Wines4Business.com, an online store specializing in the selling of wine and champagne to corporate clients, and Celsius Resourcing – a specialty recruitment firm mainly focusing on biotechnologists.
He founded The Peter Jones Foundation on July 1, 2005, a charity that seeks to promote education among young women, particularly through enterprise and entrepreneurial studies.
Jones founded the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy (PJEA, formerly NEA) in 2009 to promote entrepreneurialism in the United Kingdom. PJEA has campuses located throughout the United Kingdom, including Amersham, Sheffield, Manchester, Southend, and Oxford. A new Peter Jones Enterprise Academy would be launched in Leamington by Warwickshire College in November 2013. Pupils were supposed to learn how to grow a company or develop essential skills in becoming a profitable entrepreneur. Both the Leamington and Rugby campuses would be offered the BTEC Level 3 Enterprise and Entrepreneurship qualification.
Luxury lifestyle and culture, as well as luxury lifestyle and culture, are among Dragons' Den's investment choices..
Peter Jones TV, a television production company, has several property investments (he has acquired a Portuguese villa that he purchased from DJ Chris Evans and a Beverly Hills, California)).
In 2011, Jones sold part of the Phones International Group, Wireless Logic, for £38 million, retaining the Data Select portion.
Jones became the owner and chief executive of Jessops in the United Kingdom in 2013.
Jones and his Dragon's Den and Red Letter Days partner Theo Paphitis were almost scammed by an accountant who forged cheques over a two-month period, according to a release on August 6, 2017. Judge Joanna Greenberg QC cautioned Wood Green Court that "this was a serious offence, a fraud of trust for a long time." The most likely result is for Custody.
Jones is the only original Dragon on the BBC's Dragons' Den, which began in January 2005 and has produced nineteen series to date; the new series premiered in January 2022. Jones fought in the Den with former Dragon Duncan Bannatyne, who appeared on the show from 2005 to 2014.
The Inventor was sold by the American Broadcasting Company as a result of his television show concept. Fremantle, Simon Cowell, and Peter Jones Television co-produced "American Inventor" on March 6, 2006. With a 7.8 average rating and a 13 percent share, ABC was a judge on the first episode of Inventors, which was broadcast in 2007.
Jones, who signed the "Golden Handcuffs" contract with ITV to appear as the company's new "face" of corporate television, appeared on GMTV on September 21, 2006, to discuss Dragons' Den and his latest ITV show Tycoon, which was produced by the Peter Jones Television corporation. When they first began in 2005, the viewing figures were 2.1 million viewers, more than the UK premiere of The Apprentice and Dragons' Den. The series debuted on Monday, September 9th, 2007 as a 30-minute format for the 10 p.m. slot. Tycoon in Schools is also inspired by the Tycoon family, which is now in its third year of operation.
Duncan Bannatyne and Deborah Meaden co-starred in the fifth episode of his Dragons' Den co-stars in January 2010. Jones appeared in ITV2's Celebrity Juice in May 2010, and James Corden's World Cup Live in June. Jones appeared on BBC Quiz Show Never Mind the Buzzcocks in November 2010 and in The Magicians in January 2011. Jones has appeared on "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment of Top Gear twice, once on his own and once with fellow Dragons' Den judge Theo Paphitis.
In 2008, Jones took over as the front-end of BT Business from Gordon Ramsay. Jones is also the Ambition Ambassador for Sage Group's company, and he appears in their television advertisements as well as being a client of the company.