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18: Hostage bailiff to multi-million pound investor, Jamie Waller

Published: March 6, 2021, 2:05 p.m.

Jimmy Carpenter chats to British entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor, Jamie Waller.

Jamie is probably best known for founding his self-confessed “unsexy business”, where he set up a debt collection agency called the JBW Group which led to him starring in the BBC TV series ‘The Enforcers’.

He grew up in Bethnal Green, leaving school at 16 with no qualifications but by the age of 22 he’d made his first million. Along the way of trying to tidy up the debt collection business, he’s been held hostage at gun point too!

In 2016 and 2017, Jamie sold businesses that were valued at over £40m. He now holds a mixture of controlling and non-controlling equity stakes in many UK-based businesses and a large UK residential and commercial property portfolio.

Find out more at www.jamiewaller.co.uk

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