Peter Jones (entrepreneur)
| Peter Jones CBE |
|
|---|---|
| Born |
18 March 1966 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, businessman, television presenter |
| Known for |
Dragons' Den American Inventor Tycoon |
| Net worth |
 GB£435 million (as of 2013)
|
| Spouse(s) | Caroline (separated) |
| Partner(s) | Tara Jones |
| Children | 5 |
| Website | www |
Peter David Jones, CBE (born 18 March 1966) is a British entrepreneur and businessman with interests in mobile phones, television, media, leisure and property. He is the last original panellist on the BBC Two television show Dragons' Den and on American television series American Inventor.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. A profile in the Sunday Times Rich List 2013 estimated his wealth at GB£475 million.
Peter Jones grew up in Maidenhead and attended Desborough School there and, subsequently, The Windsor Boys' School. In a newspaper health quiz he said that he trained to be a tennis coach in his teens, and still played when he could.
He set up a computer business where he made 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. In an interview with The Times, Jones once said his computer business failed when he was in his twenties, and he was forced to give up his three-bedroom home in Bray and his cars, and had to move back in with his parents. He then joined Siemens Nixdorf.
After Siemens, he set up his next venture Phones International Group in April 1998.
In the summer of 2005, Jones, together with Theo Paphitis, a fellow panellist Dragons' Den, bought gift experience company Red Letter Days from another fellow panellist Rachel Elnaugh, under whose ownership it had collapsed.
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