Peter Jones

Peter is one of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs and became a television celebrity through his appearances on the BBC Two show Dragons' Den and on his American television show American Inventor. He is Chairman and Chief Executive of Phones International Group, steering and driving them forward as one of the UK's most successful and fastest-growing telecommunications businesses. He was born in 1966 and grew up in Maidenhead and attended the Desborough School before going onto The Windsor Boys' School. As a teenager he had a particular passion for tennis and even at the tender age of 16 his entrepreneurial zeal was emerging. He capitalised on his love of tennis by earning money from giving tennis lessons to friends and other pupils and, subsequently, set up his own tennis academy. By the time Peter was 21 he had his own home and was happily married. During the early 1990s, when Peter was in his mid-20s, he experienced the cruel hand of the market when his cocktail bar venture f