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Jamie Waller (entrepreneur)

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In 2021, in response to the international pandemic, Waller introduced a technology solution to the industry to protect vulnerable people from being visited by Government collection companies which the Government and industry tried to stop. His business, Just, was successful in taking the matter to
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dropped charges against a man arrested for allegedly assaulting a JBW bailiff, concluding that the bailiff was trespassing and that the man was within his rights to use reasonable force to eject him. In 2017, he sold the business to a Japanese company, Outsourcing Inc. Waller founded the financial
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While growing up in East London Waller was part of the Imps, a charity for disadvantaged children which in 2015 he saved with the help of other entrepreneurs from going bankrupt. He was part of the Imps from age 5 through to 16. As a child from a disadvantaged background, that also suffered from
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Waller is also the Founder and immediate past Chair of the Prince's Trust Enterprise Network which he formed in 2020. In 2023, he accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of His Majesty King Charles III and The Prince’s Trust at the Business Champion Awards.
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Waller started working as a debt collector but quit at the age of 21, planning to travel the world for a year. In Australia, he started a business building and selling camper vans for other tourists.
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the High Court which ruled that a person in debt can request that a visit was undertaken virtually and not in person which would go on to save those in debt costs and protect the spread of Covid.
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Waller founded the private equity business Firestarters in 2017. In 2017, he acquired the international consulting firm Arum and in 2019 founded the FinTech firm Just.
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He founded the debt collection company JBW Group in 2004. In 2014, the firm attempted unsuccessfully to obtain a legal injunction preventing the BBC from airing a
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in England and Wales. JBW Group's tender was unsuccessful and the Group challenged the MoJ, alleging that there had been a breach of the
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TV show for two years beginning in 2000 along with other members of WiseHill and JBW staff. He was also featured in the follow-up show
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in the way the tender exercise had been undertaken. Their claim was dismissed on the basis that the contracts concerned were
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services technology company, Hito, six days after selling JBW Group. In 2017, the company was also sold to Outsourcing Inc.
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He is also the author of two books, Unsexy Business and The Dyslexic Entrepreneur
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In 2018, Cranfield University awarded him the Entrepreneur of the Year award.
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and not public services contracts, and the dismissal was upheld by the
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dyslexia, Waller was also helped by the charity, The Prince's Trust
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During his career, he was stabbed and held hostage at gunpoint.
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JBW Group Ltd v Ministry of Justice [2012] EWCA Civ 8
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episode critical of the company's practices. In 2015, the
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debt collection
outsourcing
fintech
private equity
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London's East End
Raine's Foundation School
Cranfield University
Stanford University
London Business School
Panorama
Crown Prosecution Service
Ministry of Justice
magistrates courts
Public Contracts Regulations 2006
service concessions
Court of Appeal
Bailiffs

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