- Started his first business at age 14
- Multi-millionaire by age 30
- Has gone completely bust twice and now owns 13 businesses, at age 33, with a turnover of £9M in 2007
- Mentor and fundraiser for The Princes Trust
- Runner up Entrepreneur of the Year in the Coutts 'Entrepreneur of the Year' Awards 2005-7
- Advisor at the House of Commons on matters of small business and enterprise
About Jeremy Harbour
Jeremy has started and run many enterprises since starting a trading business at the age of 14 called Oasis Trading. Jeremy has extensive experience in the business services sectors. He has a good grasp of accounts and has direct experience in franchising, acquisitions, mergers, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, fundraising and partial exit in his career so far.
Jeremy founded Unity in 1998 as a telecoms company, he added IT through acquisition in 2003, since then he set about creating a group of businesses through either joint venture or acquisition that would become the Unity family of businesses. The Unity Family now employs around 120 people and revenues at a run rate of £9.5m, and is growing exponentially through acquisition and merger.
Jeremy has also suffered set back, an amusement arcade he owned in 1992 failed and had to be closed and more recently V&J Harbour Ltd which traded as Unity a telecoms business suffered an insolvency in April 2006. These experiences have proved incredibly valuable lessons, and it is a testimony to his resolve and the team around him that Unity is where it is today despite such set backs.
Jeremy's 20+ years experience enables him to focus on his passion for business start-up and development as well as growing his expanding Unity Group of businesses through acquisitions and business turnaround.
Jeremy has also written articles in the Sharp Edge Magazine, Sunday Telegraph and Mens Health on the subject of entrepreneurship.