Gavin Wheeldon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gavin Wheeldon
Occupation	Businessperson
Date Of Birth	May 12, 1976(1976-05-12)
Age	48
Birthplace	Leicester
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Taurus

Gavin Wheeldon Biography

Gavin Wheeldon is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on May 12, 1976 in Leicester, United Kingdom. Gavin Wheeldon (born 12 May 1976) is a British businessman and businessman from the Manchester region who is well recognized for his appearances on the reality programs Dragon’s Den and The Secret Millionaire as well as the controversial contract his former firm, Applied Language Solutions (ALS) was able to sign with the UK’s Ministry of Justice. After transferring it to Capita the company, he established Purple WiFi, a company that offers no-cost WiFi platforms to businesses to help with customer relationship management.

Wheeldon was sold Applied Language Solutions to Capita plc in December 2011 for PS67.5 million. Wheeldon was chief executive officer of the company over the course of six years. The company was later rebranded as Capita Translation and Interpreting.

In May 2012, after leaving ALS, Wheeldon set up an internet business named So Purple Group Limited. Now also known as Purple, it was established through the acquisition and merger of five companies to provide a number of services for the retail and leisure industry. The company offers a free WiFi platform for businesses to monitor their customers’ shopping patterns and habits, in addition to communicating with them with targeted messages via their social IDs.

During the first quarter of the contract, ALS faced 2,232 complaints and proved capable of only fulfilling 65% of service requests. Some poorly- prepared interpreters were accused of creating ‘courtroom chaos’ that led to cases and proceedings being delayed or collapsing entirely because they failed to show up on time or were deemed incompetent. During a meeting with the Justice Select Committee in October of 2012, Wheeldon claimed the allegedly intimidating behaviour of interpreters who raised concerns over low pay offered in the contract attempted to prevent other interpreters from working on it. He also admitted that his company relied on extrapolated figures during the planning process.

In January of 2010 The Oldham Council set up the Business Leadership Group, of which Wheeldon is an active member. The group is made up of local business owners who advise Oldham Council and local regeneration body Oldham Partnership on economic and other issues of policy.

Gavin Wheeldon Net Worth

Gavin Wheeldon is one of the richest Businessperson from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gavin Wheeldon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Wheeldon established ALS in 2003 when ALS was founded. He was on the show Dragons’ Den, and offered 4percent of the company in exchange for a stake of PS250,000. The show’s Dragons were interested, though Duncan Banatyne offered him half of the company. Duncan Banatyne.

The year 2009 was the time that Wheeldon was featured in an episode on The Secret Millionaire on Channel 4 and he was in North Wales and observed and then invested in a range of community initiatives.

In 2011, the company signed a lucrative contract with the UK’s Ministry of Justice to provide court interpreters across England and Wales. Registered police and court interpreters were unhappy about the ministry’s decision to use ALS, in addition to the much lower pay offered by the company, and over 1,000 of them protested the decision. The majority of them initially refused to work for ALS, leading to questions in Parliament as to whether the contract was viable.

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Gavin Ranked on the list of most popular Businessperson. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Gavin Wheeldon celebrates birthday on May 12 of every year.