Colin Wilkinson is a businessman, retail speaker and entrepreneur who is a best known for his appearance on the BBC television series The Apprentice: You’re Fired and as the founder of Three Sixty Entertainment, a multi-million-pound entertainment production company. An engaging business speaker with expertise in retail and sales, Colin has won awards for his start-up businesses and business management skills; he also has a great deal of experience in fundraising, capital management and marketing, this broad spectrum of knowledge serves to make Wilkinson an excellent and versatile retail speaker.
He has also acted as a strategic consultant and financial backer to a number of successful British start-up businesses. Wilkinson’s talents as a business speaker and advisor have served him exceptionally well thus far, allowing him to become involved with numerous businesses and integral to the development and success of various start-ups, including Eidos PLC/Eidos Technologies Ltd, Energis PLC and the video conferencing company VMC which he started with famous broadcaster, Noel Edmunds.
An enthusiastic and determined businessman Wilkinson began his career whilst still in university and it is this extensive experience and long-standing success that make Wilkinson an incredibly interesting keynote speaker and retail speaker. Wilkinson is a Start-Up Business of the Year award winner and was at one time the youngest Director of a PLC in Britain
Wilkinson holds strong business ethics and this is often applauded by those who both work alongside him and witness his public speeches; in spite of his massive financial and business success, Wilkinson remains very personable and down to earth, with humour and humility possibly the most impressive aspects of his personality that come out in his role as a retail speaker.
Wilkinson's intelligence and accomplishments are often overshadowed by his geniality and generosity, but it is his personal beliefs and decision not to follow the trend of aggressive capitalism and business that sets Wilkinson apart from his contemporaries and mark the longevity of his career, making him such an engaging business speaker.
